Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2023

The hurricanes in the Gulf, the wildfires in California, and the monsoon floods around the world, all suggest that real opportunities for change are needed in climate control, forest management, and building design. Truly “disruptive” technologies. Usually, people pay to relieve pain before buying luxury items.

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Board Effect

JUNE 2, 2022

In the interest of efficiency, nonprofits might use grants to invest in technology to reduce the time required for administrative tasks. The following areas will give you some good places to start: Governance. Financial management. Technology. Capacity Building Grants: California. Northern California Grantmakers.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2020

Now, according to the Sustainability Management School , by the year 2030, it is expected that as many as 700 million people may end up having to move due to scarcity of water where they live if the current climate change issues continue. A huge example of this is playing out right now in California. Microgrids. Self-Reliance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2020

The hurricanes in the Gulf, the wildfires in California, and the monsoon floods around the world, all suggest that real opportunities for change are needed in climate control, forest management, and building design. Truly “disruptive” technologies. Usually, people pay to relieve pain before buying luxury items.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 13, 2021

The last thing you want to happen is for your company to get sued by customers, employees, or even the government, for failing to adhere to your legal obligations. That way, if someone managed to hack into your servers, they still couldn’t access sensitive data such as account details or financial information. What steps must you take?

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Board Effect

MARCH 17, 2021

Gloria Mark, a professor at the University of California, studies the issue of digital distraction. If your board is struggling with time management and digital noise, it’s time to have a full board discussion about how to make strides toward efficient board collaboration. How a Board Management System Helps Drown Out the Noise.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2014

A venture feasibility study analyzes an idea from several perspectives: market opportunity, competition, resources available, resource gaps, financial viability, operational issues, intellectual property rights, development timeline and technology needs. Company culture cannot be dictated by management, it can only be modeled.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I’ve made the acquaintance of a thought leader with her finger on the pulse of where the nation sits in terms of technological readiness to innovate. Steve Jobs once challenged Obama to find him 30,000 engineers so he could build a plant in California. Thanks Pamela. Where is the innovation workforce? – Dr. Pamela A.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Before that, he was VP, Client Strategy at Blast Radius.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

If you're capable of seeing past the old stones of Paris and the picturesque rural villages, you'll realize that France is every bit as technologically advanced as any other Western country - more so in some areas. The funding landscape is complex from a foreigner's point of view because the government is very often involved somehow.

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Steve Blank

MAY 23, 2016

And there are more to come: your first job, getting married, buying a house, having a child, becoming a manager, starting a company, retirement – and eventually commencement speaker. When I retired after 21 years working in 8 startups, I was invited to be a guest lecturer at the business school at the University of California Berkeley.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 19, 2019

Well, I’ve had similar questions and to get some insight, reached out to Katie Carroll , LI’s Managing Editor for UK and Daily News, Americas. What does a Daily News Managing Editor do there? Earlier this year, for example, we put together a collection of posts from furloughed workers during the government shutdown.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

I’ll explain this more later, but assume that only a very few high-growth companies with high-power management teams are venture opportunities. Venture capital can’t afford to invest in startups unless there is a rare combination of product opportunity, market opportunity, and proven management. I’ll have more on that later, too.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 31, 2017

And yet, in spite of all this, small emerging firms are largely left out of government contracting. Selling to the government is a slow process in the beginning. They dislike bureaucratic processes even more, so the government marketplace has never been an attractive option for startup firms. That may be about to change.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Amara’s Law : “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”. For the more advanced enterprises who have migrated to the cloud, this will be a year of net new technology and building applications. Ed Sim, Boldstart Ventures. Enterprise Tech in 2019.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

When Terman said no, Sylvania, a tube company which built proximity fuse tubes in WWII, won the contract and set up its Electronic Defense Lab (EDL) in Mountain View California in the middle of an orchard. In 1964, Bill Perry, the head of the lab, frustrated with GTE’s management, quit (GTE, a phone company had bought Sylvania in 1959.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

When it became clear that waiting for government funding and support would take weeks, if not months, Lenore instead looked to her community for both, using her experience with the layoffs and her expertise as a small business owner to solve two of the massive problems crashing over our society. I'm from Stockton, California.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

