Feld Thoughts

APRIL 24, 2015

Earlier this week I wrote a post titled The Religion of Silicon Valley. A few folks tied together the concepts of Religion and Operating System as an operative metaphor for Silicon Valley. The post Silicon Valley – Religion, Operating System, or Something Else? Some phrases include: Religion.

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JULY 5, 2016

I love that the very first review on the Amazon page for the book is from the Los Angeles Times and says “Disrupted by Dan Lyons is the best book about Silicon Valley today” as it is indicative of the content of the book, which I’d categorize as ironic at best and notionally confused.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 6, 2013

This event is made possible by awesome sponsors SoftLayer , Kauffman FastTrac , Slice of Lime , PivotDesk , Silicon Valley Bank , SendGrid , Galvanize , and George Washington University. The biggest thanks are due to these veteran entrepreneurs for their service to our country.

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MARCH 13, 2020

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Some were Silicon Valley early stage companies, such as Apple, Quantum, and Masstor Systems. while none of the non-Silicon Valley regional firms were long-term successful as regional firms. However, none were based in the Silicon Valley and are probably unfamiliar names to today’s practitioners.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The title of Region Sustains Robust Patent Production was fine (and yes it refers to Silicon Valley), but the first sentence in the article made me nuts: “The economic slump has yet to damp innovation in Silicon Valley, at least not by one widely followed measure: patent production.”. Patent and Trademark Office.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 17, 2013

It’s part of a series they are doing titled The Next Silicon Valley. Now – members of feeder organizations can play a leadership role, but in the absence of a critical mass of entrepreneurs, the startup community won’t ever develop into anything meaningful.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 14, 2023

This stress accelerated on Friday when the FDIC shut down and took over Silicon Valley Bank. Since the middle of last week, there has been extreme stress on founders, startup leaders, and the extended startup community. By late Friday, anyone who banked with SVB was concerned about … well … everything.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber : While I knew some of the story, I didn’t know a lot of the backstory. It wasn’t, so it turned into a skimmer. If you know of a good book around age inequity in entrepreneurship, please recommend it to me.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 14, 2020

When Oracle announced that it is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas, this issue hit its tipping point. In the last 12 months, there has started to be a migration of corporate HQs, VC firms, and high net worth people from high tax states. We are officially on the other side of a phase transformation.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 29, 2016

While the meme that the only place to build a company is in Silicon Valley has softened, there’s still a strong belief that the best place to be if you are a first time entrepreneur is Silicon Valley. My argument is, and has never been, against Silicon Valley, but rather for the rest of the planet.

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JUNE 25, 2020

Kobe’s quote in the press release kind of says it all: “For years, Black entrepreneurs have been told that Silicon Valley is a meritocracy, but at the same time most haven’t had access to the top networks, the warm introductions, and the mentorship that underpin lasting success in tech.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

And then I read Silicon Valley Has an Arrogance Problem: It’s Too Proud, Too Self-Centered, and That’s Not Good For Anyone. Oh – it had all the typical Silicon Valley self-aggrandizing crap in it. For Silicon Valley’s own sake, the triumphalist tone needs to be kept in check.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

In the mean time, please meet the Finance Fridays team: Jonathan Wolter has been a lead consultant and software engineer at ThoughtWorks working for clients in Silicon Valley, Texas, Chicago, and India. Our first substantive post will be up next Friday. Now he is slated to enter Booth at the University of Chicago in the fall.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2020

This is especially true for companies headquartered in Silicon Valley, Seattle, and New York. It seems pretty clear that a very large, single location company in Silicon Valley, New York, Seattle, and several other cities (e.g. LA, Boston) is getting much more challenging. Sure, it’s possible, but is it advisable?

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JULY 15, 2013

High-Tech Challengers to Silicon Valley. Richard took this notion a step further in his article High-Tech Challengers to Silicon Valley and actually did some math. Richard Florida continues to write amazing stuff about Startup Communities in The Atlantic Online.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 26, 2015

The first was The Making of Silicon Valley: A One Hundred Year Renaissance. This book was written in 1995 and published by the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association so the updated subtitle should be “A One Hundred Year Renaissance – 20 Years Later.”

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JANUARY 7, 2019

Amy and I, through our Anchor Point Foundation , joined Silicon Valley Bank , Needham & Company , Flex Logistics , Nasco , and my partners at Foundry Group , in providing the funding for the match.

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

An adapted essay from Noam Cohen new book The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball showed up several weeks in the New York Times in the article Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend. When Web 2.0

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 18, 2010

Regional Advantage : A+: I’ve read bits of Annalee Saxenian’s seminal book about the differences between the evolution of Silicon Valley and Route 128, spent a tiny bit of time with Annalee at a Silicon Flatiron event, and have thought hard about this, but I had actually never read her book. It sucked.

