Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Until 2002 – when the Oakland A’s’ baseball team took advantage of analytical metrics of player performance to field a team that competed successfully against much richer competitors. Startup success is all about the team. Or the founder, or the product, or the market – no metrics can measure those intangibles.

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deal architect

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Nice earnings call yesterday – record numbers across 8 metrics Just as good was the mainstream publicity through the movie Moneyball which was released in most US and Canadian cities on September 23 and which features the Oakland A’s stadium.

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deal architect

AUGUST 1, 2013

Billy Beane of the Oakland A''s - Mr. Moneyball - is prominent in my post. I wrote this post about Sabremetrics and Selling for the salesforce blog. He will also be keynoting at the HP Vertica Big Data conference in. Industry Commentary'

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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.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

It’s about the Oakland A’s and their General Manager Billy Beane. . – The Art & Science of Web Design by Jeffrey Veen. What’s Moneyball? Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game is a book by Michael Lewis, published in 2003.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Digital Undivided does this by offering workshops and resources in cities with predominantly black populations: Philadelphia, DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Detroit, Oakland and the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. According to Finney, black women need to be given the same resources and networks their white male counterparts enjoy.

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deal architect

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

I flew into Oakland and took the new people-mover from the airport to the BART station at the venue which Oracle sponsors. The Coliseum loomed large for me this week at Oracle OpenWorld. So much more appealing and efficient than.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

We are an Oakland-based fund that understands that startup companies have the ability to transform entire industries and to address urgent social needs as they do so. Impact America Fund We invest in entrepreneurs developing software and technology-enabled solutions to create opportunities that enhance the quality of life for all Americans.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Venture Capital Doesn’t Invest In Blacks And Latinos, But That’s Changing In Oakland. Female-founded, VC-funded: The numbers behind venture investment in women [datagraphic]. PitchBook News. Published March 15, 2017. Published August 18, 2016. Ortiz-Walters R, Gavino M, Williams D. Academy Of Entrepreneurship Journal [serial online].

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Software Engineer- Ruby & Rails @ Vibes Media (Chicago, IL) Web Developer | JavaScript/AJAX | Clearspring Widget Platform @ Clearspring (Mc Lean, VA) Product Manager @ Ask.com (Oakland, CA) Product Marketing Manager @ Digg (San Francisco, CA) Product Manager @ StumbleUpon (San Francisco, CA) Get smart with the Thesis WordPress Theme from DIYthemes. (..)

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 29, 2016

I’ve asserted for a long time that Silicon Valley is a collection of startup communities, which includes San Francisco, Marin (the first board I was on – in 1994 – was for a company in San Rafael), Oakland, Redwood *, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Menlo Park, and Sunnyvale. Or maybe toss SOMA in. Or, well, does it really matter?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 15, 2020

He’s a thought leader and sought-after speaker whose clients include Google, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, Schwab, eBay, Genentech, the Oakland A’s, and many others. The post The Importance Of Embracing Sweaty-Palmed Conversations appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Founded in January 2000 in Oakland by Tim Westergren; new CFO, Steve Cakebread was previously CFO of Salesforce.com. -Premium experience ($36/yr) offers a desktop application option, unlimited listening, no ads, higher quality audio and more skips. Metrics: 50mm users (up from 40mm in Dec 2009), -Competition includes: Spotify , Last.fm.

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Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

In some ways it reminds me of that Michael Lewis book Money Ball and how the Oakland A’s found ways to win with a small payroll. As an entrepreneur it means bootstrap, bootstrap, bootstrap. Spend nickels like they were manhole covers. Anyway, so that’s my crack at “what’s next in tech.&# What do you think Scott?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2019

oWOW’s work is supported by many high-profile individuals like the former vice mayor of Oakland, California, Annie Campbell Washington, and Elaine Brown of the Black Panther Party. The housing crisis has resulted from an inability to meet this demand, leading to higher rental prices across the board.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 23, 2023

In Oakland. And, if you believe in the infinite parallel universe theory (or just the multiverse) and haven’t yet renamed your company multiverse (yes, there is one), you can quickly get lost in a sequoia tree. I assume that Reidel meant to riddle the book with tech industry easter eggs.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 23, 2014

The San Francisco-based company also launched in Oakland, Calif. “Ranking high on every “Most Hipster City” list, Austin and Oakland are both well known for their vibrant millennial communities who squeeze […] The post FlightCar Launches into Austin’s Hipsterdom appeared first on SiliconHills.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2019

