Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. They also probably haven’t seen a phone that isn’t mobile.) business models.

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China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 323

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! In the middle of that was a gaping hole.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! In the middle of that was a gaping hole.

Angel Investor 84

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. They also probably haven’t seen a phone that isn’t mobile.) business models.

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China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models.

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Open Source Business Model Technical Cofounder Southern California 150

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Powered by cell phones and social networking platforms, we saw revolutions taking place, businesses being transformed and our daily lives made more convenient (if we could tear ourselves away from our Facebook and Twitter updates). As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Now that summer is officially over, venture capital activity is picking up. I just reviewed the many companies who recently raised venture capital with an eye towards those that are offering products and services that could benefit other entrepreneurs and business owners. Collectively these companies just raised $43.2

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Azure Venture Capital Software Review Syndicate 74

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. China Venture Capital. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. China has the biggest Venture Capital industry outside the U.S. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. I use to to learn, to grow, to ask questions for which I’m curious and to further develop relationships that I have. Mark then talked about Crittercism, a mobile feedback solution. What is your mobile strategy? Not a chance.

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Connecticut Cofounder Silicon Valley Web 286

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. Weve also found that other social networks such as FaceBook and MySpace to have almost no results when it comes to recruitment.

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Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Venture capital remains white boys club – [link]. Lesson for all on social networks: Spirit Airlines hit with $50K fine over deceptive Tweets – [link]. The Future of Advertising: Everything’s Going Mobile – [link]. Five campaigns changing the game of mobile advertising – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

technologies like social networking, mobile gaming, and interactive advertising, in 2011 new fortunes and legends are being made. social networking hype of 2006-2007. Individual Investors, NOT Venture Capitalists, are Leading the Charge. Here’s why: 1. Our favorites?

Social Network 63

Social Network Technical Review Stock Early Stage 63

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. China Venture Capital. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. China has the biggest Venture Capital industry outside the U.S. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

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. Come share your journey capital and gain valuable insights at this meetup! March 10, 2018 9:30AM?—?11:30AM

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Texas Austin 58

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1. note: there is one rare exception – in 2006 Sevin Rosen declared that Venture Capital was broken and actually returned money to their LPs !

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

For example, if you’re looking to approach Kleiner Perkins it’s worth knowing that my friend Matt Murphy runs their iFund and therefore is the in-house expert on all things mobile. He knows the history of all of the payment gateways, mobile payment platforms, credit offerings, remittance companies, etc. Neither can any VC.

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Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

For a large variety of applications and services, users favor mobile applications over browser based applications. Over 45% of Yelp’s* searches begin on mobile. For Zillow*, 50% of home views are now on mobile. For each and every Internet company out there, mobile is rising as a percentage of all user visits.

Mobile 96

Mobile SEM SEO Technical Review 96

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Startups built every possible feature the founding team envisioned (using “Waterfall development,”) into a monolithic “release” of the product taking months or years to build a first product release. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Join others who code to change the world for the better and explore distributed computing, examine the confluence between businesses and technology, and debate the power of technology on urban development. VentureBeat Mobile Summit. Social Media Marketing World. Tech-savvy minds, this is the conference for you. Launch Festival.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

Developer and publisher of social mobile games. SGN games downloaded +17mm times on mobile devices. Current round: $2mm Series B from Tomorrow Ventures (Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google) and Lars Hinrichs (Xing founder). Current round: $10mm in Series E from Alloy Ventures, Lightspeed, and Walden International.

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San Francisco Los Angeles Cofounder SMS 230

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

To be fair, the Day 1 categories were primarily infrastructure companies (Enterprise, Cloud and Mobile). Day 2 featured the consumer and social media, which were more interesting for me and much of the audience. Bump.com is a social network based on license plate numbers as the identifier. Venture Hacks.

