ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Yes, venture capital is very good for scaling businesses rapidly. I personally have nothing against venture capital. Next week, we will delve deep into cloud computing businesses. To prepare, please study the Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing trends and opportunities series. Very encouraging!

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 30, 2013

Union Square Ventures partner Albert Wenger wrote a post yesterday about the disruption of venture capital which lists the changes afoot: Information about VCs on the internet. Startup costs have fallen – open source software and cloud computing have driven startup costs down by a factor of 10.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two Of course we can’t.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2017

Chris Rust – Clear Ventures – Predictions for Enterprise IT 2017 – https://medium.com/@chrisrust/clear-predictions-for-enterprise-it-in-2017-2605a5498954#.e6nr2sa9x. VentureBeat – What top Silicon Valley investors expect in 2017 – [link]. 2016 Annual Tech & VC Reports.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

will be a great fit with the Salesforce marketing cloud. Natalie Diggins (Neustar, ex-VP Cloud Platform/DevOps), Francesca Krihely (MongoDB, Dir. While the cloud wars, AI, automation, and digital transformation dominated the enterprise headlines in 2018, we have to remember that we are still early in the cycle.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The book has been shepherded and edited by a great Japanese VC at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital, Takashi Tsutsumi, with help from Masato Iino. We kept talking, with Steve asking “How long are you staying in Silicon Valley?” ————-.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. when to build out our offices in Silicon Valley, New York & Los Angeles. how & when to raise capital. In the Early Days. So our board meetings consisted of discussion about.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2017

Talent in Austin’s isn’t just more affordable, it’s easier to retain talent because they are less likely to get poached by the hot startup in Silicon Valley. Access to capital —  Austin has almost a dozen venture capital firms and a dozen more in the fundraising stages. for the second year in a row. to live in.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Special Report: Silicon Valley’s dirty secret – age bias | Reuters – [link]. Want Venture Capital Funding? 20 Creative Business Card Designs | Pixel Clouds – [link]. Who says startups are easy | Om Malik – [link].

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 26, 2023

Chris Neumann (of Canada’s Panache Ventures ) checks these boxes so I asked him to come on my blog (currently less consistent, hopefully still the other two) for Five Questions. Hunter Walk: So why venture capital, why early stage, and why Canada? CN: Thanks so much – that means a lot coming from you.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

Of the ten startups in the inaugural 2012 class, four have raised follow-on funding to date, and one even reached the break-even point and expanded to Silicon Valley. ” Applications for the second year of the Rockstart Accelerator program are open now through January 20, 2013.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 2011

On Friday Silicon Valley Bank released a survey of 375 executives at startup technology companies in the 4 core venture capital investment sectors – Software/Internet, Hardware, Life Science, and Cleantech. Here is what they found: Tech. Are Bullish. energy independence.”

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Technology innovation outpacing governments’ and regulatory bodies’ ability to adapt isn’t a new tale; we’ve seen it play out across many different industries in Silicon Valley. And it requires an exceptionally thoughtful, committed team working diligently to close this gap.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Hiring technology talent in Silicon Valley is getting difficult, and the time it takes to drive across Palo Alto has tripled—all signs of the impending apocalypse. In the stealth phase , prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists (VCs) start investing in an industry or market segment that others have not yet found.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Your results, thanks to our high performance compute cloud should be available within an hour. DNAnexus ( www.dnanexus.com ) is pioneering the combination of cloud computing and whole-genome DNA sequence analysis. Our team dabbles in everything from S3 and EC2 cloud services to SIMD and assembly code.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. New Capital Earmarked for Global High-Growth Investments LARCHMONT, N.Y., 2009 Bessemer Venture Partners. Labels: Portfolio , Venture Capital.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Innovation Uncensored, is a two-day master class from the world’s most innovative companies for those who think of themselves as an innovative business leader in fields as various as technology, design, marketing, entertainment, venture capitalism, energy, infrastructure, non-profits and branding. Venture Summit Silicon Valley.

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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.) in the last four years we’ve seen a 250% increase in venture capital funding and have doubled the number of startup development organizations in our community.”

