Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. round closed Feb 2005. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Last week ZipCar began trading and has a market cap of about $1 billion. Read More ».

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. There is really no other place in the world like Silicon Valley. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. 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. No Dave S. =

Seattle 317

Seattle Silicon Valley Technical Review Los Angeles 317

Altgate

JUNE 1, 2009

Joel Spolsky , Founder / CEO at Fog Creek Software (64,598) Seth Godin , Founder of Yoyodyne; creator of "permission marketing" (41,957) Jason Fried , 37signals co-founder Jason Fried (and other 37signals employees) (31,595) Tim O'Reilly , Founder / CEO of O'Reilly Media (10,269) Jason Calacanis , CEO of Mahalo (10,000) [ note: this (..)

Cofounder 59

Cofounder Entrepreneur Technical Review Venture Capital 59

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Especially if you aren’t from around Silicon Valley. pretty much sums everything up well, but – let’s be honest here – if you live outside Silicon Valley, you are going to be at odds, because the rest of the world hasn’t yet caught up with this tech start-up thing.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital. Back in 2005 … (movie studios) were very worried about piracy, and were also worried that the whole digital world was coming on like a freight train and they really didn’t understand it. Steve Weinstein , CEO of MovieLabs.

Channel 120

Channel India Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley 120

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?

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Turkey Los Angeles California 60