Category Archives: Technology Entrepreneurship

Happy 2014 Silicon Valley!

Happy 2014 Silicon Valley and the Bay Area! No Scarlet Plague has stricken the Bay Area in 2013 and no dot com crash has hit as of yet. But some of the signs of a bubbly dot com bubble are appearing. From a frothy, unsustainable real estate market that has pushed rent costs higher and higher, to increased traffic of Tesla Model S 4 door sedans piloted by GoogleGlassHole drivers running up and down the 101. It’s here. The Tech Bubble. When will it pop? No one knows. Yet. Though some of the high flyers of the Tech World in this bubble are different from the Pets.com era of the past. Some of these booming tech companies in SiliconCali are actually profitable and are minting money as I type.

Twitter takes over City Hall in San Francisco

The growing flock of Twitterers celebrated 2013 in style with their first holiday party since the successful IPO earlier this year. City Hall in San Francisco was bathed in Twitter Blue lighting inside and out.

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Twitter Blue City Hall on December 19th 2013

Some of the unusual treats featured were blue cotton candy served on blue glow-sticks.

Rain finally returns to Silicon Valley, break out the ThinkGeek umbrellas!

The radars at Weather.gov are showing the green blob of rain heading towards Silicon Valley and the Bay Area.

 

Be prepared with these geeky umbrellas from ThinkGeek!Rain_Radar_SiliconCali.com_Bay_Area_20130330

Venture Lab Survey for Team RingCrowd

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The free online Technology Entrepreneurship class through Stanford University is basically an online version of Y Combinator. Startup Teams form around a central business idea and develop that idea using Lean Startup techniques. Team RingCrowd developed this survey in order to understand the biggest limitations an entrepreneur faces when forming a startup company and would really appreciate your feedback by filling out the following:

OUR PROMISE:

We will never SPAM you. We believe that the marketing model of SPAM-until-you-buy is outdated and doesn’t work. By checking the box you are guaranteed to receive a follow up email from us (and one only) and can opt-in on a per email basis if you would like to continue receiving updates (instead of opting-out). If we are going to send something out we want for it to be helpful for the recipient.

Thank you so very much for your time and we really hope everyone is having fun with the class assignments.

respectfully

the RingCrowd Team