Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

Before answering this, let’s take a look at what happened in the global software and cloud market over the last year. Global market snapshot The world now has 10 software and cloud giants worth more than $100B, representing $4.1T Beyond the giants, the momentum continues for the public companies in our global cloud Index.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Rise of Global Tech Hubs An exciting shift in recent years is the emergence of new technological hubs across the globe. While Silicon Valley remains iconic, cities from Bangalore to Berlin are making names for themselves as hotbeds of tech innovation. However, with this financial backing comes heightened investor expectations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

Even in this age of globalization and virtualization, the geographic area where you choose to live and work can still make or break your startup business. I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

Starting in the 1950’s, Stanford’s engineering department became “outward facing” and developed a culture of spinouts and active faculty support and participation in the first wave of Silicon Valley startups. Given its inward focus, Berkeley has always been the neglected sibling in Silicon Valley entrepreneurship.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

What metrics do we use to see if we learned enough in Customer Discovery ? I gave my boilerplate answer, “I’m a product guy and I tend to invest and look at deals that have measurable revenue metrics. Dave McClure has some great metrics…” It was an honest but vaguely unsatisfying answer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2023

In today’s global economy, your ideal partner may be half way around the world, from a different geography and business culture. There’s a reason that Silicon Valley and Boston are hubs for high-tech startups. Jointly define major milestones and key metrics for the startup. Look for a partner from a different background.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For much of 2014 and 2015, I banged my head against a plane window flying back and forth between Austin and Silicon Valley while trying to raise institutional VC money for Localeur. Are there amazing Silicon Valley VCs out there with whom entrepreneurs should work to partner? but it’s true. Most definitely.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

If there was any doubt among the teams about the value of what they’re learning, Blinken put it to rest with a compelling overview of how so many of today’s complex global problems – from stopping Ebola to monitoring cease-fires and improving food security – demand innovative, tech-based solutions. Both are “global commons” problems.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

If there was any doubt among the teams about the value of what they’re learning, Blinken put it to rest with a compelling overview of how so many of today’s complex global problems – from stopping Ebola to monitoring cease-fires and improving food security – demand innovative, tech-based solutions. Both are “global commons” problems.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. And as more economies worldwide seek to shift their investment strategies offshore and seek out technology, hubs like Silicon Valley and Shanghai, among others, have reaped the benefits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2021

In today’s global economy, your ideal partner may be half way around the world, from a different geography and business culture. There’s a reason that Silicon Valley and Boston are hubs for high-tech startups. Jointly define major milestones and key metrics for the startup. Look for a partner from a different background.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Not just in the military, but also in Silicon Valley, where it dooms otherwise successful companies. Conversely, the things you measure well, with easily understood and visible metrics, tend to improve without much extra push. faces in a global, interconnected system. More like a surgical strike. 1 is measurement.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

During the last three years he’s worked with over 100 companies, many of which established Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley. He’s now helping companies get the most out of their relationships with Silicon Valley.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

Instead, the global pandemic has turned 2020 into its most harrowing year. 5:01) Brian's thoughts on the human dimension to his approach and how that sets him apart in Silicon Valley. (6:06) 59:03) The need for creativity, intuition and compassion in Silicon Valley and business. (1:00:23) What if it works?

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Our venture was selected for competitive accelerator spots & recognition from media and mentors from Austin, Chicago and Silicon Valley to work on this problem and capture the value its solution provided. Where there isn’t consensus is what metrics meet the bar for “early traction” and who qualifies as a “great team”.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two even before the pandemic itself has been fully tamed. And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing.

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A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Notice the distinct absence of little things like revenue, customers, engagement metrics, or gross margin. They can create temporary growth in vanity metrics like downloads. We look for strong SaaS metrics (see this great post on SaaS metrics from my friend at Cueball Capital, Ali Rahimtula).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

To turn your company’s stock into cash, you engaged a top-notch investment bank (Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs) and/or their Silicon Valley compatriots (Hambrecht & Quist, Montgomery Securities, Robertson Stephens). Sandberg had been the vice president of global online sales and operations. VCs sit on 5 to 10 or more boards.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

After rapid international expansion across several continents, as the founding team brought Silicon Valley’s global ambition into Europe, and the extension of its offering to buses and multimodal transportation, BlaBlaCar is preparing for the travel rebound expected as the world reopens. They’re building them for the world.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2017

