BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

While developers can now spin up applications faster than ever before, one of the downsides is the complexity of managing these distributed applications and technologies. Year of HQ2 and Distributed Teams: It was a banner year for non-Silicon Valley cities as NYC and Northern Virginia were selected as Amazon’s HQ2.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

And there was a great discussion about generational change at Venture Capital firms handled so well by Benchmark & Sequoia and how Fred is thinking about it. Our country heals – even if we have much work to do in order to make this widely distributed. Do you need to be technical to be a great VC? Worst system.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

Doug and his co-founder Vivek Nair , were not planning on raising any venture capital money yet. They had already done one startup before that was venture-backed and they realized that they should only raise venture capital once they are ready. .” But it wasn’t that simple!

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The combination of mobile technology, sensors, robotics, and data analytics will create businesses that can empower billions of people around the world through decentralized and distributed networks where the “middlemen” are no longer required. Even in the United States, one in five households are underbanked.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Why get into the venture capital side of the business? I first got into venture capital about 10 years ago and I love my job. Unlike many venture capital firms that invest in certain geographic regions or specific technologies and sectors, Foundry Group’s investing activity is largely driven by a thematic approach.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. The Montgomery Conference : one of the top technology events of the annual calendar in the United States and held every March. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital? We discussed: 1.

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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. Others Alon Alroy Bizzabo conference event startup technology United States' Hopefully we will see you there! FutureStack.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 31, 2016

How else can you define a sales process or know what to look for when you hire a sales manager or seek distribution partnerships? First from the corporate sector within Battelle – and then regionally, building innovation and startup support systems in Oklahoma, Ohio and advising several regions of the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.) Texas dominates every top ten list.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Interestingly enough, CooTek’s co-founder and CEO, Michael Wong , who was formerly from Microsoft’s R&D unit, took an unconventional route by launching in the Western market first. Distribution and cashflow pose challenges in China. He explains how the Chinese in general are consumers who are less willing to pay.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

2018 set yet another all-time record for the number of paper books sold in the United States, as has been repeatedly true during the era of Amazon. He also had backing from well-known venture capital investors like Union Square Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Google Ventures, and even Richard Branson.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 19, 2018

THE IMPORTANCE OF GENDER PARTNERSHIP ‘The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.’ I hear a lot these days about gender imbalance in male dominated industries, Venture Capital being one of them. Geoffrey used to quote William Gibson: “The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed”.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Boris Wertz, founding partner of Version One Ventures, believes that if you’ve worked in an industry you’re passionate about for a long time, you may know something about the market that nobody else knows. If You Want Venture Capital, You Need It. He calls this “the secret of the market.”. Do you know a specific market’s secret?

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Because of the magical ordering system and the ability to efficiently organize a distributed set of drivers, Uber can operate effectively in markets where it simply didn’t make sense to have a dense supply of taxis. The number of cars in circulation in the world is just over 1 billion , with 25% of those in the United States.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

It was adopted by the National Science Foundation for commercializing science in the United States. Distribution channels, brand loyalty, etc. Challenge two – Large companies are dealing with startups that are funded with unimaginable capital. It’s called NSF I-Corps. It’s a big idea.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. The guy who replaced him invented the idea of the modern corporation. Understanding the future of entrepreneurship may depend on understanding the contribution each of them made in the past. automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the global economy.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Fund/SPV management services specifically are provided by Assure Services and Proteus Capital. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. One of the ones that really bothers me is how Venture Capitalists try and conflate what they do as being complicated.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. Boldstart uses both Zapier and Catalytic for this purpose.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Texas has 4 of the 11 largest cities in the United States and they are all within driving distance of each other. Texas is the most promising technology investment opportunity in the United States and Capital Factory is going to turbocharge it.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats. Today, companies like Zoom have 300 million daily meeting participants.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

An effective moat doesn’t require Amazon’s distribution network or Microsoft’s monopolistic software strategy. For example, in the United States, freight railroads have a deep moat. The company limits costs through a management and distribution structure that serves multiple stores in a geographic area. Dig a deep moat.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 16, 2020

Entrepreneurship in the United States has been changing in ways that many people have not yet recognized. This is a positive step, and more like it, which will allow broader distribution of funds available, need to be taken. billion venture capital firm in Boulder, Colorado.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

What distribution, are we using gems or are we a web? That if they can’t go get angel funding or venture capital funding, they can’t start a business. Do I need venture capital? The average startup cost in the United States and that’s nine years ago, was $10,000. Do I get financing?

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. VIPKid links students in China who want to learn English with native English speaking tutors in the United States and Canada.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

BigBand Networks, which has more than 200 customers in North America, Asia and Europe, provides broadband service providers with digital video networking solutions designed to make it easier to distribute, manage and monetize video.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? The Kauffman Foundation analyzed their own investments in venture capital (100 funds) over a 20-year period and found, “Only twenty of the hundred venture funds generated returns that beat a public market equivalent by more than 3% annually….Sixty-two

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

of the world’s population — has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any country in the world save the United States and China. According to Ori Israely, investor and former general partner of Giza Venture Capital, “There is more fit between [an] Israeli entrepreneur and [an] Israeli investor in the seed stages.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

In the first 50 years of commerce in the then-new United States, most businesses were general merchants , buying and selling all types of products as exporters, wholesaler, importers, etc. and concentrated on a single part of the supply chain – importing, distribution, wholesale, retail.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Ampex’s first customer was Bing Crosby who wanted to record his radio programs for rebroadcast (and had exclusive distribution rights.) But by the 1960′s the tidal wave of semiconductor startups would find a valley with a growing number of SBIC backed venture firms and limited partnerships. More on this in the next post.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

The government buys and distributes commercial images from startups to supplement their own and shares them with Ukraine as part of a broader intelligence-sharing arrangement that the head of Defense Intelligence Agency described as “ revolutionary.” Today, commercial companies have their own satellites providing unclassified imagery.

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Up and Running

JULY 3, 2015

For us small business owners, for entrepreneurs who do and even if you do have great venture capital, great angel investors, great funding for marketing, for you to spend the amount of money it would take for you to reach an audience as ubiquitously as Nike can is just an outrageous amount of dollars.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. When speaking about the blockchain to many people in the United States, I get a puzzled look on why the technology matters. He approached me after I spoke about the potential of bitcoin and blockchain (at Summit Series’ Summit at Sea).

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. When speaking about the blockchain to many people in the United States, I get a puzzled look on why the technology matters. He approached me after I spoke about the potential of bitcoin and blockchain (at Summit Series’ Summit at Sea).

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thebarefootvc

JULY 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. When speaking about the blockchain to many people in the United States, I get a puzzled look on why the technology matters. He approached me after I spoke about the potential of bitcoin and blockchain (at Summit Series’ Summit at Sea).

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2013

Settlers in the Western United States in the 1800''s participated in land grabs. The actual supply of Bitcoin is somewhat capped, but that may mean that you''d rather be a currency investor than a service business around Bitcoin--because access is going to be open, distributed, and trend towards as free as possible.

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