ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2011

The first was our usual entrepreneur strategy discussion. And the third was a discussion on Silicon Valley: The Next Decade. Silicon Valley: The Next Decade. PDT on the following dates: Thursday, June 16, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, June 23, 2011: Register Here. Silicon Valley photo by Revol Web.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Steve Weinstein , 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. If you can’t see the Project Agrippa slides, click here. It Started With An Idea. He runs H4X Labs.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two dot-com bonanza.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. Prices have definitely gone up in 2011 as depicted in the anecdotal chart below.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

PDT on the following dates: Thursday, June 23, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, July 21, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, July 28, 2011: Register Here. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS, Intarka and Uuma. We will be holding future roundtables at 8 a.m.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. We had a fireside chat with a room full of eager entrepreneurs. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. To compare the two, in 2011 U.S.

Silicon Valley 163

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2012

In 2011 Facebook paid out $1.4 Facebook generated a little less than $600M in direct revenue from its “platform” in 2011 and we can infer Apple generated something like $800M – $1B (see note 1). Apple generated nearly $130B in revenue in 2011. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Passion for sport and entertainment industry. In 2011, I began learning about hair restoration and started North Atlanta Hair Restoration in 2012. My dad was a serial entrepreneur and had a business in the home security industry.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

September 15, 2011. In the first half of 2011, the IPO markets were looking strong for VC-backed companies. How diffferent 2H 2011 looks. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. How To Think About The Future. VCs dreamt of liquidty.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

Steve Blank called last year’s conference “ Woodstock for entrepreneurs ” and my goal is do even better this year. (If SLLCONF featured incredible entrepreneurs on stage to put those ideas to rest (watch, for example: Aardvark , Grockit , Dropbox , PBworks ). Brad doesn’t meet your typical image of a scrappy entrepreneur.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

On Saturday, April 9, 2011, I arrived in Chennai at 3 a.m. a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. after a 24-hour journey from California. At 11 a.m.,

India 126

India Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 126

View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. Georgiades (Zumper): I started working on Zumper seriously in the summer between my first and second years at HBS (2011), supported by generous HBS startup grants.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 14, 2011

The Federal government is being transformed - initially, in small ways - by people I think should be recognized as entrepreneurs. They are leveraging the same kinds of new technology, management thinking, and big data to improve lives that we routinely use here in Silicon Valley. But some have. I have no budget," he said. "I

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Taariq Lewis, the founder of Voluble, is a 1M/1M premium entrepreneur. We invited entrepreneurs considering joining the 1M/1M premium program to the Stanzr chat room and did a one-hour Q&A session. The next event will be on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 8:00 AM (PDT), register to attend here. We thought it was very cool!

Entrepreneur 116

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

May 26, 2011. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. I also joke with Reid Hoffman that this was back in the days before he was “Reid” Reid’s an incredible entrepreneur, startup investor, and human being. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

NextView originally invested in the company’s seed round in the spring of 2011 and we again participated in this latest round along with Atlas Venture. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. zhoucn9999. Outstanding arguments. Read More ».

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As a business lawyer working with startups in technology and digital media every day, I’m fortunate to have a front-row seat as entrepreneurs create value out of thin air. What can we do on the public policy front to turn the United States into one giant Silicon Valley?

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Silicon Valley San Francisco Intellectual Property Accredited Investor 187

The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Many became skeptical over Color’s introduction to the scene when it was announced that investors like Bain Capital Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, and Sequoia Capital had poured in millions of dollars to this unproven company.

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Los Angeles Silicon Valley Media Startup 161

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. We were lucky to get a team of mentors (VC’s and entrepreneurs) who selflessly volunteered their time to help coach the teams.

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Oakland Asia Lean Video 311

Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

I’ve tried to read a lot of your History of Silicon Valley posts. Memorex is turning 50 years old in 2011. Find out Memorex’s position in Silicon Valley. Some say we were the first PCM in the valley. Some say we were the first PCM in the valley. were the first computer entrepreneurs here.

Technology 141

Technology Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 141

View from Seed

MAY 31, 2023

A couple of years later, as reported by the Harvard Business Review in 2011 , a survey of ~500 entrepreneurs in the UK found that serial founders frequently refrain from learning from their failures to minimize the psychological impact. Do not conflate your identity with the failure of your business.”

