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. But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. Beijing Venture/Angel Ecosystem.

Silicon Valley 267

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. And we are just starting our first year in Seattle.”…” Of the Boulder companies there have been 41 companies that have gone through the Boulder program and there is some mortality…” “I guess it’s 5 or 6 that have failed. On the Startup Visa Program. investors.”

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

My visit took place courtesy of the Young Transatlantic Innovative Leaders Initiative (YTILI), a State Department program implemented by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. It follows up on my posts discussing why early stage startups should — or should not — move to Silicon Valley.

Early Stage 48

Early Stage Austin Silicon Valley Texas 48

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 10, 2018

There are dozens of computer programs that replicate lawyers’ services, including legal research, contract management, and more. Already, a Silicon Valley startup called Atrium has developed an app that hopes to automate nearly every task that forces startups to hire lawyers, which might include acquiring funding, merging, and being sued.

Software Review 70

Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software 70

Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program. And we were able to secure that investment along with a partner from that firm joining our board.

Silicon Valley 97

Silicon Valley Burn Rate Angel Investor Down Round 97

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

20:21] Where can people find out more about your programs and your book? Well, Steve Hoffman (02:34): First of all, I did three venture funded startups in Silicon valley and two bootstrap startups. So we as investors, most investors, we call it in Silicon valley, but really what it is, it show us that people need this.

San Francisco 97

San Francisco Technical Review Incubator Silicon Valley 97

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. But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. Beijing Venture/Angel Ecosystem.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

The differences between the Bend, Oregon region and Silicon Valley are obvious. The sheer density of talent, companies, capital and universities that exist in the Valley are second to none. Silicon Valley Transplants. But the real surprise was learning that for some Bend is a Silicon Valley bedroom community.

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Silicon Valley Oregon Lean Venture Capital 312

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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Silicon Valley Austin North America Texas 54

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

Amsterdam-based startup accelerator Rockstart last year launched a program to find and support ten teams of startup founders in Europe. It recently announced the results of its incubator program – and the results look promising.

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Silicon Valley Europe Venture Capital Incubator 231

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

But the right funding strategy for her is $900,000-$1 million, potentially from angel investors or small funds. However, her list has not been converting very well, and she came to ask if she should add further traffic generation programs such as Linkshare and ShareASale. We will work on that with her. Trendy Loot.

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Valuation Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Bootstrapping 119

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. March 10, 2018 4:30 PM?—?6:00 6:00 PM Capital Factory?—?16th March 12, 2018 11:00AM? March 13, 2018 9:30AM?—?10:30AM

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Texas Austin 58

Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

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. This imbalance keeps L.A.

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Software Developers Software Development PHP Silicon Valley 22

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

The trap most of them fell into (common almost everywhere): they were reading the blog posts and advice of Silicon Valley-based companies and believing that it uniformly applied to them. channel partners and Chinese manufacturers and customer acquisition and activation programs outside their home country. It doesn’t.

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Global Australia Silicon Valley China 335

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). These two divergent groups have optimized for very different market conditions and behaviors.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

OCTOBER 16, 2011

Ron Conway, known as the Godfather of Silicon Valley and part of SV Angel, came to Campbell to talk some shop, angel investing. Since 1994, Conway has been doing angel investing in solely internet software. ” He has been making “angel” investments long before angel investing became cool.

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Silicon Valley Angel Investor Portfolio IPO 53

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Olin College Foundry Program. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Startup Institute – Practical training program to prepare you to join a startup. Startup Leadership Program – International mentorship program with over 100 startups participating. MIT Start Lab.

Boston 71

Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

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. Silicon Valley, New York). An angel investor or VC can multiply their reach and/or depth.

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Silicon Valley Business Model Early Stage Venture Capital 281

David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Teaching and research on entrepreneurship : SOM’s Program on Entrepreneurship , Kyle Jensen’s courses. Mentorship programs : Association of Yale Alumni Mentorship Program , Yale Office of Career Strategy Workshops. Yale has one of the best drama programs in the world. the world’s largest country, Facebook).

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Affiliate Connecticut Programming Community 60

Diego Basch

MARCH 14, 2013

Whether I like it or not I’m an angel investor , even though I prefer a different label. I’ve been around Silicon Valley for a while so I’m connected to many engineers and investors whom I deeply respect. While that may be true, I invest in startups because I need to feel useful.

