Up and Running

APRIL 25, 2014

The cast of “Silicon Valley” Image credit: HBO. Silicon Valley is a crazy place. I’ve opted not to return to the Valley for various reasons, but still have plenty of friends who work there and return regularly for business meetings. But should most Silicon Valley companies skip the planning process?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

Prepare a pitch deck to document and share your plan. With these steps, you really don’t need a rich uncle or a benefactor in Silicon Valley these days to start your own business, and keep ahead of the crowd. Advisors and investors need to see your whole story in as few as ten slides.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2017

In addition to these four rules, investors are logically drawn to startups that have a solid business plan , adequate documentation, and evidence to back up even their most optimistic financial forecasts. So, no: VC funding isn’t such a rare thing in Silicon Valley or anywhere else. Bruce is the U.S.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 10, 2018

A lawyer performs myriad duties, from analyzing legal documents and briefs to advising clients and appearing in courtrooms. For example, one of the most significant time-sucks for lawyers is document review or finding documents relevant to a case. AI can excel at some of these tasks. But most of them remain out of reach for now.

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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. Documentation? I went to college during the bust. And when I graduated, it was booming again.

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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. Documentation? I went to college during the bust. And when I graduated, it was booming again.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 14, 2011

They are leveraging the same kinds of new technology, management thinking, and big data to improve lives that we routinely use here in Silicon Valley. While I was in DC, I learned about this EO as well as the guidance document that instructs executive branch agencies on how to implement it.

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Up and Running

JULY 25, 2016

Of all the television shows that center around businesses, none feel closer to reality than HBO’s “Silicon Valley.” What makes “Silicon Valley” work is the truth behind the exaggerated situations. Image via HBO. See Also: How to Find a Business Partner. Violating non-disclosure agreements.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 8, 2017

After investing in 36 lobbyists to win this bill — Uber and Lyft got basically everything they wanted and both Silicon Valley giants turned their apps back on in Austin a few hours later. But both companies courted their previous drivers as well, encouraging them to get their documents refreshed.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Heck, in Silicon Valley even the waiters can do it.). Set up the Lean LaunchLab or a WordPress blog to document your Customer Development progress. . ——— If you’re an experienced coder and user interface designer you think nothing is easier than diving into Ruby on Rails , Nodes.js

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 18, 2011

Probably nowhere else in the world is the idea of a startup happy place more entrenched than in Silicon Valley, where one electrical engineering professor, Frederick Terman, spawned an entire culture of new ventures back in the 1950s.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

At their best, these processes provide detailed plans, checkpoints and milestones for every step in getting a product out the door: sizing markets, estimating sales, developing marketing requirements documents, prioritizing product features. Look at the early Silicon Valley companies – Homebrew Club =>PCs. Order Here.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Additional value outside of legal documents – Most lawyers who work with early stage startups secretly want to be entrepreneurs but they earn too much money to quit – the golden handcuffs I’ve found that the best of them think like entrepreneurs, though, and hang out at startup events.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

” Sean is somebody widely respected in Silicon Valley (although he now lives in SoCal) for having helped many early-stage companies go through major growth periods by quantitatively testing features with audiences to help diagnose what led to growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Why you should set up a board at the seed round of funding I know these days with SAFE documents and rolling convertible notes many founders prefer not to set up a board early on. If you’re a super experienced Silicon Valley CEO with a billion-dollar exit?—?probably. I actually think having a formal board can really help you.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2016

Vietnam’s Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) has shared a circular (a regulatory document, in Vietnam speak) for improving the legal environment for venture capital investing in the Socialist state. The circular is now – since 16 th April – open for public comment.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

This bore out in the fine print of proposed investment documents. Takeaway lesson: There’s a reason that private equity companies tend to concentrate their early-stage investments among Ivy League graduates in Silicon Valley, and that reason is reduced risk.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

Prism provides the NSA with access to data on the servers of Microsoft, Google, Facebook , etc, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, etc. Filed under: Customer Development , Secret History of Silicon Valley. Customer Development Secret History of Silicon Valley'

