Community Oakland Technology 
Steve Blank
JUNE 8, 2021
I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while being challenged to solve some of the toughest problems.”. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence community or other government agencies. Project Agrippa – Logistics and Sustainment in IndoPacific.
Steve Blank
JUNE 12, 2020
Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about.
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Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 26, 2020
Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin started Bitwise in 2013 with the idea that the technology industry could be used to fix a city--in their case, Fresno, CA. Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In
Steve Blank
JUNE 7, 2019
Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about. Team: Learn2Win.
Austin Startup
MAY 11, 2017
We make a minority of our investments in new technology areas where deep technical innovation is occurring and where we believe there is will be a large future market opportunity. For these companies, we look for deep technology differentiation plus early market validation or clear opportunity for such.
ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 3, 2013
Money wasn’t an obstacle for the Chicago-based founder, but as a black woman in technology, networking in a new city might be. “We Fortunately, it was around the same time that Brooks connected with Kathryn Finney of Digital Undivided , a community outreach program with the mission of getting black women started in tech.
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 29, 2016
When the phrase “Startup Communities” started to become mainstream around 2012, I made the strong assertion that you could create a startup community in any city with at least 100,000 people. The Bright, Sustainable Future of Chicago’s Technology Ecosystem. Millennial Innovators Are About to Leave Big Cities.
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