Steve Blank
OCTOBER 5, 2009
We were on the University of North Carolina campus to meet with Fred Brooks and Henry Fuchs. The culture and work ethic of Convergent had earned it the title “the Marine Corps of Silicon Valley”. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Working with my old boss sounded like a great idea.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 17, 2016
Silicon Valley’s pay-it-forward culture means that others will help when you’re starting up. Looking to create their accelerator/incubator, Wayne and seven other founders rented a Silicon Valley house together one summer. North Carolina is big basketball country, a big basketball world like ACC, Duke, UNC.
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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. They commonly tout Silicon Valley and North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park as examples of the success of government-supported clusters.
Hearpreneur
MARCH 15, 2019
My wife, Kym, was already doing this – working on her laptop in the van as we headed on vacation to North Carolina or Nova Scotia. As a successful online marketer with all long distance clients, she had been running her business entirely over the internet for years. How did it work out for me? 24- Work-Life Integration.
ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 9, 2012
Like an accelerator or incubator program, NestGSV gives its resident startups office space, advice and lots of other amenities (even a beach volleyball court) at its Redwood City, California, campus near Silicon Valley. Currently 22 are residing there, paying $550 a month for a desk with 300Mbps of Internet bandwidth.
Berkonomics
NOVEMBER 4, 2016
Because the Internet has such a long memory and documents from the distant past can be found with ease, a search the “The Berkus Method” today will yield any number of conflicting valuation criteria and element amounts culled from the many subsequent publications of the method over the ensuing years. The Method should allow for this.
ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 9, 2012
Like an accelerator or incubator program, NestGSV gives its resident startups office space, advice and lots of other amenities (even a beach volleyball court) at its Redwood City, California, campus near Silicon Valley. Currently 22 are residing there, paying $550 a month for a desk with 300Mbps of Internet bandwidth.
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