How To Meet The Silicon Valley 100Arden Pennell
The trend became so pronounced that CNN published a story in 2016, claiming that “Obama’s staff is taking over Silicon Valley.” The distinction today is less that Trump is recruiting techies and investors to advise him on policy, which has precedent—but that the tech elite ...
It’s still the land of opportunity, but now it’s confronting the human cost of its success. The new buzzwords: responsibility and empathy.
Out of desperation, some in Silicon Valley seem intent on reviving McCarthy’s old playbook, distracting from real problems by feinting at Communists. Most prominently, Marc Andreessen, one of the richest investors in Silicon Valley, recently wrote a “Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” enumerating a ...
3. Meet investors where they are. If you’re just starting out, look for investors where they might already be—industry trade shows and conventions, business events, and sometimes even co-working spaces. Andrew Lee Jenkins, owner ofAndrew Lee Jenkins, told me he found investors by attending...
The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce has found repeatedly that a growing share of future U.S. professions will require a postsecondary degree. Of course, college degrees and other programs must be designed to meet the changing needs of our businesses, economy, and ...
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first-time founder, that are interesting enough for West Coast folks to place some bets on because they are doing 30 or 50 deals a year. For individual investors (like myself) or the scant superangels/micro-VCs here doing 10 deals a year, each one has to be thought through more fully....
Are there enough potential customers to sustain you and your competitors? If the answer is no, then you need to consider changing your product or service offering. Use the attributes you defined in the target market step and determine how many people meet your demographic, psychographic, or loca...
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