Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). So having spent a lot of time thinking about this Silicon Valley is a thing in and of itself. So everybody goes through this phase of we want to be the next Silicon Valley. Or, as always, summary notes available below.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2017

In exchange our government sponsors benefit from 1) access to talent that most likely would never have served the country, 2) getting solutions as minimum viable products/prototypes in 10 weeks, 3) exposure to a problem solving methodology used in Silicon Valley and battle tested in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2017

In exchange our government sponsors benefit from 1) access to talent that most likely would never have served the country, 2) getting solutions as minimum viable products/prototypes in 10 weeks, 3) exposure to a problem solving methodology used in Silicon Valley and battle tested in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Today James Hickey from San Diego, California, pitched Parallel6 , a company that does social media marketing services for brands and also has a white label mobile app that can be customized and branded for their clients' mobile and social marketing needs. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. I did programming for the career center at UC San Diego, trying to build programs for the career center.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Since then 8 universities have taught the Hacking for Defense class or put it on their academic calendar for 2017: UC San Diego , Georgetown , Air Force , University of Pittsburgh , James Madison University , Boise State , RIT, and Stanford. We trained our first group of educators and sponsors three months ago.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

We believe great companies can be built in many locations – not just beloved Silicon Valley – but we do want to articulate *why* a specific company benefits from its geo. Joymode (LA), Lumi (LA) and Shield (San Diego) each take the DNA of their home cities and imbue their companies with a sense of purpose.

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A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Sometimes they’re founded by more mature founders that are over the Silicon Valley median founder age. We have founders and wonderful portfolio companies in Seattle, San Diego, Chicago, and Atlanta. And, of course, we also have companies in San Francisco that have been through startup incubators.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Since then 8 universities have taught the Hacking for Defense class or put it on their academic calendar for 2017: UC San Diego , Georgetown , Air Force , University of Pittsburgh , James Madison University , Boise State , RIT, and Stanford. We trained our first group of educators and sponsors three months ago.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

“This has been nearly a 4-year journey,” said Schonthal who prior to moving back to Chicago in 2011 had been working in healthcare venture capital in San Diego. One of the noticeable things about the San Diego health tech community is that it feels like a community. It has density,” he said.

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fi.co

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Globalizing Silicon Valley - See the Worldwide Schedule - Lead a Local Chapter. -->. Our vision is to Globalize Silicon Valley by creating and fostering local startup ecosystems in promising markets across the globe. -->. About | Mentors | Companies | Curriculum | FAQ | Partners | Apply Now. Choose a city closest to you.

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Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Note that I merged the two Southern California regions (LA/Orange County and San Diego) into one. Silicon Valley. Southern California = LA County, Orange Cty and San Diego Cty. Silicon Valley. All Seed-VC. New England. Southern California*. Northwest. . $$$$. $428. New England. California*.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I was immediately reminded that they were interested in seeing the slides as the main partner who had courted me at DEMO in San Diego shuffled nervously through the print outs of the slides I had sent him in advance. There is really no other place in the world like Silicon Valley.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Summit is a hugely respected firm in Silicon Valley and a long-term “institution&# but they’re better known as more of a “private equity&# investor meaning that they do later stage investments in much larger companies that are profitable. The investment will be used for product development initiatives. OpenCandy.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Based on those results we believe that we can do the same with Diplomacy so working with the State Department’s innovation cell in Silicon Valley we will prototype the Hacking for Diplomacy course at Stanford this fall. (see the final Hacking for Defense class presentations here ). Result: Hell yes. 15 more schools are in the pipeline.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Based on those results we believe that we can do the same with Diplomacy so working with the State Department’s innovation cell in Silicon Valley we will prototype the Hacking for Diplomacy course at Stanford this fall. (see the final Hacking for Defense class presentations here ). Result: Hell yes. 15 more schools are in the pipeline.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

– Cornell University; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at Carnegie Mellon University; and the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California at San Diego. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Order Here. Now In Print!

