Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Business partnerships have traditionally been agreements to drive more transactions than either company could do alone.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Chilean billionaire and entrepreneur Isidoro Quiroga has been called South America’s Warren Buffet for his near-perfect investment portfolio and his ability to transform businesses from small firms to global leaders. Unbelievably, the small salmon company grew to become a global competitor in the seafood industry in a few short years.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Sometimes hiring managers have fixed ideas that prevent them from objectively evaluating candidates when putting together national or global teams. For example, it’s not unusual for tech talent in Silicon Valley to move from job to job fairly quickly, so don’t automatically hold job-hopping against those candidates.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy. 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. Innovation Clusters.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I came several times to NorCal (where I grew up, actually) and went and met several partners from each Silicon Valley firm. China is indelibly an important part of the future of the global technology system. I’m dropping everything non-portfolio related in the next few weeks and setting my sights on righting my wrong.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I came several times to NorCal (where I grew up, actually) and went and met several partners from each Silicon Valley firm. China is indelibly an important part of the future of the global technology system. I’m dropping everything non-portfolio related in the next few weeks and setting my sights on righting my wrong.

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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. Look global and local. The post Funding goes global: location is no longer your financing destiny appeared first on Version One Ventures.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2017

Realize your startup is only “special” to you: There’s really no room in an investor’s portfolio for sentimentality or special accommodations. So, no: VC funding isn’t such a rare thing in Silicon Valley or anywhere else. You don’t have to be a unicorn to get it either. Bruce is the U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Secondly, the driver of returns for the funds raised in 1978 – 1981 was not their underlying portfolios, at what stage, or in what industries they were built. Some were Silicon Valley early stage companies, such as Apple, Quantum, and Masstor Systems. Silicon Valley firms also did many non-tech deals.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

The Global Innovation Index places Switzerland as the most innovative country in the world. As the largest city in Switzerland, Zurich is a global business hub and home to fifteen companies ranked within the prestigious Fortune 500 list, including the Zurich Insurance Group,” explain SAP recruitment experts at Eursap. billion to $3.7

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. And as more economies worldwide seek to shift their investment strategies offshore and seek out technology, hubs like Silicon Valley and Shanghai, among others, have reaped the benefits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Business partnerships have traditionally been agreements to drive more transactions than either company could do alone.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley has long been the barometer for engineering and product talent, but that same caliber of skill that startups need is also available across Asia. Cast a wide net. Don’t let the idea of relocating employees scare you.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

led liberal international order and replace it with its own neo-totalitarian model where China emerges as the dominant regional and global power. Horowitz et al., “ China Has Made Drone Warfare Global ” Foreign Affairs , 2020. China’s goal is to challenge and overturn the U.S.-led Use of Drones in Nagorno-Karabakh.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Should those entrepreneurs who have built their business elsewhere move to Silicon Valley to raise money? Since 1M/1M is a global program, we have many entrepreneurs in various parts of the world who are building interesting businesses, and trying to determine how best to interface with the ecosystem that exists in Silicon Valley.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 26, 2023

That exposure gave me insight into the significant knowledge gap that exists between Silicon Valley and the rest of the world. When I was a founder, it was such a powerful way of supporting portfolio companies. There are a lot of things they do from a portfolio support perspective that we’ve looked to as examples at Panache.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

As many of your listeners may know, there was an incredible piece published by a gentleman from Founders Fund, discussing Tiger [Global Management] and how they’re focused on the speed and scale business. I don’t worry about my anti-portfolio. On Leaving Silicon Valley Bank. On Sushi and VC.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2017

Over the past month, Silicon Valley has been at the forefront of many conversations outside of the technology world. I later became convinced that my different perspective (female, immigrant, global) enhanced my ability to see opportunities where others didn’t. When I started my career, I never envisioned starting a fund.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Contrasting China via their Zhi-Xing (? ?, March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM 4:30PM Hilton?—?Salon 12:00PM Hilton?—?Salon

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 6, 2019

I’ve come down to Argentina with my friend and portfolio company CEO, Wences Casares , the founder of Xapo. Silicon Valley has the rare privilege and good fortune to be one of the most amazing entrepreneurial networks in the world. We’ve captured many of these lessons in my book Blitzscaling and my podcast Masters of Scale.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

