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The New Order of Silicon Valley: Forget the Silicon Part

Diego Basch

Here are the trends I see in Silicon Valley today: The “Silicon” part of the name no longer applies. There are many services for which California is a good starting point (e.g. However, labor in California is particularly expensive. Hardware is not made here anymore. The bulk of it is not even designed here.

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What Is Copycat Marketing?

YoungUpstarts

However, when it comes to MLM product development, marketing ideas and compensation plan strategy, being a creative copycat could be a legal and ethical shortcut to achieving your business goals for your new MLM, party plan or direct selling company. The real definition of copycat marketing is in the name. Or did they?

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SuperMac War Story 5: Strategy versus Relentless Tactical.

Steve Blank

Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. Then we were going to buy our competitors’ boards (think “secret shopper”) and compare them to ours.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

At their best, these processes provide detailed plans, checkpoints and milestones for every step in getting a product out the door: sizing markets, estimating sales, developing marketing requirements documents, prioritizing product features. So what’s wrong the product development model? BPM vendor (every software vendor!)

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

Originally from California, she now lives in Paris, where her involvement in the vibrant startup scene keeps her from spending too much time in the bakeries. There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers.

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. You may know it by its final name. And I got to experience a type of customer buying behavior I had never seen before – the Novelty Effect.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

They created a program called Onward California in partnership with the State of California and with the support of governor Newsom. Their model in California was so successful they eventually created a new organization, Onward US, dedicated to putting American workers displaced by COVID-19 back to work.

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