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Valley Angels. Silicon Valley. Valley Angel Fund. Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley. 2) Competition for deals in regions, such as Silicon Valley, New York City and Boston, has resulted in higher and, in many cases, rising valuation. c) Silicon Valley (3 groups) – $3.1

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Shortly thereafter, Andrew Beinbrink, CEO of the interesting San Diego start-up SportsTV, introduced me to Seal Ellis who introduced me to Steven Blank’s book The Four Steps to Epiphany, which sounded an awful lot like what I had blogged about. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Order Here.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

And since VC dollars tend to concentrate around high-tech R&D areas, it’s notable that more than 90% of the nation’s innovation-sector growth (2005-2017) is accounted for by just five metro areas — Boston, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and San Diego. Federal government. Local/state governments.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. And this Silicon Valley bias isn’t limited to any single meeting – it has been a recurring theme in my time as a VC. Funding is different outside of Silicon Valley.

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Early Growth Financial Services

APRIL 4, 2013

This announcement comes on the heels of EGFS’s recent Southern California expansion into San Diego. While Silicon Valley has historically held the title for tech entrepreneur hub, the Los Angeles region is hot on its … Continue reading →'

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Im not offering extensive studies or research to support this conclusion; the evidence from my peers right here in the innovation capital of America, Silicon Valley, is absolutely overwhelming. Asked to help, I am confident that Silicon Valley and every other innovation center will step up. They are nerds.

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Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

Note that they plan a trip to San Diego to visit the customer. With a great assist from the State Departments innovation outpost in Silicon Valley.) On Slide 4-5 the team continues testing their hypotheses via customer discovery. And they realized that an unclassified proxy for their data is the IUU fishing problem.

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Professor VC

MAY 29, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I attended the ACA Summit in San Diego earlier this month. ProfessorVC. Thursday, May 29, 2008. What does it take to be an Angel Investor? This is often a tough question to answer.

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Scalable Startup

APRIL 18, 2012

Santa Barbara, Ventura, San Diego, Downtown L.A., I guess it could happen, So Cal could surpass Silicon Valley some day. They’re calling it a Venissaince. Orange County is growing some amazing companies like @signnow who is attracting Tier 1 VC funding @vkhosla. Coworking spaces, Incubators, etc. on and on.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

Most of my 25 year career has been in California; about half of those in Silicon Valley. In every case these other places aspire to be a self sustaining baby Silicon Valley of their own – Silicon Alley, Silicon Prairie, Silicon Coast. But they don’t quite make it.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

From Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley, and Berlin’s hip coffee shops to East London’s Silicon Roundabout , the world is well versed in the global innovation boom towns. This post originally appeared on the TransferWise blog. But have you heard of what’s going on in Cyprus, Sweden or North Carolina? Malmö, Sweden.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Only in Silicon Valley could we have got funded with this idea, and not surprisingly, it was our technology that had the VC’s confused. Reply Cognitive Biases, Positive Black Swan Events and Startups | Market By Numbers | San Diego | Marketing Help , on January 3, 2010 at 9:13 am Said: [.] Order Here. Now In Print!

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 7, 2012

As Managing Director of T2 Venture Capital , a Silicon Valley venture firm that helps build “innovation ecosystems” around the globe, Victor Hwang knows quite a lot about what it takes to create an environment where high-tech startups can grow and thrive. Q: What are the most important lessons to emulate from Silicon Valley’s success?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Hacking for Defense is a battle-tested problem-solving methodology that runs at Silicon Valley speed. Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. We just finished our second Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. The Innovation Insurgency Spreads.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

They either convinced themselves that no big tech companies would ever be built in LA or that LA-based investors wouldn’t have strong enough returns or that “Our strategy is to invest in the top ten firms in Silicon Valley.” We do a lot of deals in San Francisco.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

“Being in Silicon Valley, a lot of my friends want to work for Google or Apple, but this class showed me that the problems in public service were even more challenging and rewarding. Silicon Valley folks are familiar with Demo Days – presentations where the message is: “Here’s how smart we are right now.”

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Hacking for Defense is now offered at eleven universities in addition to Stanford – Georgetown , University of Pittsburgh , Boise State , UC San Diego, James Madison University, University of Southern Mississippi , University of Southern California and Columbia University. The Innovation Insurgency Spreads.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

Hacking for Defense is now offered at eight universities in addition to Stanford – Georgetown , University of Pittsburgh , Boise State , UC San Diego, James Madison University, University of Southern Mississippi , and later this year University of Southern California and Columbia University. The Innovation Insurgency Spreads.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

“Being in Silicon Valley, a lot of my friends want to work for Google or Apple, but this class showed me that the problems in public service were even more challenging and rewarding. Silicon Valley folks are familiar with Demo Days – presentations where the message is: “Here’s how smart we are right now.”

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