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Is Silicon Valley Really Coming to an End?

Both Sides of the Table

By now you probably know that David Sacks , co-founder of PayPal and founder of both Geni & Yammer made some observations on Facebook that Silicon Valley “as we know it” was coming to an end. Enter social media and its importance as a traffic source. And Dropbox & Box.net in a Google, Microsoft, Apple world.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

I thought I’d revisit it and share the story… First, you have to rewind mentally to early 2003. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. You can sometimes attract capital from farther away but typically harder to do at early stage. link] dazhi chen.

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Twitter Link Roundup #180 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

What Nikola Tesla vs. VCs video says about the state of Silicon Valley | by Om Malik – [link]. Follow the money: AngelList has blown open early-stage investments | Wired UK – [link]. “Why Silicon Valley is not the second coming of the Gilded Age.” ” – [link].

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Austinites represent at SXSW 2018

Austin Startup

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. While the networks worked to build platforms to connect the world, they missed how bad actors could exploit them.

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The Next Bubble – Don’t Get Fooled Again

Steve Blank

Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation. In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud. We have just entered the mania phase.

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Practical Strategies For Starting A Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Well, Steve Hoffman (02:34): First of all, I did three venture funded startups in Silicon valley and two bootstrap startups. It can be a mobile app on a phone. So we as investors, most investors, we call it in Silicon valley, but really what it is, it show us that people need this. So I know what it's like.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

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.