Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

What he gave the community with VentureHacks is a pure gift to the community. What he (along with Naval) started with AngelList is also a very important transformation to the communications between first-time entrepreneurs & angels. So I feel the need to speak up. I’m sorry, but that’s dumb. Isolated incident?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Based on those results we believe that we can do the same with Diplomacy so working with the State Department’s innovation cell in Silicon Valley we will prototype the Hacking for Diplomacy course at Stanford this fall. (see the final Hacking for Defense class presentations here ). 15 more schools are in the pipeline.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Based on those results we believe that we can do the same with Diplomacy so working with the State Department’s innovation cell in Silicon Valley we will prototype the Hacking for Diplomacy course at Stanford this fall. (see the final Hacking for Defense class presentations here ). 15 more schools are in the pipeline.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so. Come join us.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. And this Silicon Valley bias isn’t limited to any single meeting – it has been a recurring theme in my time as a VC. Funding is different outside of Silicon Valley.

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Early Growth Financial Services

APRIL 4, 2013

New CFOs bring entertainment and tech experience to serve and support growing startup community in Los Angeles region. This announcement comes on the heels of EGFS’s recent Southern California expansion into San Diego. This development further underscores EGFS’s confidence in the exciting companies that are coming out of SoCal.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

But Viddy isnt based in the technology hotbeds of Silicon Valley and San Francisco. "It Instead, Silicon Beach, a roughly 3-mile stretch of sand from Venice to Santa Monica , is home to Viddy and a host of other young tech companies with an entertainment, celebrity or mobile edge. Want 300 days of sun a year?" Google says.

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Hippoland

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

About Pocket (from the SoGal website): Pocket Sun founded SoGal, one of world’s largest communities of diverse entrepreneurs with 10 chapters worldwide. She has advised on dozens of startups across Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, China, and Southeast Asia. The Straits Times, Harper’s BAZAAR, etc.

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www.jasonnazar.com

MARCH 22, 2011

I asked the panelists ( David Travers , Brian Norgard , Fouad ElNaggar , & Demian Sellfors ) about the specific challenges that we face down here in Los Angeles as opposed to Silicon Valley. There simply are NOT enough venture capital firms in the Southern California.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 10, 2014

With 39 million people in the state, there’s no rational reason there aren’t condos, hotels, houses, shopping centers and freeways, wall-to-wall for most of the length of our state’s coast (instead of just in Southern California). The Coastal Act saved California from looking like the coast of New Jersey. And the farmers retire.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Hacking for Defense is a battle-tested problem-solving methodology that runs at Silicon Valley speed. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. We just finished our second Hacking for Defense class at Stanford.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Next, we wanted the students to learn about the nation’s threats and security challenges while working with innovators inside the DoD and Intelligence Community. Origins of the class.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, State Department, Intelligence Community or other government agencies.). Today if college students want to give back to their country, they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps or perhaps the US Digital Service or the GSA’s 18F.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

JANUARY 15, 2010

I want to say first that I went to school down in southern California and I still love it down there however for my industry, technology, I love it up here. Alright, so let’s get down to why I really love living in the Silicon Valley area. There is a strong sense of community among technology folks.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 11, 2011

15 air miles away, the road parallels Silicon Valley (and the 7 million people in the San Francisco Bay Area.) It’s the kind of road you see in car ads and movies, one that looks like it was built to be driven in a Porsche with the top down. Peter opened the commission up to public participation and promoted citizen activism.

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