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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. In 1996 got connected up with Softbank which was investing very aggressively in the U.S. So having spent a lot of time thinking about this Silicon Valley is a thing in and of itself. So everybody goes through this phase of we want to be the next Silicon Valley.

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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today. He’ll talk about making a profit and making a difference in a conversation with New Media Ventures’ Christie George.

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‘Capital Efficiency’ doesn’t exist

K9 Ventures

I started the company in December 1996, we sold the company in March 2000 (3+ years). Well, today I’m going to explain why I now believe that this thinking is flawed (for Silicon Valley at least, not sure about other geographies). In fact, when starting K9 I used my own startups as an example such capital efficiency.

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Your Computer May Already be Hacked – NSA Inside?

Steve Blank

Given my talks on the Secret History of Silicon Valley I was interviewed on NPR about the disclosure that the NSA said they had a new capability that tripled the amount of Skype video calls being collected through Prism. Filed under: Customer Development , Secret History of Silicon Valley.

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‘Capital Efficiency’ doesn’t exist

K9 Ventures

I started the company in December 1996, we sold the company in March 2000 (3+ years). Well, today I’m going to explain why I now believe that this thinking is flawed (for Silicon Valley at least, not sure about other geographies). In fact, when starting K9 I used my own startups as an example such capital efficiency.

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Does a VCs Culture Really Matter? The Upfront Story

Both Sides of the Table

But as LA as a tech community grew massively the percentage of our LA deals went from 15% to 50% from 1996 to 2010 and it has remained solid since then. So Silicon Valley massively shifted to San Francisco.

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Zoho’s CEO Discusses its Unique Culture and Plans for its Austin Campus on the Ideas to Invoices Podcast

SiliconHills

In 1996, Sridhar Vembu founded Zoho in Silicon Valley. Today, the bootstrapped startup is still in its teenage years even as it finds its stride with the increasing popularity of its suite of software apps aimed at running everything from a small business to a Fortune 500 company.