Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 5, 2020
For those that don’t know, I live in downtown Oakland which has been one of the protest flashpoints. On Friday night, the Target near my house, which is where I go to get the majority of my essentials, was looted and set on fire. And as a team we’ve vowed to face pain with purpose. What can you do as an individual?
techcocktail.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Make sure someone is thinking about overarching plans around PR, marketing and sales and spends time crafting the right messages, understanding audiences and figuring out distribution channels. Accountant – Someone needs to pay attention to the money.
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Feld Thoughts
JULY 15, 2013
Boulder came in third, behind “San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA” (what most of us think of as “Silicon Valley”) and “San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA” (what most of us think of as San Francisco.). In it, he looked at Venture Capital financing (total dollars and number of deals) on a per-capital basis.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 12, 2010
We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. Founded in January 2000 in Oakland by Tim Westergren; new CFO, Steve Cakebread was previously CFO of Salesforce.com. In the media NYC is “hot” right now yet having just spent 6 days in NY I heard many similar stories as I get in LA: not enough VC and hard to get great tech resources.
ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
During this week's roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. Last up, Ashesh Patel from Oakland, California, pitched StyleShop247.com StyleShop247.com.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 17, 2020
And then we also looked at our operations and said, "We have a footprint across the US that can produce and distribute millions of meals every week, fresh meals to 400 cities and towns at incredibly affordable prices given the way we have cost optimized our footprint and our program." And our customer base grew probably.
Steve Blank
MAY 29, 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 military 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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