Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

Thursday, April 7, 2011. My partner in Menlo Incubator , Gary Kremen , and I had a recent debate on which one of us hates convertible debt more. April 25, 2011 11:00 PM. May 14, 2011 2:39 PM. June 7, 2011 11:58 AM. ▼ 2011. (7). ► 2008. (14). ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley.

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San Jose Technical Review Angel Investor Valuation 36

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

billion was invested in startups by venture capitalists in 2011. According to Dow Jones VentureSource Senior Manager of Corporate Communications Kim Gagliardi, 3,404 venture financing rounds were completed in 2011, down 47% from the 6,361 closed in 2000. Today, venture capital deal flow has slowed to a relative trickle, just $28.4

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Venture Capital San Francisco Deal Flow Atlanta 127

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

is already well above the dot.com bubble of 15 years ago, although we have slipped a bit this year from the high point of 320 new entrepreneurs out of 100,000 adults in 2011. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Smartphone apps can be built for less than $10K, so who needs an investor?

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IPO Entrepreneur Social Media Startup 273

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

billion was invested in startups by venture capitalists in 2011. According to Dow Jones VentureSource Senior Manager of Corporate Communications Kim Gagliardi, 3,404 venture financing rounds were completed in 2011, down 47% from the 6,361 closed in 2000. Today, venture capital deal flow has slowed to a relative trickle, just $28.4

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Venture Capital Deal Flow Atlanta Incubator 66

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

Nimesh has pitched before, during the roundtable on March 10, 2011 , and came back with additional competitive analysis on his OpenTable-like restaurant reservation system. Ankur Tripathi then pitched IRTEX , the Indian Road Transportation EXchange, also a company that has pitched before during the roundtable on March 10, 2011.

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Networking Partner Entrepreneur Bootstrapping 115

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Airbnb struggled to attract investors when it first began in 2008, requiring founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia to manufacture bespoke cereal boxes to earn money. They gathered almost $30,000 in two months and were invited to a training session for a startup incubator, where they received training and $20,000 in cash.

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Entrepreneur Software Review Las Vegas Bankruptcy 114

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Waze, which was founded in 2008, has more than 7 million users in the United States, Italy, France, Spain and Israel. HADASIT LAUNCHES JEWISH-ARAB BIOMED INCUBATOR IN GALILEE. Hadasit, the Technology Transfer Company of Hadassah Medical Organization, has launched Ways, an incubator for joint Jewish-Arab biomed ventures in the Galilee.

Peru 96

Peru Technical Review North America 96

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I'm doing a new academic experiment now - an incubator at Menlo College where we are bringing the start-ups to campus and giving the students an opportunity to see how they develop and work as interns. ► 2011. (7). ► 2008. (14). Ludi, Thanks for sharing your experience. Will write about this in an upcoming post.

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San Jose Silicon Valley Las Vegas Venture Capital 43

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Friday, February 18, 2011. I first contacted my friend, Manu Kumar, who incubated the company, coming up with the idea and finding the founders to build the product. March 8, 2011 11:15 AM. March 8, 2011 11:52 AM. March 24, 2011 3:22 PM. August 24, 2011 2:23 PM. August 24, 2011 4:13 PM. ProfessorVC.

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Acquisition San Jose Angel Investor IPO 31

Professor VC

MAY 30, 2009

In addition to the first prize, he was also given office space at the Plug and Play incubator for the summer and get to spend his days with other entrepreneurs and investors. ► 2011. (7). ► 2008. (14). Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Twitter Updates. Blog Archive. ► 2012. (1). ► January.

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San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley Bootstrapping 28

dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

A friend of mine is participating on the current round of incubation at Y Combinator and if there is at least some small bit of thuth on what he says about the experience, it's not so interesting at all. Posted by: Jake Kennedy | April 16, 2008 at 01:36 PM Verify your Comment Previewing your Comment Posted by: | This is only a preview.

Equity 40

Equity Employee Dilution Valuation 40

The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

In April 2008, the Summit Series’ beginnings began dubiously when 22-year old media entrepreneur Elliott Bisnow invited the nation’s top entrepreneurs out for a ski weekend to Utah’s Alta resort and put the entire bill on his credit card. million infrastructure bond to refurbish local roads, sewer and water systems.

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Utah Congo Cofounder Incubator 168

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 30, 2011

The site has 11 million page views a month, and Jeu expects 2011 revenues to be about $250k. PDT on the following dates: Thursday, June 23, 2011: Register Here Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here Thursday, July 21, 2011: Register Here. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

India 115

India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 115

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

Finally, I will be speaking at The Commonwealth Club next Thursday, on August 11, 2011, at 6:30 p.m. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

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Bootstrapping San Jose Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 124

VC Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2011

It is the right time to support innovation, new industries, and the incubator programmes that have seen their funding cut. Deficit as a % of GDP 3% in 2011, expected to be 2% in 2012 and down again to 1% in 2013. Bought USD 25mm daily beginning in March 2008, then up to USD 100mm worth of Shekels each day by the end of 2009.

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Lebanon Mexico Spain 87

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We’re still caught in the “post recession bounce” : What’s happening is that the angel & VC community is still feeling good from having bounced back from the nadir of the famous “ RIP Good Times ” funk that we felt in 2008.

Entrepreneur 298

Entrepreneur Technical Review Balance Sheet Government 298

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

SM: In September 2008, when the first Entrepreneur Journeys book was released, D.D. SM: Every incubator you look at takes pride in how exclusive they are. Even if you are not an entrepreneur, you will have plenty of things to learn from Sramana’s responses to my interview questions. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism.

Programming 116

Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

50/50 Startups – “We’re an incubator for equally owned tech ventures by Palestinian and Israeli entrepreneurs.”. SFMC’s first private equity fund, Siraj Palestine Fund I, was launched in 2011, with a value of $90 million USD. Siraj Capital. Siraj Fund Management Company (SFMC) is the first Palestinian private equity fund manager.

UAE 60

UAE United Arab Emirates Technology 60

Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

He would know; he’s been backing tech start-ups since 1984, incubating at least one hen house full of millionaires.and probably a few empty ones. A Variation on the Global Economic Crash of 2008? A quick look at the SFBT list of the fifty largest tech employers shows that nine out of ten were already well established before 2008.

San Francisco 20

San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. Those numbers are likely conservative. November 29, 2012.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93