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OCTOBER 30, 2014

With Meredith I did every on-reference-sheet call I could make and many off-reference-list calls. I followed my playbook on reference calls making sure to ask both positively worded as well as skeptical questions.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The one everyone knows about is Silicon Valley. And, after three years and some reflection on my part, HCF decimates Silicon Valley ( which is mostly a challenge to my friends who have writing credits.). While contemporary satires can be awesome (like Silicon Valley is), there is no sense of perspective.

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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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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 20, 2015

There has been a lull in the chanting that “Silicon Valley is the center of the tech universe.” Silicon Valley is a religion, just like Crossfit is a religion. This has stuck with me for a long time and I’ve read many posts about Silicon Valley through this lens. Losing My Religion.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

When you’re hiring most reference checkers focus on the person’s former bosses. Just literally this week I had breakfast with a guy giving a reference who said, “He’s brilliant. In fact, just a short Google search reveals that I’ve referred to him frequently through the years. But he knows it.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MARCH 18, 2014

Raising the minimum wage in Silicon Valley (beyond San Jose which has already done so) is a very important and rational thing to do for the economic health of the valley, California, and the USA economy as a whole. The issue is continuing the incredible innovation that happens in Silicon Valley.

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SVPG

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Most people today know that when we refer to “product” we mean that in a very holistic sense. The post Product vs. Policy appeared first on Silicon Valley Product Group. It’s not just the code. It’s not just the user interface. It’s not just the app. It is meant to reflect the full customer experience. Online and offline.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2017

It’s understandable, then, that the term “unicorn” has come to be used routinely in the world of business funding to refer to those rare and beautiful privately funded startups—especially in the tech space—that have reached the upper echelon of valuation, being valued at over $1 billion. at around 27 million. Bruce is the U.S.

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View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

Furthermore, one of our recent investments was in Silicon Valley, as all three of us have lived and worked there. Most often, when people talk about “network effects,” they’re referring to consumer-facing startups. We opportunistically invest in other geographies across the country as well. Recent Investment Themes.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Two years out of the Air Force, serendipity (which would be my lifelong form of career planning) found me in Silicon Valley working for my first company: ESL. But part of his life that that doesn’t even merit a Wikipedia entry is that Bill Perry used Silicon Valley to help end the cold war.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2011

And the third was a discussion on Silicon Valley: The Next Decade. In my experience, wealth managers often refer experts to their clients and Ankit could position his service through that channel. Silicon Valley: The Next Decade. Silicon Valley photo by Revol Web. Discuss.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. The process of raising money in Asia is very different from raising money in Silicon Valley and, frankly, it’s not nearly as easy. Set your expectations – VCs in Asia are different from the Valley.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The title of Region Sustains Robust Patent Production was fine (and yes it refers to Silicon Valley), but the first sentence in the article made me nuts: “The economic slump has yet to damp innovation in Silicon Valley, at least not by one widely followed measure: patent production.”. Patent and Trademark Office.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Heck, in Silicon Valley even the waiters can do it.). While it was a handy reference, it still didn’t help the novice. . ——— If you’re an experienced coder and user interface designer you think nothing is easier than diving into Ruby on Rails , Nodes.js What are the steps in building a web site?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

If you don’t follow the image reference above or the tag line, “ You don’t need double talk; you need Bob Loblaw “ (try saying it out loud) , and if you care! Right sized : I tried to work with one of the best known firms in Silicon Valley. the link is here. I know Mike Lincoln in Washington DC does.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

If you read only one previous post, read this one (or this one.) ————- The Birth of Entrepreneurship in The Hot Cold War Silicon Valley entrepreneurship was born in the middle of a secret war with the Soviet Union. Microwave Valley was about to take off. military, the CIA and the National Security Agency.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I don’t have an MBA and I don’t live in Silicon Valley. So, if you reference Software as a Service, you might want to add, “A piece of software you access through the internet and is paid for on a subscription basis, like Salesforce.com.” Make your invitations open so people who are not angels can still refer and bring friends.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

But of the 83% of people that say they’re willing to refer new business to a company they love, only 29% of them do. Establish which incentives users need to refer friends. Users can refer 12 friends and get Trello Gold free for a year. It’s your job to make it worthwhile. Every referral adds another new user to the platform.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

By the time Silicon Valley white privilege culture, tech magazines that promote only white faces, Ethereum/Bitcoin fanboys, sellout black tech wannabees and globalists promoting their blockchain consortium get a hold of this article, it’s already too late and the game already ended a while ago.

