Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JANUARY 19, 2012

Books & Reviews Entrepreneurial Innovation Pop Culture Billy Beane Brad Pitt change conflict film review Gregg Fraley Jonah Hill Kerris Dorsey leadership methodology Moneyball Oakland A's Oakland Athletics Philip Seymour Hoffman resistance risk risk-takingAs in-flight entertainment luck would have it, I’ve now seen the film Moneyball twice within a week. On the surface Moneyball is a true-story film about baseball — but it’s really an innovation story.

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deal architect

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

I flew into Oakland and took the new people-mover from the airport to the BART station at the venue which Oracle sponsors. The Coliseum loomed large for me this week at Oracle OpenWorld. So much more appealing and efficient than. Enterprise Software (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JANUARY 19, 2012

I always like the charming Brad Pitt , and he’s good here in a tailor-made part as Oakland Athletic’s General Manager Billy Beane. Books & Reviews Entrepreneurial Innovation Pop Culture Billy Beane Brad Pitt change conflict film review Gregg Fraley Jonah Hill Kerris Dorsey leadership methodology Moneyball Oakland A's Oakland Athletics Philip Seymour Hoffman resistance risk risk-taking

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deal architect

AUGUST 1, 2013

Billy Beane of the Oakland A''s - Mr. Moneyball - is prominent in my post. I wrote this post about Sabremetrics and Selling for the salesforce blog. He will also be keynoting at the HP Vertica Big Data conference in. Industry Commentary

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deal architect

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Nice earnings call yesterday – record numbers across 8 metrics Just as good was the mainstream publicity through the movie Moneyball which was released in most US and Canadian cities on September 23 and which features the Oakland A’s stadium. Cloud Computing, SaaS

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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.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 8, 2016

Eliot nails a dystopian future set in Oakland that incorporates the evolution of all the tech we are currently using. If you are a looking for an awesome sci-fi book to read, download Cumulus by Eliot Peper right now.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 22, 2016

When Eliot wrote Cumulus, he moved away from Mara but retrenched in his home town of Oakland. You’ll have to wait a little while for it, but this time, instead of Oakland, Eliot takes us to Burning Man and spend 90% of the book there over the course of a week. Neon Fever Rising by Eliot Peper was outstanding. But you can’t read it yet as it’s still in draft form. Eliot’s last book Cumulus was published a few weeks ago and has gotten awesome reviews.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 21, 2013

19:30 The Oakland A’s and Moneyball. Eric Ries was kind enough to invite me to speak at his Lean Startup Conference. In the talk I reviewed the basic components of the Lean Startup and described how we teach it.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2013

Boulder came in third, behind “San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA” (what most of us think of as “Silicon Valley”) and “San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA” (what most of us think of as San Francisco.). Richard Florida continues to write amazing stuff about Startup Communities in The Atlantic Online. Two of his latest articles talk about entrepreneurial density and venture capital. High-Tech Challengers to Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Until 2002 – when the Oakland A’s’ baseball team took advantage of analytical metrics of player performance to field a team that competed successfully against much richer competitors.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2015

It is the true story of Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team and how he had to change his philosophy in order to make this small market team competitive.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Thelton McMillian is the founder & CEO of Oakland, CA-based Comrade, a design and strategy agency that creates digital products and services like mobile and Web apps to help businesses improve their user experience. By Thelton McMillian, Founder & CEO of Comrade.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

On typecasting the worst of our respective parties as the ones who wreak havoc, in Milo Yiannopoulos vs. Occupy Oakland … “There’s no good guys here.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rick Peterson has coached some of baseball’s best pitchers in the past twenty years, including Cy Young Award winners and Hall of Famers, and was the Oakland Athletic’s pitching coach during the famed Moneyball era.

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Business Plan Blog

JULY 18, 2013

As we can see, Boulder came in third behind San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara (AKA Silicon Valley) and San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont. Entrepreneurial Density and Venture Capital.

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Diego Basch

MAY 20, 2019

This is one, on 42nd St (Oakland). One fine day, the NBA executives have a realization: there are not enough players trying to join the league (we must have entered a bizarre dimension but stay with me for analogy’s sake). What do these marketing geniuses do? Increase the funnel, of course. They tell everyone who will listen that the NBA is awesome, and that anyone who tries hard enough has a chance. Of course, it is not true that anyone who tries hard has a chance.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rick Peterson has coached some of baseball’s best pitchers in the past twenty years, including Cy Young Award winners and Hall of Famers, and was the Oakland Athletic’s pitching coach during the famed Moneyball era.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rick Peterson has coached some of baseball’s best pitchers in the past twenty years, including Cy Young Award winners and Hall of Famers, and was the Oakland Athletic’s pitching coach during the famed Moneyball era.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

During this week's roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. Last up, Ashesh Patel from Oakland, California, pitched StyleShop247.com , a Flipkart of fashion for Indian consumers, so to speak, whereby the site would be selling foreign fashion brands to Indian consumers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Founded in January 2000 in Oakland by Tim Westergren; new CFO, Steve Cakebread was previously CFO of Salesforce.com. We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital.

