The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

Founded in 2005, the company has since delivered more than $1 billion from employers to freelancers. The main prize of oDesk’s competition is a trip to the Silicon Valley with guided tours to the offices of major Internet companies, including Facebook, PayPal, Autodesk, and others. million jobs.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 2, 2014

He is internationally regarded as a communications trainer and keynote speaker, as well as a savvy entrepreneur. He is internationally regarded as a communications trainer and keynote speaker, as well as a savvy entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. But back in 2005 there were a few people who spotted the trend before others and one of the true pioneers was (and continues to be) Jeff Clavier who founded SoftTech VC.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2012

If you’re not familiar with SuperHappyDevHouse , it’s a social, hacker culture-type event and party that started in Silicon Valley in 2005 and today takes place all around the world for creative and curious people interested in technology to share knowledge, collaborate and generally have a great time creating new products.

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Singapore Silicon Valley Wiki Asia 150

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 12, 2012

In Silicon Valley, foreign-born entrepreneurs have founded half the region’s startups in recent years - and kept the U.S. A new study shows the number of immigrant-founded startups in Silicon Valley has tumbled from 52.4% since 2005. Immigration has always been the engine that drives the American economy.

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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Green India 152

David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Case Foundation didn’t have a website until 2005, although founded 1997. We’re not just focused on NY/Boston/Silicon Valley. We’ve moved >$1b in resources from the corporate sector to nonprofits. 3 specific issues: 1. How we embrace technology for good. There are 1.4m-1.6m companies in our target market at any one time.

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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.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 1, 2015

In 2005, David Choe was invited to paint a number of murals at Facebook’s HQ in Palo Alto. Noah Parsons, COO at Palo Alto Software says, “If you’re in Silicon Valley and/or building any kind of tech startup, it’s considered the norm to offer equity as part of a compensation package.”. “If

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley). A few years before all this scandalous VC behavior occurred, in 2005 Paul Graham ) started Y Combinator. Scaling Up & Out: The Valley is Flat (and Global). and no, we didn’t. Rise of Y Combinator, 1st Branded Entrepreneur Guild.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

round closed Feb 2005. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. General Catalyst & Sequoia participated. liquidation preference, 6% accumulated dividend. Pre-money valuation was initially set higher but was adjusted to match the Ser B valuation. Series B Preferred. Pre-money valuation was approx.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Stanford was also the right place because of nearby Silicon Valley. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. Seth saw friends move out to California, go to school, and launch Plaxo. He was drawn to Stanford by the people ecosystem- access to professors and mentors.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 12, 2012

In Silicon Valley, foreign-born entrepreneurs have founded half the region’s startups in recent years - and kept the U.S. A new study shows the number of immigrant-founded startups in Silicon Valley has tumbled from 52.4% since 2005. Immigration has always been the engine that drives the American economy.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There is really no other place in the world like Silicon Valley. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org. I had kept a personal blog for more than a year and was new at keeping a professional blog.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The Austin-based company, founded in 2005 in Silicon Valley, had not raised any money previously. Vast, a data platform to sell cars and houses, announced Monday it has received $14 million from Capital One Growth Ventures. It has created two main brands: CarStory for automotive and HomeStory for real estate.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

It was filed in 2005 and issued in 2010 which means there was a good deal of prior art around SNS before Yahoo filed. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Regarding social networking, Yahoo! I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

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SiliconHills

MARCH 25, 2015

By Laura Lorek Reporter with Silicon Hills News Vast, which makes search and analytics tools for homes and autos, started out in Silicon Valley in 2005. Naval Ravikant, now CEO of AngelList, founded the company to create a better search site to help people find and discover items online.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

Mike Lincoln (on my list) had previously had huge success with Cooley (long considered a platinum-status Silicon Valley firm as depicted in the image in this post highlighting some of their clients) in expanding their presence outside their traditional NorCal stronghold. And then today. The magic all came together. He was a mensch.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

And since VC dollars tend to concentrate around high-tech R&D areas, it’s notable that more than 90% of the nation’s innovation-sector growth (2005-2017) is accounted for by just five metro areas — Boston, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and San Diego. In the case of Silicon Valley, it was a combination of: Universities like Stanford.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 12, 2012

In Silicon Valley, foreign-born entrepreneurs have founded half the region’s startups in recent years – and kept the U.S. A new study shows the number of immigrant-founded startups in Silicon Valley has tumbled from 52.4% since 2005. Immigration has always been the engine that drives the American economy.

