This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

ROBLOX ( www.roblox.com ) is a web/game startup in Silicon Valley that you have probably never heard of--unless you were an eight year old boy, in which case you're probably not qualified for this position. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. We have a deep technology stack.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so. Come join us.

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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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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Quarterly reports about venture capital investment are fairly commonplace. To help investigate some of the investment trends, the Angel Capital Education Foundation (ACEF), Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and CB Insights are announcing a partnership that will produce a quarterly research report.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. There was one in Silicon Valley, unsurprising, one in Chicago, and there was this group out of the south of France that served all of Europe. So it was from ’91 to ’94 that I programmed.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Understanding Venture Capital. I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. We had to buy expensive Sun servers, Oracle databases, Unix licenses and build complex software.

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David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

See the Techcrunch posts by my Partner John Frankel and Professor Robert Wiltbank , my recent post on the quality of angel returns data , as well as reports from the Silicon Valley Bank and Kauffman Foundation. However, the conventional wisdom is that small VC funds have better performance profiles than large ones.

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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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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

We have a myriad of connections to local Venture Capital firms, entrepreneurs, CEOs, and many other important individuals. Database Expertise: MSSQL/MySQL – Relational database design and programming, stored procedures, triggers, reporting, and administration. Silicon Valley Bank seems interesting.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I am not sure how this relates to venture finance or entrepreneurship, but Im sure Ill find some connection along the way. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Congratulations on the Best Venture Capital Investment. Venture News. ProfessorVC.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. They have a cute little app that takes a picture of a business card, populates your contact database and data is confirmed through crowd sourced labor. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Congratulations on the Best Venture Capital Investment. ProfessorVC.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Venture capital is still alive and well, at least it was in the third quarter of this year. CB Insights, a venture capital database, just published its Q3 2012 VC Activity Report which gives an industry look at where the funding went between July and September.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

“ They measured every single thing ” by developing one massive database of key metrics. A recent article on Venture Beat talks about how Venture Capital firms are starting to take a Moneyball approach: “ In Silicon Valley, new firms are going a step further by creating an entire investment thesis around data.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In old-school resume databases, most talented professionals didn’t want or need to participate. When you’re finding people on LinkedIn, you’re finding them through a network as opposed to a resume database. The usual tempo for raising money from venture capital is at a minimum of a year between financings.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 30, 2015

Basically, the company’s immense historical database of supply and demand curves at different price points makes it easy to predict how these markets will evolve. This allows the company to “forward invest” capital to help these markets achieve lower consumer prices even faster. How could they make such an aggressive move? Jeff Bezos.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. Especially if you aren’t from around Silicon Valley. even something like joining a climbing gym can work – in silicon valley, they’re full of techies!

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. In doing research for a post on “The Enterprise Cool Kids” at the tail end of last year, I interviewed Silicon Valley veteran Marc Andreessen about where he thought the enterprise was headed. are all precursors, rumbles before the big boom. Marc Andreessen On The Future Of Enterprise.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Out of Stanford Business School she went to work for Apple as an evangelist and then joined Ansa Software , the developer of Paradox, a Mac-database. Most Silicon Valley startups have great policies for having your dog at work but not your kids.) My wife knew a bit about startups. Long vacations. Never miss an event.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

125 theses so far submitted by investors into the OpenVC database. Our four primary learnings: Public theses are often inconsistent with how firms actually deploy capital. of venture capital deals. Those companies have garnered only about 2% of all capital invested. 1) Industry funds. 4) Entrepreneur-defined funds.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? So how do Israeli ventures scale up? But is all of that changing? We think so. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. We have the inability to hire engineering in Silicon Valley or brand sales people in NYC but the country still has very high structural long-term unemployment. We did not.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. Qualcomm Ventures is invested in a number of startups including Livescribe, Obopay , Arieso and Zeebo.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world. 41% of them feel that they qualify for venture capital funding.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Blogs (web development): Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots – [link] Company blog of thoughtbot covering Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, Javascript, databases, and mobile development. Simple editing. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). From premium paid subscription databases to free tools showcasing new startups and startup maps, The Ultimate Startup Intelligence Tools List is guaranteed to help you get your research done. Need a database/back end solution? About VC Cafe. Seed Startups.

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