Barrera is a partner with law firm Wendel Rosen Black & Dean LLP in Oakland, Calif. Rather, it should be viewed as a necessary asset that serves as a security blanket that will protect the startup and contribute to its long-term success. He may be reached at gbarrera@wendel.com.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2015

It is the true story of Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team and how he had to change his philosophy in order to make this small market team competitive. This is a great movie to watch whether you are at home on the couch or in comfortable seats in movie theaters.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 15, 2013

Through this investment, I met Mitch for the first time, and I admire his efforts in the education space and his interest in turning Oakland into the “next Brooklyn.” I’d also like to thank my former colleague, Phin Barnes at First Round Capital, for introducing Tinybop to Mitch Kapor.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2019

by Walker Deibel , Managing Director of Centra and author of “ Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game “ In the film “Moneyball,” budget-conscious Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane bucks the traditional team-building principles to put together a squad of undervalued players who can (..)

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

We're a technology company headquartered in Fresno, California, and together with the Kapor Center in Oakland have partnered to deliver Onward US, which is an initiative to put thousands of Americans back to work. Jake Soberal : Hi, my name is Jake Soberal. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 26, 2010

Another interesting model has been wandering around Oakland, California this year. One of these companies, World Fare , even sourced the design for their truck (actually a double-decker bus, with seating on top) via a crowdSPRING project !

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 26, 2010

Another interesting model has been wandering around Oakland, California this year. One of these companies, World Fare , even sourced the design for their truck (actually a double-decker bus, with seating on top) via a crowdSPRING project !

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rick Peterson has coached some of baseball’s best pitchers in the past twenty years, including Cy Young Award winners and Hall of Famers, and was the Oakland Athletic’s pitching coach during the famed Moneyball era. In other words, it really is all in the mind. He is currently director of pitching development with the Baltimore Orioles.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rick Peterson has coached some of baseball’s best pitchers in the past twenty years, including Cy Young Award winners and Hall of Famers, and was the Oakland Athletic’s pitching coach during the famed Moneyball era. In other words, it really is all in the mind. He is currently director of pitching development with the Baltimore Orioles.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rick Peterson has coached some of baseball’s best pitchers in the past twenty years, including Cy Young Award winners and Hall of Famers, and was the Oakland Athletic’s pitching coach during the famed Moneyball era. In other words, it really is all in the mind. He is currently director of pitching development with the Baltimore Orioles.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2011

Just as Silicon Valley actually represents a corridor of companies, institutions, and cities from San Jose north to San Francisco (and, if you want to be more broad-minded, on north through Oakland up to Livermore), we need to think of Austin as a hub of a regional tech eco-system.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 15, 2006

Just remember Billy Beane and his Oakland A’s. And you must do this when Google and Yahoo are not afraid to be the George Steinbrenners of the web. The good news is that just because you spend the most on your payroll, you don’t always win. The post The Arms Race for Talent first appeared on BeyondVC.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 22, 2014

Satya and I visited Blue Bottle’s Oakland HQ a few weeks back and I love talking with retailers about the way technology is changing their business (such as this previous post with a SF-based bakery owner ). One of our investment themes at Homebrew VC is SMBs gaining access to new powerful tech.

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Gust

AUGUST 8, 2012

I have nothing against Southwest: It covers the routes I fly most often between Northern and Southern California and throughout the West; it serves smaller area airports (Oakland, San Jose, Burbank) that are more convenient and suffer fewer delays than massive, congested SFO and LAX; and flexible fares allow for unlimited last-minute changes without (..)

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 15, 2006

Just remember Billy Beane and his Oakland A’s. And you must do this when Google and Yahoo are not afraid to be the George Steinbrenners of the web. The good news is that just because you spend the most on your payroll, you don’t always win. The post The Arms Race for Talent appeared first on BeyondVC.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JANUARY 19, 2012

I always like the charming Brad Pitt , and he’s good here in a tailor-made part as Oakland Athletic’s General Manager Billy Beane. I enjoyed the film but nothing about it struck me as profoundly good in terms of story, or character development. He keeps you interested, but this doesn’t feel like an Oscar worthy role.

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Business Plan Blog

JULY 18, 2013

As we can see, Boulder came in third behind San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara (AKA Silicon Valley) and San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont. The chart below looks at the total amount of dollars spent by venture capital firms as well as the total number of deals on a per-capita basis. Only the Partial Story.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 13, 2012

The obvious question is, what if I need to be in Oakland for a 5:30 pm meeting for which I just cannot be late? Friday afternoons are different, coming back from Mountain View usually takes patience; I know that if I leave around 6 pm I probably be in the city by 7:30. Google says it would take me 50 minutes if I left now.

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