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Startup Camp Graduates Ten New Ventures Today in Silicon Valley

ReadWriteStart

Probably nowhere else in the world is the idea of a startup happy place more entrenched than in Silicon Valley, where one electrical engineering professor, Frederick Terman, spawned an entire culture of new ventures back in the 1950s.

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

Some of the most creative technology coming out of Silicon Valley is designed to do exactly that. The firm started putting on live seminars around the world, attended by many of those passionate customers, and unleashed Yoshida with his own blog. You have to make it easy for them to do so.

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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and market requirements documents.

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The Importance of Women in Tech

Austin Startup

Nearly two years since CA governor Jerry Brown signed the California Fair Pay Act which was designed to close the wage gap, women in Silicon Valley still report that their multi-billion dollar tech giant employers are still paying them less than their male counterparts for equal work (Larson).

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Does a VCs Culture Really Matter? The Upfront Story

Both Sides of the Table

So Silicon Valley massively shifted to San Francisco. Thames Valley shifted to East London. We wanted to be able to have regular educational meetings, breakfast gatherings, seminars or even just cocktail parties. Waltham shifted to Cambridge. And LA shifted to Santa Monica and Venice.

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Accelerator Spotlight: Poplin

View from Seed

AD: I spent the early part of my career doing investment banking in Silicon Valley and healthcare consulting in NY. AD: I once heard someone say, “if you want the best personal development seminar on the planet, start a business” and that is one of the best summaries of what I find so intriguing and fulfilling about being a founder.

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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Luckily (or maybe because we were in Silicon Valley where there was a domain expert for everything) there was a very smart consultant in the retail computer space, Seymour Merrin, who preached about the importance of packaging. He had teamed up with a former product manager at P&G to deliver seminars on just this subject.

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