Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

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. When it comes to the technology ecosystem, clusters are vital. It decreases your odds of being bought.

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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. When it comes to the technology ecosystem, clusters are vital. It decreases your odds of being bought.

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Gust

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Silicon Valley is a very special place – the nucleus of high-growth, high technology entrepreneurship in the US, indeed, in the world. The Valley produces world-class entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists and successful high-tech companies – all growing and creating jobs on one relatively small peninsula.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2019

economy, with firms such as Credit Karma, Tradeshift and Plaid enjoying extraordinary success as they use technology and innovation in an effort to transform the financial services industry. Angel investors. An angel investor is an accredited investor who uses his or her own money to invest in a small business.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. Brad on blogging.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

And, there’s a good reason why; it includes back-to-back essays on mobile, high-growth startups and technology. This is the home of Jason Cohen, software startup founder, bootstrapper, investor, and mentor. Andrew Parker is a VC with Spark Capital in Boston. It’s one of my favorites on this list. A Smart Bear. The Gong Show.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2010

The number of VC firms located here and funding Chicago companies was tiny compared to the number in Silicon Valley (or New York and Boston for that matter). Nor was there a widely established network of Angels with a track record of supporting local companies. Funding, too, was a challenge.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

He is an ecommerce innovator with first Coremetrics and then Bazaarvoice, a very active angel investor, and currently Founder and CEO of data.world. Bob invented Ethernet, founded 3Com (revenues of $5.7B), was the Editor of InfoWorld magazine, and was a venture capitalist at Polaris in Boston. Edwards University.

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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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Gust

OCTOBER 16, 2012

This summer I conducted our third annual survey of the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue companies recently funded by angel groups in North America. Access to our 2010 and 2011 surveys can be found at 2011 Valuation Survey of North American Angel Investor Groups. Boise Angel Alliance. First Angel Network (Halifax).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. Local : many entrepreneurs like to use their old friend from Boston even though they’re now living in Boulder.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2014

We were living in Boston at the time. I’d sold my first company, Feld Technologies, in 1993. At some point Amy and I realized we could live anywhere and we knew that Boston wasn’t home. At 29 years old I thought very hard about whether or not I was done.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

But over the last few years, the city has gained a reputation as an emerging technology startup hub in the Midwest. ranking it ahead of the noted startup hotspot of Boston. Madison, Wisconsin has always been known as a progressive town - in part because it's home to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2014

There are a million things they can do in the world, but the spend most of their time looking for the next great technology company that sells a better widget, but doesn’t necessarily change their life in any meaningful way. I had my first exit when I sold my first company (Feld Technologies) at age 28. Totally brilliant.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

(Warning:   the following blog post will seem parochial for all readers outside of the Boston area. Dear Boston-area student, Welcome (back) to the Top City of the Global Innovation Economy ! DART Boston – The start-up game can be a lonely one.   DART Boston. Look, there’s a reason Boston.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Susan Balloch is a Managing Director of Golden Seeds, an angel fund that invests in early stage companies founded or led by women. Balloch’s 20+ year career prior to becoming an angel investor was in financial services both in the private equity world- fundraising and investor relations, and in investment banking.

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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

Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. Mr. Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996.

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David Teten

APRIL 7, 2017

In my research on how private equity and VC funds source investments , one of our conclusions was that VCs get better returns when they invest outside of the traditional geographic hotspots of New York, Boston, and the Bay Area. This is a generalizable principle: you get higher returns where other investors are not.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

Although we have companies that are leveraging all of these technologies, we’ve realized that the best companies tend not to be easily categorized and don’t necessarily fit the standard playbooks. Pierre was also named to MIT Technology Review ‘s Innovators Under 35 list. We are not an AR/VR, blockchain, AI, or ecommerce fund.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked. You can follow us all on twitter via the new hacker-angels list. Yes, even bootstrappers. Productivity.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Ive been helping create software and Internet companies for over 25 years, starting with my first company, Feld Technologies, in 1985 when I was in college. Since then, Ive been involved with creating and funding hundreds of companies both as an angel investor and a VC (now at Foundry Group). Yes, 10 dollars.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2020

I support their summary of the seven capital assets that are the core required to create a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem, and produce real economic value for your startup and the rest of us: Intellectual capital – ideas, information, technologies. Contrary to popular belief, innovative new ideas don’t often spring from a single mind.

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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 Stanford and Sandhill road in Silicon Valley, Route 128 in Boston or IIT in Bangalore India. This includes lowering the barriers for angel investors and giving entrepreneurs a second or third chance if they fail.

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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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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. how does an investor view a company that the product was built by an outsourced team?

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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. It’s a common refrain around Silicon Valley to disparage the role of MBA’s in entrepreneurship. The class debuts in a few weeks.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Annual Deal Pipeline for Selected VCs and Angel Investor Groups. Acquirer/ Investor. Angel groups using Gust. I’ve shown below a case study of the geographic diversification of the largest late-stage technology venture capital / growth equity investors. ff Venture Capital. First Round Capital.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 28, 2010

Famed technology investors like Vinod Khosla and Ron Conway have taken this approach, with personal investment positions in literally dozens (if not more) of companies. They, however, are both professional investors and technologists, and deeply networked into the core U.S. angel investor deal community - namely Silicon Valley.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 28, 2010

Famed technology investors like Vinod Khosla and Ron Conway have taken this approach, with personal investment positions in literally dozens (if not more) of companies. They, however, are both professional investors and technologists, and deeply networked into the core U.S. angel investor deal community - namely Silicon Valley.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC.   Today, we have an angel investor network, the Golden Angels, as well as an entrepreneurship center to spread the entrepreneurial word across campus. . People are the whole game.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

More details here: [link] - #SXSW #HowDoYouPartake #Technology  —  @Partake_co Partake: SXSW Release It SXSW Release It provides a platform for companies to launch a new and innovative product or service during a pitch competition at the SXSW Conference. Date: Sat March 10, 2018 Time: 12:30 PM?—?1:30

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2013

Take a look at the most recent TechStars Boston class. TechStars Boston has tried in recent years to focus at least parts of its classes on companies that may not fit the typical notion of a tech startup, looking for companies, ideas and founders that have intimate knowledge of how disrupt an industry that others may ignore.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Silicon Valleydominates, then Boston, then Seattle, Austin, Denver, and New York. 4 ]Theres probably also a second factor: startup founders tendto be at the leading edge of technology, so problems they face areprobably especially valuable. [ We investsmall amounts of our own, like angel investors. [

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One partner takes on a business role and the other takes responsibility for technology. If you want to partner up with another college student, and you don’t know any technology geeks, you’re going to have to make an effort to broaden your social circle. If you’re in New Haven, you may have to go up to Boston.

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