Life Beyond Code

JULY 10, 2010

CEREBRATE Silicon Valley 2010 happens during July 30 – Aug 1, 2010 at Mount Madonna. Kiruba and I quickly decided that we need to have one such event in Silicon Valley. Everyone seems to be ALWAYS busy in Silicon Valley and this would be a welcome change for a small set of people.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Of course, thats probably even more true in Silicon Valley. that talked about a recent NY Times article When It Comes to Innovation, Geography Is Destiny.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Founded in 2007. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In class I teased Todd that while the Navy had me present my Secret History of Silicon Valley talk in front of 4,000 cadets at the Naval Post Graduate School , I had yet to hear from the Air Force Academy. He promised that one day he would fix that. Here’s Todd’s story of how we got there and progress to date. ——-.

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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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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

If you’re a non-technical entrepreneur in Silicon Valley that’s out of college now, it can be tough to find a technical cofounder. Active software engineers probably get two offers a month or more. But it’s not hopeless.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 7, 2014

There weren’t a lot of seed funds in 2007 so this was often done by angels, funding consortia or sometimes early-stage funds that existed then (First Round Capital, True Ventures, SoftTech VC, etc.). A rounds back then seemed to be anywhere from $2-3 million (LA or NYC) or up to $5 million in Silicon Valley. $5

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

In January 2007 I had a resolution to lose weight and I didn’t want to do it through some crash diet like Atkins that I felt wasn’t sustainable for me. Then I found out that Dave McClure had already invested along with many others in a Silicon Valley seed round even though the company is in Alabama.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution. 166M round closed Dec 2007. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Pre-money valuation was approx.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Appirio is one such company that jumped on this trend way back in 2007 and has now built a significant company in that space. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. Sequoia has financed them. Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

In 2007, launched “America’s Giving” challenge with Facebook and Parade magazine. We’re not just focused on NY/Boston/Silicon Valley. The original intent was to be discrete and to avoid potential criticism (which happens whenever you try to create change). We were seeing this movement towards causes on Facebook and elsewhere.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

It’s a non-fiction story of many of the players at the heart of the financial crisis that became exposed in 2007/08. The Details: I recently finished reading “ The Big Short ” by Michael Lewis. It got me thinking about how in poker and in investing there are usually a few pro’s at the table and many suckers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 27, 2012

Among the most respected thinkers in Silicon Valley, Marc may be most familiar to you as co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz. Marc wrote about it way back in 2007 when he addressed the question, "What causes success?" Or perhaps you remember him as the guy who built the first widely used web browser.

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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. By fund II (2007) he was able to raise $15 million (if you watch the video you’ll hear an interesting story of how he did this) and he had a proper fund. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Over time the idea that winners in new markets are the ones who have been the first (not just early) entrants into their categories became unchallenged conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley. Lieberman 2007. The only problem is that it’s simply not true. By then it was too late. Journal of Marketing Research, 30(2):158–170. [4]

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Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley. Here are the trends in venture capital financings from 2006 through 2010 – the number of seed stage deals funded and total investment by region in millions of dollars. . All Seed-VC. New England. Southern California*. Northwest. . $$$$. Deals. $$$$. Deals. $$$$. Deals. $$$$. Deals. $$$$.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

At the same time we have seen the start-up ecosystems in New York, London and Berlin emerge as meaningful competitors to Silicon Valley. Those VCs were nearly all situated in Silicon Valley and most companies couldn’t get very far without going to them. It’s no coincidence that these two developments have come together.

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Life Beyond Code

JANUARY 2, 2011

Kavitha (my wife) and organized the first CEREBRATE in Silicon Valley ( see participants ) last year in July. It was an event that clearly demonstrated that we need more such events especially in Silicon Valley. Please nominate them here: Nominate for CEREBRATE Silicon Valley 2011 January Edition.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

26 Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), the oldest venture capital practice in the United States, today announced the closing of a $350 million supplement to its current fund family, BVP VII, which closed in June 2007. ► 2007. (10). Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. ► 02/24 - 03/02. (1). Happy New Year 2008!

