2005 Finance Silicon Valley Technical Review 
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
“My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post). There is really no other place in the world like Silicon Valley. I have raised capital in the past from European firms and from US firms.
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Professor VC
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
The last blogger in Silicon Valley. DEMO has always been one of my favorite tech conferences. Labels: #democon , DEMO , tech conferences , vuvuzela. How Much Diligence is Due. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. Thursday, September 16, 2010. Are DEMOs days numbered? Steve Bennet.
Professor VC
JUNE 6, 2008
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). How Much Diligence is Due. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. ProfessorVC. Friday, June 6, 2008. ► February. (1).
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 13, 2011
The $30 billion trade surplus in advanced technology products that America enjoyed just one decade ago has now become a $56 billion deficit. In addition, due to Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations, accounting costs have gone up an estimated four times for all businesses, and 2008-2009 represented the worst IPO market in forty years.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 16, 2012
I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. I get approached about clean tech or biotech periodically – I don’t focus on these. In ad tech there’s Seth Levine at Foundry Group and both Dana Settle & Ian Sigelow at Greycroft.
reidhoffman.org
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
we weren’t the natural leader of a market or technology trend that everyone was paying attention to, we didn’t have substantial organic growth, and. You may happen to emphasize the right points that pique an investor’s interest, but you shouldn’t leave your financing up to chance. Second, understand the broader financing climate.
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