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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

We just held our seventeenth session 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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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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My views, influenced by watching Brad’s tireless efforts across the country, were first encapsulated in a post I wrote about Seattle titled, “ A Few Key People Can Make a Huge Difference.” Seattle has GeekWire , LA has SoCalTech and so on. ” that is right around the corner. Local press matters. Austin has Dell.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. When you begin to peel back the onion some surprising data presents itself.

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Is Silicon Valley Really Coming to an End?

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It seemed like “all of the big ideas had been done” in technology. This was obviously prior to the Internet and everything that led to: (mobile smartphones, social networks, new payment technologies, etc.). Not just in Silicon Valley but in LA, NY, Seattle and other major tech markets. “ And my fear?

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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So we stayed close to our investment themes of: healthcare, fintech, computer vision, marketing technologies, video game infrastructure, sustainability and applied biology and we have partners that lead each practice area. We do deals in NYC, Paris, Seattle, Austin, San Francisco, London?—?but We also focus heavily on geographies.

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Learn To Code With One Month Rails

YoungUpstarts

Part of Y Combinator ’s Summer 2013 batch of startups, The online resource for web development to date has taught more than 9,000 people Ruby on Rails, one of the most widely-used web programming technologies today. One Month Rails is me teaching people to code the way I wish I could have learned myself.”

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