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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Green India 60

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

And it goes beyond the fact that like so many of the great investment stories of the past 15 years - PayPal, YouTube, Zynga, LinkedIn, Yelp - Facebook’s early investors primarily came from a very small group of interconnected Silicon Valley investors. Let's start with being too poor. Forget about deal access and acumen.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

JS: I grew up in Silicon Valley and had always found technology fascinating, but I never thought we would be at this point of stardom for founders and tech execs. I think it was on a list of “Top 100 projects that should probably not launch” in the summer of 2005. Is it weird seeing people you know get famous in that way?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. They have the same trade-off decisions that you do about packing up and moving to Silicon Valley vs. staying and building locally. The ingredients are all here. Stating the obvious but you can’t will a region into success.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Valuations are higher in Silicon Valley, Silicon Beach, New York and the North Carolina corridor than in Oklahoma City, Kansas City or Miami. For example, in Silicon Valley, a “big data” startup might competitively call for a $1.5 The Method should allow for this.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Recently, Vivek wrote a post titled Silicon Valley: You and Some of Your VC’s have a Gender Problem that resulted from a research project he did with the National Center for Women & Information Technology (I’m chairman).

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 13, 2017

If I was to pick a watershed moment in the emergence of ‘entrepreneurship as a science’ it would be the publication of Steve Blank’s Four Steps to the Epiphany in 2005. It’s not the easiest read, but for the first time founders had a playbook they could follow.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

in 2005, Donna has cultivated her business from a humble beginning of two clients to a thriving and reputable Silicon Valley accounting firm serving over 50 diverse business owners and counting. Since the inception of Sooter Consulting, Inc. Email Donna at donna@sooterconsulting.com. Anders Goranson.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 20, 2013

As a result, the percentage of immigrant-founded startups in Silicon Valley has declined from 52.4% in 2005 to 43.9% The goal is to build on what Silicon Valley did in stopping SOPA/PIPA and create the infrastructure for tech leaders to leverage technology and social media to move legislation in D.C.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. It makes you appreciate that the Silicon Valley technology-centric culture-bubble has little to do with the majority of Americans.) You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Driving across the U.S. I was stunned.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. With all of the new ways to see early companies such as TechCrunch and YCombinator, I had a feeling that much of the luster was gone and debated whether it was worth the time to attend.The last time I went to DEMO was in 2005 for the launch of one of my companies, iControl Networks.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 28, 2013

Between 1990 and 2005, 25 percent of our highest-growth companies were founded by foreign-born entrepreneurs. That’s why so many in Silicon Valley, including our crew of founders at FWD.us , urge the House of Representatives to affirm this forward-thinking vision for our country. immigrants or their children.

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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. Tony Hsieh, well-known founder of Zappos and driving-force entrepreneurial success story, wrote his own story for Inc.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Its roots are in the campus and as Forbes frames it, they are disrupting Silicon Valley. From the piece by Christopher Steiner: The accident was a summer program Graham started in 2005 for college students who were tinkering with business ideas. Y Combinator’s influence in Silicon Valley has burgeoned ever since.

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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.

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Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. In fact, for a good laugh, I just went back and checked our accounting system, and at the end of one quarter in 2005, we were down to $143 cash on the balance sheet. ProfessorVC. Friday, April 11, 2008. Babys All Grown Up. We ended up raising $15.5M, led by John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Conventional wisdom says that you can only build big businesses in Silicon Valley so as a VC you need to be there. Some of the biggest wins of the past 5 years were built outside of the Valley.

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Professor VC

JUNE 6, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Out of the 12,500 founders of these firms, 181 (1.7%) die at some point between starting up the firm and the end of 2005 (Hvide 6). ProfessorVC. Friday, June 6, 2008. Is it the Horse or Jockey? Hvide analyzed 6,800 companies that started between 1996 and 2003 in Norway.

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entrepreMusings

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

He discusses how Indians have managed to achieve success in Silicon Valley, and he starts the post by saying: “ Women, Hispanics and blacks have always been underrepresented in the ranks of the Valley’s tech companies. It seems that the problem I highlighted in my is actually getting worse, particularly in Silicon Valley.

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