YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

Though the trend in the startup world seems to be relocating to Silicon Valley (a choice that some angel investors and ven­ture capitalists now call mandatory) and knocking on the doors of venture capital, this path doesn’t make sense for all businesses, and it’s not acces­sible to many entrepreneurs because of their life circumstances.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Engineering Serendipity Making real connections starts with having the right people in the room. We start by doing our homework and researching all of the most interesting people and companies coming from all over the world and add in all of the local entrepreneurs and investors that we know. Serendipity is what SXSW is all about.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Texas Venture Capital 50

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. So having spent a lot of time thinking about this Silicon Valley is a thing in and of itself. So everybody goes through this phase of we want to be the next Silicon Valley. Was about a billion dollars on the IPO” and “was one of the first web analytics companies.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

Dino and I kept in touch as he moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster. The differences between the Bend, Oregon region and Silicon Valley are obvious. Silicon Valley Transplants. What’s Different.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2017

Five entrepreneurs get free plane tickets to pitch for $100,000 in seed funding from Austin’s top angel investors Every week we meet incredible entrepreneurs from all over the country and all over the world who would move to Austin if they only had some funding. This April, one startup is going to get their chance!

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 24, 2013

Key Factors to Effective Competitive Analysis as a Small Business | Search Engine Watch – [link]. The Why and How Of Updating Your Angel Investors – [link]. What Nikola Tesla vs. VCs video says about the state of Silicon Valley | by Om Malik – [link]. – [link]. ” – [link].

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Rose of Gust, roughly 1,500 startups get funded by venture capitalists, and 50,000 by angel investors in the United States each year. Running a startup in New York or Silicon Valley is very expensive, so no wonder that recently, there has been an explosion of new locations starting to see growth in tech startups.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

The So Cal engineering gap? from catching up with Silicon Valley and New York as a stronger startup region. The strongest impact on improving this situation is Silicon Valley and Seattle companies – Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and others are making enormous investments in building So Cal as a software town.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. 3:00PM Location: Hilton?—?Salon SXSW and Edelman have partnered to launch a special report of the Trust Barometer?

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

But the right funding strategy for her is $900,000-$1 million, potentially from angel investors or small funds. I know Silicon Valley and the MBA types look down upon lifestyle businesses. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. We will work on that with her.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2021

A “who’s who” list of Silicon Valley leaders moving to ATX This shift did not happen overnight?—?it Capital Factory has an early investor in many of the most successful startups in Texas over the past decade including Aceable , AlertMedia , BigCommerce , Coder , data.world , ICON , Spredfast , Storable , WP Engine and ZenBusiness.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 14, 2013

Whether I like it or not I’m an angel investor , even though I prefer a different label. As an electrical engineer and software developer with decades of experience building internet infrastructure, there are certain areas where I believe I could contribute much more than the puny sums that I can invest.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Stanford was also the right place because of nearby Silicon Valley. In addition to Seth, the core team he pulled together consisted of Elaine, a product person with front-end engineering skills and sharp design sense, and Sandy a back-end server engineer. What is the reaction when you first tell people a concept?

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Connecticut Cofounder Silicon Valley Web 286

Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. Reinventing the board meeting may offer angel-funded startups that don’t have formal boards or directors (because of geography or size of investment) to attract experienced advice and investment outside of technology clusters (i.e.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

But I fear that for most angel investors who invest over the long haul angel investing will not be a profitable endeavor. So I’m going to offer my view on the “angel poker table” so you can decide if you really want to sit there. I will publish what I believe the five are in a series of articles.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley). Many of these now-trendy Micro-VC funds began as individual angel investors who gradually grew up and started small funds (myself included). Scaling Up & Out: The Valley is Flat (and Global).

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Many angel investors, and also strategic investors, are comfortable investing in LLCs, particularly under a convertible security structure that doesn’t immediately result in equity holdings. they need to accept that the standardization found in conventional Silicon Valley-style fundraising is simply not a possibility.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Reinventing the board meeting may offer angel-funded startups – which because of geography or size of investment typically don’t have formal boards or directors – to attract experienced advice and investment outside of technology clusters (i.e. Silicon Valley, New York). Here’s how. better user growth.

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Scalable Startup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

[contact-form] Can any other region “catch up” to Silicon Valley, or be the next Silicon Valley? These towns are setting their expectations way too high while the real Silicon Valley giggles at the sight. Silicon – Uh, yeah, that word? It’s what started all this.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Bill Warner – Avid, Techstars, Angel investor (@billwarner). Dan Allred – Silicon Valley Bank (@dgallred). Terrible Labs – Ruby on Rails, Web and Mobile. Filament Group – User Interface and Design. Raizlabs – Mobile Development. Places to Hang.

