Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. The lesson was learned over 30 years in Silicon Valley: you create ecosystems where third-parties can innovate and thrive and you become the legitimate center of it all and can tax the system later.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). Tell me if this is “lame” Leader Technologies has won 11 infringement claims against Facebook.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

In Silicon Valley for three decades, spent eight years as a partner at US Venture Partners. — Michael Mondavi is widely credited with helping to establish and build the Napa Valley wine industry as we know it. His career began in 1966 when he and his father Robert co-founded the Robert Mondavi Winery in Napa Valley. .

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thebarefootvc

MAY 8, 2012

Additionally, while we are in a very bullish funding market, this will eventually change (having invested through the boom and bust 1999-2003 in Silicon Valley and the run up and financial crash of 2004-2009 in NYC, I can virtually guarantee that cycles will continue).

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

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.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

In Silicon Valley for three decades, spent eight years as a partner at US Venture Partners. — Michael Mondavi is widely credited with helping to establish and build the Napa Valley wine industry as we know it. His career began in 1966 when he and his father Robert co-founded the Robert Mondavi Winery in Napa Valley. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

The word conjures images of twenty-something graduate students hacking code in a Silicon Valley dorm room, fueled by a steady supply of Red Bull and Ramen. The article summarized several findings that I personally found surprising: Technology company founders born in the U.S. By Akira Hirai Entrepreneurship.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2015

It was part Silicon Valley insider and part marketing huckster. When talking to investors, the optimal number of times to mention that your technology is patentable is one. Copyright © Guy Kawasaki, 2004, 2015.' But there was one exception, Guy Kawasaki''s The Art of the Start. Excerpted from The Art Of The Start 2.0:

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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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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

As the founder of On Line Support , Eric has a wealth of technology, service and business expertise garnered from more than 30 years in the technology/telecom industry. My wife Mirta, a professional chef from Paraguay, and I started the business in 2004. Now we have 70 employees and serve 5000 children every day. Tonya Sowles.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Earlier this year a 12-person delegation from Facebook in Silicon Valley visited the company in Lagos to strengthen the relationship between the two companies; there are more than 12 million Facebook users in Nigeria. The future of e-commerce in Nigeria and Africa may also pivot on the use of drone technology.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Founded in 2004, it has grown in leaps and bounds along with NYC’s tech sector. 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. the list goes on and on.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

In addition, he is a Partner at TheFunded.com , and the Executive Producer of the Founder Showcase , a leading startup event in Silicon Valley. Jonathan has been heavily involved in startups and online marketing since 2004, a nd has advised hu ndreds of technology companies. Follow him on Twitter at @jonnystartup.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. In fact, only 13% of VCs investing in the US are based in NYC.

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Bryce Dot VC

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The idea behind Sessions is to have a monthly “fireside chat” with a new roster of big thinkers and doers in technology, venture capital, design, branding and general entrepreneurship. My hope with Sessions is to create an event I wished were around when I was just getting started as a career-long entrepreneur.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. In fact, only 13% of VCs investing in the US are based in NYC. 2015EOY_FPV_v31.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age. What is the responsibility of the winners?

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Ironically our business started to perform very will by 2004 but by then management had lost the dream of a huge upside. I’m assuming this in Silicon Valley, LA or similar locations. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. married with kids vs. single and 25 years old).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

Silicon Valley and the media industry that surrounds it values youth. This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. also wins by making sure we don’t have too much concentration in technology innovation, which is surely a great thing for us all. This is true in consumer but it’s also true in enterprise software.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. The lesson was learned over 30 years in Silicon Valley: you create ecosystems where third-parties can innovate and thrive and you become the legitimate center of it all and can tax the system later.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 24, 2021

And when that company was acquired in late 2020 by another private party, my stock purchased in 2004 turned into cash. And I achieved ‘ Silicon Valley Middle Class ’ wealth status. A career in technology is a very good path to financial stability and stock equity has been a meaningful contributor to that for me and many others.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. As a result, the Canadian government created the Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative. markets: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. As a result, the Canadian government created the Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative. markets: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

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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. We are transforming publishing for the 21st century. That’s massive. Today, Aventis Systems, Inc.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

But, somehow, Silicon Valley didnt get the memo. From the Work Less Institute of Technology, “ Psychophysics in Cyberia ” (written in response to the ea_spouse posting): It was over a century ago that Dr. Ernst Abbe conducted his observations on working time and output at the Zeiss Optical Works in Jena, Germany.

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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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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

No separation between the technology organization and the product organization. We focused too much on technology. Content is an order of magnitude harder than technology with an order less upside; no YouTube producer will earn within a hundredth of $1.65 Title: Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure. Too much money.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

A few hours before he had told them, during a talk at Harvard Computer Society, not to come to him for funding, but to seek it elsewhere from individual rich people who had been involved in technology startups themselves. Over dinner, Graham realized he had been hasty in telling them not to come to him. YC makes the man, not the business.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Shopify Sustainability Fund (founded 2004) – with a market cap of $73 billion, publicly traded Shopify launched a $5 million annual fund to invest in environmental technology fighting climate change. Silicon Valley has long been a fan of “Startup Mafias” Perhaps the most famous web 1.0 Alumni funds.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. And because of this, the demand for Silicon Valley caliber talent is growing exponentially. That’s a fraction of the typical commute in Silicon Valley, for example.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Each circle represents one of the fifty largest technology companies in the city, the size of each circle determined by the number of the company’s employees. Back then, in the relatively innocent days of the digital Neolithic, San Francisco was a boutique outpost hovering beyond the northern border of the Silicon Valley heartland.

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allthingsd.com

AUGUST 24, 2012

According to Fenwick & West’s latest Silicon Valley Venture Capital Survey , fundings in the second quarter of this year showed the highest valuation increases in more than five years. Still, it is the highest amount increase since Fenwick began compiling the numbers in 2004. Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). Topics: Business , Silicon Valley , Starting Your Startup , Startups , Tech , vc. If so, I hate to break it to you, but theres a good chance it will fail. Load Comments. Powered by Livefyre.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2020

In Silicon Valley, it's not just the companies that have had to pivot and change direction, so have investors, VCs, the entire ecosystem of the startup community of biotech as an industry, has had to make a very dramatic change to work on pandemic relief, disease prevention, laying the foundation for future prosperity.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We just held our eighteenth and final session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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