Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

B, becoming number two globally, next to the US; the US venture capital investment was $25.6B This textbook combines the strength of my Silicon Valley experiences as a venture capitalist and Mannie’s research as a professor, and it will help strengthen Chinese college-education programs in this particular field.

Venture Capital 44

Venture Capital China Technical Review Due Diligence 44

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Loading… Markets. Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. But Andreessens approach is also exposing a rift in Silicon Valley, where a group of young and relatively untested entrepreneurs have maintained control over their rapidly growing companies. Marketing Jobs. » More.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 5, 2016

Meredith joins as Vice President of Marketing to lead marketing initiatives for Lightspeed overall and support the marketing efforts of our founders and their teams. Brian Kasser most recently led the global Software and SaaS Practice for Russell Reynolds Associates, based in Palo Alto.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Advisory Board Flash Pennsylvania 60

thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

New funds have popped up in increasing numbers over the last few years – but I saw gaps in the market that needed to be filled. There is still a lot of work ahead, but the market has been overwhelmingly responsive to the original thesis. And…I wanted to have fun and work with great people while doing so.

North America 40

North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

New funds have popped up in increasing numbers over the last few years – but I saw gaps in the market that needed to be filled. There is still a lot of work ahead, but the market has been overwhelmingly responsive to the original thesis. And…I wanted to have fun and work with great people while doing so.

North America 40

North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 1, 2013

I invested in Silicon Valley from 1999-2003 and in NYC pre and post 2008 financial crisis. The most exciting part of this future is the far-reaching global innovation and increased participation by women that I haven’t seen in previous cycles. Put in time to know your market and customers.

Silicon Valley 84

Silicon Valley United States Portfolio Internet 84

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy. Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. It has become China’s Silicon Valley. Innovation Clusters. The best analog for China’s InnoFund is the U.S.

Programming 278

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 278

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy. Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. It has become China’s Silicon Valley. Innovation Clusters. The best analog for China’s InnoFund is the U.S.

Programming 170

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170

Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

That option involved trying to get a job at a young Silicon Valley company that had just gone public and would, in a few short years, crash and burn, lay off everyone, and quickly fade into oblivion. Already, thousands of people had started creating their own globally accessible web pages focused on whatever they wanted.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Internet Networking Salary 69

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. We were based in London.

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley San Diego Non-Compete 308

Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Piracy became so associated with startups that when, in 1999, the cable network TNT released a movie about the heated rivalry between Steve Jobs and Apple, and Bill Gates and Microsoft, it was titled, “Pirates of Silicon Valley.” This adaptability is critical in the early stages of building a great company.

Silicon Valley 36

Silicon Valley Early Stage Software Review Employee 36

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Out of 5,923 investment professionals in our dataset, 916 (15.5%) were focused primarily on origination and marketing. To get access to these investments outside of the major VC centers, you need to proactively market in those geographies beyond bicycle range. Create opportunities, instead of waiting for opportunities to appear.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. Here's what the data say about Israeli startups: They’re Israeli-run but with global footprints.

Cofounder 20

Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

Today’s economy is substantially more freelance for one, but as it pertains to technology and innovative entrepreneurship, we find ourselves in an era that is bringing tech to traditional industries that have yet to have fully embraced what the internet has caused: data, connectivity, globalization, scalability, and efficiency. Imagine that.

Texas 48

Texas Startup Silicon Valley Bootstrapping 48

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations. I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. The market had tanked.

Stock 305

Stock Technical Review Marketing Greece 305

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Wired Magazine has crowned Tel Aviv the world’s second largest center for technology start-ups after Silicon Valley. Tel Aviv’s SDEi s a world leader in the planning, building and marketing of power stations that produce power from sea waves. See the headlines below. . ISRAEL 2ND LARGEST CENTER FOR TECH STARTUPS.

El Salvador 97

El Salvador San Diego Silicon Valley 97

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

In doing research for a post on “The Enterprise Cool Kids” at the tail end of last year, I interviewed Silicon Valley veteran Marc Andreessen about where he thought the enterprise was headed. So GoodData is at the intersection of kind of marketing and business. But I would say the market is schizophrenic. ALEXIA TSOTSIS.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

After rapid international expansion across several continents, as the founding team brought Silicon Valley’s global ambition into Europe, and the extension of its offering to buses and multimodal transportation, BlaBlaCar is preparing for the travel rebound expected as the world reopens. It was entirely by accident to be honest!

Global 62

Global Europe France Cofounder 62

Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

They begin on the eastern edge of the city near the Ferry Building and spread westward along Market Street. Currently located in the historic Southern Pacific building at One Market Street, Salesforce has plans to occupy a twenty-seven-floor tower at 350 Mission across from the new Transbay Terminal in 2015.

San Francisco 20

San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20