BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Amara’s Law : “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”. For the more advanced enterprises who have migrated to the cloud, this will be a year of net new technology and building applications. Ed Sim, Boldstart Ventures. Enterprise Tech in 2019.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There is really no other place in the world like Silicon Valley. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. I have raised capital in the past from European firms and from US firms.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

Silicon Valley’s pay-it-forward culture means that others will help when you’re starting up. Looking to create their accelerator/incubator, Wayne and seven other founders rented a Silicon Valley house together one summer. ” This was around 2001. Not just a problem in terms of access to technology. (It’s

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. 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. WSJ Classroom.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Fortune and CNN had a partnership; I first appeared to talk about an article I’d written in 2001 about the bubble bursting. HW: Often your coverage spans tech and media, two worlds that historically have accused the other of just not “getting it” – the gap between LA and Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital. Carpe Diem. Breathtaking Scale.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2016

When Peggy first arrived in Silicon Valley, she worked for Boole & Babbage , before founding her own firm. Especially difficult were the days after the Internet bubble burst: 2001 was a staggering blow to technology. Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

I liked the Friday, August 7 Wall Street Journal editorial, Washington vs. Silicon Valley , but it does not go far enough. Between 2001 and 2008 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) accounted for 87% of venture-backed company exits, up from an average of 44% in between 1992 and 2000. Share and Enjoy:

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

Do you feel like a lot of people who are starting businesses look at the Silicon Valley common advice and common model and really fall prey to that in a not so positive way? I dropped out of college in 2001, so this would be 17 years in. That’s what we’re trying to solve with SparkToro through technology.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2020

The Economic Antidote to COVID-19 Eric Ries & Ryan Beck In 2001, Apple's revenue fell by 33% in the depths of the dotcom bust. Many of the most successful companies in Silicon Valley were formed in the depths of the Great Recession: Slack, Uber, WhatsApp, Venmo and Square all launched in 2009. The rest is history.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Valuations in startups increased dramatically during the Dot Com boom and then both valuations and the availability of investment capital nationally collapsed in 2001 with the Dot Com bust and 9/11. Altounian has over 30 years of experience in the technology sector with roles at Dell, Motorola, Compaq and Ashton-Tate.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

When the legend becomes fact…print the legend” The Hollywoodization of Silicon Valley startup stories “prints legends,” but for most startups those stories are pure fiction. Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Drew Silverstein , co-founder and CEO of the music technology venture Amper Music.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 24, 2014

Over the past few months, many journalists have begun to ask the question that no one really wants to hear; “Is Silicon Valley in another technology bubble?” Silicon Valley thrives on optimism, and anyone waving the bubble flag is auditioning for the title of nonbeliever or party pooper. And this is not it.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

When I first heard about VC firms in the late 1980s, and my first company (Feld Technologies) started writing portfolio management software for some Boston-based VC firms, many of them had funds with SBIC leverage, although even by the late 1980s this was changing and many of them had shifted away from the SBIC.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Originally created in the mid 1990’s to help with the imprecise problem of how to value early stage companies, especially those in technology, I developed what soon became known as “The Berkus Method” when published in the popular book, “Winning Angels” by Harvard’s Amis and Stevenson with my permission in 2001.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

universities labs are being turned into commercial products and life saving drugs and devices thanks to an act of Congress – and the efforts of technology transfer offices in schools like Stanford and Columbia. Orin Herskowitz , executive director of Columbia Technology Ventures. Orin Herskowitz.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Its chaos and insanity melds into a working city that was predicted by the architect Rem Koolhaas (with the Harvard Project on the City) in the 2001 book Mutations when he said that Lagos was a city of the future and one that Western cities would eventually base themselves on. But somehow Lagos works. Slowly overcoming its reputation.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 8, 2012

I talked about creative disruption and how many significant companies would be formed as a result of this (not dissimilar to what I saw in Silicon Valley while investing post 2001 crash). Talent and domain expertise in NYC’s large industries such as financial services and media, would free up.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

Look at some of the uber-successful icons of Silicon Valley / Technology: Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry/Sergey, Eric Schmidt, Andy Groves, John Doerr. When my company hit the fan in 2001 I could have easily walked and gotten a better paying job. Not job hoppers. And good VC’s feel the same way.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Last year as I traveled around the world investing in emerging markets, helping them build innovation ecosystems, it was not the Silicon Valley example I used – it was the NYC story that I talked about. We no longer have to prove that NYC should be a key part of any technology company’s strategy, beyond just a sales office.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

If the future and the past have some kind of relationship in most contexts, there are places where the past and the future become uncorrelated and there are ways to assess that around things like demography, technological shifts, et cetera. On Leaving Silicon Valley Bank. On Cryptocurrencies. But, it makes no sense to me.

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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. Behind every new breakthrough technology, every new industry trend, there are people. Yes, I passed up all that.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

In my first company I had to raise money in April 2001 or die. I’m assuming this in Silicon Valley, LA or similar locations. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. And importantly you start thinking about your next gig. That’s when the VC has lost.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 24, 2021

You see, it was for work I’d performed from 2001–2003 at a startup called Linden Lab, the company behind virtual world Second Life. And I achieved ‘ Silicon Valley Middle Class ’ wealth status. Startups Should Work To Make Their Employees Wealthy Not Just Their Founders And Investors.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I’ve shown below a case study of the geographic diversification of the largest late-stage technology venture capital / growth equity investors. These funds use a combination of cold-calling, travel, firm networks, paid expert networks, and technology to identify investment opportunities outside of their neighborhood.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

I also spend close to half my time teaching, and in addition to serving on the entrepreneurship advisory boards at Columbia, Yale and NYU, I am Chair of the Finance, Entrepreneurship and Economics program at Singularity University in Silicon Valley. Marty: Were your own first investment ventures a positive and learning experience?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. What I was interested in seeing was that a lot of these founders believe that they’re not just creating technology, they're creating change and culture. Let’s start off with how and why you helped found All Raise and what its mission is.

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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. It became a social activity.

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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. In 2001, I came home to find my apartment on fire. We are transforming publishing for the 21st century.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

When I was younger, when I first came to Silicon Valley and when I was at RISD, one of the companies that I admired, and that was one of many, was Apple. I went to RISD from 2000 to 2004, the iPod came out in 2001 and, really, that was the moment that industrial design experienced its golden age, and I was a industrial designer.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. The role of Product Managers at Technology Companies. Lesson: Joel had been building a community of readers since 2001.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In the latest episode of Greymatter’s Iconversations series, Hoffman talks with Abrams about how science fiction and real-world technology take inspiration from one another, how to recognize a good idea when you see one, and the gravity of being behind any innovation that affects society on a large scale. RH: As I told you [all], because J.J.

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