Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. It decreases your odds of being bought. When it comes to the technology ecosystem, clusters are vital.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Austin-based Experiment Engine announced Tuesday that is has closed on a $1 million seed funding round. The company received funding from Founder Collective, based in New York and Boston, Mercury Fund in Houston and Austin Angel Investors Dan Graham, CEO of BuildASign and Rony Kahan, Co-founder of Indeed.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. We just finished the second year in Boston. And what happens is you have a lot of people that are either engineering or non-engineering that end up in PM roles that can’t think across the whole thing… “. And how has it worked out? “It It has worked out great.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Since that time we've seen a massive change from product engineering to financial engineering. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2019

” The Boston Red Sox won the 2004 World Series by adopting the same strategy. Adopting a “getting on base” strategy engineers greater success in entrepreneurship — a field with high rates of failure. Acquisition entrepreneurship is a model in the same vein. You don’t run out of cash. Research from McKinsey & Co.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Join us and learn how to attract Venture Capital investment in your startup when you live somewhere other than Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, or Boston. Hear from venture investors and successful entrepreneurs to find out what factors they considered and how you can make your pitch stand out from the rest. Time: 12:30PM?—?

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Boston is a great place to start and build a company. There is a wealth of resources that are unique to this town and a vibrant community of hackers, business people, and investors at various stages in their career. However, Boston is a transient town, especially for the student population that refreshes a large population each year.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Dave Tisch is Founder and Managing Director of TechStars in NYC and is an angel investor through the BoxGroup. BoxGroup is an investor in companies like Boxee, Flavors.me, Goodsie, fab.com, art.sy, Coursekit, Skillshare, GroupMe, DataMinr and many more. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Think about Facebook had it stayed in Boston. But I’ll bet the Boston community would take 50% of the success of Facebook built locally. “If I were starting now, I would have stayed in Boston. ” Boston is still a great tech hub. I went to see several LP funds in Boston. It’s true.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

We have three universities in the top 100 of the Shanghai ranking for engineering and technology. Think of Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Guido van Rossem (founder of Python programming language and senior engineer at Dropbox) or the more senior Gerard Kleisterlee (chairman of Vodafone). So we have plenty of economic clustering.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

Kevin – different angel investors put money in things that they are passionate about. Rick – I’m a Boston-based VC. In your case, come to Boston. Learn how they attract investors, partners, recruiting. That said, the things that end up being huge, didn’t look huge in the beginning.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

If your friends or family happen to be rich, the line blurs betweenthem and angel investors. At Viaweb we got our first $10,000 ofseed money from our friend Julian, but he was sufficiently richthat its hard to say whether he should be classified as a friendor angel. Angel Investors Angels are individual rich people.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

We still have some collective scar tissue: the idea conjures up the hordes of dot-com hopefuls that descended on VC’s and angel investors with little more than a business plan. LTV focuses on the integration of marketing and engineering functions and emphasizes implementation rather than strategy formulation issues.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

In addition, insider threats, spear phishing activities, social engineering have exacerbated the issue. Join us and learn how to attract Venture Capital investment in your startup when you live somewhere other than Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, or Boston. Date: Sat March 10, 2018 Time: 12:30 PM?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Stanford and MIT were building on the technology breakthroughs of World War II and graduating a generation of engineers into a consumer and cold war economy that seemed limitless. Communication between scientists, engineers and corporations were relatively open, and ideas flowed freely. There was none. Order Here. Now In Print!

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Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

Conceptually, this is very intriguing and goes against the current popularity of accelerators in start-up hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, Seattle, Boulder) that are filled with recent grads and drop outs looking to build the next web sensation. You go hang out at the engineering school! You network! You attend start-up events!

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