Steve Blank
JUNE 12, 2020
Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about. He runs H4X Labs.
Steve Blank
JUNE 8, 2021
Steve Weinstein started Hacking for Impact (Non-Profits) and Hacking for Local (Oakland) at U.C. Steve Weinstein , 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. From its beginning with our Stanford class, Hacking for Defense is now offered in over 50 universities in the U.S.,
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Steve Blank
JUNE 7, 2019
Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about.
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 29, 2016
I’ve asserted for a long time that Silicon Valley is a collection of startup communities, which includes San Francisco, Marin (the first board I was on – in 1994 – was for a company in San Rafael), Oakland, Redwood *, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Menlo Park, and Sunnyvale. Or maybe toss SOMA in. Or, well, does it really matter?
Austin Startup
MAY 11, 2017
Front page - Backstage Capital Bryant Stibel Bryant Stibel is Kobe Bryant and Jeff Stibel’s venture capital vehicle, focusing on the convergence of technology, media and data. We are an Oakland-based fund that understands that startup companies have the ability to transform entire industries and to address urgent social needs as they do so.
Austin Startup
APRIL 15, 2018
The last session of the event begins at 5:00 pm on Friday, April 20 and features a Pitch Competition showcasing three cannabis-based startups from around the United States: Lumen (Oakland), BDTNDR (Austin) and FLUX (Dallas). Whichever of these three startups most impresses the ACE judges receives a $1500 cash prize!
This is going to be BIG.
AUGUST 15, 2013
Raul is a 46-year-old dad, experienced in entertainment, media, and startups. Through this investment, I met Mitch for the first time, and I admire his efforts in the education space and his interest in turning Oakland into the “next Brooklyn.”
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