VC Cafe

MARCH 13, 2023

Silicon Valley Bank was the bank of many founders and funds (30% according to some estimates), including our own at Remagine Ventures. This is a special edition for ‘Bank Run’ Thought 2020 was hard? “The biggest collapse since the financial crisis” is no laughing matter. — M.G. Unfortunate coincidence?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Entrepreneurs beyond Silicon Valley, including those working abroad, often have to retool Lean Startup methods to apply them in places with very different business cultures. Those conversations can often circle around the difficulties of entrepreneurship outside Silicon Valley. On September 24 in the U.S.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2021

billion company and has built up this valuation outside the Silicon Valley scene. Since Sprout’s IPO, according to Midwest+startups , capital invested in the Midwest has doubled, from nearly $10 billion in the twelve trailing months ending June 2019 and Jube 2020 to $20 billion in the year ending June 2021.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

According to the International Business Innovation Association ( InBIA ), there are over 2,200 of these locations worldwide, and new online versions springing up all over the place, like Founders Space in Silicon Valley. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos. An example of LexSet training data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Adopt the Silicon Valley entrepreneur family model. When I lived in Silicon Valley where “everyone” was an entrepreneur, I noticed that smart couples followed the strategy that both partners would never be in startups at the same time. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 01/24/2020.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2023

When it comes to launching a startup, most founders think they should reside in the United States, Silicon Valley, in particular, to have a successful business. But there are other regions in the world that might not be as fancy as Silicon Valley but have a remarkable potential for growth. This amount can triple by 2025.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2011

And the third was a discussion on Silicon Valley: The Next Decade. Silicon Valley: The Next Decade. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 23, 2021

Spanning from Silicon Valley to Upper Manhattan and everywhere in between, it seems this country is overflowing with tech-optimists. From 1990 to 2020, just 30 years, we went from only wealthy computer nerds having dial-up internet access to almost the entire nation’s population having high-speed internet on dozens of devices.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 14, 2020

January 3, 2020, seems like a very long time ago. When Oracle announced that it is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas, this issue hit its tipping point. That day, I wrote a post titled The Future Of Work Is Distributed. We are officially on the other side of a phase transformation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

One of the most successful incubators is Y Combinator in Silicon Valley. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/28/2020. You need to feel the passion of others in the same stage. This place is often called an incubator or accelerator, or just a group of peers.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS, Intarka, and Uuma.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

I met Ram Kumar during my visit to Chennai and advised him to look at the Bioscope project in my Vision India 2020 book. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

At a time when young companies struggle to find technology sectors not dominated by Silicon Valley’s giants , most startups remain oblivious to one of the largest markets in the world, the U.S. The military awarded $445 billion in contracts in 2020. ai, Joby Aviation, and other Silicon Valley standouts navigate funding gaps.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Should those entrepreneurs who have built their business elsewhere move to Silicon Valley to raise money? Since 1M/1M is a global program, we have many entrepreneurs in various parts of the world who are building interesting businesses, and trying to determine how best to interface with the ecosystem that exists in Silicon Valley.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

According to the State of European Tech report , Switzerland pulled $445 million of investment in 2019, and in 2020, Swiss company Veeam was the largest backed exit by value, showcasing the level of investment the industry pulls in. But what is the character of the country’s tech industry and why is the Swiss tech industry so esteemed?

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

It is no longer Silicon Valley's exclusive domain. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

In Silicon Valley, we've had access to the tribal knowledge, but no one has tried to capture it, derive a methodology out of it, and package it in a way that entrepreneurs around the world can benefit from this knowledge and expertise. With that, let's look at the two entrepreneurs who pitched today from Costa Rica.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

I asked him to review the TrueCFO project in my Vision India 2020 book. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. I advised Anupam to come up with a 2011 strategy.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. These experts will help you decide which hot-button issues to battle by aligning to your org’s culture.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

I know Silicon Valley and the MBA types look down upon lifestyle businesses. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. I encouraged Todd to keep building. Well, I don't. Build to Enjoy is a strategy that I am very much in favor of. You can register for the next roundtable here.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

The final clip is Fred & I talking about whether “the best product wins” and my assertion that the bias in today’s Silicon Valley dominated tech world there is probably too much emphasis on tech at the expense of how to sell, implement and service customers.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

We're trying to bring the lessons we have learned in Silicon Valley to a million entrepreneurs. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. However, 1M/1M is a development economics project. As you may know, 99% of the entrepreneurs who seek financing, get rejected.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

It turns out that in my Vision India 2020 book, I have a similar project called FDBI. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. Hardika intends to build a financial institution focused on this segment with financing from social entrepreneurship oriented venture funds like Unitus.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 6, 2020

Breyer Capital’s Silicon Valley presence remains as important as ever, and at the same time, Austin offers a remarkable new frontier of opportunity. When I graduated from Harvard Business School after graduating from Stanford, I was one of a small number of classmates who made the decision to move to Silicon Valley.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

I advised Robin to review rural and slum development, as well as lifestyle brand projects in Vision India 2020 and decide which one captures his fancy, then come and work with me on executing on it. While the basic premise is compelling, and I am very interested in entrepreneurship opportunities in this area, the business model is flawed.

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

If you are looking past or through Covid — and why not, all of Wall Street is — the topic du jour in Silicon Valley is Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs. The traditional way of going public is systematically broken and is robbing Silicon Valley founders, employees, and investors of billions of dollars each year.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS, Intarka, and Uuma.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS, Intarka, and Uuma.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS, Intarka, and Uuma.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here. You can register for the next roundtable here. She has founded three companies, writes a business blog, Sramana Mitra on Strategy , and runs the 1M/1M initiative. Photo by brokenarts.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2020

Amy Posey is a Silicon Valley-based leadership consultant focused on neuroscience and high performance. Their new book is” Wild Success: 7 Key Lessons Business Leaders Can Learn from Extreme Adventurers “(McGraw Hill, March 10, 2020). By the time it’s over, we’ve been changed forever.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

She was married to a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur who ran a couple of major companies and had a brilliant career. In some cases, and this situation is particularly prevalent in places like Silicon Valley and Wall Street where wealth flows abundantly, women quit because there is no real pressure to earn money.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2011

She is a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and strategy consultant who writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , and is the author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here. You can register for the next roundtable here. She has founded three companies, writes a business blog, Sramana Mitra on Strategy , and runs the 1M/1M initiative. Photo by thesaint.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2021

Although the media has been full of inspiring stories about start-ups in Silicon Valley, the reality is that the rate at which Americans have been starting companies has been in decline for a long time. million businesses in 2020, up 24% from the previous year. That changed with the pandemic.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The lesson was learned over 30 years in Silicon Valley: you create ecosystems where third-parties can innovate and thrive and you become the legitimate center of it all and can tax the system later. It was at that moment that a 22-year-old Mark Zuckerberg completely schooled the 75-year-old Rupert Murdoch.

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