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We Don’t Talk Enough About Money In Silicon Valley, Revisited

Hunter Walker

That’s the phrase which stuck with me from Erin Griffith’s NYTimes article this spring about the latest set of wealth creating events in the tech community. But that was back in 2004 and the trillions of dollars of wealth created since in startups, big tech companies and crypto makes earlier questions of extravagance seem quaint.

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Support an Entrepreneur: Buy Local Technology

ReadWriteStart

There was a wonderful conversation two weeks ago on the NY Times' Room for Debate around " Can New York Rival Silicon Valley." That certainly wouldn't have been a credible way to frame the question in 2003 and today while I hope it doesn't try to become Silicon Valley the entrepreneurial community in NYC is second to none.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. I do something I now call community hours. And so that is a steady import of talent but even more interestingly what it really did is it re-energized the entrepreneurial community.”. Venture Capital in Boulder and other smaller communities. “So

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Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson

Steve Blank

In 2004, Googling terms like “high tech marketing” and “startup” I discovered “ The Four Steps to The Epiphany ” at Cafépress.com. We kept talking, with Steve asking “How long are you staying in Silicon Valley?” Their pivot resulted in great deal of customer tractions. Customer Development Education.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. conference happened at the end of 2004). We’re a how-to site and community for small business on marketing. . We have a long way to go baby!

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

500hats.com

note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley). One of the earliest and most well-known of the Micro-VC funds was First Round Capital , founded in 2004 by Josh Kopelman , a former entrepreneur who sold Half.com to eBay in 2000. Scaling Up & Out: The Valley is Flat (and Global).