View from Seed

APRIL 14, 2020

In the last several years, you’ve seen more investors engaging with companies in non-core geographies. Part of this is due to factors that will continue to persist or even accelerate, like more experience managing remote or distributed teams, a more rapid flow of information, and multiple large successes outside of Silicon Valley.

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Gust

JULY 18, 2012

The Gust-DEMO scholarship gives you and your company the chance to launch in front of a world-renown audience of leading investors, top enterprise and consumer technology press, and big company strategists. Have a business plan and a management team capable of delivering the product to market.

Silicon Valley 142

Silicon Valley Differentiation Lead Investor Distribution 142

Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

When I first heard about VC firms in the late 1980s, and my first company (Feld Technologies) started writing portfolio management software for some Boston-based VC firms, many of them had funds with SBIC leverage, although even by the late 1980s this was changing and many of them had shifted away from the SBIC.

SBIC 142

SBIC Venture Capital Colorado SBA 142

Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. While this may certainly be the case with unsophisticated angels (much less of these now) or in cases with no lead investor, Id argue the opposite. I am an active angel investor and on the board of Sand Hill Angels. ProfessorVC. Thursday, April 1, 2010. Well, not exactly.I

Term Sheet 32

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

5:01) Brian's thoughts on the human dimension to his approach and how that sets him apart in Silicon Valley. (6:06) 59:03) The need for creativity, intuition and compassion in Silicon Valley and business. (1:00:23) 59:03) The need for creativity, intuition and compassion in Silicon Valley and business. (1:00:23)

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. This brought in a new set of prospective investors and required a lower investment from the lead investor as our existing investors were committed and on board. Our lead investor, Triangle Peak Partners closed on a $170 million first fund in late 2008.

Venture Capital 28

Venture Capital Silicon Valley San Jose Bootstrapping 28

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Hubris , bad CEO decisions (mine) and a fundamental lack of understanding that we were in a “hits-based” entertainment business not in a Silicon Valley technology company were slowly killing us. One day I got a call from my two investors, “Hey Steve, we’re both going to be up in San Francisco, lets grab lunch.” They liked me.

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