It’s an impressive portfolio. That’s no longer the case in Silicon Valley. Just like revenues are the right metric for businesses that aim to sell products directly, one can probably deduce a global metric for other types of businesses. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Also portfolio management strategy has shifted a bit in recent years, and many large investors now evaluate at all risky assets together (US tech IPOs, Brazilian bonds, Chinese private equity, etc) rather than making discrete allocations to each bucket. The global macro conditions could weigh heavily on the IPO market for awhile.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We argued extensively in our book, Blitzscaling , that these strategies and tactics describe why Silicon Valley Bay Area – which has a population of less than 4 million – generates such a massively disproportionate number of global technology companies. Disclosure: * denotes a current or former Greylock portfolio company.).

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

However, Cabinet members who are responsible for vertical portfolios still manage the government’s large functional agencies, and there continues to be significant overlap between those who handle commercial, defense, and diplomatic policy. Originally, all of America’s computer chips were produced in Silicon Valley.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

Just yesterday, Adam Medros , SVP of Global Product at TripAdvisor and an entrepreneur advisor for NextView, just asked about when the next event will be. Outside of Silicon Valley, you can usually get into pretty good deals writing pretty small checks ($10K or so) if you are relevant to the sector you are investing in.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

Just yesterday, Adam Medros , SVP of Global Product at TripAdvisor and an entrepreneur advisor for NextView, just asked about when the next event will be. Outside of Silicon Valley, you can usually get into pretty good deals writing pretty small checks ($10K or so) if you are relevant to the sector you are investing in.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Jones Lang Lasalle: Global commercial real estate services. Cushman and Wakefield: Global commercial real estate services. Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company). GrabCAD – 3D Community and Collaboration (NextView Portfolio Company). Dan Allred – Silicon Valley Bank (@dgallred).

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

COVID-19 has caused global acceleration of many trends that were already happening before the pandemic and the immigration to Texas and especially Austin are no exception. Planting roots I was recently talking with someone who moved here from Silicon Valley and he pointed out something that really resonated with me. Why Amy Sun?

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

After rapid international expansion across several continents, as the founding team brought Silicon Valley’s global ambition into Europe, and the extension of its offering to buses and multimodal transportation, BlaBlaCar is preparing for the travel rebound expected as the world reopens. They’re building them for the world.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 6, 2020

Breyer Capital’s Silicon Valley presence remains as important as ever, and at the same time, Austin offers a remarkable new frontier of opportunity. When I graduated from Harvard Business School after graduating from Stanford, I was one of a small number of classmates who made the decision to move to Silicon Valley.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2017

This doesn’t include the various lists of ‘hot startups to watch’ (where normally there’s a correlation between the startup and the recommending VC’s portfolio), but more general trends from VCs, sector specific predictions from other organizations, and 2016 annual industry reports. 2017 VC Predictions.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley). One other firm that doesn’t always get a lot of popular acclaim but has a ton of operational expertise & widely global reach is Rocket Internet. These two divergent groups have optimized for very different market conditions and behaviors.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2013

Billions have been spent trying to replicate Silicon Valley, with little to show for it. | Study: LinkedIn Positioned To Become First Global Economic Graph, Business Platform On Par With Google And Facebook – [link]. Global PPC Spending Up 23%, Mobile PPC Jumped 132% YOY In Q2 [Covario Report] – [link].

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A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Don’t get me wrong – we love it when a company in our portfolio does exceptionally well and receives a lot of attention. Sometimes they’re founded by more mature founders that are over the Silicon Valley median founder age. We have founders and wonderful portfolio companies in Seattle, San Diego, Chicago, and Atlanta.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York. Half our portfolio is consumer. kaufer ‘s keys to making @TripAdvisor a GLOBAL consumer brand.built in Boston #BostonB2C pic.twitter.com/RK9lJasUqS. At NextView, we invest across the US. Yep, Boston has consumer tech.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 14, 2020

Together, with a passionate and dedicated team, they pushed the limits of global growth, democratized the access to automation technology, and transformed the way enterprises of any size could harness the power of automation. __ "COVID-19 has heightened the critical need for automation.

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