In my interview with Errol, we discussed the origins of the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps), how and why it was created, and how it changed the way the government commercializes scientific research. government needs your help,’ and I remember saying, ‘The U.S. Oh by the way, there’s no funding for you.’. . …

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Board Effect

JANUARY 17, 2024

Collaboration and partnerships: Events bring people from various sectors together and they may provide opportunities for board members to explore partnerships with other organizations, government agencies, or businesses that align with their mission and goals. Collaboration may ultimately amplify impact.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

If you’re not aware, Pasedena, California-based online business search platform Bizshark ( www.bizshark.com ) has a business contact search platform that helps business-to-business (B2B) sales professionals, small businesses, freelancers, journalists and others who are looking for a way to create and manage business relationships.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

From California, to Illinois, and New York many of the largest U.S. This article will focus on the impact of hospitals in that equation, specifically those public health system owned and controlled by local Governments. [2]. Accomplishing those objectives is especially hard if also under the thumb of a Government agency.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 5, 2010

This is important because unlike previous waves in the Valley which relied only upon access to capital and technology innovations, the clean technology movement likes at the intersection of 3 forces: access to capital, tech and hard science innovation, and regulatory forces.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

On the California coast where I live, we see lifestyle entrepreneurs like surfers and divers who own small surf or dive shop or teach surfing and diving lessons to pay the bills so they can surf and dive some more. Changes in customer tastes, new technologies, legislation, new competitors, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

million people EMPLOYED in California. Food production and distribution, group collaboration, remote training or education, sensor technology (tracking people movement, temperatures, etc), certain biotech deals. What will happen is that some LPs will need to scale back the number of VC managers they have on their roster.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

My guests this past week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Pete Newell , managing partner of BMNT Partners. Matt Weingart, program development manager in the Strategic Development Office at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Heralding a new era of digital transformation, technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are being infused exponentially into the world around us. Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to Tachyus, Dakin co-founded OpenGov , a platform to share, visualize, and analyze government financial data. Before OpenGov, he built California Common Sense , the open data and government watchdog non-profit. Dakin was recognized as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2016. . If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to Tachyus, Dakin co-founded OpenGov , a platform to share, visualize, and analyze government financial data. Before OpenGov, he built California Common Sense , the open data and government watchdog non-profit. Dakin was recognized as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2016. . If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

BMNT , a new Silicon Valley company, is combining the Lean Methods it learned in combat with the technology expertise and speed of startups. government reengineered its approach to building weapons. In 1950, government support of basic science research in U.S. —– But first some history… World War II.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they What’s bringing them here?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

universities labs are being turned into commercial products and life saving drugs and devices thanks to an act of Congress – and the efforts of technology transfer offices in schools like Stanford and Columbia. Orin Herskowitz , executive director of Columbia Technology Ventures. Orin Herskowitz.

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Ben's Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

New York, California different toilet, same s#@t. 20 years ago, the technology adoption curve generally conformed to the following order: Government —specifically Defense and Intelligence organizations. They do not allow their employees to use their credit cards to buy technology off of the Internet. Meet the new boss.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

On September 7 th – 9 th we are holding our first Hacking for Defense & Diplomacy – class for Educators and Sponsors , training educators how to teach these classes in their universities and sponsors how to select problem sets and manage their teams. Engage directly with potential government problem sponsors. Sign up here.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

On September 7 th – 9 th we are holding our first Hacking for Defense & Diplomacy – class for Educators and Sponsors , training educators how to teach these classes in their universities and sponsors how to select problem sets and manage their teams. Engage directly with potential government problem sponsors. Sign up here.

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The Next Web

APRIL 27, 2013

In February I found myself seeking air-conditioned sanctuary in the Dar Es Salaam offices of Kinu , a co-working space and business accelerator, talking with Co-Founder and Community Manager John Paul Barretto. industry in Tanzania. industry in Tanzania. In one word, that issue is trust.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

My company is an intellectual property holding company, but it ultimately aims to accelerate and regulate the utilization of regenerative technology. The company works in conjunction with local governments to teach entrepreneurship courses to unemployed residents. Etsy is a great example of this.

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