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JULY 11, 2012

Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. But Andreessens approach is also exposing a rift in Silicon Valley, where a group of young and relatively untested entrepreneurs have maintained control over their rapidly growing companies. » More.

Silicon Valley 42

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. It has become China’s Silicon Valley. The early clusters occurred by happenstance of geography or history. This was the area I visited in this trip to China.) Venture Guiding Fund.

Programming 278

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 278

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2012

But it was early 2009 and not many companies were getting new financings at all so I thought they should take the deal. He told me he wondered if we should consider switching partners so the company could get more money and at a higher price. I know it’s tempting to switch partners.

Term Sheet 356

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Reputation Partner 356

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2020

Many entrepreneurs are convinced that banks are not worth the effort for startups, especially early-stage ones that still don’t have a revenue stream, or collateral to back up their financing needs. All banks are looking hard these days to get back in the game, and certain ones, like Silicon Valley Bank, are more focused on small businesses.

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Silicon Valley Equity Startup Finance 406

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Finance – an invoicing process, a billing process, a risk management process. Based in Silicon Valley, Progressly helps companies document, collaborate and analyze business processes — all in one central place. Some examples may include: Automotive – managing parts and/or suppliers. Banking – customer onboarding, credit check.

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Silicon Valley Cofounder Software Review Technical Review 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

After years of trying to persuade Kara Nortman to become a partner at Upfront Ventures I can officially announce now that she’s joined us effective immediately. It is rare to find somebody who matches exactly what I’m looking for in a partner so when you find it you act: Academic rigor (Princeton undergrad, Stanford MBA).

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Partner Las Vegas Los Angeles Baltimore 408

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

Eren Bali arrived in Silicon Valley from Turkey in 2010 hoping to relaunch Udemy , his online education company. Eren came to the US from Turkey to work at a Silicon Valley tech startup, which is actually where I first met him a few years ago. They pivoted to monitoring patients for COVID, then testing.

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Silicon Valley Turkey Los Angeles California 60

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

Greylock Partners · Reid Hoffman | Philosopher Versus MBA. If they don’t have the right skills or resources, they’ll pick them up along the way by hiring someone, partnering with someone, or just learning it themselves. In particular, Bill Sahlman’s Entrepreneurial Finance course was excellent. TOP DRAWBACKS OF AN MBA PROGRAM.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

Greylock Partners · Reid Hoffman | Philosopher Versus MBA. If they don’t have the right skills or resources, they’ll pick them up along the way by hiring someone, partnering with someone, or just learning it themselves. In particular, Bill Sahlman’s Entrepreneurial Finance course was excellent. TOP DRAWBACKS OF AN MBA PROGRAM.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Machine Learning / AI They discussed many topics ranging from protection of the press to what Mark looks for in an entrepreneur to investing outside of Silicon Valley and of course Trump and sports. Mark said that the beauty of Silicon Valley isn’t the money available for financing it’s the money available for exits.

Artificial Inteligence 105

Artificial Inteligence Silicon Valley San Francisco Technical Review 105

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

just having a sparring partner with a vested interest in your success can be useful. A-round venture capital firms will almost certainly make it a requirement that they get a board seat upon financing. If you’re a super experienced Silicon Valley CEO with a billion-dollar exit?—?probably. But it’s quite rare.

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Venture Capital Startup Angel Investor Silicon Valley 236

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

But, it wasn’t directionally wrong, looking at enormous multinational companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook which rose from the hallowed ground of Silicon Valley. Will the next company to raise $100M in financing just poach from decent seed-stage companies and pay triple the amount to lock up talent?

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San Francisco Silicon Valley Seattle Venture Capital 116

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Thanks to strategic partnerships with companies including US Bank, Visa, Mastercard, Silicon Valley Bank and more, any business – from eCommerce companies and healthcare facilities to construction companies and restaurants – can use Plastiq to pay or get paid. Plastiq has revolutionized how its more than 1.5 Start now, not later.

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Customer Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Technical Review 127

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

They had been introduced by my friend Brian Garrett, a partner at Crosscut Ventures and the ambition outlined in their deck seemed almost unbelievable, “to make wireless charging of phones (and other devices) as easy as WiFi” that I had to see it for myself. Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte.

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Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence CTO Hire 418

Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”).

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Los Angeles Southern California Silicon Valley Technical Review 138

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Fortunately, I’ve had the opportunity to work and learn for many years in both the corporate environment (IBM), as well as the exploding Silicon Valley startup environment of the 90’s. Personal finances must be kept separate from the business. It’s a 24/7 job with no time off for vacation or fun.

