Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. We recently had our Neat Ideas Fair, which is my favorite annual event of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship at SJSU. The NIF (in its 5th year), is essentially a science fair for entrepreneurs. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. The spring semester of my Entrepreneurial Finance class starts tomorrow. We will also look at a variety of financing methods including venture capital, angel investing, licensing, franchising, roll-up, venture debt and my old favorite, bootstrapping. ProfessorVC. Steve Bennet.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. While spending time with the entrepreneurs and championing the deal through the group, you tend to become emotionally attached. In most cases, the entrepreneur hasnt hidden anything, it is just buyers remorse kicking in and the realization that the hard work is beginning. ProfessorVC.

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Professor VC

MAY 29, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. An entrepreneur will pitch their business plan to what they think is a group of angel investors and will get a number of follow-up calls afterwards, but they are pitches for services not investment interest. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. I was on a panel earlier this week with several other investors from Angel Groups in the Valley.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. As I mentioned in the previous post, Jeff Fluhr (founder of StubHub) recently stopped by my Entrepreneurial Finance class to share his 4 Lessons of Entrepreneurship with the students. Do you have the right make-up to be an entrepreneur? ProfessorVC. Tuesday, February 26, 2008.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I get asked this question a lot by entrepreneurs (and students). To that last one, there is certainly some truth as the standard time vs. revenue chart in most business plans looks like this: Im not teaching Entrepreneurial Finance this semester for the first time since Fall 2007.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. For firms that dont have access to the most successful entrepreneurs, trying to predict an individual or individual teams success rate based on experience, personal attributes, intellect, etc. might very well be a good way to find some promising first time entrepreneurs. ProfessorVC.

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Professor VC

MAY 30, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. We held our annual business plan competition at San Jose State this month and first prize was $10,000. In addition to the first prize, he was also given office space at the Plug and Play incubator for the summer and get to spend his days with other entrepreneurs and investors.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Financing, that is.I One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones. Most companies dont come close to their rose colored financial models prepared when going out for Series A financing. ProfessorVC.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Ok, so I think Im the last guy in Silicon Valley to start a blog. I thought about the name some more and I do spend much of my time teaching entrepreneurship and coaching entrepreneurs. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. ProfessorVC.

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Professor VC

JULY 22, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Ross is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, battered but still standing after the Internet collapse. The protagonist, Ross Williamson, is struggling to finance his company and hang on to his team during the process. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. The fall semester at SJSU started this week and had the first class meeting of my Entrepreneurial Finance class, which was overflowing with students standing, sitting on the floor and begging to get in. Entrepreneurs struggle to find investors and investors struggle to find the best start-ups.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. The latest statistics from VentureSource show 554 financings in Q4, down from 620 in Q3 and 718 in Q4 2007. Of course, the most important funding statistic to an entrepreneur relates to one specific company, and whether there is sufficient capital available to build and scale his business.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I spent most of the time with the reporter talking about Sand Hill Angels and how we add value to the start-ups and entrepreneurs that we partner with, which is why I just have a small mention in the article. How passionate are the entrepreneurs about their business? ProfessorVC.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Why can’t anyone just say, “it wasn’t a great outcome for investors, but was for the entrepreneurs and glad we could help make that happen” I guess nobody wants to pull a kazoo out of their pocket when it feels so much better to blare a trumpet. ProfessorVC.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Last week, the House of Representatives passed the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act (H.R. Since small businesses are responsible for the vast majority of new jobs, legislators believe that these new rules will make it easier for entrepreneurs to raise capital and ramp up hiring.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

During this week's roundtable, we had Inoh Choe from San Jose, California, pitch DemoTunes, a freemium concept. However, how do you get to critical mass, and how do you finance the period during which this business runs on red ink? How much time do you budget for red ink financing? How long can you go without a salary?

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 20, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I have been following the rallying cry of entrepreneurs with some amusement over the past couple of weeks in response to a blog post by Jason Calacanis, " Why Start-ups Shouldnt have to pay to pitch angel investors." I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

As you'll hear, BA became an entrepreneur without expecting to have to address such questions, but that's not how it's turned out. For many of us in Silicon Valley, one of the notable events of the crisis was Brian's public stance about the role of corporate leadership in social issues. I'm curious. ER : I couldn't believe it.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. As an active participant in the Silicon Valley new venture ecosystem and entrepreneurship educator, Im intrigued by the recently announced program Venture for America (VFA). That is what I am doing with the ELAB program at San Jose State University. ProfessorVC.

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