The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Today, with the decentralising nature of the Internet, distributed cloud technology and a growing sentiment toward entrepreneurship, the global startup ecosystem has never been so dispersed. But have you heard of what’s going on in Cyprus, Sweden or North Carolina? What’s the magic formula that helps a city to incubate innovation?

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North Carolina Technical Review Cyprus Raleigh 168

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. Thus is venture capital. Tempus Fugit.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. I did programming for the career center at UC San Diego, trying to build programs for the career center.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder San Diego Startup 337

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JUNE 8, 2014

The “Infrastructure Phase” of the Internet … Before we had an Internet startup explosion we needed infrastructure which spawned the original tech startup community in Silicon Valley. Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. But what is it we actually DO on the Internet?

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Silicon Valley Kansas City Startup Venture Capital 390

Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

I’ve been involved with several amazing companies throughout Northern and Southern Cal; I have expanded, launched, M&A’d, relaunched, liquidated, succeeded and failed, you name it. The new hot spots are San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, the east bay, etc.

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California Southern California San Francisco Silicon Valley 20

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access.

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Silicon Valley Southern California Los Angeles Semantic 313

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JANUARY 31, 2010

Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We found a way to get a round of venture capital closed after all of this.

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Entrepreneur Silicon Valley San Diego Non-Compete 308