Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Finally, GM created the notion of perpetual demand within brands by continually obsoleting their own products with new models rolled out every year. If you’re following Tesla, you might be interested to know that Sloan wasn’t the founder of GM. The founder of what became General Motors was William (Billy) Durant.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 19, 2019

At SingularityU Nordic, a collaborative venture with Singularity University in Silicon Valley, he is on the frontlines of exponential technology. I decided that I needed to know more and so attended a program at Singularity University, which Ray co-founded.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Turns out, there was aboslutely no demand whatsoever for that particular product.

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The leaders and disrupters we meet in Silicon Valley and around the world are distinguished by the speed at which they zip up the learning curve. Talk with other entrepreneurs, not just famous entrepreneurs,” the Dropbox cofounder Drew Houston told Reid on the Masters of Scale podcast.

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The Next Web

MARCH 11, 2014

Ryan Hoover is the co-creator of Product Hunt and EIR at Tradecraft. Even its founders couldn’t quite describe it, let alone foresee what it would become. In Twitter’s case, no interview or experiment would have predicted its success; in fact, it may have even deterred the founders from building it in the first place.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. He built & IPOd Demand Media. What Has Given Birth to This New Movement in LA? . He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 for $565 million to Excite.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

By Daniel Sokolovksy, Co-Founder and CEO, WARP and Troy Lester, Co-Founder and CRO, WARP The dissolution of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was more than just a bank collapse, it was a reality check for both startups and the VCs that fund them. As founders, remind yourself that you aren’t ever alone.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

Tim Staples is the CEO of Shareability and co-author of Break Through the Noise: The 9 Rules to Capture Global Attention. Michael Margolis is the CEO and founder of Storied. Kara Goldin is the founder and CEO of Hint Water, a flavored water brand founded in 2005. Tim Staples – Creating Shareable Content for Your Busines.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2018

and we’re all co-conspirators, witting or unwitting. There’s a common thread linking what’s wrong in Congress, in Silicon Valley, in the media, on Wall Street and elsewhere. Vox co-founder and editor-at-large Ezra Klein explained how we’ve designed industries with incentives that make even good people act badly?

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. We are truly grateful for your support. First check to Series A?—?congrats

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2016

by Samar Singla, founder of Click Labs. When we say on-demand, the glorious image of Silicon Valley and its technological environs pops up in the layman’s mind, and even that may be too imaginative. Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, India and some other countries have been privy to the on-demand bubble, so to speak.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Anand Sanwal , co-founder and CEO of CB Insights ; and Chris Shipley , executive producer of MIT’s Solve initiative, joined me in the studio to discuss the day-to-day chaos of building a company. … You have to be an idiot as an investor not to demand that the team be balanced because that will put your company in a better place.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Each year LinkedIn measures the most in-demand Silicon Valley startups , a window into the employers that engineers think can do more than help them pay their mortgage. How does LinkedIn measure the most in-demand startups? The good news, however, is that these in-demand startups mostly get things right.

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Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

The demand for top talent is monumental, and the process of finding and hiring the best workers can be excruciating. I spoke with Toptal Co-founder and CEO Taso Du Val to find out more about how Toptal got started and his predictions for the future of the talent economy. How did you come up with the idea for Toptal?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Summit is a hugely respected firm in Silicon Valley and a long-term “institution&# but they’re better known as more of a “private equity&# investor meaning that they do later stage investments in much larger companies that are profitable. The investment will be used for product development initiatives.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Customers went into the store either looking for the SuperMac product by name (if our demand creation activities had been effective) or went in unsure of which brand of board to buy. Your design or ad agencies can impress you with their awards, but if you’re not moving product or creating demand, you’ve missed the point.

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Diego Basch

JUNE 21, 2012

I believe that Silicon Valley is like Las Vegas, except they make you pass a number of tests before they let you gamble. The purpose of this post is to analyze the folowing problem: Joe Founder comes to Silicon Valley with a laptop full of dreams, but no money. Shareholders demand it! What should Joe do?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Balancing business and family, and ensuring demand for your product were key lessons shared by two veteran entrepreneurs on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Michael Mondavi , founder and coach of Folio Fine Wine Partners. In Silicon Valley for three decades, spent eight years as a partner at US Venture Partners.