San Francisco 55

San Francisco Startup Silicon Valley Seed Stage 55

The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The main observation of differences between Silicon Valley and emerging tech hubs in the rest of the world is access to early stage seed funding and international press. Many startups are Silicon Valley clones. Startups are up to Silicon Valley standards.

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Silicon Valley Tanzania Chile Rwanda 148

Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2010

There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program. And we were able to secure that investment along with a partner from that firm joining our board.

Silicon Valley 85

Silicon Valley Burn Rate Angel Investor Down Round 85

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. Every startup is early-stage to someone.

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The Next Web

JUNE 27, 2013

Arjun also serves as a member of the Young Entrepreneur Council, an LP at 500Startups, and is an angel investor and advisor to multiple Silicon Valley startups. Real Estate, and an investment banker specializing in the technology sector at Jefferies Broadview.

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Video Investment Bankers United States Silicon Valley 114

The Next Web

JUNE 26, 2013

As part of the Young Entrepreneur Counci l’s #StartupLab initiative, a virtual mentorship program, Arjun will appear live via video chat broadcast on this site. Arjun also serves as a member of the Young Entrepreneur Council, an LP at 500Startups, and is an angel investor and advisor to multiple Silicon Valley startups.

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United States Investment Bankers Silicon Valley Founder 114

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

Don’t be embarrassed, since even professional investors are often confused these days by the new terms, as well as old terms used with new meanings. For angel investors, early-stage means there is a good business plan and maybe a prototype, but no customer revenue. Every startup is early-stage to someone.

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Early Stage Seed Stage Angel Investor Silicon Valley 231

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. One of my colleagues, Joel West, beat me to the punch with a summary of the program.

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Bootstrapping San Jose Silicon Valley Software Review 28

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Alex has helped bring more than $160 million in funding to Texas startups through SBIR, STTR and other government funding programs for companies like Essentium, ICON 3D, and LIFT Aircraft. He was also born here and went to UT Austin before heading out to Silicon Valley for a stint. STOIKY is his callsign. Edwards University.

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Austin Texas Cofounder Los Angeles 110

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

The University of Houston has the number one undergraduate entrepreneurship program in the country and Rice University has the number one graduate entrepreneurship program in the country. The second wave of companies were mainly concentrated in Silicon Valley, and coincided with the rise of platforms (Google, Facebook, etc.)

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Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

A View from the Valley. Perspectives on issues affecting founders, startups and investors from a veteran startup lawyer in Silicon Valley. Is there a Jewish network in the Silicon Valley startup scene? Angel Investors. Blog blog archive. Quora Answers. About Matt. Client references. Categories.

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Equity Vesting Silicon Valley Intellectual Property 40

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 7, 2010

TechStars For An Hour : If you’re interested in learning more about TechStars or possibly applying, this is a great chance to come and learn about the program from me and David Cohen (TechStars CEO). The tour is being sponsored by Cooley , Silicon Valley Bank , Microsoft , and Rackspace. This is an invite only event.

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Los Angeles Seattle Angel Investor Silicon Valley 119

Gust

JULY 8, 2012

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. Every startup is early-stage to someone.

Early Stage 177

Early Stage Finance Seed Stage Entrepreneur 177

The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2017

Silicon Valley author, investor and entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki advocates using LinkedIn to look at everyone’s background and find points of common interest that you can use. Keep in mind that venture capitalists and angel investors are pitched to every day, according to Forbes contributor Erica Swallow.

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Silicon Valley Startup Maryland Angel Investor 63

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

David Lerner is an entrepreneur, angel investor and director of entrepreneurship at Columbia University. The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explore the habits that make them successful, and the highs, lows and pivots that pushed them forward. Dave Lerner.

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Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Silicon Valley New York 120

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. However, Ive seen a number of students not find their entrepreneurial DNA until exposed to the content and guest speakers in the entrepreneurial program. While Silicon Valley covers a large amount of turf, it is very small. ProfessorVC. Thursday, November 19, 2009. Steve Bennet.

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San Jose Silicon Valley Las Vegas Venture Capital 43

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Card Counting for Investors. How would Billy Beane have done as an early stage investor? RCSM is also participating in the TechStars funding alliance that will be providing an offer of $100K in funding upon acceptance into the program. What does it take to be an Angel Investor?

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Technical Review Early Stage San Jose Angel Investor 38

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. global market a strong channel through Silicon Valley. ISA Innovation. At today's session, therefore, all our entrepreneurs were pitching from Malaysia.

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Malaysia Incubator Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114