Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

And so was his reputation for being verbally abusive to his direct reports. 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. The cheapest way to get promotion is getting colleagues to [.] Order Here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

According to the International Business Innovation Association ( InBIA ), there are over 2,200 of these locations worldwide, and new online versions springing up all over the place, like Founders Space in Silicon Valley. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Personally, I think that customer acquisition, brand, reputation, etc., In contrast, customer acquisition, brand, reputation, etc. Particularly if the VC’s don’t know you or your team and/or you lack a reputation as fearsome and successful marketeers. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 7, 2019

Bill Campbell has long had a legendary reputation as one of the best coaches of all time, but until now, only the people he worked with got to understand and experience the power of his approach. There’s a ton of actionable advice and great examples in the book that will help any CEO and entrepreneur become a better leader.

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View from Seed

MAY 31, 2023

On the other side of the term sheet, as expressed by Gordon Moore , Silicon Valley pioneer, and co-founder of Intel, “you’re more valuable because of the experiences you’ve been through under failures.” It is worth noting, that success and failure are interpreted differently in the studies referenced.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

And fourth, they want to build their reputation and influence in such networks. Some of the most creative technology coming out of Silicon Valley is designed to do exactly that. That means helping your Rock Stars build their peer or professional networks, grow their reputations, and gain access to valuable knowledge.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. All of these things aside, one of its biggest attractions may be what is not: Silicon Valley.

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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. These experts will help you decide which hot-button issues to battle by aligning to your org’s culture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

According to the National Business Incubator Association ( NBIA ), there are over 7,000 of these locations worldwide, and new online versions springing up all over the place, like Founders Space in Silicon Valley. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

But there are notable examples of for-profit incubators that are thriving, including YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , led by David Cohen and located in several key cities around the country, that have an excellent reputation and track record.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Now many of these 200 participants are fully engaged in careers on Wall Street, in Silicon Valley, and in nonprofits, and the stories they tell highlight six key leadership strengths of their guides. Second, guides are adaptable and employ flexible leadership styles. Third, guides empower others.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 7, 2016

Hunter Walk: You’re an expat, having moved to Sweden last year for a leadership role at Spotify. That’s where the “jedi” reputation comes from and it’s honestly not necessarily a good thing. Shiva’s over in Europe helming a number of product initiatives at Spotify. At a personal level, what has that been like?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

There was one in Silicon Valley, unsurprising, one in Chicago, and there was this group out of the south of France that served all of Europe. That leadership trait is just not innate in everybody. I finally got transferred, and the move to France, we had three tech centers around the world.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 26, 2014

While Boulder is currently building a strong reputation as an entrepreneurial ecosystem to rival Silicon Valley and is consistently voted among the top cities to live in the country , there is almost nothing more fundamental to quality of life and competitive business than affordable energy.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Darren co-founded CBMS Consulting Services and is a speaker, author, Co-host of The Business Power Hour with Darren and the Music Man, leadership and operational expert. Contact me at jhisey@management-insights.com or 203-913-2227. Darren Cioffi. He is a graduate of L.I.U Post with a concentration in Accounting. John Gibson. Anders Goranson.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Not unless you’re Elon Musk and Governor Abbott has a smile as wide as the Texas Panhandle or you’re Joe Rogan and every tech bro in Austin is so pumped to point to your move (and Tim Ferriss’ move) here as some kind of stamp of approval that they never needed Silicon Valley. I’ll return to this shortly.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I generally get asked about skills required (leadership, tolerance for ambiguity, risk taking, persistence, opportunity recognition, etc.), While Silicon Valley covers a large amount of turf, it is very small. ProfessorVC. Thursday, November 19, 2009. June 3, 2010 9:50 AM.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

The difference between the two ways of thinking is why successful entrepreneurs have the reputation for being relentless. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. The problem was his approach let others define the outcome and set the pace. To an outsider it looks like they’re annoyingly persistent. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

Our “Hollywood meets Silicon Valley” story played great in Silicon Valley, they ate it up in Hollywood, and the business press tripped over themselves to talk to us. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Which at this stage of the company was marketing and financing. Order Here.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs. Congratulations!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

5:01) Brian's thoughts on the human dimension to his approach and how that sets him apart in Silicon Valley. (6:06) 50:17) The Heroes Journey, Joseph Campbell (55:03) The need for human connection in leadership and what Brian hopes former employees will take with them into the world. (56:46) 37:30) Compassion in layoffs. (39:37)

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Yet, because of its reputation, it still drew all of us dreamers, free thinkers who were fond of science and mathematics, and were ready to take on this challenge. With that being said, leadership might look different in women vs men, and it takes a special eye to recognize it. In Silicon Valley, founders usually have a strong plan B.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The key problem with existing technologies was adverse selection, specifically concerning the incentives of participants and the reputation systems: In the yellow pages, people wanted to be found but the way they represented themselves had nothing to do with how good they were. It has reputation. Our answer: a network.

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Up and Running

MARCH 21, 2016

Choosing the right leadership team for your startup is a delicate process, as having the wrong co-founders can ultimately be more hurtful to your business than having no co-founders at all. “Angels and VCs often look for talented co-founders, as opposed to a single founder, which is a rarer case,” says Ben Lang of Mapme. His advice?

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

That’s because Joe brings a wealth of real-world experience and leadership to the role. On the floor of the House, Lipinski said, “Rapid, low-cost technological innovation is what makes Silicon Valley revolutionary, but the DOD hasn’t historically had the mechanisms in place to harness this American advantage.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 26, 2017

Because that’s a threat to their self image, their power, their reputation as being the authority. They ask for help but only to help them do things their old way, and not to bring new innovation to the problem. Their position as the boss.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Piracy became so associated with startups that when, in 1999, the cable network TNT released a movie about the heated rivalry between Steve Jobs and Apple, and Bill Gates and Microsoft, it was titled, “Pirates of Silicon Valley.” During the first half of 2017 alone, Uber lost eight VPs or department heads.

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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. Australian fashion has a reputation for being progressive and ahead of its time. That’s massive.

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Scalable Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

This is a line that was pretty common in Silicon Valley until recently. Never ask for something for nothing, you’ll get what you pay for and a bad reputation fast. Steve Jobs even (ab)used that line on Dropbox when trying to buy them out of the market (They turned him down.). Now that’s all changed, for the moment.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

And again, we do a lot of work in Silicon Valley. And then we also work with a lot of Fortune 500s that are trying to be like Silicon Valley and lead digital transformation and all of this kind of change. And we did a leadership summit for the CEO and their top 200 leaders. So how do I talk about this way?

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Out-of-state tech companies that do a lot of business in Massachusetts looked even more warily on a state that has long had the reputation as “Taxachusetts.”. The Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (MassTLC) led the fight, organizing local technology companies both large and small to fight the tax.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Think instead about the set of capabilities the leadership at your company needs: Great network and reputation to get you intros to investors, partners, employees. Leadership and management ability. The leadership teams at my companies had a broad set of capabilities. John Furrier , Silicon Valley is my playground - Liv.

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

While the hypergrowth of blitzscaling is often synonymous with the latest high-tech startup from Silicon Valley, blitzscaling isn’t limited by geography, industry, or even company size. Even the value of enduring market leadership can erode over time. Your unique advantage is almost certainly temporary.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 27, 2015

We so like to talk about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! The Reputation Economy: Are You Ready? The ‘Brain-Enhancing’ Drugs That Are Sweeping Silicon Valley crowdspring.co/1aQHkg0.

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