Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Given Verizon just shut down Go90 , its short form content video service, it will be interesting to see if Verizon distributes Katzenberg’s offerings.). With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2-billion dollars in the bank, they plan on jumping right in.

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Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

were unemployed in other parts of the word and deserved to be given a chance to learn and develop their skills with a fast-growing well-funded startup based out of Silicon Valley for example. Remote jobs allow unemployed people to become part of the distributed team of an organization based elsewhere in the world.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

Eren Bali arrived in Silicon Valley from Turkey in 2010 hoping to relaunch Udemy , his online education company. Eren came to the US from Turkey to work at a Silicon Valley tech startup, which is actually where I first met him a few years ago. How did you first get into tech and come to Silicon valley?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 1, 2015

They are putting Innovation Outposts into Innovation Clusters -in particular Silicon Valley – to tap into the clusters’ innovation ecosystems. (An In the last five years, hundreds of large companies have established Innovation Outposts (and here ) in Silicon Valley.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”).

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

My general advice is to go join a startup as an employee, and learn from experience. I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. VENTURE CAPITAL AND THE MBAS OF SILICON VALLEY. Not Teaching the Right Skills. It’s okay to prepare yourself first.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

My general advice is to go join a startup as an employee, and learn from experience. I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. VENTURE CAPITAL AND THE MBAS OF SILICON VALLEY. Not Teaching the Right Skills. It’s okay to prepare yourself first.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Meanwhile, we recently talked with him about his thoughts on 35 years in Silicon Valley, why the skill sets of venture capitalists and CEOs are so different, and why telling a good story about your product is so crucial. You’ve been in Silicon Valley since the early days. Employees are not entrepreneurs.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

With four hospitals, 22 physician locations, and over 5,000 employees, ThedaCare managers spent 10,000 hours a year to build their budget, and another 10,000 hours to explain, manage, and argue about it. Without systems in place to manage distributed spending, finance teams will leave money on the table.”.

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Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

From that perspective, things have been mostly rosy in the Silicon Valley for startups! except for 2008-2009, which is another story) But, I think we’re in trouble, Silicon Valley. Many startups these days are using a distributed model successfully. Do your employees like to socialize with each other?

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Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

From that perspective, things have been mostly rosy in the Silicon Valley for startups! except for 2008-2009, which is another story) But, I think we’re in trouble, Silicon Valley. Many startups these days are using a distributed model successfully. Do your employees like to socialize with each other?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

In the early days of Rocket Science I realized that we needed high-level advice on multiple fronts; technology, game development, video game distribution, etc. Even back then the advisor was a well-known name in Silicon Valley. I had acted like an employee, not as a founder and certainly not as the CEO of a startup.

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

If you are looking past or through Covid — and why not, all of Wall Street is — the topic du jour in Silicon Valley is Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs. The traditional way of going public is systematically broken and is robbing Silicon Valley founders, employees, and investors of billions of dollars each year.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Well, Steve Hoffman (02:34): First of all, I did three venture funded startups in Silicon valley and two bootstrap startups. So we as investors, most investors, we call it in Silicon valley, but really what it is, it show us that people need this. It's just not the same when you're distributed and talking remotely.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

On the enterprise side of our business, we’ve seen the increasing demand from traditional large corporate buyers looking for ways to manage a more distribute workforce,” Cooper said. “In We have 120 full-time employees and close to 350 freelancers working for oDesk directly,” Cooper said. “In Focus on the East. “Our

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

customers aren’t buying it, the cost of distribution is too high, etc.) The responsibility for validating the founders original hypotheses is delegated to employees – the sales and marketing team. Look at the early Silicon Valley companies – Homebrew Club =>PCs. The products sold themselves. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

