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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. For products that are simply “bits” delivered over the web, a first product can be shipped in weeks rather than years.

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Best Credit Cards To Help With Your Small Business

YoungUpstarts

When we started our company in 2008, traditional banks were not amenable to lending to small start-up companies,” explained Ari Zoldan, the CEO of Quantum Networks , a telecom company that was recently on the INC 500 list. We used the cards to finance initial orders as we built credit and terms with vendors,” Benz explains.

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ProfessorVC: Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

Professor VC

Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Got around to seeing The Social Network this past weekend. I did a little searching around the web to try and find a truth vs. fiction comparison, but the closest I found was "The 10 Most Glaring Lies In The Social Network" on the Business Insider. ProfessorVC. ▼ 2010. (7).

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How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

abovethecrowd.com

On June 18, Aswath Damodaran , a finance professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “ Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion. Uber initially worked well primarily within the San Francisco city limits. It now has high liquidity from South San Jose to Napa. Different Economics.

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3 Tips for Starting a Business While Still in College

The Startup Magazine

Source: Flickr via The San Jose Library. Even if you’re in the beginning stages of the process, you want to have a web presence to give your business a professional look. College is a great place to network and make social contacts that can be useful for a lifetime. Design a Website.

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ProfessorVC: Bootstrapping 101

Professor VC

I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. Based on your article you might be interested in my book,which you can see on my web site www.bootstrapping101.com Bootstrapping 101.

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Cracking The Code: Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends

Cracking the Code

I attended yesterday the 10th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends organized by the Churchill Club at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. the rise of CleanTech, and the next wave of web applications and services, with a hint to the potential of the baby boomers. Feedburner Network. Yahoo Finance. Paperblog network.