Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The title of Region Sustains Robust Patent Production was fine (and yes it refers to Silicon Valley), but the first sentence in the article made me nuts: “The economic slump has yet to damp innovation in Silicon Valley, at least not by one widely followed measure: patent production.”. Patent and Trademark Office.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

That’s where Engine Advocacy comes in. A few months ago, I joined the Advisory Board of Engine to lend my support to an organization that is doing amazing work for the startup ecosystem. Engine connected 15,000 calls from individuals to their Senators that day. You can get involved by becoming an Engine member today.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Some were Silicon Valley early stage companies, such as Apple, Quantum, and Masstor Systems. while none of the non-Silicon Valley regional firms were long-term successful as regional firms. However, none were based in the Silicon Valley and are probably unfamiliar names to today’s practitioners.

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JULY 22, 2011

In the mean time, please meet the Finance Fridays team: Jonathan Wolter has been a lead consultant and software engineer at ThoughtWorks working for clients in Silicon Valley, Texas, Chicago, and India. Our first substantive post will be up next Friday. Now he is slated to enter Booth at the University of Chicago in the fall.

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JANUARY 6, 2020

This is especially true for companies headquartered in Silicon Valley, Seattle, and New York. I’ve found that secondary/tertiary US cities work better than international locations, with the exception of software/hardware engineering locations. China and India work, but seem to be harder and more hit or miss.

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JUNE 14, 2015

It’s from Greg Sands post on TechCrunch titled The Real Silicon Valley. . twice recently, including when I was on a panel at Stanford School of Engineering on Entrepreneurship from Diverse Perspective. This is the best quote I’ve seen all week. Greg is a long time friend and co-investor. Yes, I get the irony.)”

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