Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 2, 2014

I had the good fortune to attend GTK’s and Pillsbury’s amazing Internet of Things Private Executive Event in Palo Alto last week. The Industrial Internet. As technology and the collective data sets naturally grow and improve, the opportunity to intervene quickly (and remotely!) Its decidedly low glamour goal?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

But there are notable examples of for-profit incubators that are thriving, including YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , led by David Cohen and located in several key cities around the country, that have an excellent reputation and track record. Health, life, and other insurance at group rates.

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Agile VC

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). Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M. Author howerl.

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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. If we network them together, theyll answer each others questions and collaborate on projects we can hardly imagine. They are nerds.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In addition to having 66 million Internet users, the UK is home to its own rapidly growing tech sector, which attracted $13.2 And I have gotten to know Joe as a friend after he moved to Silicon Valley last year. billion in investment capital in 2019 and now employs nearly 3 million people. companies and U.K.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

And thanks to the radical transparency enabled by the internet, the quality of these proposals is actually constantly rising, to the point that it’s almost impossible to judge the quality of the final product – because all the proposals look polished and professional, even the terrible ones.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

I remember when it was a rare, extraordinary thing for a software/internet startup to even file an S-1. If you look at newly public companies in the software & internet sector you see a wide spread. Active Network – 2.4x Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. So now what?

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I was on a panel earlier this week with several other investors from Angel Groups in the Valley. The panel was a typical Silicon Valley shmoozefest hosted at a law firm with about 75+ attendees. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I wont go into the details of the bill, but at a high level, it allows entrepreneurs to raise funds over the Internet up to a maximum of $1M annually (or $2M with audited financials). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ProfessorVC.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

And it’s not about aggregating traffic better. I’ve written before about why I believe most Hollywood online video startups don’t get the future (and why most Silicon Valley startups don’t get online video ). There’s a reason that Maker pulled away while most online video companies did not.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Thin line between life and death of internet service is a number of users. Company : Cryptine Networks. Company : Wesabe.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Faster networks meant people would be able to access information anytime, anywhere, on any device. Sure, I wrote about startups all the time, but my work experience with a classic Silicon Valley-styled startup was non-existent. Blogs were part of the shift to a more intimate, frenzied, and on the go media landscape.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

For many of us in Silicon Valley, one of the notable events of the crisis was Brian's public stance about the role of corporate leadership in social issues. Why don't we just put this plan on the internet? It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. And I actually really liked doing this. BA : Yeah.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

PMC-Sierra, a premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, is purchasing Wintegra Inc. , a leading Israeli provider of highly integrated network processors optimized for mobile backhaul, 3G and 4G wireless and wireline broadband networks. US CHIPMAKER PMC SIERRA ACQUIRES ISRAELI WINTEGRA.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7% Read more on TechCrunch [.]

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We’re building a True SaaS company in Boise, Idaho, not in Silicon Valley or not in New York. Bates: Good morning and welcome to our CEO panel, “How to Fine-Tune Your Small Business Finances From Funding to Growth” which I think is the direction that we would all like to be going. My name is John Bates.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Social networking. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. Likelihood of Confusion -trademark, copyright and Internet Law. That’s why we gathered a collection of 20 online resources for European startups that will help you with business plans, recruiting, publicity and networking.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Multiply that by literally a couple thousand, and that’s what 2013 is going to look like in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser degree some other startup ecosystems. I recently went to a networking event for one of the seed funds that invested in PandoDaily, and I’ve never seen such worry on the faces of the entrepreneurs.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In November of 2015, I posted a tweet that declared Benchmark was interested in discovering Internet healthcare investments. So if Internet and mobile technologies can be used to change real estate or transportation, why not healthcare? Ezra Klein : Hello and welcome to the Ezra Klein Show, a podcast on Vox Media Podcast Network.

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