VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Any sizable company would find it easy – as well as advantageous – to move their technology to Seattle or Omaha or Minneapolis to avoid the brain damage of auditing and accounting for and paying the taxes under HB 1192. SAP Business Objects Crystal Enterprise XI, SAP Business Objects Crystal Reports 8.5, Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

or Seattle. The essential design paradigm can be sketched on the back of an envelope. Does glasperlenspiel ring bells? Glass Bead Game" aka "Magister Ludi" is a must read.). I dont live in SF. or Portland. or Vancouver. Innovation is essentially a social process. Like high-school politics. ;-p. Anyhow, its Catch-22. Lynne Johnson.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In his 2005 book, The World Is Flat , Thomas Friedman recognizes that the Internet has the ability to create a “level playing field” for all participants, and one where geographic distances become less relevant. Launched in 2005, Etsy is a leading marketplaces for the exchange of vintage and handmade items. annual GMV.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

And since VC dollars tend to concentrate around high-tech R&D areas, it’s notable that more than 90% of the nation’s innovation-sector growth (2005-2017) is accounted for by just five metro areas — Boston, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and San Diego.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

Between 1991 and 2005, the capacity that could be bought with $100 went up by a factor of 11. The following year, twenty-two of twenty-three entrants in the 2005 Challenge surpassed the 7.3 I love the train ride between Portland and Seattle, and I’ve taken it dozens of times, including just riding up and back in a single day.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

The kinds of places where you have to sign an NDA when you walk in the lobby… When I lived and worked in the bay area (2000-2005) virtually all the startups were down on the peninsula somewhere. The only example I can think of today is Amazon which has now consolidated it’s various offices in Seattle in a single location.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Silicon Valleydominates, then Boston, then Seattle, Austin, Denver, and New York. In the first batch of startups we funded, in the summerof 2005, most of the founders spent all their time building theirapplications. 9 ]Suppose YouTubes founders had gone to Google in 2005 and toldthem "Google Video is badly designed.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Seven long years ago, in 2005, Paul Graham had dinner with a bunch of college kids. While not every startup born in that experiment back in 2005 is still going today, their founders have arguably all found success. I flew out from Seattle, where I lived, to Boston to Paul’s lecture on the back of his essay,” Phil tells me.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. 3 ]If "near you" doesnt mean the Bay Area, Boston, or Seattle,consider moving. Want to start a startup? Apply for funding by March 3. Few startups get it quite right. Many are underfunded. A few areoverfunded, which is like trying to start driving in third gear.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

He tries to write things that havent already been written 9000 times. Snapvine was my first experience being in the driver’s seat of the fund-raising process, and in the 3 years prior to our acquisition we raised over $10mm in venture capital.

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Professor VC

JULY 16, 2012

Interesting enough, it was an entrepreneur (John Nordstrom) who was able to get out of town with his gold and opened a little shoe store in Seattle. Earlier this year, I left Sand Hill Angels , the angel group I was actively involved with since 2005.

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

As a side note, if you’re interested in applying to TechStars Seattle for this fall, the application page just went live a few days ago and can be found here: [link] It was by far the best decision we’ve made, and I’d highly recommend this route for any early-stage entrepreneurs. All Rights Reserved. startupcto

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player. Yaro: If you go back to the Wayback machine, you’ll see it in its infancy in late 2004, but it really started off in 2005, so four years. Andrew: Two years, okay.

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