The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. He is currently CEO of Bubbly , a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60M in funding.

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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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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2019

Coming out of Silicon Valley and the tech world, I was a complete novice on how policy gets made. I left school and joined the Air Force during Vietnam, and Michael and I kept in touch via letters – me telling him about adventures in the military, fighter planes, electronics and foreign countries.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2013

Singapore-based accelerator Joyful Frog Digital Incubator ( JFDI Asia ) has revealed that over 300 digital startup teams have applied for its second accelerator program for this year, competing for just 12 places in this intake. ” The surge of startups from the region has also been witnessed by other industry observers. .

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. Summary: I’ve lived in Silicon Valley for 35 years, I’ve taught in entrepreneurial clusters in New York, Boston, Helsinki, Santiago Chile, St. My post about Japan will follow. Beijing is already there.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2009

This book may be the Iraq war equivalent of “ Dispatches &# which defined Vietnam for my generation. I’ve paraphrased his speech into the language of a startup. Startups are inherently chaos. Every potential startup founder should think about their level of comfort operating in chaos and uncertainty.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

In the early 1970’s, as some of you might remember, our country was in the middle of the Vietnam War—-and the Air Force was happy to have me. My job was to replace failed electronic warfare equipment in fighter planes as they returned from bombing missions over North Vietnam. Years later this area would become known as Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. Summary: I’ve lived in Silicon Valley for 35 years, I’ve taught in entrepreneurial clusters in New York, Boston, Helsinki, Santiago Chile, St. My post about Japan will follow. Beijing is already there.

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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. college campuses circa the Vietnam War (and the riots and student protests at Stanford ). Result: Hell yes.

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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. college campuses circa the Vietnam War (and the riots and student protests at Stanford ). Result: Hell yes.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 7, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System Posted on March 29, 2009 by steveblank This is post II of how I came to write “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley “ 1974. The Vietnam war was winding down.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 18, 2010

With the Vietnam War going full tilt, I left school and joined the Air Force, spending a year and a half in Southeast Asia. I moved to Silicon Valley , and we kept up a sporadic correspondence, me trying to explain startups and Michael telling me about the world of civil rights and equal justice for the poor.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 30, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. He is currently CEO of Bubbly, a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60 million in funding.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

alone, topping half a million — exceeding the number of deaths across World Wars I and II and Vietnam combined) to devastating economic burdens ( exacerbating pre-pandemic record levels of income inequality). In the case of Silicon Valley, it was a combination of: Universities like Stanford. Federal government.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

And you’d like me to do my talk on Customer Development and startups?” “No, we’re the other CIA.” So I gave my “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley ” talk as the keynote to the CIA’s venture capital conference. Do you mean the Culinary Institute of America?

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi Mississippi was the Training Center responsible for teaching 10’s of thousands of students a year how to repair radar, communications, and electronics. Some 2 million students have trained there since it opened in 1942. Now In Print!

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2016

When we say on-demand, the glorious image of Silicon Valley and its technological environs pops up in the layman’s mind, and even that may be too imaginative. Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam) We’ve identified some factors that set them apart from other ride-sharing outfits. Hyperlocal Focus.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital. A consistent theme we recognized at NSF, was that a lot of the startup companies [we were funding] really weren’t practicing what we knew to be the best and most effective way of taking technologies out of labs. What made him call Steve? “A

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Silicon Valley is undoubtedly the world’s technology epicentre. Of the 131 startups valued at $1B and above Silicon Valley is home to 53 of them. For some examples of its influence, programming schools are springing up faster than ever in Vietnam with help from the government.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

We recently announced at Hustle Fund that we will start investing in Southeast Asian software startups, and my new business partner Shiyan Koh, who just moved back home to Singapore, will be leading the charge on that. This really resembles the era when in Silicon Valley we had Yahoo, EBay, and Craigslist.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

We recently announced at Hustle Fund that we will start investing in Southeast Asian software startups, and my new business partner Shiyan Koh, who just moved back home to Singapore, will be leading the charge on that. This really resembles the era when in Silicon Valley we had Yahoo, EBay, and Craigslist.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

The Vietnam War was raging, but going to college gave you a draft deferment.). We weren’t dumber than the kids who eventually would populate Silicon Valley, but our career trajectories had been flattened by the limited knowledge and expectations of our cluster, class and culture. (A I was bringing fresh insights to their data.

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blog.startupsquare.com

APRIL 13, 2010

Skip to content startupSQUARE's blog Get your startup started! 2 Comments Tags: Customer Development , lean startup , pivot , Strategy. note: For those not familiar with the term, pivot is a lean startup vocab word that states in it’s simplest form: If your business model isn’t working, change something.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

The Vietnam War was raging, but going to college gave you a draft deferment.). We weren’t dumber than the kids who eventually would populate Silicon Valley, but our career trajectories had been flattened by the limited knowledge and expectations of our cluster, class and culture. (A I was bringing fresh insights to their data.

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Steve Blank

JULY 8, 2014

At 19 I joined the Air Force during the Vietnam War. Yet when the Vietnam War wound down, we were both sent to bases in different parts of the U.S. Everyone within reach of a smartphone, tablet or computer knows more about entrepreneurship and opportunity and where to get it then all of Silicon Valley did 40 years ago.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

They understood the ubiquity, pervasiveness and ultimate profitability of these startups and doubled-down on their investments. And it appears that at least in Silicon Valley, a larger percentage of money made in the last tech bubble is recirculated back into investments into the next generation of tech startups.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2012

We managed to catch Adeo Ressi, CEO of The Founder Institute and CEO of TheFunded.com briefly at the sidelines of DEMO Asia 2012 to get his views on the startup scene here in Asia. The Founder Institute now has three chapters in this region, namely Singapore, Vietnam, and Jakarta. On What Makes Silicon Valley More Successful.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Back then, in the relatively innocent days of the digital Neolithic, San Francisco was a boutique outpost hovering beyond the northern border of the Silicon Valley heartland. In Silicon Valley, they say there is no bubble, just gas pains at the birth of a brave new world. Is Wall Street going sour on tech?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley. Tomas Pueyo : Yeah, I started figuring out it was going to happen around the middle of February, and I was waiting for the cases to really start appearing in Silicon Valley. And in fact, The Lean Startup is very much that. His name is Tomas Pueyo.

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