This is the second of three posts about the rise of “risk capital” and how it came to be associated with what became Silicon Valley. ———————– The First Valley IPO’s Silicon Valley first caught the eyes of east coast investors in the late 1950’s when the valleys first three IPO’s happened: Varian in 1956, Hewlett Packard in 1957, and Ampex in 1958.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution. Kayak generates both distribution (i.e. Expedia accounted for 24.5% Author howerl.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity. At the same time, it’s a chance to expose some career State Department employees to Silicon Valley thinking. They tested this updated MVP with refugees and made some surprising discoveries.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity. At the same time, it’s a chance to expose some career State Department employees to Silicon Valley thinking. They tested this updated MVP with refugees and made some surprising discoveries.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In theory when you went public, everyone’s shares were now tradable on the stock exchange, but usually the underwriters required a six month “lockup” when company insiders (employees and investors) couldn’t sell. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Campus Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 7, 2017

As the debate over diversity in Silicon Valley continues and grows — questions and definitions of diversity have been raised. When addressing the gap in representation in the population, we need to look at population level differences in distributions.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

While developers can now spin up applications faster than ever before, one of the downsides is the complexity of managing these distributed applications and technologies. Year of HQ2 and Distributed Teams: It was a banner year for non-Silicon Valley cities as NYC and Northern Virginia were selected as Amazon’s HQ2.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

That option involved trying to get a job at a young Silicon Valley company that had just gone public and would, in a few short years, crash and burn, lay off everyone, and quickly fade into oblivion. In January 1995, it had around 100 employees. A few months later, it had 200 employees. Yes, I passed up all that.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

Jonathan: Silicon Valley (HBO). If you’re doing something 10 times and you can be replaced by a robot, a lower paid employee, somebody else who isn’t as critical to the overall vision and strategy of the company, you really need to be thinking about how to get that person in place and how to do that quickly.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2020

My post The Future Of Work Is Distributed received some good comments. ” It’s an important nuance, as there is a big difference between a fully distributed workforce (which the blockchain kids refer to as a “decentralized workforce”) and a multi-location workforce. .”

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Sean Murphy on the first dozen enterprise customers - Gabriel Weinberg , September 8, 2010 I recently did a Traction Book interview with Sean Murphy who runs a boutique cutomer development firm in Silicon Valley. APIs provide a way to “federate&# web services from a single website to a distributed network of 3rd party sites.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. Employees: 20. We both loved this company (and lamented the fact that we weren’t investors since they were founded in LA before relocating to Silicon Valley). Employees: 27.

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Bryce Dot VC

MAY 21, 2013

“ “There are fifty or so billionaires and tens of thousands of millionaires in Silicon Valley.” The defining difference between Silicon Valley companies and almost every other industry in the U.S. The defining difference between Silicon Valley companies and almost every other industry in the U.S.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. Ambit provides companies with conversational chatbots, which they refer to as “digital employees.”. Ambit spent $250k on their MVP.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Of course you’ve probably known of Meg as a business leader for many years, formerly as President and CEO of Hewlett Packard and the CEO of eBay before that, but since late 2018 she has been the CEO of Quibi (joining founder Jeffrey Katzenberg as the first employee). Between the heavy hitters at the helm, the more than $1.4B

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Everyone should have a chance to walk the floor looking for deals, technology, distribution, customers, etc. If your don’t have enough employees on the payroll, hire relatives, friends, or part-timers and train them. Where can I read about the training to give for employees who will be at a booth? What didn’t?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. But the computer retail channel was a large part of our sales. Your mileage may vary, just my two cents.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2021

Although the media has been full of inspiring stories about start-ups in Silicon Valley, the reality is that the rate at which Americans have been starting companies has been in decline for a long time. Many startups recruit employees in this way. That changed with the pandemic.

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Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

We have arguably the largest distributed workforce in the world. We really wanted to build a network of top tier talent, similar to the caliber of talent that’s working in-house at top Silicon Valley tech companies. That’s Toptal in a nutshell -- the best talent, from all over the world, accessible and ready to work.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Finalists addressing issues such as storage, distribution, packaging, waste, and more, will compete for up to $50,000 in prizes. Join us and learn how to attract Venture Capital investment in your startup when you live somewhere other than Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, or Boston. Date: Tues March 13, 2018 Time: 9:30 AM?—?10:30

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2018

If you’re an existing business, who are the critical employees that run the company and execute your strategy? Both Silicon Valley startups and Main Street small businesses need to know how they are doing. These metrics should be reviewed at least monthly in a regular plan review meeting with key business partners and employees.

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