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FEBRUARY 20, 2019
If you’re a super experienced Silicon Valley CEO with a billion-dollar exit?—?probably. If you get a smart person on the board?—?just just having a sparring partner with a vested interest in your success can be useful. As per the chart above, I highly recommend keeping a founder dominated board at the seed stage. But it’s quite rare.
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JANUARY 6, 2014
when to build out our offices in Silicon Valley, New York & Los Angeles. Brett was formerly SVP of the Marketing Cloud at Salesforce with an enormous organization of sales, marketing, implementation, sales engineers, etc. So our board meetings consisted of discussion about. how to build an initial sales organization.
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JANUARY 16, 2010
I remember reading many years ago about how devices being connected in the cloud would be far more pervasive and have a much bigger impact on our lives than the simple PC’s that we operate. Your measurements are automatically sent via wi-fi to the cloud and stored in a password protected portal viewed on the web or on your iPhone.
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two .” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 dot-com bonanza. Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet.
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MARCH 6, 2015
Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. If you are a 20-something tech entrepreneur you could be forgiven for thinking that seed-stage investors, Angellist Syndicates and widely available angel money always existed. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon.
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MAY 5, 2011
Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. They have the same trade-off decisions that you do about packing up and moving to Silicon Valley vs. staying and building locally. The ingredients are all here. Stating the obvious but you can’t will a region into success.
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AUGUST 22, 2011
We spoke about my interest in cloud computing, digital media and mobile. I love seeing non Silicon Valley markets boom as it broadens our country’s innovation hubs. It’s about 10 minutes long. It’s a fun 10-minute interview that you might enjoy watching. In a word, awesome.
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