Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

Some are running away from skyrocketing tax rates, dysfunctional government, and devastating wildfires. Planting roots I was recently talking with someone who moved here from Silicon Valley and he pointed out something that really resonated with me. Austin is positioned to be the biggest winner of them all. Why Amy Sun?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I thought it was natural to design a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Technology to Weapons to Doctrine.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Now it’s cost + markup + 14 layers of intermediaries who all get a cut = price paid by insurance or the government. But, it is likely the major differentiator between a win and a loss whether you are selling B2B or B2C. Price is no longer cost + markup = customer price. What is your Customer Acquisition Cost?

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Political science, government service, and law — Yale has the #1 rated law school in the US and a long history of alumni serving in government. For example, Yale could launch a center focused on applying political science thinking to the governance of major internet businesses (e.g., the world’s largest country, Facebook).

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

“Role models” haven’t made it quite as far the heroes, but as practising entrepreneurs they are fully up-to-date with the on-the-ground realities of fundraising, hiring, and interfacing with government. Does the solution DIFFERENTIATE from current competitors through a UVP? We will teach you how to raise funds. Fundraising isn’t easy.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. He’s spent the last four years in Silicon Valley out of uniform continuing that work. Solution 2: Use the McKinsey Three Horizons Model to differentiate among the three types. Newell ran the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Which is what to me is deeply frustrating--thanks to the president''s creation of the CIO and the CTO, he has really great people from Silicon Valley, from our communities, that could have been instrumental in creating this website, but those people were bypassed because of the IT procurement process in the federal government, which is a nightmare.”

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Kathy and Orin provided a brief overview of what tech transfer does and how it works: Kathy : The federal government funds most of the research at universities … (to the tune of) tens of billions of (dollars a year). (In Kathy : … The law at the time said the government (not the university) owned these patents. Is that correct?

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Like an accelerator or incubator program, NestGSV gives its resident startups office space, advice and lots of other amenities (even a beach volleyball court) at its Redwood City, California, campus near Silicon Valley. That really differentiates us from any other accelerator or incubator out there.”. OK, maybe not.).

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Like an accelerator or incubator program, NestGSV gives its resident startups office space, advice and lots of other amenities (even a beach volleyball court) at its Redwood City, California, campus near Silicon Valley. That really differentiates us from any other accelerator or incubator out there.”. OK, maybe not.).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

Rodney highlights the significance of selecting the right areas for transformation that can deliver a differentiating value, plus the importance of upskilling and reskilling existing talent within digital changes. It's something we have to invest in, but it's not, uh, competitively differentiating. It's just right.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Like an accelerator or incubator program, NestGSV gives its resident startups office space, advice and lots of other amenities (even a beach volleyball court) at its Redwood City, California, campus near Silicon Valley. That really differentiates us from any other accelerator or incubator out there.”. OK, maybe not.).

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Although Box was launched from a dorm room by two 19 year olds, in 2010 the company hired Dan Levin, an experienced Silicon Valley entrepreneur to strengthen its foundations in order to expand. One of his older partners said, “What if the US government allowed the Internet to be commercialised?”

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Pascal's View

APRIL 5, 2016

… First, we need to differentiate between whether Salzburg should prioritize the funding of entrepreneurs who are pursuing breakthrough innovation as opposed to incremental innovation. Why is this the case? How can we transform the Salzburg region’s traditional rural economy into a knowledge based, innovative business community?

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

New research shows Silicon Valley still rules the startup world. Ecosystem Differentiation. Sure, Silicon Valley is far and away the strongest startup region anywhere. Did you know founders in Silicon Valley work longer hours than founders anywhere else? ” The Top 20: Silicon Valley, California.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

One of the reasons that Silicon Valley has been so successful at building blitzscaling companies is its “fail fast” mantra, which encourages entrepreneurs to determine whether or not their startup can achieve product-market fit as early in the company’s lifecycle as possible. WHAT LEADS TO PIVOTS? This was our “burn the boats” moment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Hoffman should know, as an icon in the Silicon Valley, having educated and trained hundreds of startup founders as the CEO of “ Founders Space ,” designated by Inc.com as one of the top ten incubators and accelerators in the world. Or as Steven S. Be the first to disrupt an existing market space. Being first is always important.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

Hannu has called for mass coordination between the government and the private sector to get to a vaccine faster, not a few months faster but dramatically faster. How do we differentiate self from non-self? It could be the federal government. I know for a lot of you, that will sound familiar. Hannu Rajaniemi : Thank you, Eric.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

We are unbelievably lucky to be here right now, with a team of über-talented people from the best and brightest Silicon Valley companies, at a moment when what a book should be is morphing before our very eyes. I had previously worked at an executive level in the government, specialising in international relations.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Then, Silicon Valley collectively deplatformed Trump (a scary precedent even if you vehemently dislike the guy). Our conventional mapping of “who we are” relies on a family name and government ID, but these are quite arbitrary identifiers that pre-date the Internet. Then, almost overnight, the idea became part of the zeitgeist.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Here he found out that every kid in Uruguay is given a free laptop by the government – (for me it’s a bit like western countries giving all kids a free public education some 200 years ago and that’s why they currently lead the developed world). A bit like Silicon Valley. Things worth a quick look at.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

According to an interview with Elon Musk, this campaign cost Paypal about $60 million , which most Silicon Valley historians would consider money well spent. If they have worked in business for 20 years, you have an 700-1 experience differential right out of the gate.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

On this panel, Manoj Saxena (CognitiveScale), Tom Meredith (Meritage Capital LLC), Margaret Rhodes (Wired) and Michael Guptan (Dell) will talk about guardrails, governance, policy, accountability, transparency and security that will be the underpinnings of responsible AI. Silicon Valley 2.0: The Next Four Years of AI.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists. I get my healthcare insurance through Vox Media, so I actually don’t know the cost of my healthcare, or the government-.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

But you can also start to differentiate yourself from your competition as you work your way down from TAM to SAM. This is all the census information that the government collects every few years. If the federal government came in and said, “Each state can have a moving target within your state, and then you can decide.”

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

And so I suspect the part of what’s been happening over the last year in the pandemic is people have been working out alternatives – how do I have differential speed? Digital Service – serving in government to help government with technology. And I was like, “Well, okay, you’re super smart. Why do you think it’s going to fail?”

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