Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Got around to seeing The Social Network this past weekend. link] We are developing a software technology that works on the web using cloud computing to build software 100X faster and reduce bugs and cut costs. ProfessorVC.

Social Network 28

Social Network Networking Software Review San Jose 28

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. We then spoke about startups.

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Connecticut Cofounder Silicon Valley Web 286

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. It’s tempting to want to stay in your offices and fund raise via email or web conferencing. Determine how to get access to them.

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Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2020

Here are three pieces of advice that are tossed around Silicon Valley as if they are gospel, but they are really Startup Myths. I don’t know exactly when it happened but at some point, Silicon Valley became obsessed with the word billion. My first institutional financing came from people who were in the “MIT” network.

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Finance Silicon Valley Valuation Startup 205

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Professional angels / former entrepreneurs / seed funds – In Silicon Valley there are people like Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples and many more. In SoCal we have Crosscut Ventures, Matt Coffin, Mike Jones, Klaus Schauser, etc. Social Network s / Search / Blogs – Obvious, huh?

Silicon Valley 291

Silicon Valley Ireland Technical Review Valuation 291

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Hiring technology talent in Silicon Valley is getting difficult, and the time it takes to drive across Palo Alto has tripled—all signs of the impending apocalypse. In the stealth phase , prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists (VCs) start investing in an industry or market segment that others have not yet found.

Silicon Valley 327

Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 327

Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

That option involved trying to get a job at a young Silicon Valley company that had just gone public and would, in a few short years, crash and burn, lay off everyone, and quickly fade into oblivion. Because that company was Netscape, the company that released the first widely adopted web browser. Yes, I passed up all that.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Internet Networking Salary 69

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. We have the inability to hire engineering in Silicon Valley or brand sales people in NYC but the country still has very high structural long-term unemployment. And Social.

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Stock Technical Review Marketing Greece 305

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen (the founder of Netscape and author of the first commercial web browser on the Internet ) are the definition of Smart Money. Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others.

Internet 295

Internet Silicon Valley United States .Net 295

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Thats real money." Only 3% were online when I started AOL.

San Francisco 105

San Francisco Technical Review Zimbabwe New York City 105

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Amazon Web Services. Social networking. Social/Sharing. Web Tools: Hereâ??s We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. About VC Cafe. VC & Startup Resources.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Be inspired by the tech world’s latest web, mobile and social breakthroughs to create simple, life-improving technologies and viable businesses among a rich and diverse community of cutting edge developers. Small Business Web Summit. Venture Summit Silicon Valley. Google I/O. InfusionCon.

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Las Vegas North America Silicon Valley New York City 165

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. Carpe Diem.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Is a web apps look and feel critical to its overall success or failure? "As A web applications overall look and feel plays a very critical role mainly through two main factors: early adopters love beautifully-designed applications and that gets them talking. The landing page for Bonds viral, social game, Spymaster.

Web 42

Web Design Startup Flash 42

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. We discussed NY vs. Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston. Current round: $31.0mm in Series C by Insight Venture Partners (Jeff Lieberman).

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Venture Capital Los Angeles Oakland Asia 217

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! The Small Business Tips Series is supported by Bantam Live , a web-based collaboration workspace with “Social CRM&# for small business teams.

Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

I think the one frustration, which Andrew Warner from Mixergy noted when I talked to him, was that there’s maybe two or three chapters that touch on SEO and web marketing kinds of things, but this is not an SEO-centric book. If you raise venture capital versus getting a bank loan, you are no less or more of an entrepreneur.

Silicon Valley 33

Silicon Valley SEO Startup Technical Review 33

Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. Jon Fisher purposely avoided raising venture capital in his ventures.

Bootstrapping 28

Bootstrapping San Jose Silicon Valley Software Review 28

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Marketers believe creating a killer web presence, corporate presentation, are objectives. While the product is being engineered, Marketing begins to create web sites, corporate presentations and sales materials. All this leads up to a flurry of press events and interviews, all geared to the product/web site launch date.

