Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. 70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. business models. New Rules for China.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The founders felt that having a legitimate site for content would discourage Silicon Valley VC’s from funding entrepreneurs to create the next big TV killer. Hulu emerged in the social networking era and yet Boxee has been way out in front in terms of creating social viewing experiences.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

So you tell me what the future of the Internet will be? Costs of product on YouTube content is literally 99% cheaper than traditional TV and; Distribution of content can now go viral and can predictably distributed via social networks. But here’s what Silicon Valley doesn’t get about Hollywood.

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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. Ninety-four percent of households are equipped with a computer and have Internet access (the others are still playing 8-bit Nintendo). We don’t have a ‘Paypal’ mafia, a Netscape brethren or an equivalent strong network in tech.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Before we filmed the segment we had the chance to chat over lunch over the direction of the Internet and how social was changing the fabric of the web. He remarked, “It’s true that with Facebook connect all websites can immediately have access to your social graph. He’s open and insightful with his knowledge.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Color Labs, the photo-and-video-sharing social network that received much criticism over its pre-launch $41 million funding round, is about to be acquired by Apple. For that, he turned to a previous relationship he had with Apple’s Senior Vice President Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

We have the inability to hire engineering in Silicon Valley or brand sales people in NYC but the country still has very high structural long-term unemployment. Creative destruction will continue to create opportunities for people who understand the deflationary economics of the Internet. And Social. My prognosis?

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Diego Basch

JULY 12, 2019

Back then I could think of no other place to be; it was the kitchen of the internet. I was fortunate to live through several waves of crazy growth: first, internet infrastructure and basic applications that needed to exist. Then social networks, and finally mobile computing. Why be in Silicon Valley at all?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen (the founder of Netscape and author of the first commercial web browser on the Internet ) are the definition of Smart Money. Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others.

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Internet Silicon Valley United States .Net 304

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. Out of that total, they funded 967 Internet deals with $6.7 Out of that total, they funded 268 Internet deals with $3.2 To compare the two, in 2011 U.S.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 275

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The chart above shows age distribution within major social networks and online communities. How did Internet Explorer get to be so bad (relative to Chrome, Safari, and Firefox)?

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Build Your Own Silicon Valley? How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. but: Something is Still Missing. What truth?

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Having just read David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH on the internet) and Jason Fried’s new book “ Remote: Office Not Required, ” I’m going to describe the ways working remotely (this past year) has affected me personally. Yet they don’t have a single employee in Silicon Valley. Interruptions. Don’t you get lonely?”.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. Show and talk at conferences, be on lots of blogs, use social networks and build a brand.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 21, 2011

The Problem With Silicon Valley Is Itself – [link]. The next five social media trends and their impact on marketing – [link]. Interesting that many small biz owners still not finding much use for social media – [link]. No New Social Network Launched Today – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

What appears clear to me today is how fundamentally the Internet is changing business processes, and the advent of nifty social media tools and technologies that plug into core business processes like lead nurturing are a powerful force. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. Taariq, please note!

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Silicon Valley’s Disruption Deficit Disorder – [link]. What Startups Can Learn From Watching “The Social Network” – [link]. What is holding back social media investment? Social media critics keep getting it wrong – [link]. Internet Advertising Hits New Revenue Record – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 90

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

And as more economies worldwide seek to shift their investment strategies offshore and seek out technology, hubs like Silicon Valley and Shanghai, among others, have reaped the benefits. 1/ Social Network Interference. In 2017, we learned about how social media feeds were used to surface biased or planted information.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2014

This map reveals exactly where Silicon Valley gets its talent | VentureBeat – crowdspring.co/1kLpblq. This Is Why Social Media Doesn’t Work For Your Business – crowdspring.co/1pWbP8R. US non-Internet media advertising outlook, 2013-2018. Forget influencers on social networks. 1hLIBY3.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Multiply that by literally a couple thousand, and that’s what 2013 is going to look like in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser degree some other startup ecosystems. “There are so many companies in Silicon Valley that have raised $30 million and done absolutely nothing with it.” November 29, 2012.

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Hiring technology talent in Silicon Valley is getting difficult, and the time it takes to drive across Palo Alto has tripled—all signs of the impending apocalypse. In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud. The Linked-in IPO valued the company at $8.9

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 8, 2012

Startups anywhere outside the two major tech hubs of Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley have even more troublr attracting serious venture capital than they do finding a food truck with a decent bulgogi burrito. The Internet and all its associated machines and gadgets enable anyone to be connected to anyone else -anytime, anywhere.

Silicon Valley 143

Silicon Valley St. Louis Venture Capital Houston 143

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. Out of that total, they funded 967 Internet deals with $6.7 Out of that total, they funded 268 Internet deals with $3.2 To compare the two, in 2011 U.S.

Silicon Valley 167

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 167

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Only 3% were online when I started AOL.

San Francisco 105

San Francisco Technical Review Zimbabwe New York City 105

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so.

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Silicon Valley Technology Los Angeles Southern California 290

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. I am basically a one-man shop. It sounded fun in the beginning and I had a ton of passion to create this product.

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Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Part-Time VPE 94

View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

We were on an immersion trip to Silicon Valley, and we said, “Let’s find a way to leverage [a previous open source project],” and we decided to build something around that. Clark: Competing through Social Networks. Tom Eisenmann. It really did start as an entry in the New Venture Competition. Prince: Business History.

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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. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M. Author howerl.

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Ben's Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The stunning reversal is one of many profound side effects of broad scale Internet adoption. In the old days (before the Internet), no technology products were free, because distribution costs made it impossible to offer anything without some commitment from the end customer. This reversal first initially stunned businesses.

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Customer Technical Review Silicon Valley Internet 71

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally).

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

One of the things we hear a lot about in Silicon Valley is how cheap and easy it is to launch a startup these days. After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS.

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Startup Social Media RSS Social Network 79

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of working with some of the best entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. Most successful entrepreneurs have been written up on the Internet, or in magazines, or books. Follow up online with social networking to make contact, dig deeper, and maybe even line up a mentor.

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Silicon Valley Startup Social Network Restful 259

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It has many stylistic errors — and a few substantive ones, too — that I would now change having learned more, but I realized that it still provides useful insights for entrepreneurs and startup participants outside of the Greylock network, particularly across three areas of interest: how entrepreneurs should approach the pitch process.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

That option involved trying to get a job at a young Silicon Valley company that had just gone public and would, in a few short years, crash and burn, lay off everyone, and quickly fade into oblivion. It was the central node of the consumer Internet industry. In 1995, though, I wasn’t truly network-literate yet.

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Silicon Valley Internet Networking Salary 69

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Here was our experience at IMVU, which I have seen replicated at many other consumer internet startups. In fact, we often felt frustrated when new startups with a fraction of our success got terrific write-ups in Silicon Valley-centric venues. In most situations, this fear is misplaced. Thats how to "launch".

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San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). “Silicon Valley” (see Note 2) is hardly alone in this urbanization of startups trend. So why are software & internet startups more urban today than 5-10 years ago? April 13, 2012.

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Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Although relatively new, AngelList already has featured over 42,000 businesses and provided over 28,000 introductions to potential investors in a format that''s, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and Angels. Keiretsu Forum.

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