Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
The monetization engine of the Internet that powers the most profitable business perhaps in history was invented and perfected in Los Angeles and is what you now know as Google Ad Words. It may surprise you to learn that LA graduates more engineers than anywhere else in the country. Where do all of these engineers end up?
Steve Blank
JULY 20, 2015
Errol Arkilic was the lead program director for the National Science Foundation I-Corps , which uses my Lean LaunchPad curriculum to teach scientists and engineers how to take their technology out of the lab and into the marketplace. That’s what scientists and engineers needed to embrace. Errol : And we did. What made him call Steve?
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techcrunch.com
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based. After Northern California and Southern California the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. Google couldn’t become #1 search engine without VC money. Translation? Facebook is another example.
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. A unicorn is a startup with a market capitalization north of a billion dollars. Where is it going?
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 25, 2021
Carbon Health is now running some of the largest vaccination sites in California, most famously at Dodger Stadium, in partnership with the City of Los Angeles. I think one of the things that we, who are, you have the privilege of being here, in America, in California, in Silicon Valley. We had to raise some seed capital.
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