View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

On Tuesday, July 21, we hosted the first-ever Boston Consumer Tech Summit. The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. cities (outside of Silicon Valley and the East Coast), to build your startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. Is it any surprise to see Zulily in Seattle, Wayfair in Boston, ExactTarget in Indianapolis, TrueCar in Los Angeles, GroupOn in Chicago or BuzzFeed in NYC? It is different.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 10, 2012

But in early November, cable channel Bravo will debut a new reality program titled “ Silicon Valley ” that will chronicle the lives and struggles of startup entrepreneurs in San Francisco. They don’t represent the true Silicon Valley.in the world according to @ bravotv there are no Asians or Indians in Silicon Valley.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Homebrew is making more investments outside of Silicon Valley than we have in our history! Starting out we really wanted to ensure we got our offering correct – could we effectively deploy capital + sweat + reputation to work with great seed stage founders for the first 3-5 years of their company. Where are we now?

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Version One Ventures

MAY 24, 2016

Just a few years ago, if you wanted to do something big, you needed to go to Silicon Valley. Over the past month, I’ve spent a lot of time in NYC, Toronto, and Ottawa for board meetings, conferences, meetings with our founders, re-connecting with co-investors, and meeting new entrepreneurs. Waterloo has another unicorn with Kik.

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Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

Recently, we surveyed our Boston-based NextView portfolio Founder/CEOs asking them about which service provider firms they’ve been using. When we took the poll itself, one founder said: “This is a great idea. We would have loved to have it when we were getting started.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. All of these things aside, one of its biggest attractions may be what is not: Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The culture and work ethic of Convergent had earned it the title “the Marine Corps of Silicon Valley”. Some of the other founders had sold minicomputers to scientists and engineers, but no one knew or understood the unique class of applications and customers of supercomputers. A few days later Gordon became a founder.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 13, 2011

I looked at this founder’s prior startup, which ultimately had a successful exit, and then was happy to connect with him again as he launches a new project. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Author howerl.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2010

In March, Ross and I will be hosting a talk at South by Southwest; it’s called “ Third Coast: How to be a Startup Outside of Silicon Valley.&# We have been thinking a lot about this lately and discussing the challenges we have faced on our own path. Here’s how we viewed each of these: Networking was critical to us.

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Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

From that perspective, things have been mostly rosy in the Silicon Valley for startups! except for 2008-2009, which is another story) But, I think we’re in trouble, Silicon Valley. Other cities that I like are LA (basically my backyard), Boston (oldie but goodie), and ATL. I went to college during the bust.

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Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

From that perspective, things have been mostly rosy in the Silicon Valley for startups! except for 2008-2009, which is another story) But, I think we’re in trouble, Silicon Valley. Other cities that I like are LA (basically my backyard), Boston (oldie but goodie), and ATL. I went to college during the bust.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index® for the First Quarter 2014, the Q1 increase marks seven consecutive quarters of positive sentiment among Silicon Valley venture capitalists. The significant findings include the following: Founders need to live in the right place.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 10, 2012

But in early November, cable channel Bravo will debut a new reality program titled “ Silicon Valley ” that will chronicle the lives and struggles of startup entrepreneurs in San Francisco. They don’t represent the true Silicon Valley.in the world according to @ bravotv there are no Asians or Indians in Silicon Valley.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

Founders Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk originally started building the company in their native Estonia before moving to Boston to join the hub of SaaS / CAD software companies located here. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. It’s really been a pleasure for me to work with these guys.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. I acknowledged this in the article.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

But, getting in the doors of a Sand Hill Road VC in Silicon Valley can be an incredibly difficult undertaking. This is the home of Jason Cohen, software startup founder, bootstrapper, investor, and mentor. His blog is full of personal stories, gentle advice, and guidance that will be useful to any startup founder.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

We just finished the second year in Boston. 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. and one of the founders of Oblong, John Underkoffler, was an MIT Medialab PHd.,

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The Startup Toolkit

AUGUST 30, 2012

After ~120 meetings everywhere from Boston & New Jersey to LA & Sand Hill Road, we gave up, dug in our heels, and got back to building our business. Nobody on our team had even heard about startups before YC mysteriously accepted us, and 3 months later we still knew pretty much zilch.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Many assume it was a cakewalk, based on the success LinkedIn has enjoyed over time and the current stature of our founder/CEO Reid Hoffman (now Chairman). Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). Thanks Lee.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. I came several times to NorCal (where I grew up, actually) and went and met several partners from each Silicon Valley firm. I also made several trips to New York & Boston. 15 companies North of $1 billion exit.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. I came several times to NorCal (where I grew up, actually) and went and met several partners from each Silicon Valley firm. I also made several trips to New York & Boston. 15 companies North of $1 billion exit.

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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. as in pro wrestling?—?you’re you’re going to take some hits. March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM 4:30PM Hilton?—?Salon

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 12, 2017

Silicon Valley has a remarkable track record of producing valuable technology companies. Of the 13 high-tech companies in the world that are worth over $100 billion, six of them hail from Silicon Valley. So the question on many minds is, “Where is the next Silicon Valley?”. of the world’s population!

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. All of these things aside, one of its biggest attractions may be what is not: Silicon Valley.

United States 48

United States Las Vegas San Francisco Denver 48

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2013

According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index® for the First Quarter 2013, the Q1 increase marks three consecutive quarters of positive sentiment among Silicon Valley venture capitalists. The significant findings include the following: Founders need to live in the right place.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

Even for those who don’t care to dive into the numbers, it’s worth a quick glance because co-founder/CEO Andrew Mason wrote a letter which forms the preamble of the full document. The folks at Yipit did a detailed analyis of the Boston data and concluded Groupon’s model is deteriorating there.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 10, 2012

But in early November, cable channel Bravo will debut a new reality program titled “ Silicon Valley ” that will chronicle the lives and struggles of startup entrepreneurs in San Francisco. They don’t represent the true Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley” will be a purposely designed caricature of startup life.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. Led by General Catalyst with participation by co-founders Steve Hafner & Paul English.

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View from Seed

APRIL 4, 2017

As a seed-focused venture firm with offices in New York and Boston, we believe there’s a responsibility for us to not just be participants in the local entrepreneurial community, but also contributors to it. Email Address *.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 28, 2023

She is a leading venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, where she mentors tech startups and helps them go public. It'll be in Boston from September 5th through the eighth. She's a leading venture capitalist in Silicone Valley where she mentors tech startups and helps them go public. That's right. So there's that.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 10, 2012

That seems steep, especially with programs like Codecademy available for free online and other programs like Boston Startup School free for students that are accepted. This is not the first time a Silicon Valley entrepreneur has advocated learning to code as opposed to going to college.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

If you’re a technical startup founder, one of the painful lessons is that it’s not enough just to build a great product. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Clay Hebert.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2014

According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index® for the First Quarter 2014, the Q1 increase marks seven consecutive quarters of positive sentiment among Silicon Valley venture capitalists. The significant findings include the following: Founders need to live in the right place.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 14, 2017

Boston has among the world’s top healthcare lawyers, but slim pickings for entertainment lawyers (many of which are in Los Angeles). Silicon valley startups generally use silicon valley startup lawyers. Houston has among the world’s top energy lawyers, but slim pickings for technology/vc lawyers.

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View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2015

What is it, and how should founders think about it? Below, we talk to Glen Mello , Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank’s accelerator team in Boston. We’d look at a company and the relationship we have with investors, management team, founders, etc. first and foremost.

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