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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).

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 15, 2013

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.” Finally!

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2016

The name, Saranap dates back over 100 years when a commuter train cut across California, connecting Oakland to Sacramento. Share The idea of exactly what your business is going to be usually comes first. Secondly, most often, is giving a title to your idea.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 18, 2018

The last session of the event begins at 5 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), competing for a $1500 cash prize!

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K9 Ventures

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Well, you can fly from San Francisco, from San Jose, from Oakland. When we started in the PhD program in Computer Science at Stanford , Prof. Rajeev Motwani , who was the “default PhD advisor” for all incoming PhD students told us that our only priority should be to find a research topic that we care about. In fact, Prof. Motwani was so adamant that this was the only thing that mattered, that he said that we shouldn’t worry about the myriad of other requirements for the PhD.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 19, 2015

Brad graduated from Dartmouth College and currently resides in Oakland, California, with his wife and their two children, both of whom are stars of his frequent Animoto video creations.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 8, 2017

If you were watching the Oakland Raiders beating the hapless New York Giants (so sad about Eli) this past Sunday, you surely saw a scene like this one: Quarterback Geno Smith using his Microsoft Surface tablet to figure out how he added two more fumbles to this career total of 43.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 19, 2015

While its most famous proponent - Billy Beane - is rightly lauded for making his Oakland A's team a consistent contender in spite of having a player’s salary budget sometimes only one quarter that of big market competitors like the Yankees and the Dodgers, in recent years “ Sabermetrics ” has leaped to a whole new level of intricacy and sophistication. The lessons and inspirations of sports and the sporting life have always had a deep hold on the business psyche.

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Gust

AUGUST 8, 2012

Entrepreneurship is often born of founders’ sheer frustration with the status quo.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2015

In the last year alone, several have opened across the United States, with cafes in New York City, Oakland, California, and soon, Portland Oregon. Over a year ago, I first heard the rumor that a cat cafe had opened in London.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Venture Capital Doesn’t Invest In Blacks And Latinos, But That’s Changing In Oakland. Here are some tips on how to play the game, get ahead, and get funded. With the recent influx of startups, there is a lot of competition for venture capital funding.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 13, 2012

The obvious question is, what if I need to be in Oakland for a 5:30 pm meeting for which I just cannot be late? When you live in a sprawled suburb like the Silicon Valley, it’s sometimes hard to predict how long it will take you to drive from point A to point B. For example, my one-way commute time from Mountain View to San Francisco has ranged between 45 and 120 minutes in the past few months. Of course the travel times are somewhat predictable.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 26, 2010

Another interesting model has been wandering around Oakland, California this year. Even in non-recessionary times it can be difficult to get a new business off the ground.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 26, 2010

Another interesting model has been wandering around Oakland, California this year. Even in non-recessionary times it can be difficult to get a new business off the ground.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 22, 2014

Satya and I visited Blue Bottle’s Oakland HQ a few weeks back and I love talking with retailers about the way technology is changing their business (such as this previous post with a SF-based bakery owner ). “Let’s get a coffee and catch-up.” ” It’s a throwaway line but if you say it to David Bowman , CFO of Blue Bottle Coffee, you’ll get invited over for a tour along with your cup.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 18, 2014

Brad graduated from Dartmouth College and currently resides in Oakland, California, with his wife and their two children, both of whom are stars of his frequent Animoto video creations.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Cities that are currently participating in the Startups in Residence program include the California cities of Oakland, San Leandro and San Francisco, and Washington D.C. By Mary Scott Nabers | 10/30/2017 Startup companies of all types are hot topics today. They excite investors because some offer great revenue potential. The media loves to write about them and economic development organizations try to attract them because of the jobs they create.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I didn’t grow up in Brooklyn or Chicago or Oakland or with college-educated parents who went to HBCUs, but I am a child of cities and towns with far greater percentages of black people. “Is Austin Racist?” That’s a Good Question I owe a lot of my professional and personal growth to Austin.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 9, 2018

Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only “the single most influential baseball book ever” (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what “may be the best book ever written on business” (Weekly Standard). First off, I would LOVE your answer to this question! I would bet everyone has books that have made a big impact on their lives.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2011

Just as Silicon Valley actually represents a corridor of companies, institutions, and cities from San Jose north to San Francisco (and, if you want to be more broad-minded, on north through Oakland up to Livermore), we need to think of Austin as a hub of a regional tech eco-system. mobileTech Tuesday by Steve Guengerich.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

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.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 11, 2016

He compared what we as marketers do with data to the way Billy Beane approached managing the Oakland Athletics in Michael Lewis’ book, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. The Cost of Customer Acquisition: How Much Can You Spend to Earn New Business?

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