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Rare event in Palo Alto today: fireside chat with Lifograph and Microsoft

The Startup Magazine

Mendlen flew into Silicon Valley from Seattle specifically for this event to chat with the “Wiki of People” CEO. Lifograph CEO Dea Wilson is a serial entrepreneur and Managing Director at the Silicon Valley Incubator. The Wiki of People is a free people search engine with 500K profiles and 1.2M

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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

Both Sides of the Table

When Quora went into Beta and became the “hip product to have access to&# in Silicon Valley I felt compelled to play around with it. That said, I noticed really early on that the Silicon Valley “power players&# were all on Quora and people like Reid Hoffman are actually in there answering questions.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 19: Carmen Medina and Don Burke

Steve Blank

Carmen was the first CIA executive to envision many of the applications now used by CIA analysts, including online production, collaborative tools, and Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki developed by Don Burke and Sean Dennehy. Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies.

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Why we need to teach MBA’s about modern entrepreneurship (and what Harvard Business School is doing about it)

Startup Lessons Learned

This week, the startup tribe from Harvard Business School is making their annual trek to Silicon Valley. It’s a common refrain around Silicon Valley to disparage the role of MBA’s in entrepreneurship. I'm hoping we'll get this hosted on a wiki soon.) While they’re here, I’m sure they’ll be received warmly.

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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

Its easy to take Silicon Valley for granted. Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. But theres no denying the level of support for entrepreneurs that we enjoy.

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[Singapore][Event] SuperHappyDevHouse 2

YoungUpstarts

If you’re not familiar with SuperHappyDevHouse , it’s a social, hacker culture-type event and party that started in Silicon Valley in 2005 and today takes place all around the world for creative and curious people interested in technology to share knowledge, collaborate and generally have a great time creating new products.

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Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Where did Silicon Valley come from? I think the absolute best reading on this subject is a book called Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 by AnnaLee Saxenian. And what were they doing beforehand?