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Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Reinventing the board meeting may offer angel-funded startups – which because of geography or size of investment typically don’t have formal boards or directors – to attract experienced advice and investment outside of technology clusters (i.e. Silicon Valley, New York). Here’s how. better user growth.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. What does it take to be an Angel Investor? ProfessorVC. Tuesday, March 10, 2009.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

A little less than a month ago, we reported on ChubbyBrain's new Funding Recommendation Engine , a service that will help entrepreneurs find suitable investors. One of the most surprising results, perhaps, is the location of entrepreneurs, with New York beating Silicon Valley.

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Silicon Valley Due Diligence New York Angel Investor 118

Hippoland

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

A lot of entrepreneurs just think to pitch to VCs or well-known angel investors or people who have signaled they are angels on Angelist. But the reality is that angel investors can be anybody, especially these days, now that non-accredited investors can invest much more freely. Always be pitching…

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Scalable Startup

MAY 29, 2012

Here are some of the factors: (1) Amazing Engineering Skills – Let’s just start with the big one. There is a highly under-known fact in the software engineering world – many of the best developers and architects are not in Silicon Valley, but in the New York metro area. tomnora.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

If your startup is looking for an angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. The challenge is to find the right angel for you, and for your situation. Angel investors are people too. USA Angel Investment Network.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Finally, one of Airbnb’s angel investors, who’s very smart and whom I respect a lot, reached out to me and said, “Hey, you should really look at this. One one level, the design mindset is similar to the engineering mindset, in that it seeks to frame and understand a problem, and then solve that problem. CONCLUSION.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Specialized alumni tech networks : Accelerate Yale (which had merged into it YaleFintech and Yale Tech), Yale Science & Engineering Association. Accelerators & Fellowships : CITY Accelerators , Social Innovation Lab , Yale Center for Engineering Innovation & Design Fellowship ; Yale Canaan Fellowship.

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readwrite.com

DECEMBER 3, 2012

And raise a glass to the moron angel investors who created this mess in the first place and now are getting what they deserve. And the dopey angel investors who wrote the checks for those startups are going to lose their money. Believe it or not this is actually a big story in Silicon Valley right now.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

The second wave of companies were mainly concentrated in Silicon Valley, and coincided with the rise of platforms (Google, Facebook, etc.) With science and engineering breakthroughs ingrained in the fabric of Houston’s economy, the region has become a thriving hub of digital technology talent. After more than eight years?—?they’ve

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Now a successful hedge fund operator and angel investor, Thiel regularly gets asked his opinion on most everything. Why did he bother to accept a random lunch invitation from a nobody? I don’t know. But that’s part of Thiel’s odd and endearing genius. And he doesn’t hold back.

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Silicon Valley Founder .Net Angel Investor 60

Ben's Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Every day I hear from entrepreneurs, angel investors and venture capitalists about an exciting new movement called “the consumerization of the enterprise.” For example, an enterprise sales rep might buy a network engineer a new Porsche in exchange for a $10 million order. —The Who, Won’t Get Fooled Again.

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Customer Technical Review Silicon Valley Internet 78

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

David Lerner is an entrepreneur, angel investor and director of entrepreneurship at Columbia University. He is also an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School , and an angel investor hailed as one of New York City’s top 100 early-stage investors. Dave Lerner. I’m seeing it in real time.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Business, Engineering, Computer Science, and Design were all represented. If you are not transparent with your investors, you won't raise money the second time around, regardless of whether you were successful or not successful the first time. ProfessorVC. May 14, 2010 10:56 PM.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

Funding comes largely from angel investors and government grants. 3) You don’t have to be in Silicon Valley to start a successful startup [or do you?]. Silicon Valley definitely has its advantages – lots of dollars looking for startups, large companies, a startup ecosystem etc. Conclusions.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 15, 2011

Geography : When the boardroom is bits, angel-funded startups can get experienced advice - independent of geography. An angel investor or VC can multiply their reach and/or depth. The result – an instant technology cluster – with equity at a fraction of Silicon Valley prices. Now they can.

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Silicon Valley Startup Early Stage Business Model 118

Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. We recently had our Neat Ideas Fair, which is my favorite annual event of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship at SJSU. The NIF brings together students from all parts of the university (business, computer science, mechanical engineering, design, life science, etc.)

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