The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

As we all know, the last ten years has seen a near-total collapse of the innovation cost curve, thanks to the perfect storm of open-source, cloud infrastructure, and “free” global distribution via search, social and app stores. Those VCs were nearly all situated in Silicon Valley and most companies couldn’t get very far without going to them.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

Each of the SBIC funds were raised in the 2000 – 2002 time period. If you want to see a fun quote on it, read A History of Silicon Valley which quotes: “ …many venture capital pioneers think the SBIC program did little to advance the art and practice of venture investing.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

I also plan to price it low so it has the potential for broad distribution. Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). We Need To Be Like Silicon Valley. Comments of any sort are welcome and encouraged! The table of contents, as of today, follows. The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Boulder As A Laboratory. Resources.

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Valuable lessons learned from Andy’s personal experience venture investing in Silicon Valley. Fortunately there is now good data on angel returns in Silicon Valley and nationally, and while more research is certainly needed, the data suggest that angel investors can and often do make money. and the U.K.,

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Term Sheet The latest on private equity, M&A, deals and movements — from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. Accel Partners VII (2000): 122% (97%).

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

San Antonio has Geekdom with USAA and Port San Antonio with the Air Force Cyber Command; Houston has The Ion with Rice University, Microsoft and NASA and The Cannon distributed across the city; Dallas has Pegasus Park with UT Southwestern and Lyda Hill Philanthropies; and Austin has Capital Factory with the Army Futures Command.

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Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

We now only think about “electricity” companies in the narrowest of senses… the small number of businesses (relative to the overall impact of electricity in the economy) that are actually in the business of generating and distributing electrical current. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

Brentwood Associates [Silicon Valley] –> Founded in the early 70s and focused primarily on VC, Brentwood had big wins in both IT like Wellfleet Communications (big chunk of what eventually became Nortel) and WebTV (part of Microsoft) and healthcare (various businesses that make up a big chunk of what is now Medtronic and Baxter).

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Valuable lessons learned from Andy’s personal experience venture investing in Silicon Valley. Fortunately there is now good data on angel returns in Silicon Valley and nationally, and while more research is certainly needed, the data suggest that angel investors can and often do make money. and the U.K.,

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 8, 2019

In 2000, she co-founded The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has since grown into the world’s largest private charitable organization. While Melinda was writing about development efforts in Senegal, she could just as easily have been talking about Silicon Valley. What about my shot?” Sound familiar?

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

Jonathan: Silicon Valley (HBO). Our last sign, sign number 12 is when your time distribution is uneven. It’s free for up to your first 2000 subscribers. Jonathan: Well, most recently they are coming up to the end of their second season, but Silicon Valley is a pretty hilarious show. Jonathan: Cool.

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

If you are looking past or through Covid — and why not, all of Wall Street is — the topic du jour in Silicon Valley is Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs. The traditional way of going public is systematically broken and is robbing Silicon Valley founders, employees, and investors of billions of dollars each year.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. They were frustrated that despite having the (monopoly) infrastructure that brought you the Internet, the majority of innovation and profits went to Silicon Valley startups. Absolute Power Corrupts, Absolutely.

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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. And then in the space of a few short years, things changed completely, especially where I was fortunate enough to live, Silicon Valley.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. The conventional wisdom at Fox’s headquarters is that MySpace had “made&# both YouTube & Photobucket by allowing them distribution. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. provides you.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The firm was founded more than 35 years ago and the team quickly realised that innovation was not confined to Silicon Valley. We opened our office in London in 2000, followed a few years later by Bangalore. Accel has been a big believer in cloud since the early days of this shift.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have 2 options: set up a new startup or share my idea with google (or maybe another big silicon valley’s company). This has presented a problem of the decision makers at resorts balking on spending 50K+ on an unproven idea, although we did a beta test around 2000 with 3 mountains that went well. What/How should I do?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We discussed NY vs. Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston. We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. Founded in January 2000 in Oakland by Tim Westergren; new CFO, Steve Cakebread was previously CFO of Salesforce.com. ops team in NY, dev team in Philly and having dev teams in Israel).

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

For example, a couple of entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley created a company to develop an iPhone social-media app. By the year 2000, the global market for personal computers exceeded 140 million units a year. Eighteen months later, they sold the company to Facebook for $1 billion in cash and stock.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

It reminds me of living in Silicon Valley 10 years ago when so many foundational SaaS companies were started. Cloud Entrepreneurs: Embracing the “Silicon Valley State of Mind" Accel has been a big believer in cloud since the early days of this secular shift. Big milestones for the old continent!

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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 these companies that are kind of for — in the sort of mechanical term, distributed workforces and outsource work being run online.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

Eren Bali arrived in Silicon Valley from Turkey in 2010 hoping to relaunch Udemy , his online education company. Eren came to the US from Turkey to work at a Silicon Valley tech startup, which is actually where I first met him a few years ago. How did you first get into tech and come to Silicon valley?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch. We’re building a True SaaS company in Boise, Idaho, not in Silicon Valley or not in New York. Bates: Fantastic.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2012

1940’s – movie studios had to divest their distribution channel – they owned over 50% of the movie theaters in the U.S. With a new channel of distribution, home movie rentals surpassed movie theater tickets. It was 75 years until studios had to deal with technology changing their platform and distribution channel.

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