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Technical Review San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley 38

www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Some techies have business sense; most generally don’t have a highly developed one. The most salient one for business people looking for a technical co-founder is this one: Are you looking for an iPhone developer? If you already have an iPhone developer on staff, they can lead the discussion. Mobile (3).

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Cofounder Technical Review Founder Software Review 40

VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

Last week I had the pleasure of giving a keynote in La Red Innova conference, speaking about mobile search and its impact on ecommerce. Spain is growing also in terms of online and mobile penetration, albeit slowly: Following a surge in 2009, growth is continuing at less than 5% per year. 4) The concept of networking is new here.

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Spain Silicon Valley Brazil Europe 108

Scalable Startup

APRIL 1, 2013

Simultaneously Alessio watched his father create a PayPal competitor and he wanted to make something more futuristic for mobile payments; he then saw a WIRED article “Kill The Password!” ” We compared notes and decided the timing was right for mobile payments without passwords leveraging advances in biometrics.

PHP 22

PHP Japan Portfolio Social Network 22

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. Venture Hacks. ► 2010. (7).

Technical Review 38

Technical Review Early Stage San Jose Angel Investor 38

Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

In other parts of the country, this is business as usual: Identify a customer need Build a product Sell the product In the valley, the knee jerk reaction is to start with the powerpoint deck and look for the venture capital drug. Jon Fisher purposely avoided raising venture capital in his ventures. Venture Hacks.

Bootstrapping 28

Bootstrapping San Jose Silicon Valley Software Review 28

Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

Lobbying is ongoing by both the National Venture Capital Association and Angel Capital Association and James Geshwiler on the panel wrote a recent post on the ramification. Labels: Angel Investors , fundraising , term sheets , venture capital , venture financing. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic.

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Term Sheet Angel Investor San Jose Venture Capital 32

www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Here is the original post: Early Stage Web Application Start-Up Seeking Developer/Designer. We have a myriad of connections to local Venture Capital firms, entrepreneurs, CEOs, and many other important individuals. In the longer term we will compete with social networks and online advertising.

Sweat Equity 40

Sweat Equity Equity Hiring Technical Review 40

Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2011

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. Venture Hacks. ► 2010. (7).

Technical Review 31

Technical Review Due Diligence Silicon Valley San Jose 31

Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2008

During the next four months, we will examine over a dozen entrepreneurial ventures from a diverse mix of industries - technology, service, food & beverage, and fashion. I think this same concept plays into what Ive seen happening a lot more in the venture community: partners at VC firms jumping back into entrepreneurial ventures.

San Jose 28

San Jose Technical Review Angel Investor Venture Capital 28

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I attended the annual LP meeting for a venture capital firm this week and got into a discussion about the above question. I'm doing a new academic experiment now - an incubator at Menlo College where we are bringing the start-ups to campus and giving the students an opportunity to see how they develop and work as interns.

San Jose 43

San Jose Silicon Valley Las Vegas Venture Capital 43

Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. Venture Hacks. ► 2010. (7).

San Jose 36

San Jose Technical Review Angel Investor Valuation 36

Professor VC

MAY 29, 2008

The ACA is an interesting organization and is providing support in a number of ways to its member angel groups, from public policy, networking, sydnication, and best practices. The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) was also represented at the conference and is forging closer links with the ACA. Venture Hacks.

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Angel Investor Angel Groups Accredited Investor San Jose 28

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. LA was a leader in lead generation (LowerMyBills), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla), social networking (MySpace … I know, I know – Facebook won – but it was still a big business).

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Silicon Valley Technology Los Angeles Southern California 290

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This is a story of one of the risks of venture capital. But some companies have entrepreneurs that seem talented on paper, are in a space that seems interesting to investors and are able to raise venture capital early in the company’s existence. True story.) We hired people to run the UK and Germany.

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Founder Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 299

Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Labels: bootstrapping , CFO , Fliqz , venture capital , venture financing. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Venture Hacks. ProfessorVC.

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley San Jose Bootstrapping 28