Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

Angel investors, venture capital firms, accelerators, and (maybe) the newer equity crowdfunding will look to see if you have previous experience in startups. Having previous work experience proves that you know what it takes to provide security and reliability for someone looking at your job descriptions. That’s the tricky part.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. Finland itself has significant engineering talent, and is also attracting entrepreneurs from Russia and the former USSR. Thanks to Kristo Ovaska and team for the fabulous logistics!) Lessons Learned.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase. Public investors, cross-over investors, and even traditional private equity firms have taken notice, further blurring the lines of what constitutes true venture capital. companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security. In the meantime, we have what we have today.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

Equally of interest is a good number of them end up in the PLA’s GSD 3 rd Department (the equivalent of our National Security Agency. ) Though they’re familiar with technology in the valley, I picked up some important cultural difference from students and startup engineers I talked to. Entrepreneurial Culture. Fear of Failure.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The story starts with a company you probably never heard of – Engineering Research Associates. The two groups would merge in 1949 as the Armed Forces Security Agency and then become the National Security Agency (NSA) in 1952. In January 1946, they founded Engineering Research Associates (ERA).

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’. The firm, Correlation Ventures, is using predictive analytics technology to tilt the odds in its favor. Venture Capital innovation people.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 20, 2018

In case you don’t know about Jason, prior to co-founding Foundry Group, Jason was a co-founder of SRS Acquiom and a Managing Director and General Counsel for Mobius Venture Capital. Early in his career, Jason was a software engineer at Accenture. Prior to this, Jason was an attorney with Cooley. in Economics and a J.D.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

Equally of interest is a good number of them end up in the PLA’s GSD 3 rd Department (the equivalent of our National Security Agency. ) Though they’re familiar with technology in the valley, I picked up some important cultural difference from students and startup engineers I talked to. Entrepreneurial Culture. Fear of Failure.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

When he had his prototype solution for DataSift and had secured re-syndication rights (the rights to resell Twitter data – which only 3 companies ever had) I knew I wanted to work with him. We kept meeting at conferences over the next 18 months and he kept showing me what he was working on.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford's Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. Finnish startup successes on a global stage include MySQL , F-Secure , Rovio , Habbo , Playfish , The Switch , Tectia , Trulia and Linux. 9-to-5 Venture Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

This week I sat down with Chris Dixon, co-founder / CEO of Hunch and Partner at Founder Collective in the most recent installment of This Week in Venture Capital. 2. Chris then discussed his time as founder and CEO of SiteAdvisor, his first venture-backed startup. Such that during that time, Chris “learned how to learn.”.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

All are developer first companies respectively in zero trust security, automation, and developer productivity. Ongoing press coverage of boldstart themes: every Fortune 500 is a tech company, developer first, and security including Fortune , Techcrunch , Wall Street Journal , Business Insider , SaaStr podcast , and more….

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. 2) Security — we store all private keys in cold storage on air gapped computers. has about ~40 employees and has raised $9M in venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2021

This is Venture Capital. You’ll find engineers out of MIT, Stanford, Harvard, UCSD, Caltech or execs out of UCLA, Spelman, NYU, etc. If you see a FinTech deal today, a Cyber Security deal tomorrow and then creator tools the next day … it’s harder to see the pattern and have the knowledge of truly exceptional is.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Opening Night Happy Hour and Keynote with Scott Kupor: Secrets of Sandhill Road | Fundraising Track Joshua Baer , Founder and CEO at Capital Factory, delved into the transforming realm of venture capital with Scott Kupor , Managing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Analytics are supercritical for your app.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

One foundational principle of the framework is the notion of performing “market-engineering” tasks up front, to ensure you have a reasonable chance of what we call “market-product” fit (without a market, there is no need for your product) before beginning the go-to-market phase. Market-Engineering. So, what is ”market-engineering”?

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Yossarian Lives is a search engine that can make lateral connections, like humans can, to aid creativity. Cyber Security. Machine learning in cyber security has already attracted a substantial amount of venture capital (e.g. A service for the insatiably curious. Is anyone doing this?

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We kicked it off Sunday night with a boldstart founders and execs dinner where we talked about what’s next in cybersecurity with some of our portfolio companies like security scorecard , bigid , snyk , stealth co and many friends from the industry representing strategic partners and IT buyers. All is not lost!