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2011

As he told me, while Larry Page and Sergey Brin were building Google in Silicon Valley, Wise was a Marine combat medic in the Southeast Asia. Wise has taken that interest in stories and created a new media project that will help me sure more of this founder lore is indeed documented.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2013

And I think of it as a failure of Silicon Valley startups (and occasionally SV VCs who lack an understanding of enterprise purchasing) to assume you don’t need a sales process and sales reps. These all involve becoming part of a sales process.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Not to mention, once the founder and advisor have nominally agreed to a relationship, law firms enter the mix and seed the new advisor with a mountain of paperwork — legal agreements, options agreements — documents stuffed with legalese and binding statements. For more, see the FAST document below: View this document on Scribd.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and market requirements documents. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.),

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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. Motherboard first reported on the existence of the document making the rounds , which Googlers condemned on Twitter.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Well … I have had many late nights and I really didn’t contemplate writing many blog postings this month because I spent November in this interesting venture capital / fund raising dance involving lots of late night sessions reviewing legal documents, rewriting business plans and preparing for pitches. We start getting on famously.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The business terms had been agreed between the business development officer of the investing company and our board, as both companies turned the details over to their respective attorneys for documentation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2019

For example, one of the first home grocery delivery companies, Webvan, was so enamored with early traction in Silicon Valley, it raised and spent nearly a billion dollars and went public, before filing for bankruptcy three years later. Document processes and metrics for economies of scale.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

No Knowledge of Computers Silicon Valley emerged from work in World War II led by Stanford professor Fred Terman developing microwave and electronics for Electronic Warfare systems. Silicon Valley wouldn’t have a computer company until 1966 when Hewlett Packard shipped the HP 2116 minicomputer.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

startups and entrepreneurial ventures, the challenges inherent in doing business here contrast starkly with the rolling hills of Silicon Valley. For example, if the movie “The Social Network” was based on a Latin American Startup, at least a third of the film would have to document. This story continues at The Next Web.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Whether you’re a Silicon Valley superstar or an entrepreneur attempting to get a cool idea off the ground, the day-to-day tasks remain the same. There are still documents to be printed. Ditch The Paper Documents & Go Digital. Services like Smooth Solutions make digitising documents, easy. Coffees to be made.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

I gave a talk last night to the Silicon Valley Product Management Association. This is one of the Silicon Valley organizations that remind you why this is a company-town whose main industry is entrepreneurship, (and a great example of an industry cluster.).

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View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2015

Below, we talk to Glen Mello , Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank’s accelerator team in Boston. Investors have typically seen our term sheets and documents before, and the startup’s lawyers have seen these too, so everyone knows the standard and what to expect. In terms of negotiation, there are always hot buttons.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Hiring technology talent in Silicon Valley is getting difficult, and the time it takes to drive across Palo Alto has tripled—all signs of the impending apocalypse. Meanwhile, the bubble for “seed stage&# startups began when Ron Conway’s Silicon Valley Angels and DST guaranteed every startup out of a YCombinator $150,000.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two What used to be an “A” round in 2011 is now routinely called a Seed round and this has been so engrained that founders would rather take less money than to have to put the words “A round” in their legal documents. two founders in a garage?—?(HP HP Style) are dead.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2015

But, for the rest of us, don’t believe the Silicon Valley myth that all you have to do is sketch your million-dollar idea on the back of a napkin, and investors will line up to give you money. In fact, the process of organizing and documenting these elements is the best way to make sure you understand the answers yourself.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

Silicon Valley, New York). And to track their progress startups now have a scorecard to document their week-by-week changes – the business model canvas. The result – an instant technology cluster – with equity at a fraction of Silicon Valley prices. Here’s how. Now they can.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

they need to accept that the standardization found in conventional Silicon Valley-style fundraising is simply not a possibility. The huge push to standardize investment documentation into templates that can be almost automated stems from the “billion or bust” mindset of classic VC-backed startups.

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