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Both Sides of the Table

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. Local Angel Community / Recycled Capital. The ingredients are all here. People do want to help.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. For now, venture investors are relatively content with the arrangement, as theyve made immense sums along the way. "We

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

As we all know, the last ten years has seen a near-total collapse of the innovation cost curve, thanks to the perfect storm of open-source, cloud infrastructure, and “free” global distribution via search, social and app stores. Those VCs were nearly all situated in Silicon Valley and most companies couldn’t get very far without going to them.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. I make the most of this time by listening to my favorite tech and venture podcasts. VentureCast : Bi-weekly anecdotes on the Silicon Valley venture world.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 23, 2013

Who is moving to Silicon Valley, who got funded and who just pivoted. It’s as if there was no such thing as a ‘new business’ before the internet and silicon valley arrived. It was organised by Ned Dwyer as his startup ‘ Tweaky.com ‘ had just reached profitability. I was totally blown away.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. A couple weeks ago, I attended the 13th Silicon Valley Annual VC/Entrepreneur luncheon organized by NVCA. Cloud Computing. (1). Venture Capital. (3). Explore Venture Capital.

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Austin Startup

MAY 15, 2019

In 2008, I was working on Tonido , a private file access, sync and share solution that essentially turned any private computer into a cloud server.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Read part one on the Evolution of Corporate R&D , part two on Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley , and part three The 6 Decisions to Make Before Setting up an Innovation Outpost. Silicon Valley, Boston). Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

I happen to be fascinated by the history of the VC industry, and one of the things we discussed at a recent offsite are the common threads behind the rise and fall of great venture capital firms. Some disgruntled younger partners left in the mid-90s… two co-founded Benchmark Capital (Bruce Dunlevie & Andy Rachleff).

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2016

The future is here it’s just distributed unevenly – Silicon Valley view of tech adoption. and satellites with synthetic aperture radar that can see through clouds and at night are able to pinpoint the strike group and carrier 24/7. Politics: In Silicon Valley most startups fail. And not just one.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 31, 2018

Dfinity, an ambitious new protocol for blockchain based cloud computing, raised over $100M in pre-sale funding from Silicon Valley investors including a16z Crypto. Huobi, the world’s third-largest crypto exchange, acquired a public company ahead of what many think will be a reverse public listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. To be fair, the Day 1 categories were primarily infrastructure companies (Enterprise, Cloud and Mobile). The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Congratulations on the Best Venture Capital Investment. Venture News. ProfessorVC. Are DEMOs days numbered?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Most Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs I know are more like Al Gore. He didn’t get too complicated on the differences of multi-tenant online databases or the power of remote logins when all your data is in the cloud. It was a journalist who covered Venture Capital. But here’s the thing.

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readwrite.com

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Because they cant foist their bad investments onto the venture capitalists who occupy the next rung up on the food chain. Believe it or not this is actually a big story in Silicon Valley right now. Every big company in Silicon Valley is starved for talent. Enterprise. Share… on Facebook. on Twitter.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 30, 2014

Think of it as a cross between a landlord, summer camp, and venture-capital firm. Boston still stings from the departure of Y Combinator, the accelerator known for backing Airbnb and Dropbox, in 2009 for Silicon Valley. Startup accelerators have lost a bit of luster in the past couple of years. Not all will make it.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

To confirm that the improvements in speed and stability were as it hoped, Box commissioned Neustar, a neutral provider of real-time information and analysis for the technology, telecommunications and media industries, to analyze performance against three major cloud storage providers. Crowded clouds. Strength in experience.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

As you know, the Google productivity apps portfolio is getting very good traction within enterprises, and through our Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing series , we've heard from various CIOs who are moving from Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange to Google's Office suite. One of the primary drivers of the switch is cost.

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philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Silicon Valley Frontlines. Cloud Computing. Life in the Valley. Venture Capital. Silicon Alley Insider Henry Blodget, Nick Carlson and others musings on the state of digital media, financial, technology and other sectors. In-the-Trenches Consulting to Startup and Emerging-Growth Companies.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

In his words, he focuses on the intersection of “Mobile + Digital + Apps + IoT + Wearables + UX + Cloud + Enterprise + Monetization + Government + Agile.” Based in Silicon Valley, the company has raised over $13 million in funding, including from Khosla Ventures. Mr. Isy Goldwasser , CEO of thync.

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