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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

View from Seed

We were on an immersion trip to Silicon Valley, and we said, “Let’s find a way to leverage [a previous open source project],” and we decided to build something around that. million raised, per CrunchBase): It came from my deep frustration renting as an undegrad at Oxford for the first time back in 2005. Tom Eisenmann.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

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note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley). A few years before all this scandalous VC behavior occurred, in 2005 Paul Graham ) started Y Combinator. These two divergent groups have optimized for very different market conditions and behaviors. and no, we didn’t.

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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

In the early days of LinkedIn we jointly acquired an issued patent of the defunct SixDegrees.com which directly pertains to social networking as well as acquiring a nascent startup in part for its in-process patent filings. owns a bunch of patents around email, IM, etc), and yes E) social networking. Regarding social networking, Yahoo!

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. There is really no other place in the world like Silicon Valley. I hadn’t thought about the fact that he would become aware of my link.

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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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ProfessorVC: Baby's All Grown Up

Professor VC

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Not to worry, I was busy working on closing the Series B financing for iControl Networks. I started working with the founders of iControl at the concept stage, prior to the first $100K of angel financing. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. ProfessorVC.

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ProfessorVC: Is it the Horse or Jockey?

Professor VC

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Out of the 12,500 founders of these firms, 181 (1.7%) die at some point between starting up the firm and the end of 2005 (Hvide 6). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.