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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. startup ecosystem for many decades. Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. with their startups growing by 81.2

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

By the time Silicon Valley white privilege culture, tech magazines that promote only white faces, Ethereum/Bitcoin fanboys, sellout black tech wannabees and globalists promoting their blockchain consortium get a hold of this article, it’s already too late and the game already ended a while ago.

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ProfessorVC: How Much Diligence is Due.

Professor VC

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. How Much Diligence is Due.Or Ive addressed the due diligence question in previous posts, but this came up again in a debate we were having at a recent meeting of the Sand Hill Angels. Not exactly extensive diligence. ProfessorVC. Thursday, January 27, 2011.

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Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs - from Guy Kawasaki

Startup Lessons Learned

There are books on most (but not yet all) of the critical topics about startups, and of course a massive amount of information on blogs and Twitter. Mostly we read business books designed for established enterprise and tried to read through the lines to find ways to apply their wisdom to startups.

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ProfessorVC: Card Counting for Investors

Professor VC

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Dan Frommer, in Moneyball for tech startups , interviewed Fred Wilson, Chris Dixon, Paul Graham and Ben Horowitz on the topic. Labels: due diligence , early stage investing , moneyball , valuation. How Much Diligence is Due. ProfessorVC. Thanks Steve.

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ProfessorVC: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

Professor VC

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. With that in mind, I created a new course at San Jose State last year, the Entrepreneurship Lab (E-Lab). While Silicon Valley covers a large amount of turf, it is very small. They must live, breathe, sleep, and be one with the startups ups and downs. ProfessorVC.

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ProfessorVC: Buyer's Remorse

Professor VC

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Of course, rigorous diligence is performed, the team is challenged, and assumptions are tested. I started thinking about this yesterday when Jeff Fluhr, founder of Stub Hub spoke at my San Jose State class. How Much Diligence is Due. ProfessorVC. Buyers Remorse.