Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

Decades later, I realized that the broadband network company where I worked, installing high-speed process control networks in automobile assembly plants and steel mills (before Ethernet existed), was one of the few pioneering startups in Ann Arbor. After our work in San Jose was done, the engineer who came out with me flew back home.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

MAY 6, 2010

Last weekend in the heart of San Jose, over 100 people gathered at PayPal for Startup Weekend. network like crazy. Tags: Business Fun Social Networking Technology. What startup would you create in 54 hours if you were thrown into a room with a small group of people? For $100 or less (discounts!), make decisions quickly.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Uber initially worked well primarily within the San Francisco city limits. It now has high liquidity from South San Jose to Napa. Increasing returns are particularly powerful when a network effect is present. There are three drivers of a network effect in the Uber model: Pick-up times. A couple’s night out.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Last week, (seems that all of my postings start this way) I attended the Second Annual West Coast Businesswomen’s Sustainability Leadership Summit , a Women’s Network for Sustainable Future event , at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. There were about 150-200 women in attendance (my guestimate).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

Decades later, I realized that the broadband network company where I worked, installing high-speed process control networks in automobile assembly plants and steel mills (before Ethernet existed), was one of the few pioneering startups in Ann Arbor. After our work in San Jose was done, the engineer who came out with me flew back home.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2015

To pull this lie off, you''d better be either a great bluffer or smokin'' hot, or you won''t have a chance against the investor network. There''s a reason why people such as Larry Ellison can keep the San Jose airport open late for his private jet while you and I are munching peanuts on Southwest Airlines.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

JULY 18, 2011

The hackathon follows a similar format of a Startup Weekend, Friday night – networking, idea pitches, some teams form, Saturday – teams done forming, hack hack hack, and Sunday - hack, submit, present your hack. Before the weekend, all the attendees can create profiles on CrowdVine.com, a social network for events.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 26, 2018

Source: Flickr via The San Jose Library. College is a great place to network and make social contacts that can be useful for a lifetime. Take advantage of that networking and start building your customer base while you’re still a student. Design a Website. Getting the word out about your business is the first step.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

I describe this in part as the “Social Network” effect… not just the movie itself but the example of Mark Zuckerberg and many other high profile young founders as role models ( who can forget this image? ) Just a minor nitpicky point: San Jose is actually much larger than SF, in both population and land area.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. San Jose, CA. San Diego, CA. Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. startup ecosystem for many decades. Minneapolis, MN.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Last week, (seems that all of my postings start this way) I attended the Second Annual West Coast Businesswomen’s Sustainability Leadership Summit , a Women’s Network for Sustainable Future event , at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. There were about 150-200 women in attendance (my guestimate).

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

From a tech perspective, we are excited about how fast edge devices, including mobile devices, are improving both in processing and networking capabilities. What’s your favorite thing about being based in San Jose, Calif.? If you weren’t working for StrongSalt, what would you be doing? I’d probably be developing a game.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

His latest project required him to work with a team to help crunch some very large data sets from mobile network carriers. James began his career as a technical recruiter in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. His firm brought in a team of data scientists to help his team make sense of the data.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Which is a huge strength and has network benefits that people couldn’t anticipate. We’re no longer having these bigger networked conversations where you can have the serendipitous meet at the watercooler or the trade show, and kind of increase the creativity. And we had people doing that, both in Africa and in San Jose.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Check the Stanford Entrepreneurship Network calendar or the BASES calendar for free events. Driving down the valley see Studio G in Redwood City, Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, the Plug & Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, Semantic Seed in San Jose. and the Sandbox Network. Get invited to an event at Blackbox.vc

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

APRIL 15, 2010

The San Jose Business Journal vetted out nominations down to 100 women in the San Jose area who have influenced other women and their community. The evening included a networking cocktail reception, dinner, awards of course, then dessert. I wish that there were more folks to meet during the networking hour.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 24, 2010

Earlier this month, San Jose was graced with Ms. If you go to YouTube the night of the concert (search “lady gaga san jose concert 2010″), you can re-live the concert through someone else’s lens. Tags: Social Networking Technology. Gaga’s presence two nights in a row. Technology at its best.

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Early Growth Financial Services

MAY 19, 2015

San Jose, CA (PRWEB) May 19, 2015 Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS) is pleased to announce its first-ever panel event focused on cannabis-based businesses. Originally published on PRWeb.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The decentralization conversation in blockchain is more of a libertarian ideology than information architecture — most of the people talking about decentralization are libertarian quacks rallying up thoughts of not being beholden to tyranny and has nothing to do with actually implementing decentralized networks.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Lead Gen: I utilized my friends, professional contacts, and Harvard networks by sending out emails to list serves, reaching out to people, and getting referrals. I attended engineering-focused Meetups and networking events. After the group exercise, we were free to network some more and meet people outside of our group.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

However, for most of the rest of us, the analytical skills honed in college or grad school, along with the opportunity to network and explore different fields prove invaluable later. With that in mind, I created a new course at San Jose State last year, the Entrepreneurship Lab (E-Lab). ► January. (1). ► 2010. (7).

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

During this week's roundtable, we had Inoh Choe from San Jose, California, pitch DemoTunes, a freemium concept. Rather, you tag a woman wearing a speedo swimsuit with a Speedo GoodyTag and then encourage your social network to further propagate that as part of an incentivized advertising campaign.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

MAY 10, 2010

The best place to do networking is in the Silicon Valley area because we have the best, brightest people around. Networking events happen every day of the week and are mostly in the Palo Alto/Mountain View area and San Francisco, sorry San Jose folks, you have to make the trek up north, but it’s worth it!

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

Happy Grasshopper is an e-mail marketing service that assists real estate agents in reaching out to their networks and generating referrals. Next week, we are going to partner with the Indian Angel Network for the strategy roundtable. We discussed a numbers of customer acquisition methods to do so. Social Pulse.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered?

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Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

Austin Texas, hometown of True Wealth Venture’s takes the top spot, followed by Miami, then San Jose and NYC ranks at number seven. The investment network here is growing, but is still grossly developing when compared to those coastal cities. versus $10M+). However, Austin is well poised to catch up quickly.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

JUNE 17, 2010

- lots of interest in iPhone apps, Startup Weekend makes a pitstop in San Jose - there was an associated press article on startup weekend in NYC. one thing to comment, the SW coordinator for San Jose said the true test is whether you are still working on the idea 6 months later.

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Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

Randy Stross, a colleague of mine at San Jose State, wrote an interesting piece on the textbook business in his Sunday New York Times column, " First it Was Song Downloads. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2011

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ▼ January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered?

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

I started thinking about this yesterday when Jeff Fluhr, founder of Stub Hub spoke at my San Jose State class. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1).

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Professor VC

MAY 29, 2008

The ACA is an interesting organization and is providing support in a number of ways to its member angel groups, from public policy, networking, sydnication, and best practices. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

Not to worry, I was busy working on closing the Series B financing for iControl Networks. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. Babys All Grown Up. We ended up raising $15.5M, led by John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins.

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Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered?

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ▼ 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered?

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

JANUARY 15, 2010

Let’s talk about the cons of San Francisco Bay area: Expensive housing. Besides San Francisco, very spread out, made up of many cities like Mountain View, San Jose, Palo Alto, etc. I suggest that you network with your peers and consider switching companies sometime in your career. Just kidding.

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