Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. investors, for example, it may be worthwhile to set up an office in New York City or Silicon Valley. New drugs usually fall in this category, due to side-effect testing. If you want U.S.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. investors, for example, it may be worthwhile to set up an office in New York City or Silicon Valley. New drugs usually fall in this category, due to side-effect testing. If you want U.S.

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Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

Transformify expanded to 150+ countries , but I still rely on the network I’ve built back then when we plan to enter new markets or need a warm intro to a potential client on the other side of the world. Remote jobs allow unemployed people to become part of the distributed team of an organization based elsewhere in the world.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

More About Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Learn more here. John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by the salesman podcast, hosted by Will Barron and brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network. It's just not the same when you're distributed and talking remotely.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. investors, for example, it may be worthwhile to set up an office in New York City or Silicon Valley. New drugs usually fall in this category, due to side-effect testing. If you want U.S.

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New York City Silicon Valley Startup Bootstrapping 120

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2011

And the third was a discussion on Silicon Valley: The Next Decade. We went through a set of lead generation mechanisms and discussed the distribution of roles and responsibilities between the company and the channel partner. Silicon Valley: The Next Decade. Silicon Valley photo by Revol Web.

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

So I got out out of the building to meet and understand our customers and distribution partners. There couldn’t have been a worse choice for CEO in Silicon Valley. This wasn’t just some random Silicon Valley fantasy. Also, are you available for talks at a Silicon Valley networking group for job seekers.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 25, 2011

What excited me was that they had an immensely talented team that understood how to produce & distribute low-cost videos, initially via YouTube. They know this model of YouTube production & distribution better than anybody else that I’ve met in my 5 years in Los Angeles. Sure, you need to start with talent.

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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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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

In January, LexSet, one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , won third place (and $250,000) in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge , a nationwide search for solid 5G innovations that could be commercialized using its low latency, high bandwidth millimeter wave 5G network. Tell us about a memorable celebrity encounter.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Special Report: Silicon Valley’s dirty secret – age bias | Reuters – [link]. How PRWeb Helps Distribute Crap Into Google & News Sites – [link]. In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 2, 2019

“Changing the narrative on distributed teams in Silicon Valley”. Among our Silicon Valley-based portfolio companies, every company past “A” has a distributed team. platform integration, customer service and distributing team members across the board. . Crypto/Blockchain. “Is

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Distribution Artificial Inteligence 144

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

Developers, designers, and finance experts from around the world go through a rigorous process that includes live screening and weeks-long test projects before being invited to join Toptal’s network. The whole platform works because everyone in our network is heavily screened; they’re all experts.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

Given my talks on the Secret History of Silicon Valley I was interviewed on NPR about the disclosure that the NSA said they had a new capability that tripled the amount of Skype video calls being collected through Prism. Yet the one company’s name that hasn’t come up as part of the surveillance network is Intel.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

One of the groups I spoke to was the Australian Sports Technology Network. The trap most of them fell into (common almost everywhere): they were reading the blog posts and advice of Silicon Valley-based companies and believing that it uniformly applied to them. Regional Ecosystems. Bay of Fires Tasmania. It doesn’t.

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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.”. 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). Total raised: $29.5mm. Total Raised: $17.7mm.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Originally trained in transactional entertainment law and the representation of above-line talent, Lee worked with a number of well-known writer-director-producers in both traditional studio/network deals and in arranging non-studio financing for independent film production including such classics as Bladerunner.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Where Airbnb recognized the value in another platform, Dropbox doubled down on the strength of its product as a distribution channel. A person receives an email about an endorsement, they visit the platform to view it, and then they’re nudged to endorse people in their own networks. The result? Revival messaging.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Join others who code to change the world for the better and explore distributed computing, examine the confluence between businesses and technology, and debate the power of technology on urban development. Hopefully we will see you there! FutureStack. Approach the future from different angles at the FutureStack Conference. GigaOM Structure.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

” Then we needed a permit to go unescorted, or something. ”But my credentials are for a television network. Distributed teams can work across multiple countries in ways that make the most efficient use of human capital. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.) . ”Why?

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

If you’re a non-technical entrepreneur in Silicon Valley that’s out of college now, it can be tough to find a technical cofounder. Build your networking skills, not in a swarmy way, but in a geniune way. Farmville & neighbors #distribution # 19 hours ago Copywrite © 2012 MikeLee.org. startupcto

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

In Silicon Valley for three decades, spent eight years as a partner at US Venture Partners. There was no demand in companies for using a wide area network like the Internet and they didn’t believe that the demand would ever be there so we got no funding. But coming to Silicon Valley is not nirvana.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

Silicon Valley’s pay-it-forward culture means that others will help when you’re starting up. Yet this same network of connected people affects who gets funded, how startup teams form, and who gets hired. . In ’05, social networking was not quite as prevalent as is it today. It’s all those pieces. ….

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

The word conjures images of twenty-something graduate students hacking code in a Silicon Valley dorm room, fueled by a steady supply of Red Bull and Ramen. First of all, we all know that the age distribution in the U.S. By Akira Hirai Entrepreneurship. had an average age of 39 when they started their companies.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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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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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley). Scaling Up & Out: The Valley is Flat (and Global). Finally, I’d like to bring up how important it is for venture to expand its horizon beyond Silicon Valley, and beyond the US market.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

In Silicon Valley for three decades, spent eight years as a partner at US Venture Partners. There was no demand in companies for using a wide area network like the Internet and they didn’t believe that the demand would ever be there so we got no funding. But coming to Silicon Valley is not nirvana.

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Silicon Valley California Entrepreneur Cofounder 120

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Online Resources and Newsletters: Bostinno : Great coverage of local startup happenings with a growing network of local writers. VentureCafe - Networking venue within the CIC. Gridco Systems – Power Distribution Systems (backed by General Catalyst and Northbridge). Dan Allred – Silicon Valley Bank (@dgallred).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. Stanford was also the right place because of nearby Silicon Valley. Mobile is another very important distribution place for the internet and Meebo is on the iPhone, Android, and BB. We then spoke about startups. For Meebo 1.3%

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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. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. Carpe Diem. Wide Adoption.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

As we all know, the last ten years has seen a near-total collapse of the innovation cost curve, thanks to the perfect storm of open-source, cloud infrastructure, and “free” global distribution via search, social and app stores. Those VCs were nearly all situated in Silicon Valley and most companies couldn’t get very far without going to them.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2010

After nearly 12 months at a Y-Combinator company in Silicon Valley, I find myself noticing an eerie resemblance between my previous life in the film industry in NY/LA. This week's release of The Social Network, an interpretation of the rise of Facebook, and it's founder Mark Zuckerberg, is another corridor between these two worlds.

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