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Venture Summit: Connecting with Silicon Valley Venture Capital

The Startup Magazine

In its effort to advocate and be a resource for the startup community, The Startup Magazine is sponsoring this leading venture capital gathering in the heart of tech hub Silicon Valley. Curtis Feeny | Silicon Valley Data Capital. Zoe Feldman | Almanac Investments. Victoria Fram | VilCap Investments.

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

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”). Ability” vs. “Knowledge”.

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Why we need to teach MBA’s about modern entrepreneurship (and what Harvard Business School is doing about it)

Startup Lessons Learned

This week, the startup tribe from Harvard Business School is making their annual trek to Silicon Valley. It’s a common refrain around Silicon Valley to disparage the role of MBA’s in entrepreneurship. General management is supposed to be orderly, “strategic” and mostly calm. I also frequently see the reverse.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

This is the second of three posts about the rise of “risk capital” and how it came to be associated with what became Silicon Valley. ———————– The First Valley IPO’s Silicon Valley first caught the eyes of east coast investors in the late 1950’s when the valleys first three IPO’s happened: Varian in 1956, Hewlett Packard in 1957, and Ampex in 1958.

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The Energy for Transformation

Startup Lessons Learned

A huge policy achievement almost went up in smoke because the process of creating the site was so poorly managed it didn’t work on the day it was unveiled. Investment bankers are staking out your house.” HYPERGROWTH : Success can be its own form of crisis.

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The Age of Entrepreneurship

Startup Professionals Musings

The word conjures images of twenty-something graduate students hacking code in a Silicon Valley dorm room, fueled by a steady supply of Red Bull and Ramen. He has a diverse background as a Tier I management consultant, investment banker, technologist, and Silicon Valley entrepreneur.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 3: Frank Rimalovski and Frank Sculli

Steve Blank

Frank Rimalovski is the executive director of the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute and managing director of the NYU Innovation Venture Fund. Out of college, he briefly worked as an investment banker in New York, but before long heard the siren song from Silicon Valley. — Teaching entrepreneurs how to fish.