Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

A serious study here: [link] concluded that younger people being more creative is a highly predictable at the aggregate level. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Same idea – too young and naive to know it can’t be done. However, it is far more unpredictable at the individual level. Order Here.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

If your company simply focuses on aggregating data without care for the end user’s privacy and national regulations start to exert pressure on unethical data processing your business may be doomed from the start.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 10, 2017

Their baseline knowledge of Silicon Valley probably comes from HBO’s Silicon Valley. What makes less sense to me is the sheer lack of analysis, explanation or personality that goes into that kind of aggregation-based coverage. Or maybe they’re too frazzled and exhausted. My mom works at Apple. (I

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

But for the last decade “innovation” in Chinese software meant something different than it did in Silicon Valley. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Many of these returnees have worked in Silicon Valley and startups or went to school at MIT and Stanford.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

In Silicon Valley, we've had access to the tribal knowledge, but no one has tried to capture it, derive a methodology out of it, and package it in a way that entrepreneurs around the world can benefit from this knowledge and expertise. With that, let's look at the two entrepreneurs who pitched today from Costa Rica.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

They do that by aggregating America’s startups, providing them with pro bono services, and promoting regional ecosystem development. Aggregate America’s startups. in aggregate commitments. We’re not just focused on NY/Boston/Silicon Valley. The real goal is growth; no one else hires. • There are 1.4m-1.6m

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

This (somewhat liberally translated) Chinese proverb is something you hear often in Silicon Valley these days. by Pascal Finette from Singularity University. May you live in interesting times.” ~ Chinese Proverb. Some say it is a curse. Regardless, nobody denies its truth when it comes to the change technology brings to our world.

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

Are you aggregating and leveraging a competitive dataset none will be able to reproduce? In contrast to the heroism of Helen Keller, your startup’s story also needs to demonstrate its Kudzu-like invasiveness, how no incumbents are adapted, nor could any adapt fast enough.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

In Silicon Valley, most boards ultimately make decisions based on a consensus. Although the data is public, the startup may not have been able to manually aggregate that data on its own, or the owner of the website may expressly prohibit use of the data outside of the services the owner offers. Patent Trolls.

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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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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

It also puts another chink in the armor of the meme that monster internet companies can only be built in Silicon Valley (LivingSocial, Kayak, Gilt Groupe, CSN Stores, et al doing damage here too). Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized. Read More ».

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

. … Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively. Who is correct?

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SVPG

JUNE 16, 2012

” "The company cares about what the leader cares about" - I attribute this to Bill Campbell, the product legend known as the Coach of Silicon Valley, and I argue this applies not just to the CEO, but also to the product managers (the team cares about what the product manager cares about). Very hard for me to pick just ten.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2015

It was business star-studded affair - 150 Silicon Valley technology executives and investors gathered together to network and brainstorm on IoT - described by many as fundamental a technology shift as the emergence of the Internet itself was in the 1990's. Personal Delights.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

If one looks at the total pool of college vs non-college people, and what each group’s career trajectories look like in the aggregate, I think Google’s position is more justifiable. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. Now In Print!

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Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

But rather than just keep the info internal, wouldn’t it be more productive to publicly publish the aggregate results for the whole community? And the results were pretty interesting, especially as they clustered with meaningful overlap among companies. When we took the poll itself, one founder said: “This is a great idea.

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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 Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round. The best known ones, like YCombinator , started by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, provide excellent networking to investors, and on-site technical leadership, which can make your investment less risky.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

But there are notable examples of for-profit incubators that are thriving, including YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , led by David Cohen and located in several key cities around the country, that have an excellent reputation and track record. billion, with the total amount raised topping $2 billion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2011

Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle. To convince you it can work, SiteBoat recently aggregated the combined valuation of the top 21 companies graduated by YCombinator at $4.7

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. weeks ago, positioning it as a tool designed to help small businesses effectively manage their social media efforts. They see the big “Write Once, Publish Everywhere&# and immediately think “this is ping.fm or posterous, but you have to pay for it&#. Order Here.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 14, 2014

In Silicon Valley, 75% of founders pay themselves less than $75,000 per year and 66% pay themselves less than $50,000 per year, according to the data. Low founder pay is a particularly striking factor in Silicon Valley, when you consider the high cost of living in cities like San Francisco. Not as much as you might think.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle. To convince you it can work, TechCrunch recently aggregated the combined valuation of YCombinator companies at $7.78

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2020

Valence launched our beta platform to provide a digital home for Black talent to connect, access opportunities, and aggregate their power. Valence exists to change the dynamic where Black founders receive a disproportionately low amount of venture funding (today – just 1 percent ).

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

iSkoot, founded in 2005, has an office in Silicon Valley and an R&D center, which employs half the company’s workforce, in Bet Shemesh, Israel. Wireless communications chip developer Qualcomm Inc. is acquiring iSkoot Technologies Inc., iSkoot is Qualcomm’s first acquisition in Israel.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

But ChubbyBrain has given ReadWriteWeb an even closer look at aggregate-level data for a certain subset of that population, based on those folks who used invitations from us to sign up for the service. ReadWriteWeb readers also trended younger than ChubbyBrain's aggregate data. So how do ReadWriteWeb entrepreneurs stack up?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round. The best known ones, like YCombinator , started by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, provide excellent networking to investors, and on-site technical leadership, which can make your investment less risky.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. The best known ones, like YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, provide excellent networking to investors, and on-site technical leadership, which can make your investment less risky.

Portfolio 228

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. The best known ones, like YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, provide excellent networking to investors, and on-site technical leadership, which can make your investment less risky.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Sam is one of the most prolific company builders in Silicon Valley. Eric Ries : You were one of the first people who when the crisis was breaking, I saw your name all over Silicon Valley, in the Y Combinator forums. I would encourage people to just reach out to the normal crew of Silicon Valley Investors [for].

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

The reason is that most people equate MCN with “YouTube aggregators” meaning people who sign up video creators, roll them up into a single content management system and then collect advertising revenue from YouTube. YouTube aggregation isn’t a business. You create and aggregate videos. That’s your job.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

5:01) Brian's thoughts on the human dimension to his approach and how that sets him apart in Silicon Valley. (6:06) 59:03) The need for creativity, intuition and compassion in Silicon Valley and business. (1:00:23) 59:03) The need for creativity, intuition and compassion in Silicon Valley and business. (1:00:23)

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round. The best known ones, like YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, provide excellent networking to investors, and on-site technical leadership, which can make your investment less risky.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 26, 2010

Back in March, Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz wrote a post called The Case For The Fat Startup, where he outlined some of the reasons why a fledging company might want to consider taking a large amount of funding — a strategy that contrasts with the ‘lean startup’ model that has become common in Silicon Valley.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 22, 2013

Not that VC dollars are the be all and end all, but it''s one important measure of the health of a startup community, and NYC''s latest quarterly numbers from the PWC Moneytree report are continuing a positive trend--not only relative to the Valley, but in the aggregate. We''re up 11.5%

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