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 215

VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

Mobile web usage in Spain is high, at 20% of mobile phone users in 2011. IE, the leading business school in the country has launched Venture LAB , an incubator program, Startup Bootcamp has kicked off its first Spanish version last week with 10 startups participating, and new co-creation/co-working offices are popping up. There are 2.43

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Spain Silicon Valley Brazil Europe 108

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world. 41% of them feel that they qualify for venture capital funding.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Here is the original post: Early Stage Web Application Start-Up Seeking Developer/Designer. We have a myriad of connections to local Venture Capital firms, entrepreneurs, CEOs, and many other important individuals. We are implementing the innovative web 2.0 JS (for web/internet and mobile devices).

Sweat Equity 40

Sweat Equity Equity Hiring Technical Review 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I first met the founder of Pose, Dustin Rosen , when he was a junior person with an LA-based venture capital firm called The Mail Room Fund. I am on record as saying that my opinion is that Web 2.0 I said as much in my post about The Future of Social Networking. “And importantly Web 2.0

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Term Sheet Mobile Cofounder Early Stage 303

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. Post-Mortem Title : Lessons from Kiko, web 2.0 Check out the Brain’s Guide to Angel Investin g and the Brain’s Guide to Venture Capital.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed.

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Technical Review Technology Product CTO Hire 175

Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Speaking of bootstrapping, this is always a subject near and dear to my heart and Ill be moderating a panel on the topic on March 9th as part of our eminent speaker series at the Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship.

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley San Jose Bootstrapping 28

www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Roberts is in the news this week because of his high-profile critique of Angellist , the hot new investment network Robert Scoble has called the new Silicon Valley hype machine. Roberts celebrates 10 years in venture capital this month. startupcto

Silicon Valley 46

Silicon Valley Semantic Social Network Cofounder 46

Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Rebuild our Inner Cities one Venture at a time? As an active participant in the Silicon Valley new venture ecosystem and entrepreneurship educator, Im intrigued by the recently announced program Venture for America (VFA). Back to Venture for America.

Silicon Valley 28

Silicon Valley San Jose America Venture Capital 28

www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tipsandtrip was born from an idea of social media consultant Juliette Bellavita and Blogo.it They had the goal of launching a web app and an iphone app in 6 months with less than $10k. Iphone development: an italian freelance developer found on the web. CEO Marco Magnocavallo. How did they do it? Total cost: $5000.

Bootstrapping 49

Bootstrapping Italy Sweat Equity Europe 49

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Ezra Klein : Hello and welcome to the Ezra Klein Show, a podcast on Vox Media Podcast Network. Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists. It’s so radical.

Singapore 43

Singapore Government Silicon Valley Software Review 43

Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

One of the reasons that Silicon Valley has been so successful at building blitzscaling companies is its “fail fast” mantra, which encourages entrepreneurs to determine whether or not their startup can achieve product-market fit as early in the company’s lifecycle as possible. WHAT LEADS TO PIVOTS?

Startup 36

Startup Silicon Valley Business Model Mobile 36

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

In doing research for a post on “The Enterprise Cool Kids” at the tail end of last year, I interviewed Silicon Valley veteran Marc Andreessen about where he thought the enterprise was headed. The big advantage that we have as a venture capital firm over a hedge fund or a mutual fund is we have a 13-year lockup on our money.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Ok, so I think Im the last guy in Silicon Valley to start a blog. I put up my Bodega Partners web site in 1995 and it served its purpose for a number of years, but I just didnt spend the energy to keep it current and finally just took it down last month. Venture News.

Silicon Valley 31

Silicon Valley San Jose Angel Investor Venture Capital 31

Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 25, 2011

Q&A takes advantage of a common behavior that web users exhibit through search engines, they query in the form of a question. More recently Q&A sites have morphed into a variant of social network where users build profiles and interact with other members and topics by following them and cross posting to Facebook and Twitter.

Community 51

Community Search Social Network Social Media 51

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. While VC firms have been easy to find from the old school days of Pratts Guide to Venture Capital , to the early web presence of the 1990s and the current web sites, blogs, twitter feeds, facebook fan pages and sites such as The Funded , angels are still a bit harder to track down.

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Angel Investor Angel Groups San Jose Venture Capital 28

Professor VC

OCTOBER 20, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. In fact, I was cornered by a member of this camp at our recent Sand Hill Angels annual social event at the Wine Room in Palo Alto (great place, by the way). I laughed and said that our web site made this clear and we may have even put a brief posting to this effect on our twitter feed.

Angel Investor 35

Angel Investor Due Diligence San Jose Silicon Valley 35