Tag Archives : Silicon Valley

Dropifi, a web messaging platform that turns your contacts into loyal customers has won the top prize at the just ended Accra Startup Weekend. Dropifi competed with 7 other teams. [...]

Don Dodge is a must have speaker at every startup conference, period. Don addresses the topic ‘Failure’. Failure is not only the biggest reality of the startup world but also [...]

Vodafone is the latest company to launch a start-up accelerator, opening its doors to 24 early-stage ventures in Silicon Valley. The new Vodafone Xone, based in Redwood City, will provide [...]

NewMe is a startup accelerator for minority led technology start-ups that houses a handful of visiting start-ups in Silicon Valley. NewMe does not invest in its startups, but rather offers [...]

Of course being in Silicon Valley is a big deal for a lot of startups. Facebook, Groupon, LinkedIn, Zynga, Skype, and Twitter,Tumblr, Pandora, Formspring, Posterous, Apture, Quora, Asana, Path, Flipboard, [...]

Apple, Inc. continues to set the standard for what a personal computer can be and do. There’s a lot you can learn from Steve Jobs and his innovative leadership style. [...]

In the organizational context, innovation is often linked  to positive changes in efficiency, productivity, quality, competitive positioning, market share, etc. Some will flourish under its influence. Other will die. Startups [...]

Do angel investors and venture capitalists prefer investing in LLCs or C-Corps? Why are there so many consumer focused startups compared to B2B startups if the majority of profits are [...]

Airbnb a short term rentals company is a classic Silicon Valley story of bootstrapping, rejection and eventually success. Brian Chesky and his co-founder, Joe Gebbia, decided to start a company, [...]

i/o ventures has unveiled the second class of companies from its program. i/o ventures is an early stage startup program that focuses heavily on mentorship. They work closely with founders [...]

Naeem Zafar runs companies, advises startups, heads committees, and teaches Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Haas School of Business, University of California in Berkeley. The most relevant advice I can [...]

Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn and a member of Endeavor’s Global Board of Directors, shared his top 10 rules for entrepreneurship @ this year’s SXSW. When I co-founded LinkedIn the [...]

In Paul Graham’s words: “You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money [...]

You can facilitate change and even catalyze it in others but you can never be the change in someone else. Choose someone that complements your skills. You need a partner [...]

Steve Blank is a Silicon Valley-based retired serial entrepreneur, founding and/or part of 8 startup companies in California’s Silicon Valley. He has had a 33-year career as a successful businessman, [...]