Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. ” Put simply, if you care about building a successful tech community outside Silicon Valley you should read this book.

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APRIL 14, 2013

But for the last decade “innovation” in Chinese software meant something different than it did in Silicon Valley. However, there’s a growing belief that the “design preferences” of Chinese consumers are just bad design. Silicon Valley has great weather and lifestyle, and nobody wants to leave.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

As part of our Lean LaunchPad classes at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and for the National Science Foundation, students build a startup in 8 weeks using Business Model Design + Customer Development. Heck, in Silicon Valley even the waiters can do it.). Use Skype or Google+ Hangouts for team conversations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

He’ll talk about making a profit and making a difference in a conversation with New Media Ventures’ Christie George. As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. Now he’s a leader in social impact investing and equality in education. Eric Ries will interview him.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Email Design Best Practices For Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Email Design Best Practices For Small Businesses and Startups – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Ex-Googlers at almost every Silicon Valley startup & VC – [link]. More, better, faster: UX design for startups – [link]. Advertise on smaller sites.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2019

She is a Silicon Valley veteran – having been the Senior Director of Engineering at Yodlee, then holding several CTO, Chief Architect, and other engineering leadership roles at a few startups before landing at Shippo in 2016. Technical design quality. Architectural and software design integrity is very important to us.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In the acquisition phase, measure these performance metrics: Customer acquisition cost Conversion rate Website traffic Click-through rate Bounce rate Quality of leads. In the activation phase, measure these performance metrics: Conversion rate Number of customers using a product feature Drop-off rate Dwell time. Activation.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Their engineering teams didn’t have the expertise using off-the-shelf microprocessors (back then “real” computer companies designed their own instruction sets and operating systems.) The Customer is a Genius Then instead of talking about our products he segued the conversation into their products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

And, most importantly, the Lean Startup idea is starting to take root in industries and contexts very different from it’s Silicon Valley roots. And this year, we’re going to talk not just about business and product development, but we’ll be exploring one of the Lean Starutp movements next big frontiers: the role of design.

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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. But it’s worth the effort, given the potential of learning via one-on-one conversation. This kind of online learning belongs in any leader’s tool kit.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The VP of Sales comes to a board meeting, still optimistic, and provides a set of reasonable explanations – “our pipeline looks great, but orders will close next quarter” or “we’ve got lots of traffic to our site, we just need to work on conversion.” Just had a conversation today with a student taking Steve’s class. Order Here.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

What I notice is that people further the conversation, talk with each other, network, try to get noticed (linking to their websites, etc.). When Quora went into Beta and became the “hip product to have access to&# in Silicon Valley I felt compelled to play around with it. It’s true. I rarely only read the post.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

You never got around to agreeing exact equity splits but you had many conversations about it. I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? Right sized : I tried to work with one of the best known firms in Silicon Valley.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

It follows up on my posts discussing why early stage startups should — or should not — move to Silicon Valley. In terms of access to capital, Austin is not Silicon Valley or New York — but it is Austin. If you’ve just exited or realised stock options from a Silicon Valley success story, moving out of state is worthwhile.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The culture and work ethic of Convergent had earned it the title “the Marine Corps of Silicon Valley”. As the conversation began to get down to how much stock and salary we could offer van Dam, we left the barber to finish his work and went to a payphone to call our CEO to confirm the deal. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

I have an idea for how to connect user social web conversations to 2-way search and contextual advertising. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Don’t we have to get the site/plugins up and running before we gather information from users? Order Here.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

By the time Silicon Valley white privilege culture, tech magazines that promote only white faces, Ethereum/Bitcoin fanboys, sellout black tech wannabees and globalists promoting their blockchain consortium get a hold of this article, it’s already too late and the game already ended a while ago.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Stories about companies with lots of ping pong tables, free yoga classes, gourmet chefs—it’s starting to feel like the TV series “Silicon Valley” is a little too much like the real-life Silicon Valley. See Also: The Importance of Partnership Agreements, NDAs, and Security: Lessons from HBO’s “Silicon Valley”.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

It follows up on my posts discussing why early stage startups should — or should not — move to Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley is known for early adopters among both consumer and enterprise customers. Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Customers?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

” Sean is somebody widely respected in Silicon Valley (although he now lives in SoCal) for having helped many early-stage companies go through major growth periods by quantitatively testing features with audiences to help diagnose what led to growth. If you can’t do this, nothing else really matters.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

Data-visualization, I’ve always been in awe of those designers who are true masters of both big-data processing and great information design. SXSW Pitch Finalist: LexSet was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Business Model Affects Metrics and Exit Criteria Web-based Business Model Exit Criteria In a web-business model you’re looking for traffic, users, conversion, virality, etc – not revenue. That’s no longer the case in Silicon Valley. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Keep teaching!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. How did Silicon Valley start?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

The design was actually a negative drag on selling anything off a retail shelf. Luckily (or maybe because we were in Silicon Valley where there was a domain expert for everything) there was a very smart consultant in the retail computer space, Seymour Merrin, who preached about the importance of packaging.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2018

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? Leading for a Culture of Creativity and Innovation.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round).

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Then I started working as a business analyst for a small health tech company in Austin, helping to design software. I even scored an apprenticeship with a company in Silicon Valley for December 2016 before starting my full-time job in January. My job then entailed requirements gathering, wireframing, and QA testing.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Leaders from Austin-area companies will share their experiences and perspective in this panel. March 9, 2018 5:00PM?—?6:00PM

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) We would argue that our movies are world-class movies, just designed entirely for mobile.”

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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.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

You can imagine the rest of the conversation; my sounding reluctant to let our own tests outside our building, the magazines begging us to let them have them, and finally a deal gets struck where we let the benchmarks out to the test labs of these magazines under their own name “The Potrero Benchmark Suite” without attribution to us.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

This will be a boon to startups as this encompasses finding PII, securing data, and incorporating privacy by design. Designing software with a privacy-first mentality becomes a core theme in 2019. Winning the hearts and minds of developers matters and building the GTM around conversion and upsells will be key.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 6, 2024

12:59] What are some of examples of ROI an organization can start to see by well designed failure experiments? [15:43] And that is the kind of failure that the Silicon Valley talk, fail, fast, fail often is implicitly referring to, but often they're not explicit enough. 17:35] What are your thoughts on thinking big: 10x vs 2x.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 26, 2017

CARMEN HIJOSA Originally from Spain, Dr. Hijosa has a track record in the design and manufacturing of leather goods, selling through her own company and supplying key retail outlets such as Harrods and Liberties in London. in Mechanical Engineering (Product Design) and a B.A. She received a PhD & M.S.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 28, 2023

She is a leading venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, where she mentors tech startups and helps them go public. She's a leading venture capitalist in Silicone Valley where she mentors tech startups and helps them go public. Where people do have more time to, like, I'm really enjoying this conversation.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Nearly two years since CA governor Jerry Brown signed the California Fair Pay Act which was designed to close the wage gap, women in Silicon Valley still report that their multi-billion dollar tech giant employers are still paying them less than their male counterparts for equal work (Larson). ComputerScience.org , 2017, [link].

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