Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. David Lin and the Microsoft China Accelerator was gracious enough to host two wonderful days of events for me. Beijing Venture/Angel Ecosystem. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by the salesman podcast, hosted by Will Barron and brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network. Well, Steve Hoffman (02:34): First of all, I did three venture funded startups in Silicon valley and two bootstrap startups.

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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. Gayle King is co-host of CBS This Morning. March 12, 2018 11:00AM? March 13, 2018 9:30AM?—?10:30AM

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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. Thus, it’s important that hosts keep their windows clean. From an economic standpoint, Airbnb could have found a way to divide the pain between the guests and hosts.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event that has featured Boston’s BEST founders. MITX : Non-profit trade association hosting many events focused on digital marketing and internet business. Bill Warner – Avid, Techstars, Angel investor (@billwarner).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Should you go with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or have your own servers hosted at RackSpace? I was recently considering investing in an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. He was deciding between taking another senior role at a prominent Silicon Valley tech company or starting his own business.

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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.) Frisco has become a hot spot in North Texas for venture capitalists, angel investors, startups, universities, pitch competitions and seed accelerators,” said Frisco Mayor Jeff Cheney. “In

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VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

One example of the latter is Hub Madrid , which is currently hosting about 10 startups. 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?]. 2) There’s a hunger for venture capital funding.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Silicon valley tends to have a bias towards a certain startup founder stereotype (i.e. This brings up a host of issues, from the supposed incompatibility of VCs and female target markets, to the oft-mentioned “boys club” that seems to exist surrounding the VC community.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Organizations like Accelerate Yale and Columbia Entrepreneurship have made important strides in bringing different university tech groups under one umbrella and hosting high-quality events in. It’s important moving forward that they expand their reach to other regions (particularly Silicon Valley).

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. If you are interested in hosting an intern, we will be accepting employer applications in December and January for internships beginning in February. While Silicon Valley covers a large amount of turf, it is very small. What does it take to be an Angel Investor?

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Touched by an Angel. I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. What would the VC corollary to Touched by an Angel, be.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

This is our first major partnership with an incubator whereby MAD will adopt the 1M/1M methodology to foster Silicon Valley-style technopreneurship in Malaysia. First up, Alvin Yuen from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, presented ISA Innovation , a company providing a hosted IT asset and inventory management solution.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Capital Factory focuses on hosting community programming that educates and inspires entrepreneurs, programmers, designers, and community leaders. Epic Office Hours” is a speed dating event with dozens of entrepreneurs, mentors and investors meeting in rapid fire. It’s not Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lane served as Executive Vice President at Disney for five years before returning to his entrepreneurial roots to become an angel investor and launch FreshGrade. . We were hosting a Qualtrics Live event for our customers in New York City in a hotel in the same neighborhood where the trade show had been. Fast-forward ten years.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lane served as Executive Vice President at Disney for five years before returning to his entrepreneurial roots to become an angel investor and launch FreshGrade. . We were hosting a Qualtrics Live event for our customers in New York City in a hotel in the same neighborhood where the trade show had been. Fast-forward ten years.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

A little under a year ago, we hosted an event called Angel Bootcamp that was a primer for folks thinking about getting into angel investing. Of late, I have had a number of friends who have recently become more active as angels and have been trying to track down some of the advice from the event. Other thoughts?

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

A little under a year ago, we hosted an event called Angel Bootcamp that was a primer for folks thinking about getting into angel investing. Of late, I have had a number of friends who have recently become more active as angels and have been trying to track down some of the advice from the event. Other thoughts?

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Hello Steve, I am the host of brickbreakerconquest.com. What does it take to be an Angel Investor? I am an active angel investor and on the board of Sand Hill Angels. ProfessorVC. Tuesday, September 16, 2008. Steve Bennet. at 2:12 PM. Email This BlogThis!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

This week, the startup tribe from Harvard Business School is making their annual trek to Silicon Valley. It’s a common refrain around Silicon Valley to disparage the role of MBA’s in entrepreneurship. It’s a common refrain around Silicon Valley to disparage the role of MBA’s in entrepreneurship.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 19, 2013

Cash through investments, revenues, borrowing from F&F, VCs, convertible notes, deal terms, angels, etc. I attend and host many meetups and conferences for startups, and consult to several startups, and every founder is inevitably talking about Cash. Invite them to speak at an event you’re hosting. Cash, Cash, Cash.

