Diego Basch

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

However, I did feel that creating local jobs and spreading some lessons learned in Silicon Valley provided a sort of return on the taxpayer money spent on me. When I first got there in 1997, I was taken aback by what I perceived as a display of wealth on campus. With Carnegie Mellon, it’s a different story.

Argentina 55

Argentina Silicon Valley Software Engineering .Net 55

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Flat, you've flywheel, you know, in every startup, you know, Silicon Valley, you know, entrepreneur is using, you know that as Exactly. Carmine Gallo (16:19): Sean, what was fascinating to me is for years I live in Silicon Valley, so for years I hear things like flywheels. John Jantsch (16:10): Yeah.

Seattle 63

Seattle Silicon Valley Conversion Naming 63

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

It went bankrupt in 1997.). The next posts Part 4 Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley and part 5, the Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers describe the Beijing entrepreneurship ecosystem. A few foreign VC firms like IDG Capital Partners entered China in the early 1990s. Lessons Learned.

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 271

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Warren Buffet, 1997. According to an interview with Elon Musk, this campaign cost Paypal about $60 million , which most Silicon Valley historians would consider money well spent. Silicon Valley founders and executives routinely say, “well the banker said we have to do this, or we can’t do that.”

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

I was fortunate to live in Silicon Valley for six years before moving to “Silicon Hills” in 1997?—?having DFS was formed in 1997 to provide Dell customers the best financing options. having the honor to work for two third-stage companies, Apple and Dell.

Cofounder 48

Cofounder Austin Technical Review Advisory Board 48

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

Ross and I will be speaking at South by Southwest again this year and hope that you’ll join us there for our talk titled “ Third Coast: How to Be a Startup Outside of Silicon Valley.&# Yet entrepreneurs still obsess over traditional big meeting/big money Silicon Valley venture capital.

Omaha 79

Omaha Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Media 79

Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

Is it Silicon Valley, home to accelerators Y Combinator and 500 Startups and to tech giants Google and Facebook? As of now, the City of Austin’s startup density is greater than that of the Silicon Valley! What’s the number one city for startups in the United States? versus $10M+).

Silicon Valley 48

Silicon Valley New York City San Jose Texas 48

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

It went bankrupt in 1997.). The next posts Part 4 Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley and part 5, the Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers describe the Beijing entrepreneurship ecosystem. A few foreign VC firms like IDG Capital Partners entered China in the early 1990s. Lessons Learned.

Venture Capital 163

Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 163

Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

Back in 1997, when I was a high school junior and my brother Evan was a freshman, we launched a local moving service called Meathead Movers. It also made me Silicon Valley’s longest serving CEO. . Thanks to Dr. Dan Danyo, North Atlanta Hair Restoration ! #4- 4- Started as a part-time work. Photo Credit: Aaron Steed.

Entrepreneur 116

Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review Atlanta 116

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2021

Originally introduced in 1997 by the British progressive rock band Marillion, this means of acquiring capital has surged in popularity, and for good reason. Not only does this help facilitate securing the capital, but it also helps safeguard them from exorbitant interest rates or having only a limited amount of resources. Crowdfunding.

Security 92

Security Finance Angel Investor Incubator 92

Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Looking more closely at the pacing of the funds Austin Ventures raised in the table below, it also got caught up in the Dot Com frenzy, raising new, much larger funds almost every year from 1997–2001. We would also welcome seeing more high risk, high reward investing by the firms in Austin.

Venture Capital 54

Venture Capital Austin Texas Private Equity 54

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In 1997, RIM introduced the first packet-switched messaging device. And the board, being enamored with Silicon Valley technology, first mover advantage and concerned about the huge price gap between a VCR and TiVo, agreed. In 1996 RIM was still in the hardware business selling packet-switched wireless radio modems to OEMs.

Hockey Stick 271

Hockey Stick Customer Development Silicon Valley Networking 271

Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

Hillary has been working to make government more accessible and available online for nearly two decades, starting as a web designer for Arkansas.gov in 1997. Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies. Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111.

Small Business Administration 120

Small Business Administration SBIR United States Entrepreneur 120

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

Kodorra

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Its popularity made Microsoft make a move and agreed to purchase Hotmail in 1997 for a whopping $400 million. Drew Houston is one of the youngest billionaires in Silicon Valley. They finally finished the project, and Hotmail became one of the most widely used mailing platforms across the world. Honda (Rejected by Toyota Motors).

Houston 40

Houston Cofounder Silicon Valley Founder 40

Venture Chronicles

MAY 6, 2010

What’s happened to Silicon Valley , how access to capital and a screwed up immigration system are threatening the Valley’s future. - “For example, from 1997 to 2008, the total cost of running the Bay Area’s bus, train and ferry systems climbed 52 percent over inflation.&#. h/t @zolierdos.

Greece 30

Greece Silicon Valley California Cost 30

www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

But, somehow, Silicon Valley didnt get the memo. In his 1997 paper, Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, and Human Performance in Continuous Operations , he found that: Laboratory studies show that mental work declines by 25% during each successive 24 hours of continuous wakefulness.

Software Review 90

Software Review Technical Review Widget Los Angeles 90

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Attempts at “moving up the stack&# – In 1997 I led a project to help senior management at British Telecom define its Internet strategy. I see a future in which Hollywood still is the center of global video content creation in the same way that Silicon Valley remains the center of technology development.

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Distribution Audience Video Internet 386

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. What is the True Sentiment of VCs? This is the biggest red herring of them all. What hogwash.

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Valuation Down Round Startup Later Stage 150

www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

To design like a teenager in 1997 using MS publisher is incredibly painful. This is the kind of thing an average user cant put their finger on, but on a subconscious level, it bothers them and gives them a negative opinion of the application." Bond cautions teams to always develop and design with the end user in mind.

Web 42

Web Design Startup Flash 42

BeyondVC

OCTOBER 18, 2007

In a scary way, it felt like it was 1997 all over again, and we were at a networking event in New York talking about their first startups. I know we are no Silicon Valley, but it is great to see these entrepreneurs all working on their second and third companies.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco New York Silicon Valley Portfolio 60

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

I doubt Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures believed that a horse with a horn existed when she wrote Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups in late 2013, but she probably had no idea that it would become a hot buzzword in Silicon Valley and hit the cover of mainstream business press, Fortune Magazine.

Las Vegas 28

Las Vegas IPO Pre-Money Valuation Valuation 28

Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

I’d be curious what other people in-region think about this (and keep in mind, I won’t be doing the investing there, Shiyan will be :) ): 1) There are opportunities galore People like to use chronological analogies, so if I had to do that here, I would put investment opportunities in SEA at around 1997.

Asia 48

Asia Indonesia B2B Singapore 48

Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

I’d be curious what other people in-region think about this (and keep in mind, I won’t be doing the investing there, Shiyan will be :) ): 1) There are opportunities galore People like to use chronological analogies, so if I had to do that here, I would put investment opportunities in SEA at around 1997.

Asia 48

Asia Indonesia B2B Singapore 48

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

We are unbelievably lucky to be here right now, with a team of über-talented people from the best and brightest Silicon Valley companies, at a moment when what a book should be is morphing before our very eyes. We are transforming publishing for the 21st century. That’s massive.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Technical Review Community 48