Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

BRIC nations especially are innovating and creating new technology platforms, while the west holds onto fossil fuel era. Un-Social Networking: Martin Lindstrom of Brand Sense says we are suffering a little from digital emptiness. People are doing small scale, networked and highly responsive activities. It’s about being there.

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Mucker Lab

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Sam is a Persian Prince – and you know I am deeply proud of our shared Iran roots – and Theodor is Swedish. Sweden is pretty much my favorite non-Iran country. He started his first company at age 18, and his social gaming network, Hello , is a pretty big deal!

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others. While labeled the “dot.com” bubble, valuations went crazy across a wide range of technology sectors including telecommunications, enterprise software and biotech, not just the Internet.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

If you look at Hulu and said, “the networks will never enable a strong competitor to broadcast TV you’d need to put your head in the sand. And to investors – please consider how realistic it is for an amazing team building a great piece of technology to really predict what the summit looks like. That includes me.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

I was born in Iran and I grew up there. Then in 1978, the Iranian Revolution happened, and you know, it was a religious revolution, and the folks who were associated with the Shah or the wealthy families et cetera were not safe and not welcome in Iran. I’ll start with my dad: he went back to Iran to be at his father’s deathbed.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 10, 2010

But the technology is clunky and laborious; I know my eyes started to glaze over pretty quickly. Is Technology Weakening Interpersonal Relationships? And interested to hear her insights on being publicly private in social networks. There is simply too much to do and too many places to be at once. Or privately public.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. I’m sure the head of the Federal Reserve Bank could spook the market or the heads of state of the US, China or Iran could. They had no such motive and no such power.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

We just held our fourth sessions of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

We just held our fourth sessions of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Twitter’s significance stems from the fact that it is a real time, open, asymmetric, social, viral referral network that is often location aware and provides both explicit and implicit interests and preferences. Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. Not so on Twitter.

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management.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 7, 2012

Standard Chartereds stock drops on Iran allegations. GM CEO Dan Akerson discusses how the technology behind the Chevy Volt is driving innovation at the automaker. The big question is: Are they actually right? Posted in: Arrogance , Conviction , Entrepreneurs , Humility , Leadership. Join the Conversation. Most Popular.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 6, 2018

The fundamental lesson we need to learn from our history is not that we should halt or reverse innovation, but rather that we need to evolve new technology and its interface with society. We need to collectively debate and then decide how the concepts of free speech and dialogue should evolve and adapt to new technologies like social media.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Of course our great technology industry did itself rise on the back of infrastructure created by telecommunications & cable infrastructure as well as decades of media production. When you achieve economies-of-scale advantages it doesn’t benefit you to help newer companies draft off of your infrastructure to rise and compete against you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

It turned him instantly from an education technology expert--his day job is as VP of Growth at Course Hero--into a leading voice for how to move forward. You have a day job here in Silicon Valley at an education technology company. I think for me, the first course was Worldometers in that it was a day-to-day report on the cases.

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