The Rise of the Silicon Valley Small Business
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The Rise of the Silicon Valley Small Business
There’s a pressing need — and an opportunity — to build vertical-specific tools for workers striking out on their own. Much has been written about the proliferation of vertical software tools that help firms run their businesses, but the next generation of great companies will provide integrated, vertical software for individuals going solo.
D'arcy Coolican • As More Workers Go Solo, the Software Stack Is the New Firm | Andreessen Horowitz
The most successful sub-categories we’ve observed are those that start as “side hustles” but can eventually evolve into lucrative careers. A great example of this is Substack, a platform that makes it easy to start an email newsletter subscription.
Bessemer Venture Partners • Roadmap: Enabling entrepreneurship in the creator economy
The essential nature of a startup is not that it is a new business but that it is a new business set up to grow very quickly—in Paul Graham’s phrasing, it must be “designed for scale.”1 Thus, a programmer who decides to open a consulting business to help clients build Web sites is starting a small business, not a startup.
Randall Stross • The Launch Pad
The Silicon Valley small business, the SV-SB, is a hybrid of sorts — it intertwines small business values and discipline with big tech know-how and ambition.
- Founding teams may look like that of a “traditional” Silicon Valley startup. They’re native to Silicon Valley ethos, skills, and playbooks. But , beneath the surface, they’re different. You m
Anu • Rise of the Silicon Valley Small Business