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Of those ultimate and most important assets, cash and marketable securities. But to acquire more of these in 2018, first we must build the kinds of “softer” assets that power and fuel our business’ cash-generating engines. DNT Express (logistics) secured $2.2M NativeAds (digital advertising) closed on a $4M venture financing.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The main drivers, from our viewpoint, are: Many tech entrepreneurs no longer view venture capital as an inevitability in their growth path, and have grown skeptical of the traditional “growth at all costs” mindset found in many startup circles; and An increasing number of VCs are growing comfortable with LLCs.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

Wunderlist is the first business I secured the interest of experienced investors, including Atomico , Earlybird and T-Venture. Stefan Tirtey, Partner at Doughty Hanson Ventures , created this document with Berlin early stage investors. If you raise money for the first time, you better understand the basics of venture capital.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 1, 2011

In my career, I have never seen a position in any industry with more varying criteria than General Partner at a venture capital firm. When we started Andreessen Horowitz, our vision was to build the kind of venture capital firm that we would have wanted to take money from. One night on my knees, here it comes, the prayer.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. A consulting CTO can help you find and qualify a permanent technology partner, a lead developer, a user experience expert or interaction designer, a graphic designer, or a VP of engineering.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 2, 2015

Robot,” a new TV series that follows a cyber security hacktivist who shut down DDOS attacks by day and hacks criminals in his free time, all in the name of doing good. At a time of year when families are packing up and heading off on vacation, the news proves that your cyber security can’t afford to take a break.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Venture capital remains white boys club – [link]. Spot on by @dhh about school pedigree and computer engineers. Crowdsourcing helps preserve Social Security – [link]. How to outsource everything to the cloud (except yourself) – [link]. Watch a VC use my name to sell a con – [link]. – [link].

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Unfortunately, Mr. Slywotzky makes an important assertion about venture capital that is incorrect. Our growth engine has run out of a key fuel– basic research.” PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data provided by Thomson Reuters. million a year.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The second category is composed of companies that have developed a unique IP locally and marketed it worldwide - typically in the gaming, software, security or mobile sectors. This category would include among others Yandex, Mail.ru, KupiVIP and Avito in Russia as well as Allegro in Poland.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

If you are an engineer, your vocabulary may include terms that are unfamiliar with the MBA investor. Buddy is widely acknowledged as one of the premier practitioners in the venture capital industry, and is widely referenced for his experience in the areas of corporate and securities law and corporate governance matters.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

Day one to scale: Huge congrats on milestone valuations realized for dev first security company Snyk ($8.6B) and fellow security startups BigID ($1.25B) and Security Scorecard (almost ), crypto infra startups Blockdaemon ($1.255B) and Fireblocks ($8B, investment via MStateLabs our enterprise blockchain lab), and YipitData (new ).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Real-time search engine. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

venture capital to date (more on this in a separate post), unfortunately relegating billion-dollar exits as “ho-hum” events to the technology crowd. 2/ Cyber-security Is Red-Hot: Earlier this year, Cisco acquired Duo for $2.2B However, 2018 has other ideas, with the most money ever invested in U.S. 1/ Cash Is King: The $1.4B

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Some students who were getting their engineering graduate degrees wrote masters and PhD thesis that were classified. A security guard was stationed at the door of the Applied Electronics Lab to ensure that only those with proper security clearance could enter. Unless you had the proper clearances you couldn’t read them.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 1, 2010

And (obviously) only the person who entered the data can see their own Scorecard…we take data security very seriously with the survey. So, for example, the CEO could have a base salary of $190K and be in the 30th percentile, while a VP of Engineering could have the same $190K salary and be in the 90th percentile.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 18, 2010

This is the ninth in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. What concerns me the most about the IPO vacuum is that it is systemic and is the result of a “one size fits all mentality” when it comes to regulation of the securities industry. Yes I do. Share and Enjoy:

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Tomorrow’s computer scientists must understand the engineering behind hardware just as well as they understand the software. Hardware will not fulfill its potential without addressing security concerns first. Cybersecurity skills will also become a priority.

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Software Artificial Inteligence Cloud Security 125

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

Often when startups who have raised venture capital need another round of financing they will turn to their existing investors to give them money before raising from outsiders. They also trust VC’s to determine the right price to pay for the company securities that they buy. But piers are often counter productive.

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