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Life Beyond Code

MAY 7, 2011

The time has come to announce the next CEREBRATE event – CEREBRATE Silicon Valley #3. Kavitha (founder of MySizeFinder and my wife) I organized two CEREBRATE events in Silicon Valley (CEREBRATE #1 in July 2010 and CEREBRATE #2 in January 2011). It may be you or someone that you respect.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 25, 2012

Incorporated in April 2007, over the course of two years - from June 2007 to September 2009 - the founders invested $185,000 of capital in the company, in the form of loans. One of the things I love about Silicon Valley," he says, "is that you have plenty of other people who are also nuts and want to join, help or support you.".

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David Teten

DECEMBER 24, 2015

While Canada doesn’t yet have the deep financial and technical infrastructure that cities such as San Francisco and New York have built over many years of flourishing startup activity, many Silicon Valley alumni are recognizing an opportunity and relocating north. Similarly, 31 per cent of Toronto’s CEOs have lived in Silicon Valley.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Before we talk about how this might work, it’s helpful to take a look back at a case study of what gave rise to Silicon Valley as an innovation cluster and the San Francisco Bay Area as a modern supercity. In the case of Silicon Valley, it was a combination of: Universities like Stanford. Federal government.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

This textbook combines the strength of my Silicon Valley experiences as a venture capitalist and Mannie’s research as a professor, and it will help strengthen Chinese college-education programs in this particular field.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

The early-stage vacuum that existed in 2006-2007 that then led to the formation of “Seed” funds, is oddly enough re-emerging as the Micro-VCs who once dominated this space move upstream. This means that there is interest in tech-investing from all over the world , especially focused on tech companies in Silicon Valley. (I

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www.lanceglasser.com

MAY 13, 2012

Silicon Valley melting pot. Glasser 2007-2012. Operations and Manufacturing. You can have it all. The experience curve. People and culture. What goes around. Tricks of the trade. Thank you Japan. Bah, humbug. How to get laid off. What does a CTO do? © Lance A. All Rights Reserved.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

A couple weeks ago, I attended the 13th Silicon Valley Annual VC/Entrepreneur luncheon organized by NVCA. The guest speaker was a well known and highly successful Silicon Valley veteran: Tony Zingale, President and CEO of Mercury Interactive. ► 2007. (10). Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007.

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

There weren’t a lot of seed funds in 2007 so this was often done by angels, funding consortia or sometimes early-stage funds that existed then (First Round Capital, True Ventures, SoftTech VC, etc.). A-rounds back then seemed to be anywhere from $2-3 million (LA or NYC) or up to $5 million in Silicon Valley. $5 Why the latter?

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

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. ” And if you’re curious, it wasn’t too long ago that Silicon Valley was also dying.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

And more recently he has turned that into a fund called CrossCulture VC such that many in Silicon Valley and beyond now know Troy as well. The history of tech will always tell you there was a defining moment for companies (like Twitter at SXSW in 2007) but the reality is often more nuanced. Same with Gaga.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2013

The first Techstars class matriculated in 2007. Boulder is comparatively not well situated to have large scale immigration ties a la Silicon Valley or New York. Six years later , TechStars is a global operation and, more fundamentally, the accelerator model is among the decade’s most important entrepreneurial innovations.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lane’s first startup was Club Penguin , the largest online virtual world for kids, which was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2007 for $350M. He said that because the Club Penguin team was clear about their “why,” they embraced being acquired by Disney in 2007: Our goals weren’t about an exit.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

13) Portland startups at an “Early Stage”: Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, it ain’t (and that’s awesome) (0). Copyright © 2007–2012 Silicon Florist and Return —Views expressed here are not necessarily those of whom I cover. You got Your Year on Twitter in my Vizify. (0) August 2012.

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Agile VC

APRIL 27, 2012

This is true not just for entirely new product categories like tablets, but even existing ones… smartphones had been around for 5+ years before the first gen iPhone launched in 2007 (remember Palm Treos and the original Blackberry phones?). Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Author howerl.

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

Startups and the business of financing them have, with the help of Twitter, HBO Silicon Valley, and Shark Tank have become part of the global business lexicon. Um… wow. OK, so microVC funds and smaller pre-seed financings could really be a thing. 4/ LPs noted that the term “pre-seed” is really a U.S.

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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.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lane’s first startup was Club Penguin , the largest online virtual world for kids, which was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2007 for $350M. He said that because the Club Penguin team was clear about their “why,” they embraced being acquired by Disney in 2007: Our goals weren’t about an exit.

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