Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For much of 2014 and 2015, I banged my head against a plane window flying back and forth between Austin and Silicon Valley while trying to raise institutional VC money for Localeur. I never did find a VC to lead a round of funding for Localeur, but two things happened by the end of 2015. but it’s true. Most definitely.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 26, 2024

With several investors handing sizable checks to startups to profit from what has attracted Silicon Valley’s attention in the past year — the race to create more and better AI has been escalating. Musk voiced concern about leading Tesla into artificial intelligence without obtaining 25% of the vote.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Bringing tech to insurance can be as simple as introducing a fleet of drones to do some claims investigation work, which Travelers introduced back in 2015. Another great example of innovation comes courtesy of Metromile, a startup right out of Silicon Valley that’s changing the way auto insurance is provided.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Homebrew is making more investments outside of Silicon Valley than we have in our history! Phase 2 California + NYC (2015-2017). As we started investing out of our second fund in the middle of 2015 we felt like we had our sea legs under us operationally. Yes we did!

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Everyone knows that Silicon Valley has been, historically speaking, the source of much innovation. Since 2012, the city has had an average growth of 21% in the business sector, with 2015 showing growth of 38% alone. San Francisco is already well publicized. Instead, try one of these lesser known tech meccas.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. After the success of Smart Bear, I should be setting my sights on something big, not this.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 24, 2016

Just a few years ago, if you wanted to do something big, you needed to go to Silicon Valley. billion in financing in 2015 (with 395 deals). If we try to dissect the magic of Silicon Valley, I think there are five key factors at play: Great schools. Waterloo has another unicorn with Kik. Great senior talent.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

It was adopted by the National Institutes of Health as I-Corps at NIH in 2014 and at the National Security Agency in 2015. Steve Weinstein , 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Team Silknet – Detecting Ground Base Threats. If you can’t see the Silknet slides, click here.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

But, it wasn’t directionally wrong, looking at enormous multinational companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook which rose from the hallowed ground of Silicon Valley. The CEO writes “Silicon Valley is going to leave Silicon Valley… the technology companies… they’re chasing talent, and talent is chasing affordable housing.”

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Vancouver has a situated tech market with a direct line to Silicon Valley. Since 2015, the rising interest abroad continues to contribute to steady growth. This generated $16 billion in annual revenues in 2015. Organizations such as TechVancouver and HackerNest Vancouver host tech socials and monthly meet-ups.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

In 2015, McKinsey did a study of average corporate lifespans on the S&P 500. The/Studio is a Silicon Valley venture backed startup that is focused on democratizing manufacturing and supply chain for SMBs. by Joseph Heller, CEO & Founder of The/Studio Technologies.

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The Next Web

JULY 3, 2017

However, Berlin has consistently been in Europe’s “top 4” (along with London, Paris and Stockholm), and received more tech capital in 2015 than any other European city. German tech companies receive only 400-500 VC investments per year, versus 1,000-1,500 for the UK as whole. The Berlin eco-system is being fuelled by two key trends.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2015

It was business star-studded affair - 150 Silicon Valley technology executives and investors gathered together to network and brainstorm on IoT - described by many as fundamental a technology shift as the emergence of the Internet itself was in the 1990's.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York. Michael Troiano (@miketrap) July 21, 2015. . Said another way: More consumer transaction vs audience focus companies in #Boston #BostonB2C @robgo @bijan pic.twitter.com/NpQgVsHP2C — David Chang (@changds) July 21, 2015.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 17, 2015

The global 2015 BattleHack , organized by leading global payments providers PayPal and Braintree , will be coming to Singapore as part of a worldwide global hackathon competition that will see developers across the globe tasked with creating applications that solve specific challenges. Visit https://2015.battlehack.org/singapore

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Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2016

Blinken , Deputy Secretary of State since 2015, has held senior foreign policy positions in two administrations over two decades. Digital Service and that enables us to bring people in quickly for six months, for a year, from Silicon Valley, from other places (like the) East Coast and points in between.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2017

The report also found that funding for seed rounds was also down from 33 percent in 2015 to 28 percent in this quarter.”. So, no: VC funding isn’t such a rare thing in Silicon Valley or anywhere else. You don’t have to be a unicorn to get it either. Bruce is the U.S. and International Business Manager for Dynamis Ltd.,

