ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

Since 2002, the law form of Fenwick & West has conducted a venture capital survey, a response to "the burst of the 'dot-come bubble' and a desire to provide the entrepreneurial community with objective information about the status of the venture environment." Sponsor.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

This product development diagram had become part of the DNA of Silicon Valley. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Neste modelo, a história da Startup nos primeiros anos se repete: os empreendedores têm a [.] Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Similarly, in it’s own 2002 study, the communications agency Cone found that 77 percent of respondents said that a company’s commitment to social issues was a major factor when deciding where to work,” writes CEO of TOMS shoes Blake Mycoskie, in his book Start Something That Matters. Flashy perks? Not necessarily.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Ryan Smith co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with his father in the family basement. But in the corporate world in 2002, no one was ready for it. Qualtrics has 8500 customers today, but back in his father’s basement in 2002, things weren’t so rosy. And download any of the past shows here.). Clips from their interviews are below.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

The Internet Bubble (2001 – 2002). We Need To Be Like Silicon Valley. The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Boulder As A Laboratory. Before the Internet (1970 to 1994). Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). The Beginning of the Next Wave (2003 – 2011). Principals of a Sustainable Entrepreneurial Community.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

Each of the SBIC funds were raised in the 2000 – 2002 time period. If you want to see a fun quote on it, read A History of Silicon Valley which quotes: “ …many venture capital pioneers think the SBIC program did little to advance the art and practice of venture investing.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

That will keep the Silicon Valley wags buzzing for some time to come. Many of us suffered in the 2000–2002 dotcom crash and/or the 2007–2009 Great Recession; others hardly noticed a blip. How about your Investors ? At this writing, the first salvos have been fired in Gurley v. The World will conclude this list for today.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

I’ve been to a World Cup (South Korea 2002), gold medal Olympic soccer matches (men & women Beijing 2008), English Premier League, MLS, heck even AYSO. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Proof in point is my license plate: So it always had to be golazo… Author howerl.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Earlier this year a 12-person delegation from Facebook in Silicon Valley visited the company in Lagos to strengthen the relationship between the two companies; there are more than 12 million Facebook users in Nigeria. This e-commerce company raised $25 million Series B at the start of 2014, bringing its total investment to $38.5

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Using examples drawn from his own experiences in the startup hub of Silicon Valley, Eric Ries unravels the myths and misconceptions that guide most startups, and paints a picture of a new way forward for the industry. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Not unless you’re Elon Musk and Governor Abbott has a smile as wide as the Texas Panhandle or you’re Joe Rogan and every tech bro in Austin is so pumped to point to your move (and Tim Ferriss’ move) here as some kind of stamp of approval that they never needed Silicon Valley.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Term Sheet The latest on private equity, M&A, deals and movements — from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. MPM BioVentures III (2002): 76% (44%). Term Sheet. Fear & Greed. Mutual Funds. Beyond the dotcom-era benchmarks.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 11, 2015

When Elon Musk received $200 million from the proceeds of the PayPal acquisition in 2002, he re-invested everything to build the next big thing: $100 million in SpaceX and $100 million in Tesla. They will assume you’ll meet Silicon Valley-based VCs (even if it is not the case!), Talk about passion and commitment!

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

From starting the company on a AUD $10k credit card in 2002 to raising $60m from Atlas Partners in 2010, Sydney-based enterprise software firm counts Twitter and NASA among their clients. The firm now has 600+ employees with Facebook vice-president Jay Parikh and former Symantec chief executive Enrique Salem on its board as of August 2013.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. The lesson was learned over 30 years in Silicon Valley: you create ecosystems where third-parties can innovate and thrive and you become the legitimate center of it all and can tax the system later.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 2, 2017

Did you feel connected to Silicon Valley back then? I grew up in the East Bay but left for NYC in 1987 and Silicon Valley was just starting to percolate. HW: EMC has been pretty tech-forward, such as your 2015 participation in Apple’s Watch launch and use of social media.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. I thought that, too.

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Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

I’m obviously biased, but I still think LinkedIn is an awesome platform today and they continue to innovate, grow, and evolve nearly 10 years after we started the company at the end of 2002. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Overall, great find! link] leehower. Read More ».

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Sarah also points to the vast global wealth that has to get allocated somewhere as well as a small bump in long term average returns, now that the generally terrible performance of funds from the 2000-2002 time frame (after the tech bubble of the late 90s crashed) no longer factor in to 10 year returns.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Sure, I wrote about startups all the time, but my work experience with a classic Silicon Valley-styled startup was non-existent. In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

For example, a couple of entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley created a company to develop an iPhone social-media app. The vast profits that product produced allowed HP in 2002 to buy Compaq, the leading brand of personal computer at the time. Facebook didn’t buy the business because the company had no revenues.

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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. Marc Andreessen On The Future Of Enterprise. ALEXIA TSOTSIS. Sunday, January 27th, 2013.

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Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2016

From 2002-08 Sec. One of the shortcomings has been that there is not sufficient connectivity between the policy community in Washington and the innovation community out here at Stanford and Silicon Valley or for that matter on the East Coast or points in between. Blinken was Democratic Staff Director for the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

This isn’t just a Silicon Valley CEO spouting the magic of technology – the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ data supports this trend. Between 2002 and 2012, enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over one million employees. Trends Have Been Happening. Thinking Aloud Bill Clerico technology trends WePay'

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

How did you end up heading to Silicon Valley from France to join a startup? But then came 9/11 and the severe downturn in the Valley in 2002. In Silicon Valley, the ambition is always global. It was entirely by accident to be honest! And that was the start of an interesting journey.

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