Silicon Valley 292

Silicon Valley Viral Finance Leadership 292

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Meanwhile, we recently talked with him about his thoughts on 35 years in Silicon Valley, why the skill sets of venture capitalists and CEOs are so different, and why telling a good story about your product is so crucial. You’ve been in Silicon Valley since the early days. I was the second partner to opt out.

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Silicon Valley Lean Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation 159

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

Moreover, startups don’t necessarily face the same issues other business models do – although finances may plague more than less – with trouble-shooting having now entered unchartered territory. Right now, Silicon Valley has a highly creative pool of talent, but there is a blaringly obvious missing link between creativity and business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. The best and most consistent funds in Silicon Valley (e.g.

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LP Technical Review Early Stage Silicon Valley 311

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. It has become China’s Silicon Valley. The early clusters occurred by happenstance of geography or history. This was the area I visited in this trip to China.) Venture Guiding Fund.

Programming 170

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170

Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Official SXSW Panels and Speakers SXSW Badge Required Watch Out Silicon Valley: Rising LATAM Tech Scene Watch Out Silicon Valley: Rising LATAM Tech Scene MAR 8, 2019 | 12:30PM?—?1:30PM See hundreds of exhibitors and demonstrations across every industry and technology. Bring a bag for collecting swag!

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Texas Venture Capital 50

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I trained the Startup Weekend Next Beijing mentors and instructors, presented to several hundred entrepreneurs, and had a great fireside chat with Zhen Fund founding partner Xu Xiaoping in front of another roomful of entrepreneurs. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. This article highlights their advice on issues ranging from financing to patent trolls: While startups may believe lawyers are too costly, working with one early on avoids potentially serious problems later. ” The Cost of Financing. Convertible Securities.

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Convertible Security IP Technical Review Software Review 100

David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs. Congratulations!

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Technical Review SBIR Dilution Silicon Valley 60

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. Is that when it became big?

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. Did the partner have a good or bad day, etc. We were able to raise a Seed round from Bessemer Venture Partners on a powerpoint idea, and never found the repeatable customer model. Thanks, Steve.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 22, 2023

Europe has also lagged behind the US in venture to finance. Even though Finland offers free and high-quality education, it cannot compete with Silicon Valley regarding salaries. However, he also admits that they face major challenges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2020

Fortunately, I’ve had the opportunity to work and learn for many years in both the corporate environment (IBM), as well as the exploding Silicon Valley startup environment of the 90’s. Personal finances must be kept separate from the business. It’s a 24/7 job with no time off for vacation or fun.

Silicon Valley 361

Silicon Valley Viral Finance Leadership 361

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. I remember presenting our ideas for Marketing Automation to one VP of Marketing in a large Silicon Valley company. Are These Your Slides? He said, “Look again.”

Silicon Valley 225

Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Startup 225

David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Jeff Burkland , an experienced Silicon Valley CFO and CEO of Burkland Associates , says, “When you consider that most startups change so much and so frequently, trying to build a budget for a year and stick to it is useless. Without systems in place to manage distributed spending, finance teams will leave money on the table.”.

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Agile Management Forecast Silicon Valley 60

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Jacqueline and her partner Cortney are designing and manufacturing the line out of China and selling in the U.S. Jacqueline asked an important question: how do you mitigate your working capital challenges in an e-commerce company at the very early stages without raising financing? They are still very small, but have some validation.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 29, 2013

And given the fact that the majority of top investors were congregated around Silicon Valley, many entrepreneurs felt compelled to move to the valley to start their business. In short, you’re going to want to look for the best funding partner (or collection of partners) possible, rather than just focusing locally.

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Silicon Valley Global Finance New York City 161

Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Many of the start-ups my various angel funds have financed died a slow death, not because of poor concept but because of poor execution, wasting fixed overhead and draining the financial resources from the company coffers. And we were able to secure that investment along with a partner from that firm joining our board.

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Silicon Valley Burn Rate Angel Investor Down Round 97

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

Which at this stage of the company was marketing and financing. Our “Hollywood meets Silicon Valley” story played great in Silicon Valley, they ate it up in Hollywood, and the business press tripped over themselves to talk to us. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Order Here.

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Silicon Valley Product RSS California 122

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions. how much energy to put into channel partners vs. direct sales. Mentorship. Experience.

Technical Review 325

Technical Review Early Stage Software Review Los Angeles 325

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

This is the first of two posts about the rise of “risk capital” and how it came to be associated with what became Silicon Valley. ———————– Building Blocks of Entrepreneurship By the mid 1950’s the groundwork for a culture and environment of entrepreneurship were taking shape on the east and west coasts of the United States. Whitney Co.

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Silicon Valley Securities and Exchange Commission Venture Capital RSS 159

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. Our community has successfully established a culture of bootstrapping as a counterforce to the compulsive rush to financing that entrepreneurs often mistakenly engage in, only to be rejected over and again by investors.

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