Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2012

In 2011 Facebook paid out $1.4 Facebook generated a little less than $600M in direct revenue from its “platform” in 2011 and we can infer Apple generated something like $800M – $1B (see note 1). Apple generated nearly $130B in revenue in 2011. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

Java 170

Java Flash Software Azure 170

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2011

And the third was a discussion on Silicon Valley: The Next Decade. Silicon Valley: The Next Decade. PDT on the following dates: Thursday, June 16, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, June 23, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, July 21, 2011: Register Here.

Silicon Valley 113

Silicon Valley New Jersey Entrepreneur Massachusetts 113

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two dot-com bonanza.

Pre-Money Valuation 471

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Venture Capital Early Stage 471

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. Prices have definitely gone up in 2011 as depicted in the anecdotal chart below.

Pre-Money Valuation 336

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Silicon Valley Stock 336

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

September 15, 2011. In the first half of 2011, the IPO markets were looking strong for VC-backed companies. How diffferent 2H 2011 looks. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. How To Think About The Future. Bankers licked their chops.

IPO 100

IPO Marketing Silicon Valley Technical Review 100

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 13, 2010

The idea of this course started on a trip to Stanford University during March 2010, where we realized that many of the great innovations in Silicon Valley are born from Computer Science students, so we said “We should give our computer science students an opportunity to develop a company”.

Chile 235

Chile Silicon Valley Lean Agile 235

Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

NextView originally invested in the company’s seed round in the spring of 2011 and we again participated in this latest round along with Atlas Venture. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. And, sure, if you ever need coaching — I am here.

Community 100

Community Estonia Syndicate Syndication 100

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

May 26, 2011. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Our growth started in Silicon Valley and our users were still predominantly from the tech world for the first year or two. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Will was honored at the White House as part of the 2011 Empact 100 list , for his work as a young entrepreneur. Steve : You mean in the community you’re in where the founder is an outlier, rather than at the core where you go to New York or you to go Silicon Valley and everybody’s a founder, including the waiters?

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Ohio Columbus Entrepreneur 120

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

And, most importantly, the Lean Startup idea is starting to take root in industries and contexts very different from it’s Silicon Valley roots. Brad Smith is the CEO of Intuit, one of the most successful software companies in Silicon Valley. SLLCONF 2011 is happening on May 23 in San Francisco.

San Francisco 146

San Francisco Silicon Valley Lean Agile 146

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

I advised Anupam to come up with a 2011 strategy. PDT on the following dates: Thursday, June 23, 2011: Register Here Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here Thursday, July 21, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, July 28, 2011: Register Here And you can sign up for the 1M/1M premium program here.

Spain 115

Spain Entrepreneur India San Francisco 115

Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Because of the interest in the 2010 survey, I decided to survey a larger number of North American angel groups this summer (2011). 2011 Angel Group Valuation Survey. Silicon Valley. Valley Angel Fund. Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley. Bill Payne October 2011. Current Average.

Angel Groups 125

Angel Groups Valuation Pre-Money Valuation St. Louis 125

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 14, 2011

They are leveraging the same kinds of new technology, management thinking, and big data to improve lives that we routinely use here in Silicon Valley. Given his roots, it's not surprising Park is trying to run his department like a Silicon Valley company. And then I recruit them to join a virtual startup to do this thing."

DC 167

DC CTO Hire Fractional CTO Silicon Valley 167

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. If you can’t see the video of the Protocol One team presenting click here. It Started with an Idea. He runs H4X Labs.

Oakland 301

Oakland Asia Lean Video 301

The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Many became skeptical over Color’s introduction to the scene when it was announced that investors like Bain Capital Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, and Sequoia Capital had poured in millions of dollars to this unproven company.

Los Angeles 161

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Media Startup 161

Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

I’ve tried to read a lot of your History of Silicon Valley posts. Memorex is turning 50 years old in 2011. Find out Memorex’s position in Silicon Valley. Some say we were the first PCM in the valley. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. They are very interesting.

Technology 138

Technology Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 138

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

Years later this area would become known as Silicon Valley. But I learned that in Silicon Valley, honest failure is a badge of experience. I began to reflect about my career and what had happened in my 21 years with startups in Silicon Valley. My third story is about Failure and Redemption.

Philadelphia 335

Philadelphia Miami Thailand Silicon Valley 335

Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As a native of Silicon Valley , I’ve witnessed the creative destruction of wave after wave of innovation as nearby corporate campuses repopulated themselves : From defense contractors to data centers , computer mainframe manufacturers to Internet search engines. Most of the technology industry is notoriously apolitical.

Silicon Valley 187

Silicon Valley San Francisco Intellectual Property Accredited Investor 187

Life Beyond Code

JANUARY 2, 2011

May 2011 be the best and the biggest so far. Like all of you, I am looking forward to 2011 with my eyes wide open. Kavitha (my wife) and organized the first CEREBRATE in Silicon Valley ( see participants ) last year in July. The dates are Jan 21 to Jan 23, 2011. First of all, Happy New Year to all of you.

