Reid Hoffman
JULY 27, 2021
TOP DRAWBACKS OF AN MBA PROGRAM. Network strength is one of the reasons that people who want to build great software businesses have, and will continue to move to Silicon Valley. Despite the overblown stories about the decline of Silicon Valley, the fact is that it remains the strongest entrepreneurship network in the world.
Reid Hoffman
JULY 27, 2021
TOP DRAWBACKS OF AN MBA PROGRAM. Network strength is one of the reasons that people who want to build great software businesses have, and will continue to move to Silicon Valley. Despite the overblown stories about the decline of Silicon Valley, the fact is that it remains the strongest entrepreneurship network in the world.
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Sophia Perl of Wisdom
OCTOBER 16, 2011
Ron Conway, known as the Godfather of Silicon Valley and part of SV Angel, came to Campbell to talk some shop, angel investing. Conway’s first fund, Angel Investors I, raised and invested in 1998, generated a 7 times return. He may know a thing or two about funding the next big thing. times return.
Steve Blank
APRIL 12, 2013
The previous post described how the Torch program built China’s innovation clusters. The second wave of technology investors were Chinese banks, who provided the majority of the later stage investments in the Torch Program. SBIR and STTR programs, the Torch Program’s funding for new ventures was limited to seed funding the front end.
Up and Running
JULY 11, 2014
in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. It’s the poor quality version of HBO’s Silicon Valley. Attracting angel investment and getting ‘Valley’ respect is. Sold to Yahoo! A very real ‘sitcom’ that springs to mind because it does exactly this, is Betas. If you haven’t seen it, don’t bother getting started.
Steve Blank
APRIL 12, 2013
The previous post described how the Torch program built China’s innovation clusters. The second wave of technology investors were Chinese banks, who provided the majority of the later stage investments in the Torch Program. SBIR and STTR programs, the Torch Program’s funding for new ventures was limited to seed funding the front end.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. The lesson was learned over 30 years in Silicon Valley: you create ecosystems where third-parties can innovate and thrive and you become the legitimate center of it all and can tax the system later.
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