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The leaders and disrupters we meet in Silicon Valley and around the world are distinguished by the speed at which they zip up the learning curve. Talk with other entrepreneurs, not just famous entrepreneurs,” the Dropbox cofounder Drew Houston told Reid on the Masters of Scale podcast.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2013

.” This event harnesses the power of youth, their cultural diversity, their domain expertise and their deep conversations about today’s world problems to accelerate them into ventures, ready to be taken to market and scaled,” says Dash Dhakshinamoorthy, entrepreneur and founder of StartupMalaysia.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Balancing business and family, and ensuring demand for your product were key lessons shared by two veteran entrepreneurs on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Michael Mondavi , founder and coach of Folio Fine Wine Partners. In Silicon Valley for three decades, spent eight years as a partner at US Venture Partners.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

That said, even renowned founders and investors like Paul Graham have made mistakes. Y Combinator - another company that Paul helped to co-found and that helps startups get funding, with particular emphasis given to those started by young, tech-savvy founders. It’s the poor quality version of HBO’s Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

No Knowledge of Computers Silicon Valley emerged from work in World War II led by Stanford professor Fred Terman developing microwave and electronics for Electronic Warfare systems. Silicon Valley wouldn’t have a computer company until 1966 when Hewlett Packard shipped the HP 2116 minicomputer. Why Minneapolis/St.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 11, 2013

And to capitalize on its meteoric challenge to Silicon Valley as the alternative location to startup up in the United States, the New York Venture Capital Association (NYVCA) will be presenting its annual INGENUITY conference on October 15, 2013. Precision Demand. Fancy Hands. Little Bits. Coinsetter.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

With such a high failure rate, why would I, the leader of a municipality thousands of miles from Silicon Valley, model my leadership style after that of an entrepreneur? Today’s business environment demands that we move faster – make decisions faster, identify trends faster, and get products to market faster. Startups are agile.

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

We are building a talent marketplace exclusively for what we call on-demand (or freelance) executives and board members. I have 7 co-founders, with whom I have worked for a collective 88 years — Andrea Ponchione, Jack Sinclair, Shawn Nussbaum, Cathy Hawley, Ken Takahashi, Jen Goldman, and Nick Badgett.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

by Alon Alroy, co-founder and CMO of Bizzabo . Venture Summit Silicon Valley. Venture Summit Silicon Valley is the premier annual gathering of the brightest minds and top entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate players in the Global Silicon Valley. Hopefully we will see you there!

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Where did Silicon Valley come from? I think the absolute best reading on this subject is a book called Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 by AnnaLee Saxenian. And what were they doing beforehand?

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I have the opportunity to build bridges from NYC to Nairobi, from Dhaka to Denver, from Silicon Valley to Singapore. And then there are all the dating anecdotes from my six years in NYC (but that’s a very entertaining book and I’m digressing). Now, the present. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In our prior lives, the Bolster founders worked together to scale up a business called Return Path and also. worked as advisors and mentors to numerous early stage founders and startups. The roots of Bolster Prime and Bolster Ventures pre-date the founding of Bolster. What about the middle?

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

Henrik and I co-founded Fisker Inc. Working a full-time (and demanding) job, a home, school and life, in general, was no easy feat, so I chose to leave my corporate job to an academic job. I co-founded Sarah Nicole Skincare with the mission for it to be a tool in reclaiming confidence. 2- Develop world-class vehicles.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. Stock Quotes. more in Tech. link] [link] --> By JOANN S.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Lane Merrifield.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 28, 2011

But if you are a competent engineer, sales executive, online marketer or general manager in Silicon Valley, NYC, Boston or other start-up hotspots, the unemployment rate is 0%. CNN recently reported that 40% of the 130,000 job openings in Silicon Valley are for software engineers. Recruiting is a proactive exercise.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2011

Convergent had assembled a stellar team with founders from Digital Equipment Corporation and Intel and engineers from Xerox PARC. I fact-checked the datasheet with my boss (who would be my co-founder at Epiphany) and the rest of the engineering team. And once we went public, we hired a veteran VP of Sales from Honeywell.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Lane Merrifield.

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