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. cities (outside of Silicon Valley and the East Coast), to build your startup.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 24, 2020

Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber : While I knew some of the story, I didn’t know a lot of the backstory. It was written in 2015 and felt dated to me. It wasn’t, so it turned into a skimmer. It was the conservative counterpart to the liberal narrative around racism.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

We All Know That Dollars into Venture Have Gone Up … As a starting point, we know that the dollars into venture have steadily rebounded to pre great-recession levels, with just under $30 billion committed to US technology venture capital in 2015. …But LPs Have Been Putting Out More Money Than They Are Getting Back.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. All of these things aside, one of its biggest attractions may be what is not: Silicon Valley.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

For three out of four quarters in 2015, New York City’s tech ecosystem has led with more startup funding requests than any other region in the country, including California’s long reigning Silicon Valley. The post Silicon Alley Closes 2015 On Top In A Boom Year For Startups appeared first on The Gust Blog.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

It was adopted by the National Institutes of Health as I-Corps at NIH in 2014 and at the National Security Agency in 2015. Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Team SeaWatch – Maritime Security in the South China Sea. He runs H4X Labs.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2016

Another Vietnamese government arm, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), published their intention to launch a VC fund in 2015. Though Vietnamese policy-makers had ambitions of making Vietnam more “Silicon Valley-like”, they translated the idea of venture capital investing into debt finance.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. The $900M of SaaS VC funding in 2015 now represents less than Europe's largest financing round, with Celonis raising $1B in June this year.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2017

Over the past month, Silicon Valley has been at the forefront of many conversations outside of the technology world. My question: how do we know there isn’t a female founder outside of Silicon Valley that can build a business that’s 10x of what we’ve seen before?

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

I’m an unabashedly pro-Silicon Valley homer. However, what Silicon Valley thinks about your startup has never been less important. However, what Silicon Valley thinks about your startup has never been less important. Fast-forward to 2015. And it’s interesting to consider why.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

when to build out our offices in Silicon Valley, New York & Los Angeles. See as a board we can already see very clearly how our 2014 & 2015 years pencil out with a fair degree of predictability. So our board meetings consisted of discussion about. how much energy to put into channel partners vs. direct sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2017

Starting back in 2015 and throughout much of 2016 people started commenting that my blog had become a lot more political. I guess I didn’t see it quite that way. link] Two of the best films release this past year tell the same universal story of immigrants to America and that unique desire of children to be just like everybody else.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Kelley Sayler, “ A World of Proliferated Drones: A Technology Primer ” Center for a New American Security , 2015. These grants funded the Stanford Electronics Research Laboratory and kick-started innovation in what would become Silicon Valley.)

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

The final clip is Fred & I talking about whether “the best product wins” and my assertion that the bias in today’s Silicon Valley dominated tech world there is probably too much emphasis on tech at the expense of how to sell, implement and service customers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. All of these things aside, one of its biggest attractions may be what is not: Silicon Valley.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Clearly talent and hard work went into the project and it paid off with awards from major festivals and competitions, including recognition as a finalist in the 2015 Student Academy Awards, a finalist in the 2015 Student BAFTA Film Awards, and winning the Best Student Film honors at the Nashville Film Festival!

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

Meanwhile China has been engaged in a Civil/Military Fusion program since 2015 to harness these disruptive commercial technologies for its national security needs. In 2015, before China started its Civil/Military effort, then-Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, saw the need for the DoD to understand, embrace and acquire commercial technology.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2014

Top Venture Capitalists Leave Silicon Valley, Bet Their Careers On Midwest – crowdspring.co/SEC1rh. 21 Digital Marketing Trends & Predictions for 2015 – crowdspring.co/1rTXJ4A. Founders with Kids – crowdspring.co/1rW91oS. Three Musts to Retaining Superstar Talent | by Jeff Weiner – crowdspring.co/1lVbAHT.

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

But as the years went on, and I to slogged it out in the male dominated worlds of Wall Street and Silicon Valley, I saw firsthand the misogyny – often not intentional but a product of our society – and double standards that made me feel that I had to work (at least) twice as hard, and toe many lines to even stay in the game.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

According to the National Business Incubator Association ( NBIA ), there are over 7,000 of these locations worldwide, and new online versions springing up all over the place, like Founders Space in Silicon Valley. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors.

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