Decide On, and Obsess About, Your North Star Metric. That’s when Facebook established a team dedicated to growth, and more importantly to a North Star Metric that enabled the entire company to focus its efforts and establish a systematic growth engine. Mike Hoefflinger is a 25-year veteran of Silicon Valley.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 12, 2013

How do we design and build a world-class mobile experience that not only satisfies the needs of our users, but fuels growth and inspires more people to join the Airbnb global community? In the early days of e-commerce, sales were typically the most important metric for success. It all starts with culture. “By

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Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

And I guess it seems appropriate that I’m writing this post from Edinburgh, Scotland here at TED Global. And speaking of capitalism, George Papandreou’s, the former Prime Minister of Greece and the poster child for the European economic crisis, TED Global talk is already live. I saw this movie in Silicon Valley?—?where

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Measuring What Matters: How To Pick A Good Metric – [link]. Measuring What Matters: How To Pick A Good Metric – [link]. Measuring What Matters: How To Pick A Good Metric – [link]. Why Silicon Valley needs critics like Morozov | San Francisco Chronicle – [link]. ” – [link].

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley). One other firm that doesn’t always get a lot of popular acclaim but has a ton of operational expertise & widely global reach is Rocket Internet. Scaling Up & Out: The Valley is Flat (and Global).

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

It also puts another chink in the armor of the meme that monster internet companies can only be built in Silicon Valley (LivingSocial, Kayak, Gilt Groupe, CSN Stores, et al doing damage here too). Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized. Read More ».

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Id like to call special attention to Kurt Carr s perspective (lets hope he finishes his five-part series): Now that I’m back in Ohio (I was one of the token foreigners in a room full of Silicon Valley residents), I have found myself reliving and rethinking much of what I saw there. We all owe you. We all owe you.

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Up and Running

JULY 21, 2016

To determine which cities made the cut, I turned to Compass’s Global Startup Ecosystem Report for 2015. Silicon Valley, California, USA. Coming in at number one (which should surprise absolutely no one) is Silicon Valley, California’s resident hub for startup and entrepreneurial innovation. AngelList Tel Aviv.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

it took years for Airbnb’s metrics to really start accelerating. But I thought that if this actually works, it can have a global impact and generate virtually uncapped returns.”. No business I know of had a playbook for a global pandemic of this magnitude. Now here’s an interesting coda to that story. CONCLUSION.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 7, 2016

Living in Europe with easy access to different countries, divergent points of view, and experiencing the spectrum of “outsider” status relative to Silicon Valley has been life changing and a career choice I would recommend to everyone even if only for a couple of years. The global mean is so misleading.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

New Capital Earmarked for Global High-Growth Investments LARCHMONT, N.Y., About Bessemer Venture Partners: Bessemer Venture Partners is a global investment group with offices in Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, Mumbai, and Tel Aviv. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Global Warning! David Cowan.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2013

Six years later , TechStars is a global operation and, more fundamentally, the accelerator model is among the decade’s most important entrepreneurial innovations. Irrespective of what happens to Techstars ahead, development of the accelerator as a global industry ensures that Techstars will remain historically relevant.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 29, 2020

He was in dialogue with two pretty important Silicon Valley power players who suggested that there needed to be a way to match volunteers with projects, and he had a fully-functioning site to do that up and running two days later. In some ways, Radu's story is typical of Silicon Valley. It's pretty amazing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

But something more nuanced is at hand that is worth debating – is the future of the Internet & global communications more open or more closed? In a world where it’s easier to judge the immediate value of a business, I know that metrics like “time on site&# matter. That’s what AOL was.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 25, 2022

But while some of America’s most powerful lawmakers focus on cutting Big Tech down to size, how many of the major challenges we face, as a country and as part of the greater global community, can we solve without major technological activity and innovation? That’s why Ro Khanna’s perspective is valuable in this moment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2015

In today’s global economy, your ideal partner may be half way around the world, from a different geography and business culture. There’s a reason that Silicon Valley and Boston are hubs for high-tech startups. Jointly define major milestones and key metrics for the startup. Look for a partner from a different background.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

For many of us in Silicon Valley, one of the notable events of the crisis was Brian's public stance about the role of corporate leadership in social issues. And if you look at what percentage of the global population lives within commuting distance of one of our offices, it's a tiny fraction of the world, far less than 1%.

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