Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Are you beating up every Silicon Valley VC that didn’t do Facebook or Google or Uber early? And we feel great about the many companies in LA that have now reached serious revenue growth. Snapchat truly built an amazing product and an amazing community and anybody who knows me knows that I’m very active on it.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 8, 2017

After investing in 36 lobbyists to win this bill — Uber and Lyft got basically everything they wanted and both Silicon Valley giants turned their apps back on in Austin a few hours later. We believe we share the same values as many in the Austin community — and it’s been great to hear the words of encouragement to keep RideAustin open.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

By then, I had become a venture capitalist at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance and found myself talking to a lot of entrepreneurs who were proclaiming their great technology yet were struggling with little revenue, and claiming they were “crossing the chasm”. We kept talking, with Steve asking “How long are you staying in Silicon Valley?”

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Being in Ohio, which lacks the startup ecosystem of an entrepreneurial cluster like Silicon Valley, made it difficult for Will to get funding for his first startup, Huddlewoo : The type of business that we were building needed an investment of capital ahead of revenue. Will : Absolutely. ” Steve : And so why do you stay?

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. The process of raising money in Asia is very different from raising money in Silicon Valley and, frankly, it’s not nearly as easy. As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

It follows up on my posts discussing why early stage startups should — or should not — move to Silicon Valley. In terms of access to capital, Austin is not Silicon Valley or New York — but it is Austin. If you’ve just exited or realised stock options from a Silicon Valley success story, moving out of state is worthwhile.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

” Sean is somebody widely respected in Silicon Valley (although he now lives in SoCal) for having helped many early-stage companies go through major growth periods by quantitatively testing features with audiences to help diagnose what led to growth. .” Why do I Like the term Growth Hacking?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Once you’ve established your ideal customer, you can better focus your growth hacker marketing efforts to improve revenue and ROI. In the revenue phase, measure these performance metrics: Customer acquisition cost Customer lifetime value Monthly recurring revenue (MRR) Repeat purchases Revenue churn. Image source.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

The entrepreneur who founded and grew the largest startup in the world to $10 billion in revenue and got fired is someone you have probably never heard of. But the spirit of Billy Durant would rise again in what would become Silicon Valley. A version of this article appeared in the Harvard Business Review.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round).

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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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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Hurricane Irma had a major negative revenue impact on one whose fall book of business was mostly in Florida. I believe the famous Ron Conway made about 300 investments in his Silicon Valley angel fund in the late 90’s, and his one big win was?—?Google. Might your company be the bell-ringer that makes one of them a big winner?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 12, 2013

“How do we design and build a world-class mobile experience that not only satisfies the needs of our users, but fuels growth and inspires more people to join the Airbnb global community? Myth #2: You can bolt on community, once the commerce engine is going. It all starts with culture. “By

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity. At the same time, it’s a chance to expose some career State Department employees to Silicon Valley thinking. The student teams have learned tons about how the State Department is organized and how it works (or doesn’t).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity. At the same time, it’s a chance to expose some career State Department employees to Silicon Valley thinking. The student teams have learned tons about how the State Department is organized and how it works (or doesn’t).

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The Next Web

JANUARY 23, 2014

In the US, San Francisco is synonymous with startups, and the attitudes and opinions that permeate the tech space, from New York to Austin to Silicon Valley, is largely derived from what’s considered the norm in the 415 area code. A trial-by-fire environment like ours means that we can’t hope to launch a company without revenue.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 12, 2022

If you don't take care of yourself, you will be forced to take care of your health later on, and you will notice this decline in productivity and revenue. Not everyone is a “genius” or enmeshed in the Silicon Valley scene. Supporting charitable organizations and giving back to the community keeps me motivated.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

When 3M brought “lead users” into its innovation process, they improved revenues by a factor of eight times over innovations from internal product developers. Some of the most creative technology coming out of Silicon Valley is designed to do exactly that. Community marketing is the best way to leverage Rock Star customers.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Reading the articles and the comments is probably worth it, but I personally think that the NY Times is overstating the advantage of being in Silicon Valley with a couple of exceptions. Of course, thats probably even more true in Silicon Valley. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

