Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

You would have to spend millions of dollars hiring software developers, renting real estate, buying hardware, etc. In some ways it reminds me of that Michael Lewis book Money Ball and how the Oakland A’s found ways to win with a small payroll. As an entrepreneur it means bootstrap, bootstrap, bootstrap.

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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 ). Software helps us run our business, of course. Q: What future innovation are you most excited about?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 18, 2014

Prior to co-founding Animoto in August 2006, Brad spent eight years with Onyx Software, an enterprise software company. 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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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 19, 2015

Prior to co-founding Animoto in August 2006, Brad spent eight years with Onyx Software, an enterprise software company. 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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

————– We’ve spent the last 3 years building a methodology, classes, an accelerator and software tools and we’ve tested them on ~500 startups teams. LaunchPad Central software is used to track the business model canvas and customer discovery progress of each team. Here’s how.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

I live in Oakland with my husband and now my dog. Eric Ries : This is a pretty sober and deadly situation. How are you both doing? Can you tell us a little bit about your personal quarantine setup? Jen Pahlka : I have a very blessed quarantine. I feel very lucky.

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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. We frequently promote this idea at Palo Alto Software; our founder Tim Berry even wrote the book on it. However, the interest in cat cafes stateside is certainly growing.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 15, 2006

It is about cheaper bandwidth, cheaper hardware, free software, and better tools. Just remember Billy Beane and his Oakland A’s. Sure, the next-generation web is cheap. In other words, you get much more done with much less than in years past. I have written about this in a prior post, Web as Platform.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

In order to do that, they decided three things were crucial: teaching people to code, creating a sense of place around the tech industry, and proving it's possible to build and ship world-class software from places like Fresno. Seven years later, they've trained about 5,000 students and created over 1,000 new technology jobs in Fresno.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

It’s about the Oakland A’s and their General Manager Billy Beane. Analyzing Google Analytics or similar software data is another important data analysis method we use for getting insights to improve conversions. . – The Art & Science of Web Design by Jeffrey Veen. What’s Moneyball? Recruit them yourself. A ton of stuff.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 8, 2017

It is a company I love (am typing this on my beloved ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 5, using Windows Live Writer blogging software!). To make it work for the NFL, Microsoft surely wrote lots of custom software for the NFL’s specific use cases. We are going to internalize this lesson by learning from Microsoft. The NFL of course.

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David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

645 Ventures is a seed and early-stage venture fund that focuses on Internet and software companies. Headquartered in Oakland, CA, Mindblown was founded by Jason Young and Tracy Moore, both African-American Harvard graduates. Another example is 645 Ventures, a new venture fund founded by Nnamdi Okike.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Last December when one techie interviewed by an SFGate reporter equated the word with a racial slur, a popular industry blog suggested it be replaced with the term “Software American.”). “Do on the Richter scale, but it severed the Bay Bridge, flattened a section of freeway in Oakland, and killed sixty-three people.

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