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OCTOBER 31, 2010

While I’ve spent a lot of time in Silicon Valley — both as an angel and venture capital investor — I’ve never lived there. While the firm I’m a partner in — Foundry Group — invests all over the United States, I regularly hear statements like, “The only place to start a tech company is in Silicon Valley.”.

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JUNE 14, 2015

It’s from Greg Sands post on TechCrunch titled The Real Silicon Valley. . This is the best quote I’ve seen all week. Greg is a long time friend and co-investor. I’m on the board with him at Return Path and he’s on the board with my partner Ryan at VictorOps. “Our purpose here isn’t to make money.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir : Loved it. This book nourished my inner Silicon Valley cynic. Go get it right now. I particularly enjoyed how the author called people and companies out without naming them. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones. This one was recommended by Katie Elliott.

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APRIL 19, 2019

It’s an extremely bay area / Silicon Valley-centric view but is a great introduction to anyone new to the industry or who wants a contemporary view of some of the higher profile and more successful Silicon Valley investors.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

The key points are: Don’t try to be Silicon Valley (it’s a special place – learn from it – but don’t try to emulate it). Damon Clinkscales recorded it on his iPhone – the three minute video is embedded below.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

Urban Airship, diversifying technologically and geographically, buys Silicon Valley startup Tello. I’m going to start paying more attention to this one. Related articles. Urban Airship, Tello and the Power of Community. Urban Airship Acquires Tello. In Praise of Push.

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MAY 31, 2018

I read Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup last week on my Q2 vacation. In my post talking about the various books I read , I wrote the following about it. “Every entrepreneur and VC should read this book. John Carreyrou has done something important here.

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JULY 19, 2016

I expect many people in the San Francisco startup community tire of being told they are in Silicon Valley, or maybe they enjoy the halo effect enough to overlook it. The Washington DC startup community is called Washington DC. The Seattle startup community is called Seattle. You get the idea.

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JULY 21, 2015

If you need a dose of some of the language, just watch a few episodes of Silicon Valley. For entrepreneurs outside Silicon Valley, and even plenty within Silicon Valley, the language seems forced. Many, like traction, are completely meaningless. I’ve noticed something recently. Uncomfortable.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 19, 2010

In addition, our friends at SVB Financial (the parent of Silicon Valley Bank) have also formally endorsed the Startup Visa. My partner Jason Mendelson wrote a post about a roundtable that Silicon Valley Bank hosted for members of “the new Democrat Coalition &# which included Jared Polis.

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OCTOBER 13, 2013

Existing sponsor list includes KKO, Silicon Valley Bank, and Goldman Sachs. Between the gong for donation milestones and the flatscreen broadcasting the money raised, it should make for a fun event. Donations made by employees of local companies will also optionally join a company leaderboard for some healthy competition.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

There was a huge kerfluffle over the weekend about racism in Silicon Valley which tried to end when Michael Arrington wrote a post titled Oh Shit, I’m A Racist. I’ve seen it many times, including in Silicon Valley.

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MARCH 3, 2014

If you don’t have a copy, our friends at Silicon Valley Bank have sponsored one for each of you. On Thursday March 6th I’m doing my first public talk about my newest book – Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors. If you’ve got a copy, bring it and I’ll sign it.

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JULY 28, 2015

. “We were 0 for 21 with Silicon Valley VCs. Founders who are entranced with Silicon Valley VCs. I never got close. Most of the big firms wouldn’t even meet. A few had an associate do a Skype call even though we were 20 minutes away. All 3 invested.” ” We see this all the time.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 22, 2010

Silicon Valley is losing foreign-born talent : Jon Swartz, the USA Today Silicon Valley tech writer has several good examples that supports his headline. Also, if you missed Thomas Friedman’s awesome OpEd this weekend titled America’s Real Dream Team – I encourage you to go take a look.

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JULY 5, 2010

Andy pretty much nails every aspect of the rise and fall of a garage startup in Silicon Valley. His fiction is great – it’s fast paced (thanks to many short chapters), full of dialogue and great characters, and lots of startup / entrepreneurship / Silicon Valley cliches. And it was just fucking awesome.

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MAY 6, 2017

Young Silicon Valley software professional Vivek Pandit is poised to become a key hire at a promising healthcare startup, but when they realize his work visa has less than a year remaining, the offer disappears. The overview of the movie follows: Set against the backdrop of the 2008 recession, For Here or To Go?

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