Hunter Walker

JANUARY 7, 2016

Hunter Walk: You’re an expat, having moved to Sweden last year for a leadership role at Spotify. For example, the hippest hottest app or service rarely launches first in Sweden (unless it was born here) and often those apps are dead before they achieve a large user base in Europe. At a personal level, what has that been like?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Id like to call special attention to Kurt Carr s perspective (lets hope he finishes his five-part series): Now that I’m back in Ohio (I was one of the token foreigners in a room full of Silicon Valley residents), I have found myself reliving and rethinking much of what I saw there. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 17, 2009

The problem is that the most authentic innovators and entrepreneurs are in the Valley. I want more than anything to come to Silicon Valley after I graduate and join the vibrant ecosystem. I plan to apply these models to my own ventures, especially within new contexts separate from software and web development.

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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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ReadWriteStart

MAY 25, 2018

Abandon geographical boundaries: While the dot-com bust had some ripple effects on the world economy, the rise and fall of Silicon Valley was far more localized. South Korea only recently started exploring regulation, for instance, while Sweden has been offering derivatives in Bitcoin since 2015.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, June 9, 2009 The Lean Startup Tokyo edition I had a blast speaking at Startonomics Tokyo , which was organized to foster ties between the startup cultures in Japan and Silicon Valley. It was an eye-opening day, and a great crowd to present to. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2016

In Sweden, he founded omvard.se Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies. (And download any of the past shows here.). Clips from their interviews are below. a company that aggregates data on treatment outcomes for hospital patients. Want to be a guest on the show?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Einride is currently based in Gothenburg, Sweden. If Stockholm is Europe’s Silicon Valley, Gothenburg is Sweden’s Detroit. What are your top goals for Einride in 2019? Scare the OEMs into going electric. Tell us about the startup ecosystem there. It’s a Spotify versus Volvo situation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2010

Heres an excerpt: Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster - WSJ.com Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capitalists often churn out how-to business books and fancy themselves as management gurus, but few see their methodologies adopted. Eric Ries is experiencing something different. Eric Ries is experiencing something different.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Using examples drawn from his own experiences in the startup hub of Silicon Valley, Eric Ries unravels the myths and misconceptions that guide most startups, and paints a picture of a new way forward for the industry. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Most publishers are still caught up in an outdated “vision vs. metrics&# argument, which is already obsolete here in Silicon Valley. The world is generally not as tech-savvy as Silicon Valley and will continue to rely on traditional mechanisms for content distribution for the foreseeable future.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2010

His posts are born of tremendous research into the secret history of Silicon Valley , and if you haven’t read those essays, you should. His posts are born of tremendous research into the secret history of Silicon Valley , and if you haven’t read those essays, you should.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

It’s nice to see that people are recognizing that innovation isn’t always in Silicon Valley. The UK, Canada, France, Sweden, Australia — and 23 more countries — all beat the USA for percentage of web penetration. Case , you may recall, was co-founder of AOL. We don’t by the way, not even close.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 9, 2010

The event is being produced in partnership with Charles Hudson, who puts on many of Silicon Valleys top events, including the forthcoming Freemium Summit. The event is being produced in partnership with Charles Hudson, who puts on many of Silicon Valleys top events, including the forthcoming Freemium Summit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

If youre used to pitching your company in a startup hub, like here in Silicon Valley, you may suffer from a debilitating disease: the inability to describe your product to normal people. It also gives you insight into their language. This is important, especially if you are a very early stage company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

This is especially true if you live outside the echo chamber of Silicon Valley. This is especially true if you live outside the echo chamber of Silicon Valley. Whether youre a US citizen or an immigrant, entrepreneur or investor, founder or employee, theres something you can do. There are four ways to get involved below.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

We boast the world’s second highest fixed broadband Internet subscription rate only an inch behind Sweden. Think of Stanford and Sandhill road in Silicon Valley, Route 128 in Boston or IIT in Bangalore India. To put it into management speak, our digital infrastructure is world-class. So we have plenty of economic clustering.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Other companies operating in small markets with little R&D resources in their home country (ABB, Novartis and Hoffmann-La Roche in Switzerland, Philips in the Netherlands and Ericsson in Sweden) pursued R&D outside their home country by necessity. Innovation Outposts Are Moving To Innovation Clusters.

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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. But have you heard of what’s going on in Cyprus, Sweden or North Carolina? Malmö, Sweden.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

And then, at my first Silicon Valley startup , I watched friends get laid off in successive waves as it started to fail. No business model, either. I turned down two opportunities to interview at Google in its pre-AdWords days. It seemed like just a bunch of research-oriented PhDs. I was "lucky" to not be laid off, or so I thought.

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Mucker Lab

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Sweden is pretty much my favorite non-Iran country. The only thing better than Silicon Valley is palm trees and beaches, so Silicon Beach must be the perfect place for a techie like me coming from the cold and harsh winters of Sweden. Are there any cool, Mucker / YC esque accelerators in Sweden?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Much of what makes the USA, and Silicon Valley in particular, such a great place to start a company is the result of good government policy. This line in your article stood out to me: "Much of what makes the USA, and Silicon Valley in particular, such a great place to start a company is the result of good government policy."

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

This is especially true in Silicon Valley. Thats all helpful for recruiting, retaining, and ramping-up a new employee. You dont have to guess who their mentor will be. Youre not competing with every other company in town. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, December 7, 2008 The hackers lament One of the thrilling parts of working and writing in Silicon Valley is the incredible variety of people Ive had the chance to meet. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

In fact, we often felt frustrated when new startups with a fraction of our success got terrific write-ups in Silicon Valley-centric venues. IMVU was a top-1000 website in the world, with millions of customers and making millions of dollars without getting any significant press coverage. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The Economist published "If in doubt, innovate" a special report on The Nordic Region (Sweden, Denmark, Finland) as a hotbed for entrepreneurship we can all learn from. The article mentions some of the characteristics that make the Nordic Cluster successful.

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