Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword: Success in the StartupDelta
- Acknowledgements
- Business Focus of Participating Startup Founders & CEOs
- 1 Introduction: The Silicon Valley Saga
- 2 The Silicon Valley Innovation & Startup Model
- 3 Product: Innovation Silicon Valley Style
- 4 Market: Pivot and Perseverance
- 5 Team and Talent
- 6 Funding
- 7 Culture
- 8 Universities and R&D Labs
- 9 Government
- 10 Network Support System
- 11 The Downside of the Valley
- 12 Silicon Valley’s Secret Sauce: (Ecosystem x Culture)
- 13 Go West, Young (Wo)Man, Go West?
- Notes
- Appendix 1 Interviewed Dutch Startup Founders & CEOs
- Appendix 2 Interviewed Silicon Valley & Dutch stakeholders
- Appendix 3 Questionnaire Personal Interviews Dutch startup Founders & CEOs in Silicon Valley
- Appendix 4 Questionnaire Group Interviews Dutch Startup Founders & CEOs in Silicon Valley
Appendix 4 - Questionnaire Group Interviews Dutch Startup Founders & CEOs in Silicon Valley
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2020
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword: Success in the StartupDelta
- Acknowledgements
- Business Focus of Participating Startup Founders & CEOs
- 1 Introduction: The Silicon Valley Saga
- 2 The Silicon Valley Innovation & Startup Model
- 3 Product: Innovation Silicon Valley Style
- 4 Market: Pivot and Perseverance
- 5 Team and Talent
- 6 Funding
- 7 Culture
- 8 Universities and R&D Labs
- 9 Government
- 10 Network Support System
- 11 The Downside of the Valley
- 12 Silicon Valley’s Secret Sauce: (Ecosystem x Culture)
- 13 Go West, Young (Wo)Man, Go West?
- Notes
- Appendix 1 Interviewed Dutch Startup Founders & CEOs
- Appendix 2 Interviewed Silicon Valley & Dutch stakeholders
- Appendix 3 Questionnaire Personal Interviews Dutch startup Founders & CEOs in Silicon Valley
- Appendix 4 Questionnaire Group Interviews Dutch Startup Founders & CEOs in Silicon Valley
Summary
Name respondents:
Date of group interview:
Q1. Before we begin: could you briefly introduce yourself? (For the transcripter)
Coming to Silicon Valley
Q2. How did you get the idea of going to Silicon Valley and to begin a startup here?
Q3. Why did you not start your business venture in the Netherlands?
Q4. How did you prepare yourself for coming over to Silicon Valley?
Q5. What were your main worries in deciding to come over? And have they become true?
Team
Q6. How do you select your people? What are the qualities you look for in your team?
Q7. Is it difficult to find the right people with the right skills?
Funding
Q8. How did you finance your startup business? Vc? Business angel?
Q9. Was it difficult to get funding?
Entrepreneur issues
Q10. What were the main challenges in your first year as a startup?
Q11. What were the main things going wrong in the first period?
Q12. What was surprisingly easy in the first period?
Q13. What is your most painful experience as a startup entrepreneur?
Q14. Did you ever think of giving up and going back to the Netherlands?
Q15. All in all: did coming to Silicon Valley and founding your startup meet your expectations?
Q16. If you knew then what you know now: would you start your business again here in Silicon Valley?
a. What would you do differently?
b. And what would you certainly do again?
Q17. What is your main advice to dutch entrepreneurs who consider starting a business in Silicon Valley?
Impact of culture & change
Q18. In what respect is the culture in Silicon Valley truly proinnovation & pro-startups? How did you experience that?
Q19. Silicon valley is also witnessing a number of radical social and economic changes and challenges. What is your view on these developments?
Final questions
Q20. Any suggestions to the dutch consulate how they can better service dutch startups here in Silicon Valley?
Q21. The last question. What can the Netherlands learn from American entrepreneurship? What should we do differently?
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- Information
- Silicon Valley, Planet StartupDisruptive Innovation, Passionate Entrepreneurship and Hightech Startups, pp. 243 - 244Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2016