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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

Both Sides of the Table

Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. But back in 2005 there were a few people who spotted the trend before others and one of the true pioneers was (and continues to be) Jeff Clavier who founded SoftTech VC.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. They have the same trade-off decisions that you do about packing up and moving to Silicon Valley vs. staying and building locally. The ingredients are all here. Stating the obvious but you can’t will a region into success.

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Box launches Box Accelerator as its COO reflects on working with young entrepreneurs

The Next Web

To confirm that the improvements in speed and stability were as it hoped, Box commissioned Neustar, a neutral provider of real-time information and analysis for the technology, telecommunications and media industries, to analyze performance against three major cloud storage providers. Crowded clouds. Strength in experience.

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ProfessorVC: Are DEMO's days numbered?

Professor VC

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. With all of the new ways to see early companies such as TechCrunch and YCombinator, I had a feeling that much of the luster was gone and debated whether it was worth the time to attend.The last time I went to DEMO was in 2005 for the launch of one of my companies, iControl Networks.

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Meet Bryce Roberts: The Man Who Challenged AngelList

www.readwriteweb.com

Roberts is in the news this week because of his high-profile critique of Angellist , the hot new investment network Robert Scoble has called the new Silicon Valley hype machine. Roberts celebrates 10 years in venture capital this month. Worse, I think its a dangerous idea to promote." startupcto

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National Security Innovation just got a major boost in Washington

Steve Blank

And I also noticed that there was always a cloud of talented grad students who wanted to follow him. (I In 2005, he returned to West Point (where he earned his undergrad degree) and ran the Combating Terrorism Center. I got lucky to know and teach with Joe at Stanford. He did a tour with the 75th Ranger Regiment as a platoon leader.

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Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think

mashable.com

One of the things we hear a lot about in Silicon Valley is how cheap and easy it is to launch a startup these days. After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS.

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