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. But the “monetization heart of the Internet” doesn’t stop at Overture, Applied Semantics and MySpace.
Steve Blank
JUNE 15, 2009
Convergent Technologies When I was in my 20’s I worked at Convergent Technologies , a company that was proud to be known as the “Marine Corps of Silicon Valley.” We need our team members to have sustainable work / life balance or risk losing them to another less demanding industry all together. sigh* It’s a sad thing.
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Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 16, 2012
Conventional wisdom says that you can only build big businesses in Silicon Valley so as a VC you need to be there. Some of the biggest wins of the past 5 years were built outside of the Valley. GroupOn, Living Social, AdMeld, Gilt Group, Demand Media, ShoeDazzle, Tumblr, FourSquare, etc. ” We went the opposite way.
Up and Running
MARCH 13, 2015
In his recent Reddit AMA, visionary and serial entrepreneur Elon Musk wrote: “It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree—make sure you understand the fundamental principles, i.e., the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.”. How to Build a Startup.
www.quora.com
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
Type to Add and Search Questions; Search Topics and People Startups Startup Compensation Entrepreneurship Compensation Stock Options Major Internet Companies Silicon Valley Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? 1 vote by Elad Gil It's a risk/reward, supply/demand power equilibrium.
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