Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

One of the big data team collected and analyzed all the data of accidents on Route 101 linking San Francisco to San Jose. I will finish this post with one example that came out of a discussion with the IT executive of a large US bank.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 21, 2009

But if your good idea pops big time then trust me there will be three PhDs from Stanford sharing a cheap apartment in San Jose working around the clock to beat you. In the future they won’t only be in San Jose but also in Shanghai, Seoul and Bangalore. If you fail, you move on.

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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. Once again, Uber started in San Francisco proper. Today there is coverage from South San Jose all the way up to Napa. The rental car market is $27B in the U.S. Utilization.

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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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David Cohen

APRIL 1, 2018

two hours on the connection then on to San Jose, Costa Rica. We opened the curtains to our first view of the airport area near San Jose. We set out and went through the city (San Jose) first. The whole country is just 5m people, so probably half of them are in San Jose. 3 hour second flight.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2012

For example, for the easiest access to talent, San Francisco and San Jose is your best bet. But if rental costs are your concern, San Jose and San Mateo are good possibilities. I don’t know about you, given a choice I’d put mine in a place near a craft brewery. For inspiration, of course.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

JULY 18, 2011

This year, iOSDevCamp was held at PayPal in San Jose. It helped me figure out who had what skills and what ideas, but generally it was nice to meet people too. To event organizers, make it easy for attendees to meet before the event, it makes the actual event day more productive!

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2014

San Jose, California. The sunny city of San Jose boasts the highest number of available full time jobs and houses the headquarters for some of the highest paying companies in the world, including Adobe, Cisco, and EBay just to name a few. Here’s a glimpse at the nation’s best cities to live and work in: 1.

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Venture Chronicles

APRIL 7, 2012

TweetDeck, Seesmic and HootSuite can help keep your digital life under control – San Jose Mercury News. Making Your Users Happy: The Business Tools We Use | Alfred App – Mac OS X Quicklaunch Application. tags: blog get satisfaction. Larry Summers and the Technology of Money – Technology Review. tags: blog.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 15, 2020

Christopher Rosario is an associate attorney with trial law firm McManis Faulkner in San Jose, CA. However, the risk of expensive litigation later may be minimized by taking proactive cautionary steps today.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2015

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. In reality all they are showing is how naive they are about what it takes to build a successful business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

San Jose, CA. San Diego, CA. Crowdspring couldn’t imagine home being anywhere else. Here are some additional U.S. cities that you should keep in mind as some of the best cities for startups and entrepreneurs: St. Minneapolis, MN. Columbus, OH. Nashville, TN. Portland, OR. Pittsburgh, PA. Atlanta, GA. Indianapolis, IN.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

He opened the first of many PanIQ Escape Rooms in Hollywood, California, and today, they have locations in San Jose, Phoenix, Miami, NYC, Dallas, Nashville, Chicago and many more. It only seemed logical for Akos and his partners to bring this concept to the US.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

San Diego, CA. San Francisco, CA. San Jose, CA. Google recently expanded their Local Services ads (formerly known as Home Services ads) to include 17 cities, with plans to expand to 30 cities by the end of 2017. Current cities include: Phoenix, AZ. Los Angeles, CA. Riverside, CA. Sacramento, CA. Washington, D.C.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

Note (1): For those not familiar with the geography of the SF Bay Area, the city of San Francisco proper sits at the north end of a peninsula that stretches down to the smaller city of San Jose. Just a minor nitpicky point: San Jose is actually much larger than SF, in both population and land area. link] Chris G.

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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. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. Bootstrapping 101.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Given that San Francisco and San Jose/Silicon Valley are effectively one market the right way to think about this market is that 19% sits in the winning region, and the rest of venture capital activity is highly fragmented.

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Eric Friedman

JULY 28, 2008

I had the chance to interview Randy Peterson of P&G for his upcoming participation in Search Engine Strategies 2008: San Jose where he will be speaking on the Keynote Roundtable: “Why Does Search Get the Credit for Everything?” ” panel. What is your background and what do you do for P&G?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

One day the company sent me and an engineer across the country, to a city none of us had ever heard of – San Jose, California – to install a process control system in a Ford Assembly plant. (We We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.).