Silicon Valley 90

Silicon Valley Metrics Cost Technology 90

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

June 5, 2011. It also puts another chink in the armor of the meme that monster internet companies can only be built in Silicon Valley (LivingSocial, Kayak, Gilt Groupe, CSN Stores, et al doing damage here too). Filing Date: initial filing June 2, 2011. Run Rate Revenue: $2.6B (Q1 2011 annualized). Groupon, Inc.

North America 100

North America Chicago Boston Silicon Valley 100

View from Seed

MAY 31, 2023

A couple of years later, as reported by the Harvard Business Review in 2011 , a survey of ~500 entrepreneurs in the UK found that serial founders frequently refrain from learning from their failures to minimize the psychological impact.

Silicon Valley 156

Silicon Valley Cofounder Term Sheet Founder 156

Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

October 28, 2011. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. The Consumerization of Business Software. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized.

Software 100

Software B2B Silicon Valley Acquisition 100

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

PDT on the following dates: Thursday, June 23, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, July 21, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, July 28, 2011: Register Here. Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here. We will be holding future roundtables at 8 a.m.

India 123

India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

April 17, 2011. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Quinstreet priced at $15.00/sh Read More ».

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Relevance: In 2011 (mentioned on page 18 if you view the presentation), Facebook only had 11% of the world’s internet users on on its platform – the figure was at 50% in North America. What in the World?!? Why this acquisition? He worked at Yahoo, where he met his co-founder.

India 107

India North America Ukraine Silicon Valley 107

Business Plan Blog

JULY 31, 2013

Seed funding to both San Francisco and Silicon Valley reached over $192M across 242 deals in the first half of 2013 alone. To put this in perspective, this is more than all of 2010 and nearly comparable to 2011 investment funding and deal levels. Funding By Sector.

Silicon Valley 45

Silicon Valley San Francisco Mobile Internet 45

Scott Edward Walker

JANUARY 23, 2012

Cheers, Scott Top 5 Tweets Software Engineering Salaries in Silicon Valley bit.ly/zJpyHd zJpyHd SecondMarket’s 2011 Year End Private Company Report – some very interesting charts bit.ly/zLmdx7 Below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly ) for the past week and a couple of blog-related tweets.

Silicon Valley 45

Silicon Valley Software Engineering RSS Venture Capital 45

Hunter Walker

JUNE 26, 2023

That exposure gave me insight into the significant knowledge gap that exists between Silicon Valley and the rest of the world. When we founded DataHero back in 2011, there was a trend going on where people were obsessively trying to “design” their company cultures.

Silicon Valley 114

Silicon Valley Canada Founder Early Stage 114

techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011. This is where FAST enters the picture, which Founder Institute has developed in conjunction with the Orrick Law Firm and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, to standardize the process and remove the hassle, cost, and delay to the formation of these relationships. 2011 Holiday. Disrupt SF.

Equity 94

Equity San Francisco Startup Silicon Valley 94

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

” I found myself nodding through all of it with quotes like, “Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley,” said Sam Altman. I myself coined the term ENIFA (everyone now is a f **g angel) in 2011 but it didn’t stick as well as the term Unicorn did.

Cap Table 150

Cap Table Cofounder Silicon Valley Startup 150

Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

In the mean time, please meet the Finance Fridays team: Jonathan Wolter has been a lead consultant and software engineer at ThoughtWorks working for clients in Silicon Valley, Texas, Chicago, and India. He will be entering Chicago Booth to complete this MBA with a focus on entrepreneurship and finance in the Fall 2011.

Finance 135

Finance Congo Chicago Cambodia 135

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Hiring technology talent in Silicon Valley is getting difficult, and the time it takes to drive across Palo Alto has tripled—all signs of the impending apocalypse. This was followed by another $500 million investment (along with Goldman Sachs) in 2011, at a $50 billion valuation. We have just entered the mania phase.

Silicon Valley 327

Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 327

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2019

In 2011 Professor Carter was in the first National Science Foundation I-Corps class. Coming out of Silicon Valley and the tech world, I was a complete novice on how policy gets made. I told four stories about the conflict between money and power versus the common good. They remind me of what Michael might have become.

California 321

California Silicon Valley Michigan San Francisco 321

Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

I’ve been writing up reviews of this season’s Shark Tank pitches from a silicon valley VCs perspective. He did $5M in 2011 sales and is projected $7.2m Week three’s breakdown covered topics like how hard momentum is to turn around, and how participating preferred stock works. BACK 9 DIPS.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review Technical Cofounder Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 110

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.

Acquisition 304

Acquisition Warrant Customer Term Sheet 304

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

On Saturday, April 9, 2011, I arrived in Chennai at 3 a.m. At the end of the day, we sealed a partnership between 1M/1M and TiE Chennai whereby TiE Chennai members can receive a discount of 25% off the annual membership fee for the 1M/1M premium program until June 16, 2011, and a 15% discount thereafter. At 11 a.m.,

India 126

India Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 126

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Well, if you were an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at one of the large Silicon Valley venture firms during the last few decades, that was your gig. A 10+ year bull market means that the significant majority of these people have the capital to self-fund for a bit and/or more wealthy friends than the did in 2011.

Silicon Valley 94

Silicon Valley Cofounder Salary Entrepreneur 94