Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle. To convince you it can work, TechCrunch recently aggregated the combined valuation of YCombinator companies at $7.78

Incubator 215

Incubator Entrepreneur New York City Silicon Valley 215

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2011

Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle. To convince you it can work, SiteBoat recently aggregated the combined valuation of the top 21 companies graduated by YCombinator at $4.7

Incubator 234

Incubator New York City Silicon Valley Startup 234

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. The best known ones, like YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, provide excellent networking to investors, and on-site technical leadership, which can make your investment less risky.

Accredited Investor 219

Accredited Investor Liquidity Event Stock SEC 219

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. The best known ones, like YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, provide excellent networking to investors, and on-site technical leadership, which can make your investment less risky.

Portfolio 228

Portfolio Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC 228

Gust

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle. To convince you it can work, TechCrunch recently aggregated the combined valuation of YCombinator companies at $7.78

Incubator 147

Incubator Entrepreneur New York City Silicon Valley 147

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. The best known ones, like YCombinator, led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, provide excellent networking to investors, and on-site technical leadership, which can make your investment less risky.

Accredited Investor 120

Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Entrepreneur 120

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Im not offering extensive studies or research to support this conclusion; the evidence from my peers right here in the innovation capital of America, Silicon Valley, is absolutely overwhelming. Asked to help, I am confident that Silicon Valley and every other innovation center will step up. They are nerds.

Programming 143

Programming San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 143

Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Valuable lessons learned from Andy’s personal experience venture investing in Silicon Valley. Fortunately there is now good data on angel returns in Silicon Valley and nationally, and while more research is certainly needed, the data suggest that angel investors can and often do make money.

Angel Investor 152

Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 152

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Most publishers are still caught up in an outdated “vision vs. metrics&# argument, which is already obsolete here in Silicon Valley. The world is generally not as tech-savvy as Silicon Valley and will continue to rely on traditional mechanisms for content distribution for the foreseeable future. Amazon PostRank

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Agile VC

MARCH 30, 2012

Lots of people more forward-thinking than me have rightly said that data is a powerful asset and aggregating, mining, and making it useful will be a core element of many businesses currently being built. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. After all there are various ways to monetize data assets.

Business Model 113

Business Model Silicon Valley Advertising B2B 113

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Valuable lessons learned from Andy’s personal experience venture investing in Silicon Valley. Fortunately there is now good data on angel returns in Silicon Valley and nationally, and while more research is certainly needed, the data suggest that angel investors can and often do make money.

Angel Investor 103

Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 103

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

And even if your startup is unlikely to IPO someday, an aggregate increase in the number of public tech companies (coupled with large cash piles for big established ones) should make the M&A climate more favorable in coming years. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Author howerl. Read More ».

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

Right now, the only company who’s really innovating is Dwolla, which is starting from the payment layer by aggregating funding sources and will eventually try to position itself as a platform (starting by offering real time cash transfers for free to banks). Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250