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The greater San Francisco area claimed the top spot on the list, followed by Provo-Orem, Utah. Rounding out the top 10 list was Reno, Nevada in fourth place, followed by the greater San Jose area, the […]. The post Austin Ranks Third in the Milken Institute’s List of Best Performing U.S.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

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. Get invited to an event at Blackbox.vc and the Sandbox Network. See if there’s a Startup Weekend or SVASE event going on in the Bay Area.

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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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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

Why not, at least, show me "Current Deals from San Jose" (my closest airport)? Why is it that www.orbitz.com uses none of my location signals to customize content on their home page to appeal to me? Sad, right? There is one other thing that immensely delights me about Songza. I noticed that I was not logged in.

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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.).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 23, 2011

Louis, MO: [link] Steamboat Springs, CO: [link] Tampa, FL: [link] Vancouver, BC: [link] Wilmington, DE: [link] Oceania Claremont, WA, Australia: [link] Wollongong, NSW, Australia: [link] South America Bogota, Colombia: [link] Buenos Aires, Argentina: [link] Curitiba, Brazil: [link] Florianópolis, Brazil: [link] Montevideo, Uruguay: [link] Porto Alegre, (..)

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SiliconHills

MAY 22, 2013

Virgin America this month launched a new daily roundtrip service from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport to San Jose. To keep the high tech travelers happy, Virgin America offers WiFi on every flight and has other features like power outlets and personal touch-screen entertainment platforms at every seat.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2020

Major cities in the region are San Jose, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, and Mountain View. San Jose is the biggest city. “Valley of the Heart’s Delight”. And we’ve got more scoops about its name. However, let’s backtrack a little and talk about its geography.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2010

Let’s start with a high level discussion in the San Jose Mercury News article titled Startup boot camp illustrates dearth of women in tech. It’s very satisfying for me to see a meme like this pick up speed and appear in a bunch of thoughtful articles and discussions.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

With that in mind, I created a new course at San Jose State last year, the Entrepreneurship Lab (E-Lab). I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. The seminar course combined an internship at a start-up or venture firm with classroom learning and sharing of experiences.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 20, 2012

And I’m in Austin, not San Jose, where there’s 100x fewer customers I could land at meetups. And there’s no Twitter or Facebook (or even a strong culture of blogging) to enable my few zealous fans to spread the word.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

From New Scientist a week or so back (apologies for the long quote, but it’s worth it): IN MAY last year, a supercomputer in San Jose, California, read 100,000 research papers in 2 hours. It found completely new biology hidden in the data.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Here''s one for you from the legandary DEMO conference in San Jose this week. Austin continues to make "Top 10" lists for everything, and break new records. A record-breaking six Austin companies launched at DEMO this week, and three of the six are being incubated at Capital Factory with one being an ATI graduate.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MARCH 18, 2014

Raising the minimum wage in Silicon Valley (beyond San Jose which has already done so) is a very important and rational thing to do for the economic health of the valley, California, and the USA economy as a whole. Let’s put politics aside for a moment and pretend the minimum wage is not a party-centric issue.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 14, 2012

via College dropout advocate Peter Thiel to teach course at Stanford – San Jose Mercury News. ” And on a campus that serves as a veritable metaphor these days for the valley’s innovative spirit, it’s not surprising that the course Thiel is teaching at his alma mater is already oversubscribed.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. I typically stay anywhere from 6 months to 3 years depending on a number of factors, not the least important being that I do not have the temperament or attention span for a full time gig.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

San Jose Mercury News: Maker Faire Mixes Business With Wackiness. Deskmag: Profiling Coworkers in the United States. CNBC: Why Your Retirement Age Matters. SF Chronicle: Ultralight startups: little capital, just computer. NPR/KQED Forum: Self-Employed. NPR Marketplace: Businesses save off green incentives.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Roughly 1,200 miles away in the heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed is pushing for restrictions that will shutter many of the city’s medical marijuana dispensaries.

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