Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Indeed, Silicon Valley was born as a center for weapon systems development and its software and silicon helped end the Cold War. Within a decade, the rise of venture capital in Silicon Valley enabled startups to find commercial customers rather than military ones.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Alex is a Silicon Valley veteran and Cisco executive, often referred to as the ‘innovation therapist,’ who details his knowledge of many real-world cases and specifics on how to keep up with change and win in the marketplace. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. Define realistic metrics to keep track of progress.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

During my time in Silicon Valley, I was struck by the fact that most successful entrepreneurs seemed to personally know and regularly hear from all the “movers and shakers” who had the investment capital and leadership they needed. Managing people and results require the ability to track progress and reward the right people.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2020

Silicon Valley – a fantastic moniker that conjures lots of images, right? Like all those giant companies, Silicon Valley essentially started with a garage. It was in their garage in Palo Alto that paved the way to the rise of Silicon Valley. But why “Silicon Valley”? The “starters”?

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

It wasn’t long ago that it made sense for companies, and especially Silicon Valley companies, to hire locally and have everyone working from one central location. Today, especially in tech hubs like Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, New York, or Seattle, none of these facts hold. Real estate was relatively cheap.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Bill’s closing line, “The reason why Silicon Valley is so successful is that it’s so fxxxng far away from Washington” received great applause. Tech Companies Use Regulatory Capture In my first two decades inside the Silicon Valley bubble we built products people wanted and needed. will move the needle.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2023

Tightening of monetary policies has led to skyrocketing interest rates as central banks try to manage rampant running inflation, supply chain issues persist despite the fact that the pandemic is now in the rearview — and venture capital funding has looked to dry up almost overnight.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

And the wrong message is frankly strewn all over Silicon Valley. And this is fueled by the VC culture in Silicon Valley. I think the one thing that niggles me that most is reserving the word “startup” for only super-growth, Silicon Valley style businesses. Or pivoted too quickly.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 13, 2017

Today Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) announced their support for Global EIR , a cause for which I care deeply. Without one, they struggled to manage their visa status while also building their businesses. The post Global EIR and Silicon Valley Bank Funding Match appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 16, 2018

Microsoft General Manager Dave Mendlen is in Palo Alto today to participate in a rare fireside chat with the CEO of Lifograph, Dea Wilson. Mendlen flew into Silicon Valley from Seattle specifically for this event to chat with the “Wiki of People” CEO. AGENDA: 5:45pm – 6:30pm – Networking reception.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 1, 2021

So I wanted to reshare a post I wrote suggesting that we actually don’t talk about money enough in Silicon Valley, at least not in the transparent and healthy ways that allow us to consider its impact. Reading it back 3 1/2 years later it still rings true for me personally. It’s not about scarcity, it’s about abundance.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Instead of budget approvals, monitor key metrics and give managers more flexibility. How should a growth company manage their budget? So here’s the solution I have recommended to some of my portfolio companies: “ agile budgeting ”, i.e., monitoring a few key variables while giving managers significant flexibility.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2017

Once a Silicon Valley corporate lawyer and business executive, he was chosen by Steve Jobs to form part of the driving force behind the early and unanticipated success of the Pixar animation company. Yet Levy is far from the only Silicon Valley resident to turn to the spiritual path of one or more of the Eastern philosophies.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

BMNT , a new Silicon Valley company, is combining the Lean Methods it learned in combat with the technology expertise and speed of startups. The University of California managed research and development of the bomb design at Los Alamos while the US Army managed the Los Alamos facilities and the overall administration of the project.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But first… There is a relationship between time and money that is more complex than most managers think. Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. The art of good management. How about young or pre-revenue companies?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

By contrast, they backed 620 funds in the last three months of 2021 First time fund managers hit hard: In 2022, limited partners backed 141 funds run by first-time managers, a 59% decline from the prior year and the lowest number since 2013 How does the constrained LP environment manifest for funds and startups?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But here’s what Silicon Valley doesn’t get about Hollywood. Ironically in Silicon Valley consumer Internet business have become hits driven businesses. And what Hollywood does’t get about Silicon Valley? Business managers, lawyers and other red tape. As humans we like story telling.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

For aspiring entrepreneurs, it’s hard to resist the allure of Silicon Valley. You’d be forgiven for thinking that any budding entrepreneur should only look at setting up in Silicon Valley to be successful. Photo credit: Canada flag from Shutterstock. By Raj Narayanaswamy, cofounder and Co-CEO, Replicon. While the U.S.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. Tell me a bit about your background.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2023