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Scalable Startup

APRIL 18, 2012

Craig Page @CraigDPage hosted a party 2 weeks ago in Santa Monica that celebrated 500 startups in the SM/Venice ecosystem known as Silicon Beach these days, and he may not be far off. I guess it could happen, So Cal could surpass Silicon Valley some day. Southern California is going to reach the tipping point. I love it.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Angel Investors. Women’s Capital Connection: Changing The Face Of Angel Investing (Women Angel Investors). Speakers include Alolita Sharma (Director of Engineering, @Wikipedia, SF), Tim Kimmet (VP of Engineering, @WalmartLabs, Silicon Valley HQ) and Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0).

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Gust

OCTOBER 22, 2014

In particular, getting to critical mass (of entrepreneurs, angel investors, engineers, et al) is perhaps the most important thing you can do. Australia has some very active, organized, groups of angel investors, and they should be embraced and brought into the startup community as a resource.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Capital Factory is participating in and hosting several panels as well. Don't miss @DougPepper & expert panelists as they discuss at @SXSW on March 9th: [link] #SXSW  —  @shasta Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Do you know of any VC or angel investors that are interested in targeting the Hispanic Market? investors like great companies, that’s really the filter. I don’t know of an opensource or hosted version of Kickstarter. How should I approach an angel investor? You don’t need to move to Silicon Valley.

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davetroy.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One stupid thing you could do would be to move to Silicon Valley. Host a Tweetup, targeted to people you want to attract. link] baltimoreangels: Pleased to welcome two new investors to our lineup, bringing our group to nearly 50 investors! Magazine - How to find angel investors? Be authentic.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 9, 2018

In 2017, Project Kairos helped 77 startups meet top investors and enhance their business prospects as part of the Internet of Things World event. For 2018, the IoT World and Project Kairos events are May 16-17 in the Silicon Valley area at the Santa Clara Convention Center. 450+ speakers take the stage. What is Founders Day?

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 10, 2015

To benefit from the explosive growth of companies like Uber, Airbnb, Dropbox, etc, you had to fit in either one of two categories: be an angel investor already in an inner circle of experienced angels and entrepreneurs, largely located in Silicon Valley, or be an investor in a venture capital fund that backed those companies.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

One of the things we hear a lot about in Silicon Valley is how cheap and easy it is to launch a startup these days. We also soon decided that we wanted to outsource as much of our operations to hosted services as we possibly could. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings.

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Professor VC

MARCH 12, 2015

As with all M&A exits, there was a round of congratulatory messages to the founder in the Silicon Valley echo chamber. As a refresher, syndicates were introduced by Angellist a couple of years ago as a way for companies to raise funds in small increments from a large number of investors (SEC limit of 99 accredited investors).

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

It is the traditional way seed stage startups get funded in Silicon Valley and it remains difficult and out of reach for most entrepreneurs. Team means “smart team” as defined by the investor. Here in Silicon Valley the rule-makers define smart teams solely based on pedigree. The New Way , called Traction.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. The group also hosts its annual QPrize competition, awarding winners with $750,000 in seed funding.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

With that investment thesis thwarted, there is no way to pay expenses, primarily salary and hosting costs. Title: Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure. Super Angel Investors – Who They Are, What They Invest In. Without the resources to keep the service going, we must shut it down. Company : EventVue.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Austin Diversity Evangelists Mellie Price Director of Diversity Capital Factory Managing Director, Health CoLab Dell Medical School Mellie Price is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist, and now university commercialization disruption at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas. so we try everything.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Silicon Valley 100. Notes like this are part of Grahams ongoing process of steering them through the thickets of Silicon Valley startup life. Parse, one of the most-anticipated startups in Silicon Valley these days , went through Y Combinator last year and raised seed money from Google Ventures , for example.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.

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