ithacaVC

MAY 24, 2014

I am including below the entire introductory email that came with the report. Hello Friends and Colleagues, We are pleased to pass along to you our recent paper “Entrepreneurship in New York: The Mismatch between Venture Capital and Academic R&D”. In fact, 97% of this capital was committed downstate.

New York 79

New York Venture Capital Technical Review New York City 79

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. The value of Pitch Decks; Brad’s personal preferences on deal presentation; and Brad’s practice of accepting cold approaches via email. Yeah, my email address is Brad@Feld.com. was starting.

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2013

Obviously, a key factor is always the state of the economy and the mood of the venture capital community. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index® for the First Quarter 2013, the Q1 increase marks three consecutive quarters of positive sentiment among Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

Venture Capital 238

Venture Capital Silicon Valley Massachusetts California 238

www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

VENTURE CAPITAL. You are here: Home / Startups / Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital.

Venture Capital 42

Venture Capital Seattle Cofounder Software Engineering 42

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

There’s a good chance I’ve missed something — if you feel that way, by all means, please share your point of view on Twitter (or email) and link to the post. 6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase. And, thus began the Scooter Wars, which saw consumers across major U.S. That turned out to be a prescient comment.

Technical Review 165

Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

In April 2010 I received an email that said, “I’m an incoming Stanford student in the fall and working on a project that a number of people suggested I get in touch with you about.&#. They went to work gathering deep knowledege of what makes successful Internet startups. Ok, I get a lot of these. Startup Genome Report.

Technical Cofounder 334

Technical Cofounder Early Stage Startup Silicon Valley 334

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

When people ask me how they can become a VC, I point them to my partner Seth Levine’s excellent blog posts How to become a venture capitalist and How to get a job in venture capital (revisited). Charley was a partner at a firm called VIMAC and was looking at some Internet stuff. Do you want to help out?”

San Francisco 159

San Francisco Boston Angel Investor Venture Capital 159

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2017

Some aspiring entrepreneurs are so desperate for funding, or naïve, that they ignore the obvious signs of scams and rip-offs on the Internet, praying for a windfall. No real investor or venture capital firm asks for money from the company they are intending to invest in. Chain emails leading to a windfall.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Non-disclosure Agreement Due Diligence Entrepreneur 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Some aspiring entrepreneurs are so desperate for funding, or naïve, that they ignore the obvious signs of scams and rip-offs on the Internet, praying for a windfall. No real investor or venture capital firm asks for money from the company they are intending to invest in. Chain emails leading to a windfall.

Technical Review 202

Technical Review Non-disclosure Agreement Due Diligence Entrepreneur 202

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2014

Finally I realized that Venture Capital and Angel investors are actually humans, despite some views to the contrary. Others send investors email and business plans in all uppercase or no punctuation. Many key insights to success in any business can’t be learned from books or the Internet. Expert in your chosen domain.

Angel Investor 268

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Early Stage 268

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2010

But until now, I’ve never seen a study of exactly how that plays out for startup founders for current venture-backed companies, specifically: race, age, experience and the number of founders per company. California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention.

Venture Capital 221

Venture Capital Massachusetts California New York 221

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2017

My view is that non-disclosures won’t protect you from unscrupulous business contacts, so you simply shouldn’t deal with the flood of unknown people who will contact you via the phone or Internet. If you are approaching a recognized venture capital group, or even an accredited angel investor, a non-disclosure agreement is counter-productive.

Non-disclosure Agreement 153

Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Technical Review Due Diligence 153

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. Instead of email, they’ve grown up with QQ instant messages. Internet penetration in Beijing is greater than 70% while it’s less than 25% in Yunnan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other provinces. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital.

China 327

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 327

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

It sort of reminds me of the new generation of innovation that is happening around user-controlled terrestrial & Internet station Jelli.]. In his early career he realized the importance of email lists. His email list became his power. He would occasionally give away free music in exchange for email addresses.

Entrepreneur 356

Entrepreneur Los Angeles Norway Audience 356

The Next Web

JULY 20, 2013

But if our website says that Credo invests in IT, Internet, mobile or healthcare startups predominantly in Central Europe, I just don’t feel obliged to respond to a gold mine in Mongolia or Australian TV production studio. Not all entrepreneurs are aware of the responsibilities associated with receiving venture capital.

Silicon Valley 124

Silicon Valley Mongolia Technical Cofounder Entrepreneur 124

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. What Do VC’s Do?

Silicon Valley 235

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 235

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. Instead of email, they’ve grown up with QQ instant messages. Internet penetration in Beijing is greater than 70% while it’s less than 25% in Yunnan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other provinces. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital.

China 219

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 219

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2014

In the last two weeks there’s been a flurry of articles about the implications of a 25% decline in the public market value of a bunch of Internet stocks. We were in the middle of fundraising for Softbank Venture Capital (which became Mobius Venture Capital.) A few weeks later Internet stocks started to fall.