But, there is a serious gap in the discipline, number of developers and community around real software development here. from catching up with Silicon Valley and New York as a stronger startup region. I’ve had 7 jobs in Silicon Valley in software development companies, but 6 of the 7 were in business development.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2019

Coming out of Silicon Valley and the tech world, I was a complete novice on how policy gets made. Deciding between the applicants, their lobbyists, the environmental community, the staff, the coastal act and the law. So, if you’re a developer, having any land declared sensitive is a loss of potential revenue.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Hacking for Defense is a battle-tested problem-solving methodology that runs at Silicon Valley speed. Teach Department of Defense /Intelligence Community sponsors how to deliver problems to these schools and how to get the most out of student teams. We just held our first Hacking for Defense Educators Class with 75 attendees.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York. Over the past few years, the tech community has absolutely exploded locally (and if you’re new here or just want to take it all in, here’s our Hitchhiker’s Guide to Boston Tech microsite). We had a plan.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

In fact, they generated $100k in revenues over the last year, since they first pitched at one of our roundtables. The technology has been highly acclaimed in the mobile device community as a way to let users type in multiple, especially non-Latin, languages. LG is licensing the technology and many other device vendors are in the queue.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Well, 1M/1M is focused on helping businesses generate $1M in annual revenue, whatever be the nature of the business. But our goal is to make sure that these businesses are sustainable, have customers, revenues, and profits. David is also struggling with the notion of his community taking the transactions offline.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The growing NFT infrastructure allowed those that were not able to find markets for their art before to monetize their work through online global communities. More recently as tokenomics started to take hold, we invested in Braintrust in 2019, a team from Silicon Valley that has significant experience building Web 2 marketplaces.

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Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

We really wanted to build a network of top tier talent, similar to the caliber of talent that’s working in-house at top Silicon Valley tech companies. Our emphasis is on community, not commodity, and it’s about quality, not quantity. Focus on what to focus on.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

ShareVolution As for the pitches today, first, Daniel McPherson from Australia pitched ShareVolution , an app store for the Microsoft SharePoint community. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

Enterprise clients for whom Private Workplace was introduced are a minority at oDesk, but this minority brings the bigger part of the revenues. I think, 90 percent of our revenue came from four job categories, which were entirely technical. Who needs freelancers?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 31, 2011

Maybe because it’s a company town and everyone in Silicon Valley has a family connection to entrepreneurship. It was amazing to read their plans talking about income, revenue, cost of goods, fixed and variable costs, profit and liquidity. Out of the mouths babes. 12 Year Olds Writing Business Plans. Lessons Learned.

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Silicon Valley Startup Community Business Plan 309

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman). As a result we need somebody well networked into these communities already. Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley. billion IPO), Envestnet (Chicago, $1.25

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

On Wednesday and Thursday I spent two awesome days with my long time friend Martin Babinec (the founder of Trinet), his partner at Upstate Venture Connect – Nasir Ali – and about 1000 members of the Upstate New York entrepreneurial community. Martin and I first met around 1991 when we were both building our first companies.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Along with some friends from Yale (my alma mater), I recently brainstormed some ideas to accelerate a university’s campus tech community. Marketing of tech community : Yale Tech News , Yale Entrepreneurship Magazine. Those unique assets are sometimes leverageable into a resource for strengthening the university’s tech community.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

I got smarter about the world outside of Silicon Valley, met some wonderful people who made me feel part of their family and shared some thoughts about entrepreneurship. This post is a personal view of what I saw in what I call “Chilecon Valley” — in no way does it represent the views of the fine institutions I teach at.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Hacking for Defense is a battle-tested problem-solving methodology that runs at Silicon Valley speed. Teach Department of Defense /Intelligence Community sponsors how to deliver problems to these schools and how to get the most out of student teams. We just held our first Hacking for Defense Educators Class with 75 attendees.

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Silicon Valley Afghanistan Iraq Community 120

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Why Bravo’s ‘Start-Ups: Silicon Valley’ Is Bad for Entrepreneurship - [link]. Chicago’s Startup Community Grows Outside Of Groupon’s Shadow | Chicagoist - [link]. Just 25 Developers Grabbed 50% Of App Revenues On U.S. Questions to Ask Potential Cofounders: The Master List | Founder Dating - [link].

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