Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

By the time Silicon Valley white privilege culture, tech magazines that promote only white faces, Ethereum/Bitcoin fanboys, sellout black tech wannabees and globalists promoting their blockchain consortium get a hold of this article, it’s already too late and the game already ended a while ago.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). “Silicon Valley” (see Note 2) is hardly alone in this urbanization of startups trend. April 13, 2012. I was back in the SF Bay Area last week for a bit of work and a bit of fun.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

In our Business Incubator series of interviews, we have invited many leaders from the industry to come share their best practices and challenges with us. We have also facilitated open discussions on Why Do Business Incubators Fail and Incubator Business Models , which turned out to be animated, active and extremely constructive discussions.

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Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. This whole process got me thinking about the textbook business model. Both good steps, but competition, more choices (including online, subscription, rental and other new models) will do more than regulation. Labels: business models , Grateful Dead , textbook.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

During this week's roundtable, we had Inoh Choe from San Jose, California, pitch DemoTunes, a freemium concept. Irit, however, needs to think through some of the details of the business model, pricing model, and positioning. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I have to build a financial model? To that last one, there is certainly some truth as the standard time vs. revenue chart in most business plans looks like this: Im not teaching Entrepreneurial Finance this semester for the first time since Fall 2007. ProfessorVC.

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