Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. 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. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

In 2004, Googling terms like “high tech marketing” and “startup” I discovered “ The Four Steps to The Epiphany ” at Cafépress.com. We kept talking, with Steve asking “How long are you staying in Silicon Valley?”

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

2004), Kayak ($1.8B/2004) 2004) and Fleetmatics ($1.4B/2004), 2004), although the latter was founded in Dublin. To see the companies in their various segments laid out, see the chart below: Much of this data refutes the belief that all the major startup winners have been created in Silicon Valley.

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Scott Edward Walker

JANUARY 23, 2012

Cheers, Scott Top 5 Tweets Software Engineering Salaries in Silicon Valley bit.ly/zJpyHd zLmdx7 “We pitched investors 348 times before getting a ‘yes’ from Walden Venture Capital in March 2004.” zJpyHd SecondMarket’s 2011 Year End Private Company Report – some very interesting charts bit.ly/zLmdx7

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Founding Date: 2004. round closed in June 2004. 1.65M extension round closed Nov 2004. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Kayak Software Corporation. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011. Headquarters: Norwalk, CT & Concord, MA. Author howerl.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 8, 2012

Additionally, while we are in a very bullish funding market, this will eventually change (having invested through the boom and bust 1999-2003 in Silicon Valley and the run up and financial crash of 2004-2009 in NYC, I can virtually guarantee that cycles will continue).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. 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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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

In Silicon Valley for three decades, spent eight years as a partner at US Venture Partners. — Michael Mondavi is widely credited with helping to establish and build the Napa Valley wine industry as we know it. His career began in 1966 when he and his father Robert co-founded the Robert Mondavi Winery in Napa Valley. .

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. All the other stuff Yahoo! Read More ».

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

In Silicon Valley for three decades, spent eight years as a partner at US Venture Partners. — Michael Mondavi is widely credited with helping to establish and build the Napa Valley wine industry as we know it. His career began in 1966 when he and his father Robert co-founded the Robert Mondavi Winery in Napa Valley. .

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley). One of the earliest and most well-known of the Micro-VC funds was First Round Capital , founded in 2004 by Josh Kopelman , a former entrepreneur who sold Half.com to eBay in 2000. Scaling Up & Out: The Valley is Flat (and Global).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2015

It was part Silicon Valley insider and part marketing huckster. Copyright © Guy Kawasaki, 2004, 2015.' 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. But there was one exception, Guy Kawasaki''s The Art of the Start.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

The word conjures images of twenty-something graduate students hacking code in a Silicon Valley dorm room, fueled by a steady supply of Red Bull and Ramen. Among a sample of companies started in 2004, two-thirds of founders were in the 35-54 age bracket. By Akira Hirai Entrepreneurship.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. But Andreessens approach is also exposing a rift in Silicon Valley, where a group of young and relatively untested entrepreneurs have maintained control over their rapidly growing companies. Stock Quotes. more in Tech. Find New $LINKTEXTFIND$ » smaller. Google Inc.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2011

I came back to India , in 2004. It’s a dramatic shift from how things were in 2004. Initially quite a number of companies were heavily influenced by the west, especially Silicon Valley. We communicated with Anand who kindly shared with us his thoughts on the start-up scene in India. Catch what he has to say below.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2014

The new and improved “Capital of the Silicon Valley” is definitely living up to its name. In 2004, her articles and interviews were featured in Supersport Magazine, a local print out for motocross enthusiasts. Fort Meyers, Florida.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2012

It looked at data from 13,166 Danish startups founded between 1995 to 2004 and discovered that companies launched by founders with an average tenure of 6.4 Prevailing wisdom has it that the path to startup success is shorter and smoother if it leads through Silicon Valley. But Sorenson says this is not necessarily the case.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

My wife Mirta, a professional chef from Paraguay, and I started the business in 2004. I have worked as a periodontist since graduating from Baylor College of Dentistry in 2004 and have owned a practice for 15 years. Now we have 70 employees and serve 5000 children every day. Contact me at simon.rothschild@eltucano.de or 608-542-0880.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? Hopefully that will take some of the sting out of the fact that you had to engage in a little trickery.

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Scott Edward Walker

AUGUST 22, 2011

” - @mcuban on.wsj.com/q1v3Uk When to Make the First Offer in Negotiations – interesting post via Professor Galinsky (from 2004) bit.ly/p2Pkk0 orDpNw Quora: “What are the common conditions of preferred shares in Silicon Valley with regard to redemption rights?” …It’s more like a Ponzi scheme.”

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2012

It looked at data from 13,166 Danish startups founded between 1995 to 2004 and discovered that companies launched by founders with an average tenure of 6.4 Prevailing wisdom has it that the path to startup success is shorter and smoother if it leads through Silicon Valley. But Sorenson says this is not necessarily the case.

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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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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2012

It looked at data from 13,166 Danish startups founded between 1995 to 2004 and discovered that companies launched by founders with an average tenure of 6.4 Prevailing wisdom has it that the path to startup success is shorter and smoother if it leads through Silicon Valley. But Sorenson says this is not necessarily the case.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Facebook, Inc. Filing Date : February 1, 2012. Headquarters : Palo Alto, CA. What They Do : Enable users to connect and share content with friends online. Read More ».

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

In addition, he is a Partner at TheFunded.com , and the Executive Producer of the Founder Showcase , a leading startup event in Silicon Valley. Jonathan has been heavily involved in startups and online marketing since 2004, a nd has advised hu ndreds of technology companies. Follow him on Twitter at @jonnystartup.

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Bryce Dot VC

DECEMBER 12, 2012

In 2004, on his own dime, he started Khosla Ventures to fund “science experiments” tackling some of the world’s largest problems in alternative energy, education, petroleum independence, and the environment. Upon graduating from Stanford with his MBA, he co-founded Daisey Systems and Sun Microsystems. .

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Founded in 2004, it has grown in leaps and bounds along with NYC’s tech sector. Last year as I traveled around the world investing in emerging markets, helping them build innovation ecosystems, it was not the Silicon Valley example I used – it was the NYC story that I talked about.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

Michael Baum ( @michaelbaum ), whom I first met at LinuxWorld at in 2004, has a charismatic personality and an extraordinary track record, largely unheralded. Michael Baum : You remember what happened in 2003 in Silicon Valley, right? Most people never get to launch a successful startup, much less six. Were you insane?

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

In the weeks leading up to 9/11, when I was working at Intel Capital in Silicon Valley, I was back on the east coast traveling with my family in the Berkshires and then had a meeting with a portfolio company that was headquartered in the World Trade Center. I moved back to NYC in 2004.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 11, 2016

In the weeks leading up to 9/11, when I was working at Intel Capital in Silicon Valley, I was back on the east coast traveling with my family in the Berkshires and then had a meeting with a portfolio company that was headquartered in the World Trade Center. I moved back to NYC in 2004.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

But even during the macroeconomic boom of 2004 to early 2008 (inflated by various credit bubbles – housing, sovereign debt, LBOs) tech IPOs were extremely rare and then the global economic crisis of late 2008 – 2010 only further dampened hopes for a recovery. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. In fact, only 13% of VCs investing in the US are based in NYC.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. In fact, only 13% of VCs investing in the US are based in NYC.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

Silicon Valley and the media industry that surrounds it values youth. This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. The culture is driven by the 20-something irreverent founder with huge technical chops who in a “David vs. Goliath” mythology take on the titans of industry and wins.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Ironically our business started to perform very will by 2004 but by then management had lost the dream of a huge upside. I’m assuming this in Silicon Valley, LA or similar locations. I took money with a 3x participating preferred liquidation preference with 8% compounded interest annually.

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