Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Note that all of these names were not started in Silicon Valley. So LPs are looking for a combination of “established top tier” and “new managers with differentiation.”

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LP Silicon Valley Venture Capital Startup 286

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

According to an interview with Elon Musk, this campaign cost Paypal about $60 million , which most Silicon Valley historians would consider money well spent. Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter. This data set looks at 8,610 IPOS over 39 years from 1980-2019.

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IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Image is the bedrock part of the “fake it till you make it” culture that animates most of Silicon Valley today. They must realize that the breakneck pace of innovation in the industry makes it difficult to differentiate themselves from competitors. Here are four critical challenges of tech startup PR.

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PR Startup Social Media Silicon Valley 107

Venture Chronicles

MAY 26, 2010

Back in March, Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz wrote a post called The Case For The Fat Startup, where he outlined some of the reasons why a fledging company might want to consider taking a large amount of funding — a strategy that contrasts with the ‘lean startup’ model that has become common in Silicon Valley.

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Lean Early Stage Valuation Startup 40

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists.

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Singapore Government Silicon Valley Software Review 43

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

A bit like Silicon Valley. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. Recent growth in digital social networks has served as a reminder on what differentiates our species. They are using Singapore as their model of economic development.

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Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Sure, I wrote about startups all the time, but my work experience with a classic Silicon Valley-styled startup was non-existent. In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches.

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Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80