Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

– The Torch Program. In size, scale and commercial results China’s Torch Program from MOST (the Ministry of Science and Technology) is the most successful entrepreneurial program in the world. government’s SBIR and STTR programs. Most Venture Capitalists in China viewed the Innofund the same way most U.S.

Programming 278

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 278

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

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Customer Development 219

Customer Development Web Developer Customer 219

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

– The Torch Program. In size, scale and commercial results China’s Torch Program from MOST (the Ministry of Science and Technology) is the most successful entrepreneurial program in the world. government’s SBIR and STTR programs. Most Venture Capitalists in China viewed the Innofund the same way most U.S.

Programming 170

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Fralic was also one of the early employees and VP of Business Development at Half.com starting in 1999, and after the eBay acquisition, spent six years with eBay in a variety of entertainment, business development, and media roles. Time: 6:00pm Registration, 6:30 pm Program, please register by 3pm on Wednesday, January 11th.

Portfolio 122

Portfolio New York Social Bookmarking Philadelphia 122

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. For example, Morse notes that neither C corporations nor venture capital funds structured as partnerships can, by law, be S corporation shareholders. Select Services.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

But before Google became the giant corporation that it is today, it was almost sold for a shy $1 million to Excite CEO George Bell in 1999. Their patience paid off months later when big name venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital invested $25 million in Google. TOMS Shoes.

Bankruptcy 195

Bankruptcy Texas Naming Venture Capital 195

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Alex has helped bring more than $160 million in funding to Texas startups through SBIR, STTR and other government funding programs for companies like Essentium, ICON 3D, and LIFT Aircraft. He’s been programming since he was a kid running some of the first online communities and networked games. STOIKY is his callsign.

Austin 110

Austin Texas Cofounder Los Angeles 110

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Universities are also creating more interdisciplinary programs in order to encourage this collaboration. Disruption in the Education Space: When I first started looking at education technology investments in 1999, very few VCs would go near the sector.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

David Teten, Partner, ff Venture Capital ; Chairman, HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York. From April 1999 until June 2006, Mr. Dahl served as the head of Global Healthcare for the Carlyle Group, a leading private equity firm, where he was responsible for the firm’s investments in the healthcare field.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity North America Cofounder Angel Groups 114

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When I was in high school, a classmate and I started a peer mentoring program for our middle school which has grown and flourished. Yes I was gifted with talents but so are EACH of us, including the millions, billions of others who were just unlucky to be born in different circumstances.

Silicon Valley 45

Silicon Valley India Africa Burma 45

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Prior to joining ff Venture Capital , I published the first-ever study of how private equity and venture capital funds originate new investments, with my coauthor Chris Farmer , CEO of SignalFire and an experienced VC. ff Venture Capital. First Round Capital. Acquirer/ Investor. 2009) [ii].

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2012

I have worked for 3 ‘internet startups’ over the past 14 years (my first.com was in 1999) and the two that relied on ‘free’ models (even with ‘freemium services’) did not survive. To keep growing, Coursera will pull from a rich venture-capital investment provided by two prominent firms.

Pennsylvania 40

Pennsylvania Michigan California Venture Capital 40

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard, I had a conversation with the legendary venture capitalist Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital. Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. They called that program Eatsy. It’s great advice.

Technology 191

Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

IPO issues: Possibly the biggest problem for German venture-backed companies is the very low number of IPOs in Germany. The boom years of 1998 (79 IPOs), 1999 (175 IPOs), and 2000 (142 IPOs) are long gone. The lack of conversion rights must also be considered when structuring voting rights. German Startups Association).

Germany 165

Germany Liquidation Preference Option Pool Advisory Board 165

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. The company was founded in 2012 by Michiel Prins , Jobert Abma , Alex Rice and Merijn Terheggen , and today serves the needs of over 1,000 corporate bug bounty programs.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. LUBLIN And SPENCER E.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

thebarefootvc

APRIL 18, 2010

It is great to see that a conversation is finally evolving on the importance of gender diversity in the technology and venture capital sectors. My twitter stream and email inbox has been full of links to the NY Times article published yesterday — Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley 45

Silicon Valley Rwanda Stealth Venture Capital 45

David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

Avoid being labeled as startup from a “special group” program. I always tried to avoid these programs or classifications. Taking funds from programs targeting anti-pattern entrepreneurs is both helpful and hurtful because you look like you’ve had a special crutch. ff Venture Capital portfolio company.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Advisory Board Greece Cofounder 60

Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

Let me first be clear that though I’ll be making some incredibly obvious references to the University of Texas and the great Longhorn Startup program, this is not about the University of Texas nor the Longhorn Startup program. They can just go back to their investors for more capital. Imagine that. The single horn doesn’t exist.

Texas 48

Texas Startup Silicon Valley Bootstrapping 48

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

According to Ori Israely, investor and former general partner of Giza Venture Capital, “There is more fit between [an] Israeli entrepreneur and [an] Israeli investor in the seed stages. Israeli funds often know how to work better with the early stage companies because they provide efficient capital, not necessarily more capital.”

Cofounder 20

Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

In the Framework of the EC-Funded Invest in Med program, EyalGPS was one of three finalists to be awarded €90,000. GE, which entered the water industry in 1999 and is involved in a wide variety of water technologies, in the last five years doubled its investment in water technology related R&D to reach $1.5 billion in 2010.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review South Korea Mexico 87

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

While not 1999 all over again but I am observing first-hand the signs of funding frenzy. Government programs led to the law of “unintended consequences”: Our housing slump now is continuing well beyond where many people had hoped it would be by now. I’m a venture capital investor so I will still be looking to make investments.

Entrepreneur 298

Entrepreneur Technical Review Balance Sheet Government 298

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

While giving away $5 or perhaps a “chance” at $5K in a sweepstakes is somewhat interesting, what if I told you about a marketing program where each and every customer would get THOUSANDS of dollars, or TENS OF THOUSANDS, or HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS, or maybe even MILLIONS of dollars, all in a single one day event? Damn straight it would.

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2021

On a typical day over the past 11 days we would have zoom calls or meetings, program, design, negotiate etc. As a Jew who grew up in Germany and moved to Israel in 1999, I find this stoic philosophy Israelis display as one of the country’s key elements of success. Photo Credit: AFP.

Iran 148

Iran Cofounder Germany 148