Steve Blank
DECEMBER 17, 2015
Read part one on the Evolution of Corporate R&D , part two on Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley , and part three The 6 Decisions to Make Before Setting up an Innovation Outpost. Silicon Valley, Boston). Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
One of the most successful incubators is Y Combinator in Silicon Valley. Here you need a team, people with disparate but complementary skills bonded by your leadership, to ship product and go live. You need to feel the passion of others in the same stage. The scale - expand to reach your full potential.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 6, 2022
The best known ones, like YCombinator , started by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, provide excellent networking to investors, and on-site technical leadership, which can make your investment less risky. Do your homework before investing.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. In the Fall of 2008, the credit crisis wiped out mergers and acquisitions as a path to liquidity as M&A collapsed with the rest of the market. So what’s left?
Steve Blank
JULY 9, 2009
There couldn’t have been a worse choice for CEO in Silicon Valley. Hollywood Meets Silicon Valley was an Oxymoron A key premise of our new company was that our video compression and authoring technology would revolutionize how games were made and played. This wasn’t just some random Silicon Valley fantasy.
Austin Startup
MARCH 3, 2018
Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Just this week they announced a merger with a Greek shell company as a fast track to going public.
Steve Blank
JUNE 15, 2009
Convergent Technologies When I was in my 20’s I worked at Convergent Technologies , a company that was proud to be known as the “Marine Corps of Silicon Valley.” I have been swinging for the fences for several years as a young entrepreneur at the executive leadership level for several start-ups and most recently starting my own.
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