2005 Finance Government Silicon Valley 
View from Seed
APRIL 21, 2015
We were on an immersion trip to Silicon Valley, and we said, “Let’s find a way to leverage [a previous open source project],” and we decided to build something around that. million raised, per CrunchBase): It came from my deep frustration renting as an undegrad at Oxford for the first time back in 2005. Tom Eisenmann.
Up and Running
JUNE 9, 2010
He says: Our sales had grown steadily since 2005; by 2008 we were doing more than $1 billion in gross merchandise sales annually — two years ahead of our original plan. Credit was tight, and Zappos depended on commercial financing of inventory. We were now profitable, and our culture was even stronger. This was in 2009.
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The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
Founded in 2005 by Aaron Levie (CEO) and Dylan Smith (CFO), Box provides a secure content sharing platform where content can be shared internally and externally, accessed through iPad, iPhone, Android and Windows Phone applications, among others, and extended to partner applications such as Google Apps, NetSuite and Salesforce.
Professor VC
JULY 31, 2008
The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I actually enjoy the process of pulling together a selection of materials to create a complete course on Entrepreneurial Finance. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 13, 2011
In most cases, no patent means no financing, no new products, no new jobs, and no new industries for tomorrow. In fact, between 1995 and 2005, these same immigrants founded over 50 percent of the venture-backed technology companies in Silicon Valley, and are some of the key venture capitalists there as well.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Even in New York the number of startups percapita is probably a 20th of what it is in Silicon Valley. The sixth largest center for oil, or finance, or publishing?Whatever In the first batch of startups we funded, in the summerof 2005, most of the founders spent all their time building theirapplications.
Hearpreneur
AUGUST 19, 2015
We are unbelievably lucky to be here right now, with a team of über-talented people from the best and brightest Silicon Valley companies, at a moment when what a book should be is morphing before our very eyes. Back in 2005, I started Cellit, a company focused on helping companies communicate with their customers via text messages.
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