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OnlyOnce

APRIL 1, 2015

In 2009 I was working at a software security start up in the Silicon Valley. In fact one of the execs of that company is a reference and has offered me other opportunities for employment. . Business laid off Silicon Valley' I was informed on a Tuesday that my last day was that Friday.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 6, 2024

And that is the kind of failure that the Silicon Valley talk, fail, fast, fail often is implicitly referring to, but often they're not explicit enough. So the science part refers to the fact that you can be a very logical, very systematic, very thoughtful about the risks you take. No, nobody wants to fail.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. The text below refers to the slides.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

By Marty Cagan and Jon Moore Nomenclature Note: “Senior Leaders” refers here to CEO, Founders, CFO, COO, CMO, CRO, President, etc. Product Leaders” refers to the managers and leaders of product management, product design, and engineering. The post Executive Engagement appeared first on Silicon Valley Product Group.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 12, 2018

In 2009 I was working at a software security start up in the Silicon Valley. In fact one of the execs of that company is a reference and has offered me other opportunities for employment. Times were exceedingly tough, there were several rounds of layoffs that year, and in May I was finally on the list.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Many became skeptical over Color’s introduction to the scene when it was announced that investors like Bain Capital Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, and Sequoia Capital had poured in millions of dollars to this unproven company. graph and patents related to GPS location and battery saving.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

We're trying to bring the lessons we have learned in Silicon Valley to a million entrepreneurs. The first step is to develop some reference customers, something all early-stage startups should do. Telesales simply don't work without reference customers. However, 1M/1M is a development economics project.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I came several times to NorCal (where I grew up, actually) and went and met several partners from each Silicon Valley firm. We had every reference client we worked with call their senior team members (we had already won a major project at Scottish Water, Anglian Water and another at a large water company in Paris, France).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I came several times to NorCal (where I grew up, actually) and went and met several partners from each Silicon Valley firm. We had every reference client we worked with call their senior team members (we had already won a major project at Scottish Water, Anglian Water and another at a large water company in Paris, France).

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Rob Go

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I’m co-hosting an event in 2 weeks with an old friend and colleague of mine from Silicon Valley named Adam Nash. He also has penned some of THE BEST blog post s on the topic that I refer folks to on a weekly basis. Event: Growth Lessons from Silicon Valley. Details below. Time: 6:00PM.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley. I got tired watching dignitaries fly into Silicon Valley, visit Google, Facebook, Apple, and Stanford and then say they understand startups and entrepreneurship. So for the rest of us I put together this Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley. Secret History of Silicon Valley.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 12, 2018

In 2009 I was working at a software security start up in the Silicon Valley. In fact one of the execs of that company is a reference and has offered me other opportunities for employment. Times were exceedingly tough, there were several rounds of layoffs that year, and in May I was finally on the list.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

. “I’m called the king of Silicon Valley. You are now the bumbling dunce of Silicon Valley. So perhaps his king reference was fitting. In tech circles one refers to the firm as either Kleiner Perkins, KP or Kleiner. Is Silicon Valley to blame. I’m sorry, Mr. Perkins.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

OCTOBER 16, 2011

Ron Conway, known as the Godfather of Silicon Valley and part of SV Angel, came to Campbell to talk some shop, angel investing. However, the email is typically from someone they know or through a reference. 5 new deals a day via email, which are usually from people they already know or through a reference.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I thought it was natural to design a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. The Big Picture.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

when to build out our offices in Silicon Valley, New York & Los Angeles. Selling tons of “shelfware” (customers who buy but don’t use your software) and thus having bad customer references. So our board meetings consisted of discussion about. how much energy to put into channel partners vs. direct sales.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

In this case Wicked doesn’t mean morally evil, but refers to really complex problems, ones with multiple moving parts, where the solution isn’t obvious. This post previously appeared in Poets & Quants. I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 14, 2017

Silicon valley startups generally use silicon valley startup lawyers. For startups with less dense ecosystems than Silicon Valley or Austin, however, the cost to going local can be much higher. And it works just fine. foreign specialized lawyers is about tradeoffs.

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