Stock 140

Stock Internet SEC Italy 140

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

The key to this strategy is getting 5 people who form the social proof to help you get a bigger angel round done at a higher valuation by tons of industry insiders and thus offering the social proof you need attract great employees and ultimately venture capital investors. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice.

Silicon Valley 293

Silicon Valley Technical Review Southern California Angel Investor 293

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Obviously, a key factor is always the state of the economy and the mood of the venture capital community. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index® for the First Quarter 2014, the Q1 increase marks seven consecutive quarters of positive sentiment among Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

Silicon Valley 271

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Massachusetts California 271

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The post “ What I learned from raising venture capital ” by Gabriel Weinberg , the founder of DuckDuckGo is one of them. WHAT TO DO WHEN RAISING VENTURE CAPITAL. There are some well respected junior VCs doing Internet investments. It also helps including them all in one email blast to get them aligned.

Venture Capital 109

Venture Capital Term Sheet Angel Investor Due Diligence 109

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 4, 2023

Mark Goldstein sent me an email this morning titled your blog, an article i was in last week and yep in response to my post What Just Happened. ” and a link to The Internet Is Kmart Now from The Atlantic. We were in the middle of it (Softbank Venture Capital/Mobius invested in Bluelight.com and Spinway.)

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital America Internet Channel 107

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. China Venture Capital. venture capitalists invested $26.5

Silicon Valley 272

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 272

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. It is possible to submit a plan through email but it is not the best approach.

Pre-Money Valuation 284

Pre-Money Valuation Technical Review Cofounder Cram Down 284

Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

It took me 8 startups and 21 years to get it right, (and one can argue success was due to the Internet bubble rather then any brilliance.) No internet, no blogs, no books on startups, no entrepreneurship departments in universities, etc. It took lots of trial and error, learning by experience and resilience through multiple failures.

Silicon Valley 204

Silicon Valley RSS Technical Review Lean 204

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Let’s take an example – In the case of an internet or app business, the user traction and market penetration is a must. Under this category, you have the angel investors who would invest their own money and Venture Capital or VC firms, who manage funds aimed towards specific startup sectors and stages. Equity investors.

Startup 150

Startup Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Seed Stage 150

VC Cafe

MARCH 21, 2022

Before I get started it helps to explain our viewpoint on the Metaverse at Remagine Ventures. In a nutshell, we see it a new Internet being built, with the consumer at its centre. Reach out to Remagine Ventures via info@remagineventures.com if you want to talk about what you are working on.

Startup 187

Startup Community Social Network Portfolio 187

Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

We offer investors venture economics with public market liquidity. Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. This means that private keys — the keys that literally control the money — never touch the Internet. has about ~40 employees and has raised $9M in venture capital.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Austin 48

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Labels: Europe Consumer , internet. Subscribe via email. internet. (6). Venture Capital. (3). How the use of internet is transform. Explore Venture Capital.

Software Review 95

Software Review Europe Technical Review Spain 95

David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

Domain names are less important than they were in the first Internet wave, because so many people will access your service on mobile and/or via apps, and because type-in traffic is declining. However, they remain key to your email identity, and fundamental to your marketing and even capital-raising.

Naming 114

Naming Semantic Venture Capital Startup 114

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Subscribe via email. internet. (6). Venture Capital. (3). How the use of internet is transform. Explore Venture Capital. Cracking The Code. Wednesday, February 23, 2011.

Software Review 101

Software Review Technical Review Valuation Europe 101

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Subscribe via email. internet. (6). Venture Capital. (3). How the use of internet is transform. Explore Venture Capital. Cracking The Code. Sunday, November 07, 2010.

Software Review 59

Software Review Technical Review Europe Cloud 59

Cracking the Code

AUGUST 3, 2011

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. A short interview on Bloomberg about where I see venture opportunities in Europe. Subscribe via email. internet. (6). Venture Capital. (3). How the use of internet is transform.

Software Review 67

Software Review Europe Technical Review Search 67

Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Obviously, a key factor is always the state of the economy and the mood of the venture capital community. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index® for the First Quarter 2014, the Q1 increase marks seven consecutive quarters of positive sentiment among Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

Silicon Valley 182

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Massachusetts California 182

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. China Venture Capital. venture capitalists invested $26.5

Silicon Valley 164

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 164

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Email address: Home. Internet and Online Business. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Venture Capital Firms. During the first Internet boom, companies that provided services to tech start-ups were all too happy to work for stock. Finance | Tuesdays. Tools & Research.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

In an ideal world, by the time you click publish on Kickstarter or IndieGoGo, you’ve been iterating, working on this thing for a year or more, and collecting emails and building permissions. Because Lean Startup methods, Crowdfunding, Amazon Web Services and the Internet that connects us all, is bringing the cost of failure to zero. .

Detroit 120

Detroit Baltimore Entrepreneur Cofounder 120