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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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Entrepreneur-in-Residence After SuperMac I had been approached by one of our venture investors to be an entrepreneur in residence (EIR), a Silicon Valley phrase which says one thing but means another. Peter described the first company in which “Hollywood meets Silicon Valley” and we were enthralled.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We argued extensively in our book, Blitzscaling , that these strategies and tactics describe why Silicon Valley Bay Area – which has a population of less than 4 million – generates such a massively disproportionate number of global technology companies. Distribution. Distribution. What is Blitzscaling? High Gross Margins.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Dan: My question is related to all this talk that I hear in the Silicon Valley about Internet scale. It’s quite simple, which is when you had systems where you had limitations on distribution or transportation of products, it enabled you to operate with a certain cost structure. I was in a 10-year company.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property. For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity. They tested this updated MVP with refugees and made some surprising discoveries.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property. For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity. They tested this updated MVP with refugees and made some surprising discoveries.

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Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

The demand for top talent is monumental, and the process of finding and hiring the best workers can be excruciating. Toptal , founded in 2010, aims to relieve the difficulties of hiring freelancers. We have arguably the largest distributed workforce in the world. We hire the best talent no matter where they want to work from.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

In 2019, we’ll be doubling down on this effort as we are hiring a GM for our CXO Advisory Board & Network ( job description here ). 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

They were frustrated that despite having the (monopoly) infrastructure that brought you the Internet, the majority of innovation and profits went to Silicon Valley startups. Apple wants to take a major share of the revenue. You’ve just hired your iPhone development team for you app. And that Palm Pre.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

While the average forward revenue multiple has declined slightly since its February 2020 peak (19x), it’s still higher today than last year at 17x vs 15.8x The firm was founded more than 35 years ago and the team quickly realised that innovation was not confined to Silicon Valley. The Index added another $0.9T in Sept 2020.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

There are two reasons to raise money: You have a killer idea that is only partially validated, that you think can get to $50M+ of revenue in 5 years with 80%+ gross margins (if margins are lower, you need a lot more revenue)and you need money to get to product-market fit, or. Revenue per customer? Revenue, Gross Margin?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2012

from box-office revenue. But the total movie industry revenue was $87 billion. 1940’s – movie studios had to divest their distribution channel – they owned over 50% of the movie theaters in the U.S. After the VCR was introduced, studio revenues took off like a rocket. Where did the other $57 billion come from?

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

From who we hire to the way we go to market, from how we engage with our limited partners to how we engage with founders, it’s all about being very focused on quality and consistency so as to affect strategies to generate meaningful carry for ourselves and our limited partners. On Leaving Silicon Valley Bank.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2015

They also give providers and developers an easy way to distribute, sell, and market cloud services. Many of our portfolio companies are those types of cloud services and the ecosystems that AppDirect powers can help them get to market faster, reach more users, and drive more revenue. Investments appdirect Jobs standing cloud'

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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. Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Sam is one of the most prolific company builders in Silicon Valley. Eric Ries : You were one of the first people who when the crisis was breaking, I saw your name all over Silicon Valley, in the Y Combinator forums. I would encourage people to just reach out to the normal crew of Silicon Valley Investors [for].

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. With Netscape’s IPO , there was suddenly a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit. Carpe Diem. Breathtaking Scale.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

There simply won’t be soft-landings and acqui-hires for all of them. Others have blamed the brutal hiring environment on everyone being able to start a company — whether they should or not — and argued that concentrating resources on fewer ideas would make the Valley a lot stronger.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. VC’s invested in things that ran on electrons: hardware, software and silicon. But these VC’s aren’t Lean because they fund startups with web-based distribution models. Here’s why. Electron-based Venture Capital.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Yet we used the product development model not only to manage product development, but as a road map for finding customers and to time our marketing launch and sales revenue plan. After that there’s a discussion of how the product will reach the customer and the potential distribution channel.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

So the other thing is how you look out for a firm that’s really only trying to hire a woman to check the box against a list of things that they need to fulfill versus looking for you, with all of your expertise and the things you know, and putting the right resources behind you to make sure you're successful.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. The business model.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

Kadanoff, who has served as the Chief Marketing Officer for numerous startups in Silicon Valley and got her start doing marketing at Apple, says that any inbound marketing campaign has three main elements: First is getting found and requires search-friendly content at the heart of your marketing campaigns. Not at all," she says. "A

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View from Seed

MAY 27, 2015

Taking advantage of an emerging distribution channel or market inefficiency is an opportunity in a moment in time, not today. He discusses what it was like pioneering virality- and social media-based products before that was even a thing, and how the climate and technology of Silicon Valley back then was radically different than today.

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

No distributed teams, no overseas teams, and definitely no companies that rely on “outsourcing” to build their core technology. I’ve already written about why I want the whole team to be in one location, but in that post, I didn’t address why I want the entire team to be in Silicon Valley. The Valley has that.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Ironically, Carreyou is not a Silicon Valley-focused reporter, and the success of the piece served as a wake-up call for other journalists who may have been struck by Unicorn fever. A high performing, high-growth SAAS company that may have been worth 10 or more times revenue was suddenly worth 4-7 times revenue.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue.

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

No distributed teams, no overseas teams, and definitely no companies that rely on “outsourcing” to build their core technology. I’ve already written about why I want the whole team to be in one location, but in that post, I didn’t address why I want the entire team to be in Silicon Valley. The Valley has that.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Andy is a global thought leader in remote work, telecommuting, and distributed workforces having served as CEO of Crossover and Sococo and on the board of Texas Central, our new bullet train. He was also born here and went to UT Austin before heading out to Silicon Valley for a stint.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. So from day one, my knowledge about how to do a startup was zero. Back to the top.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Ability to hire top talent (A+ talent). you can hire for those.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, where setting goals presents a fresh opportunity to achieve different objectives. You see like Silicon Valley, Hawaii is becoming its own startup paradise. But unlike Silicon Valley, we’ve got our own set of problems.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 25, 2022

In his important new book, Dignity In A Digital Age , he explores how the tech industry can work harder to ensure the benefits it produces are equitably distributed, while also more effectively minimizing disinformation, encroachments on privacy, and other negative outputs.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

To replace them, employers spend $11,500 average per healthcare employee acquisition cost (20% of the annualized salary plus hiring incentives is considered customary for acquisition cost). Distribution Channel for Product Companies. why not become a retailer of the same basket of products that he wants to distribute?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like. Especially if you aren’t from around Silicon Valley.

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