Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2022

These authors speak from their own wealth of experience in creating and growing technology startups, marketing, and fundraising. In that environment, you need to look broadly and work effectively on all the available sources of capital, including friends and family, angel investors, and strategic partners.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

All branches of the military (the Air Force and Army would fund the program as well) wanted Stanford to build prototypes of electronic intelligence and electronic warfare systems that could be put into production by partners in industry. They’ll make much more sense if you read some of the earlier ones for context.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The post Generative AI is the buzziest new technology in Silicon Valley. appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners. Meet the investors backing it.

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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.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In the technology sector where I most often play, extended unplanned software development cycles account for the majority of these corporate failures. And we were able to secure that investment along with a partner from that firm joining our board. The financial pain of unplanned delays.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Find partners who can do what you cannot do alone. Scale it once you figure out what works.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Today with every city, state and country trying to build out a technology cluster, following Dino’s progress can provide others with a roadmap of what’s worked and what has not.

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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’ve seen this happen before where companies seems to be struggling with traction and one technology change at an industry level suddenly propelled them more rapidly.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

One of Silicon Valley’s most compelling attributes is its lack of interest in the traditional bottom line. While most companies focus on revenue and profitability, Silicon Valley leaders tend to view valuation as a success barometer. But we can learn from Silicon Valley about blockchain Adoption.

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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? Luck favours the bold!

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

I also couldn’t be happier that friends from Silicon Valley like Joe Lonsdale, Drew Houston, and Elon Musk have also moved here. While obviously bullish on Austin, Breyer Capital remains excited to invest in and support current and future Silicon Valley portfolio companies.

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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. REF expanded its operations to include forward teams in Kuwait and Iraq to provide technology to fill capability gaps and to counter the highest priority threats.

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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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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2015

I was struck by something that had been slowly percolating through my head during my entire week – there are a higher percentage of women on the founding teams of New York City startups than in Silicon Valley. Companies that get started and built in New York City tend to be applied technology. Women in New York Startups.

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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. Here are the four presentation tracks available to attendees: Track I: Technology. Shan Aggarwal | Greycroft Partners.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 13, 2020

We are leaders of 35 different technology companies with headquarters or offices in the Denver and Boulder metro areas. wherever possible we are strongly encouraging our vendors, service providers and partner businesses to take similar precautions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

According to the International Business Innovation Association ( InBIA ), there are over 2,000 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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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

JUNE 6, 2016

Innovation outposts in Silicon Valley allow big companies to sense and respond to rapid changes in technology. Srivastava leads Verizon’s innovation outpost (their Silicon Valley R&D center) in Palo Alto focusing on building products and services powered by big data and analytics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

On the other hand, everyone is doing it, so that means more competition, and the market and technology are changing faster than ever before. These days you can create a C-corp or LLC online quickly at a low cost, to serve you well in signing partners, intellectual property, investors, and revenue.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2020

The company is known as the most active investor in Silicon Valley. It’s also the “ultimate innovation platform” because it connects the best technology startups with the world’s largest corporations. Find some great partners.”. If there’s a strategic business moat you need to create around a business process, fine.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

Although the class was run completely online, and even though they were suffering from Zoom fatigue, the 10 teams of 42 students collectively interviewed 1,142 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, industry partners, etc. – while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products. Stay tuned.

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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”).

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

19 of the 21 teams are moving forward in commercializing their technology. The gamble was that we could train Professors doing hard-core science, who had never been near a startup or Silicon Valley, to get out of the building and talk to customers and Pivot as easily as someone at a web startup. This week we saw the results.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2016

For an increasing number of successful startups, they are foregoing London, New York, or Silicon Valley for the business-friendly UAE. In fact, some have dubbed it the Silicon Valley of the Middle East. The competition is fierce and investors are just as savvy here as they are in London or Silicon Valley.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

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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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

With services ranging from branding to technology to marketing, labs also guide the company to a successful investment and ultimately a strong exit. Right now, Silicon Valley has a highly creative pool of talent, but there is a blaringly obvious missing link between creativity and business. Who does it help?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I trained the Startup Weekend Next Beijing mentors and instructors, presented to several hundred entrepreneurs, and had a great fireside chat with Zhen Fund founding partner Xu Xiaoping in front of another roomful of entrepreneurs. Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2017

Negative influences in business are usually team members or partners that don’t have high self-esteem, and like to highlight negative implications to every business challenges. Smart business executives learn to use new technology software to give them new insights and more free time. Only givers build self-esteem.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. ” Put simply, if you care about building a successful tech community outside Silicon Valley you should read this book.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

For more information, visit atxstartupcrawl.com SXSW Pitch (formerly SXSW Accelerator) SXSW Pitch is the official SXSW platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Capitalists / Angel Investors. don’t worry ?—?we’ve

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2019

by Prasanna Krishnamoorthy , partner at Upekkha. Just as Information Technology (IT) services transformed India in the 1990s, Software as a Service (SaaS) will dramatically shift the nation in the 2020s. Information Technology services in the South Asian nation barely existed at the turn of the final decade of the 20th century.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

In the traditionally slow moving world of venture capital they have gone from standing start to raising $4bn across three funds in 5 years – Summit Partners , an older highly successful later stage VC took 15 years to achieve the same feat. I will shortly get to the reasons Peter gives for their success.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Thanks to strategic partnerships with companies including US Bank, Visa, Mastercard, Silicon Valley Bank and more, any business – from eCommerce companies and healthcare facilities to construction companies and restaurants – can use Plastiq to pay or get paid. Plastiq has revolutionized how its more than 1.5

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

If you’re a venture capitalist … you have limited partners that give you money to invest on their behalf, and you’re responsible for giving them outsize returns. Over the past decade, he has launched multiple businesses, including three technology companies. whether that’s partners or employees that you bring on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Find partners who can do what you cannot do alone. This is the new world of prototyping.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Since NewTV won’t be making the content, they will be licensing from and partnering with traditional entertainment producers. NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. Will consumers want to watch short-form mobile entertainment?

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