Silicon Valley 156

Silicon Valley Cofounder Term Sheet Founder 156

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

How to be a rebel at work was the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies.

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Wiki Entrepreneur Cofounder Government 120

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Well, if you were an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at one of the large Silicon Valley venture firms during the last few decades, that was your gig. A 10+ year bull market means that the significant majority of these people have the capital to self-fund for a bit and/or more wealthy friends than the did in 2011.

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Silicon Valley Cofounder Salary Entrepreneur 94

Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

During the summer of 2010, I developed a workshop, A New ACEF Valuation Workshop for Angels and Entrepreneurs. Because of the interest in the 2010 survey, I decided to survey a larger number of North American angel groups this summer (2011). 2011 Angel Group Valuation Survey. Silicon Valley. Valley Angel Fund.

Angel Groups 125

Angel Groups Valuation Pre-Money Valuation St. Louis 125

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

Years later this area would become known as Silicon Valley. But I learned that in Silicon Valley, honest failure is a badge of experience. I began to reflect about my career and what had happened in my 21 years with startups in Silicon Valley. My third story is about Failure and Redemption.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

” I found myself nodding through all of it with quotes like, “Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley,” said Sam Altman. I myself coined the term ENIFA (everyone now is a f **g angel) in 2011 but it didn’t stick as well as the term Unicorn did. Morrill said. million from more than 30 investors.

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Cap Table Cofounder Silicon Valley Startup 150

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

June 5, 2011. It also puts another chink in the armor of the meme that monster internet companies can only be built in Silicon Valley (LivingSocial, Kayak, Gilt Groupe, CSN Stores, et al doing damage here too). Filing Date: initial filing June 2, 2011. Run Rate Revenue: $2.6B (Q1 2011 annualized). Groupon, Inc.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011. So, you go out to find a veteran entrepreneur, ask her to be an advisor in your fledgling company … and then what? Entrepreneurs want to compensate their mentors and advisors for the time they dedicate to helping their businesses grow, but they have no idea how much equity to offer.

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Equity San Francisco Startup Silicon Valley 94

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Relevance: In 2011 (mentioned on page 18 if you view the presentation), Facebook only had 11% of the world’s internet users on on its platform – the figure was at 50% in North America. . Many investors and entrepreneurs in the US still have a US-centric view of the world. What in the World?!? Why this acquisition?

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India North America Ukraine Silicon Valley 107

Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

I’ve been writing up reviews of this season’s Shark Tank pitches from a silicon valley VCs perspective. This does neither, so I’m out” Cuban said, “I see you guys not as entrepreneurs but as wantrepreneurs” I agree with him. In this way, they remind me of the Lifter Hamper entrepreneur.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review Technical Cofounder Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 110

Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

October 28, 2011. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. The Consumerization of Business Software. Author howerl. Read More ».

Software 100

Software B2B Silicon Valley Acquisition 100

Scott Edward Walker

JANUARY 23, 2012

Cheers, Scott Top 5 Tweets Software Engineering Salaries in Silicon Valley bit.ly/zJpyHd zJpyHd SecondMarket’s 2011 Year End Private Company Report – some very interesting charts bit.ly/zLmdx7 y6fyXN (at 7:56) New vid post >>> Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs: “The Greatest” bit.ly/xs2La5.

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Silicon Valley Software Engineering RSS Venture Capital 45

Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

We would love to get your suggestions in the comments section for (1) the type of company that we should follow, and (2) the types of issues that the company might encounter (reminder: the goal is to illustrate common difficulties entrepreneurs face when it comes to understanding their financials).

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

April 17, 2011. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Quinstreet priced at $15.00/sh Read More ».

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank. combination of factors –.

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Acquisition Warrant Customer Term Sheet 304

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Babak Nivi is one of the most understated, helpful & important people on the entrepreneur / startup scene in NorCal. What he (along with Naval) started with AngelList is also a very important transformation to the communications between first-time entrepreneurs & angels. But it +is+ an anti-entrepreneur stance.&#

Southern California 267

Southern California Angel Investor Early Stage Silicon Valley 267

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2019

In 2011 Professor Carter was in the first National Science Foundation I-Corps class. Coming out of Silicon Valley and the tech world, I was a complete novice on how policy gets made. For entrepreneurs, understanding why people dedicate their lives to working for non-profits is hard to fathom.

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