But, for the rest of us, don’t believe the Silicon Valley myth that all you have to do is sketch your million-dollar idea on the back of a napkin, and investors will line up to give you money. An entrepreneur who can’t manage a plan, probably won’t be able to manage the new business.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 29, 2017

As the general manager of Europe for a global marketplace serving startups, entrepreneurs and freelance designers from around the world, I often find myself in debate over which city will be seen as the new business hub of the EU. In its place, it seems that Berlin’s “Silicon Allee” will emerge as the EU’s future tech center.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 29, 2014

Women are underrepresented as engineers, management, investors, and founders. Business Insider recently crunched the numbers behind 26 of the top venture capital funds in Silicon Valley and learned that the percentage of female-founded startups in their portfolios ranged from a high of 19% to a low of just 4%. Related articles.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

For decades large companies have gone shopping in Silicon Valley for startups. Companies manage these three types of innovation with an innovation portfolio – they build innovation internally, they buy it or they partner with resources outside their company. Silicon Valley – a Corporate Innovation Candy Store.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In its effort to advocate and be a resource for the startup community, The Startup Magazine is sponsoring this leading venture capital gathering in the heart of tech hub Silicon Valley. Curtis Feeny | Silicon Valley Data Capital. Melina Mathur | Asset Management Ventures. Tom Eggleston | Charmides Capital.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Entrepreneurs beyond Silicon Valley, including those working abroad, often have to retool Lean Startup methods to apply them in places with very different business cultures. Those conversations can often circle around the difficulties of entrepreneurship outside Silicon Valley. On September 24 in the U.S.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

In 2010, Kranthi was hired as a full-time software engineer by International Technological University (ITU), the Silicon Valley industry-oriented school where he had earned his second MS degree. In 2013, ITU funded Kranthi’s proposal for what is now known as the Education Management System (EMS). The Solution Uncovered.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

75 years ago, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) helped kickstart innovation in Silicon Valley with a series of grants to Fred Terman , Dean of Stanford’s Engineering school. He staffed it with his lab managers who built the first electronic warfare and electronic intelligence systems in WWII. Marine C orps with just that.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Much has been written about when it is time to hire a “professional CEO” to run a startup company and of course that has long been a norm in Silicon Valley when founders find that their inexperience may be a limiting factor in company growth ( know as the Peter Principle ). So why did Larry need to return?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

In July I got a call from Errol Arkilic , a program manager at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the $6.8-billion Given that Silicon Valley had started with scientists and engineers not MBA’s, I thought this was a bet worth making. After 7 weeks they returned to Silicon Valley for their final presentations.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

But for the last decade “innovation” in Chinese software meant something different than it did in Silicon Valley. Entrepreneurs in Beijing were knowledgeable about Silicon Valley, entrepreneurship and the state of software and tools available for two reasons. Management 101. Of course “copy” is too strong a word.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2023

All banks are looking hard these days to get back in the game, and certain ones, like Silicon Valley Bank, are more focused on small businesses, even though that focus has cost them dearly in recent weeks. Management with a strong track record.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 3, 2023

Version One has made only one investment in the region ( Headout , a fast growing marketplace for travel experiences) and I had written a small LP cheque into an emerging fund manager ( 1947 Rise , run by the awesome Shiva Sangwan ). And I had more than 20 1:1 meetings with founders, angels, emerging fund managers and institutional VC funds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2022

One of the things I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that you must always focus on three steps ahead, as well as on what exists today. I suggest you take a hard look at your own mindset, and your current business culture, to see how you stack up against the most aggressive entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2021

But, for the rest of us, don’t believe the Silicon Valley myth that all you have to do is sketch your million-dollar idea on the back of a napkin, and investors will line up to give you money. An entrepreneur who can’t manage a plan, probably won’t be able to manage the new business.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”). Ability” vs. “Knowledge”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2020

He has been one of the leading Silicon Valley figures helping the entire biotech industry make a complete pivot to working on solutions: vaccines, therapies, and eventually a cure. Special thanks to my friends at Breaker and the team at LTSE, who partnered with me to produce and host this series. Despair is not an option right now.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2017

So, no: VC funding isn’t such a rare thing in Silicon Valley or anywhere else. and International Business Manager for Dynamis Ltd., and International Business Manager for Dynamis Ltd., He is focused on helping small businesses succeed and regularly writes about entrepreneurship and small business management.

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