Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Change agents inside a corporation or government agency know how to build consensus and be a rebel at work. She began the CIA’s Lessons Learned program and led the Agency’s first effort to address the challenges posed by social networks, digital ubiquity, and the emerging culture of collaboration.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Introducing Hacking for Defense – Connecting Silicon Valley Innovation Culture and Mindset to the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. They don’t need an office in Silicon Valley to figure out what’s out there. North Korea. DF-21 and Islands in the South China Sea. We’re Our Own Worst Enemy.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Vivek Wadhwa, a leading entrepreneurship researcher at Duke University, offers a piece explaining why so many well intentioned attempts to copy Silicon Valley fail. In other words the culture and social institutions of the place. And the success of Silicon Valley was achieved without government involvement.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

This is a step forward for the Good Law—which has already helped Brazil a lot—but private business and government need to start doing more to truly help launch Brazil’s mobile potential. The government needs to take a holistic approach to invigorating mobile technology in Brazil. What’s good about the “Good Law”.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

We were on an immersion trip to Silicon Valley, and we said, “Let’s find a way to leverage [a previous open source project],” and we decided to build something around that. Clark: Competing through Social Networks. Tom Eisenmann. It really did start as an entry in the New Venture Competition. That’s invaluable.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

But now, the defining movie of today’s twentysomethings is “The Social Network”. Political science, government service, and law — Yale has the #1 rated law school in the US and a long history of alumni serving in government. Everyone wanted to work in finance. Everyone wants to work in tech startups.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 8, 2016

AirBnB famously scraped Craigslist to get their business started and here in London Hailo built a social networking app for cabbies as a way to get drivers on the platform before they had any users. Silicon Valley got properly started in the 1950s and 1960s whereas we have only been going since the late 1990s.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community. And many of them view the local government as an irrelevant factor in their business.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. 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. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

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Ben's Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

20 years ago, the technology adoption curve generally conformed to the following order: Government —specifically Defense and Intelligence organizations. If the organization purchases, for example, social networking software it must attempt to take these needs into account. The Order of Adoption Has Changed.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

1) There’s a growing buzz around entrepreneurship - several people mentioned that in the past, students that graduated from college hurried to find a job in big company and in the case of Brazil also the government. Funding comes largely from angel investors and government grants. 4) The concept of networking is new here.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

What I mean by this is that a lot of folks are perched on soap boxes across social networks, shouting from the hilltops. Ultimately, we sold that company to Silicon Valley Bank and it became the genesis of Silicon Valley Bank’s open platform approach. On Leaving Silicon Valley Bank.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

We are the most active Twitter country in the world (measured by tweets per account) and the third most socially networked. Think of Stanford and Sandhill road in Silicon Valley, Route 128 in Boston or IIT in Bangalore India. We don’t have a ‘Paypal’ mafia, a Netscape brethren or an equivalent strong network in tech.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

That option involved trying to get a job at a young Silicon Valley company that had just gone public and would, in a few short years, crash and burn, lay off everyone, and quickly fade into oblivion. And you didn’t need to get permission from the government or corporate gatekeepers. Yes, I passed up all that.

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Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. A 2005 report by the Government Accountability Office indicates that textbook prices have outpaced inflation by more than 2-1 over the past two decades and account for 26% of tuition and fees at four-year public universities and nearly three-quarters of costs at community colleges.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 7, 2012

As Managing Director of T2 Venture Capital , a Silicon Valley venture firm that helps build “innovation ecosystems” around the globe, Victor Hwang knows quite a lot about what it takes to create an environment where high-tech startups can grow and thrive. Q: What are the most important lessons to emulate from Silicon Valley’s success?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others. While most of the social networks, cloud computing, web and mobile app companies we see today will fail, a few will literally remake our lives.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Build Your Own Silicon Valley? How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. but: Something is Still Missing. What truth?

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2010

Ron’s Network. Ron runs a network. In Ron’s network, the nodes are important business people and Ron governs and routes the calls. In order to place a call on the network, you must meet certain important requirements: You must have a relationship with Ron. Everyone is courteous, timely, and straightforward.

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Professor VC

JULY 2, 2010

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Andy argues against common wisdom here in Silicon Valley that start-ups are behind all new job creation. A similar trend is happening in alternative energy, the industry that has greatly benefited from both venture capital and US government assistance over the past decade.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

One of the reasons that Silicon Valley has been so successful at building blitzscaling companies is its “fail fast” mantra, which encourages entrepreneurs to determine whether or not their startup can achieve product-market fit as early in the company’s lifecycle as possible. WHAT LEADS TO PIVOTS?

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I cant remember if the SEC was one of the government agencies that Rick Perry wants to get rid of (but neither can he ), but it seems like this is the exact type of investor that the SEC was set up to protect. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Government grants – Credit cards / debt. I have 2 options: set up a new startup or share my idea with google (or maybe another big silicon valley’s company). How can we attract attention from investors and press in silicon valley without moving there? The value they add (other than $$) is their network.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

We are unbelievably lucky to be here right now, with a team of über-talented people from the best and brightest Silicon Valley companies, at a moment when what a book should be is morphing before our very eyes. I had previously worked at an executive level in the government, specialising in international relations.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Then, Silicon Valley collectively deplatformed Trump (a scary precedent even if you vehemently dislike the guy). Another interesting social consequence of such decentralized identity services is that they’ll allow for more human experimentation with the notion of a “self.” Maskbook , Uniswap ).

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

GLIIF, LLC is a Hot Silicon Valley Startup designed to disrupt QR Code usage in advertising. I created {s}hareCLOUD — Private social networks for businesses– with Google in mind. It just seems to me that having a great idea without Silicon Valley connections becomes an obstacle. Social Media.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Most of the informed people I know are telling me that the sharp sell-off has more to do with European national debt (PIGS as it is called: Portugal, Italy, Greece & Spain) than the current US dilemma of a S&P downgrade of the US government debt. And Social. My prognosis? I’ve been parroting this for 2 years.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

In doing research for a post on “The Enterprise Cool Kids” at the tail end of last year, I interviewed Silicon Valley veteran Marc Andreessen about where he thought the enterprise was headed. And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Here he found out that every kid in Uruguay is given a free laptop by the government – (for me it’s a bit like western countries giving all kids a free public education some 200 years ago and that’s why they currently lead the developed world). A bit like Silicon Valley. It was anti-social in nature.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

HW: When you dove into the world of anti-vaxxers you encountered some really interesting conclusions about how extreme groups use social media effectively, and how traditional voices are getting drowned out. ” We saw specific verbatim message coordination across networks, including automation—bot and cyborg accounts.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

I didn’t even get to the use of technology to facilitate hate speech and disinformation—which Silicon Valley libertarians will argue is a “free speech” issue without grasping even the basics of the yelling fire in a crowded theater analogy. That was before Prop 22 passed. I spoke up on these issues… at a table of VCs.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Ezra Klein : Hello and welcome to the Ezra Klein Show, a podcast on Vox Media Podcast Network. Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists. Bill Gurley : Oh, absolutely.

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