Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2020

Valence launched our beta platform to provide a digital home for Black talent to connect, access opportunities, and aggregate their power. Valence exists to change the dynamic where Black founders receive a disproportionately low amount of venture funding (today – just 1 percent ).

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

This past summer, the Lightspeed Summer Fellowships program invited selected guests to provide aspiring entrepreneurs a perspective into all aspects of starting a new company. The program provides entrepreneurs the resources and mentoring they need to build their companies and develop their skills. ” The Cost of Financing.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

They do that by aggregating America’s startups, providing them with pro bono services, and promoting regional ecosystem development. Aggregate America’s startups. in aggregate commitments. We’re not just focused on NY/Boston/Silicon Valley. What is your model for working with social entrepreneurs?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle. The incubation period is very short and intense, usually intending to drive entrepreneurs from ideas to marketable products in a matter of months.

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

Then, also in the 1880s, some clever American entrepreneurs decided to market a “fast growing, shade generating” plant to the overly warm citizens living the waltz-dancing climate of the south-eastern United States. Are you aggregating and leveraging a competitive dataset none will be able to reproduce? million acres of land.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. As evidence that it does work, TechCrunch recently aggregated the combined valuation of YCombinator graduates at $14.4 accelerator business entrepreneur incubator startup'

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The Next Web

JANUARY 14, 2014

In Silicon Valley, 75% of founders pay themselves less than $75,000 per year and 66% pay themselves less than $50,000 per year, according to the data. Low founder pay is a particularly striking factor in Silicon Valley, when you consider the high cost of living in cities like San Francisco. Entrepreneur Insider News'

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Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

Plus, my partners and I saw entrepreneurs repeatedly starting from square-one each time, which just didn’t seem efficient if we could help in some small way. But rather than just keep the info internal, wouldn’t it be more productive to publicly publish the aggregate results for the whole community?

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle. The incubation period is very short and intense, usually intending to drive entrepreneurs from ideas to marketable products in a matter of months.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2016

Experience and vision were the focus of today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. In Sweden, he founded omvard.se

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Later, when I learned that Joe White would take on this newly created role, I grew even more excited about the positive impact this new position will have on fostering innovation and entrepreneurism on a local and global scale. And I have gotten to know Joe as a friend after he moved to Silicon Valley last year. counterparts.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

To recap, the recommendation engine helps entrepreneurs find the rest investor match, based on the latter's previous patterns. But ChubbyBrain has given ReadWriteWeb an even closer look at aggregate-level data for a certain subset of that population, based on those folks who used invitations from us to sign up for the service.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Founding Date: 2004. What They Do: Travel search engine.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

I’m rarely surprised when a young entrepreneur or small business owner hasn’t fully identified how their new business will make money. But I’m always surprised when that entrepreneur or small business owner has a tough time describing the potential customers for their new business’s products and services.

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Agile VC

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). Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized. Read More ».

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2011

Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle. To convince you it can work, SiteBoat recently aggregated the combined valuation of the top 21 companies graduated by YCombinator at $4.7

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Some of the conversations went like this: Startup 1 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and have been following the Customer Development process and I’ve talked to lots of customers.” Entrepreneur -“Well no but my product is much better than their product and I have this great idea….” Do you know how they create demand?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Heres what I do know: The future strength of our economy depends on its ability to create, support, and sustain entrepreneurs. (If If you are somehow not convinced of this point, Ill let Fareed Zakaria explain ) We know who the next generation of entrepreneurs are going to be. Nerds are not entrepreneurs. They are nerds.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Schwartzfarb describes “Sell More Faster” as the indispensable guide for entrepreneurs seeking product-market fit, building their sales team, developing a growth strategy and chasing accelerated, repeatable selling success. “I 10: Silicon Valley Bank?—?New 9: Silicon Valley, CA Oct. Also on Sept. MT / 11 a.m.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Image is the bedrock part of the “fake it till you make it” culture that animates most of Silicon Valley today. It seems clear that most entrepreneurs need help to navigate the ultra-dense tech industry PR environment. Content aggregator app developer Timehop is an excellent example of this idea in action.

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In addition, angels were up against a selection problem: All the best entrepreneurs and opportunities would naturally gravitate to the best venture capital funds, leaving only the “scraps” for angel investors. Valuable lessons learned from Andy’s personal experience venture investing in Silicon Valley. So which is it?

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Hippoland

JANUARY 4, 2017

So, in the aggregate, it is possible that you may be required to pay as much as $30k-$50k to get an equity round done. For example, if a startup is raising $1m in a priced round, this means that the startup must find enough investors to in aggregate invest $1m into your company at specified terms within a certain time period.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 26, 2010

This is the “tastes great, less filling&# debate that recurs on a regular basis in the venture capital and entrepreneur communities. I’d be willing to bet that more investors lose a great amount of aggregate capital here than at any other stage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

They can make smart investments even if the entrepreneurs are not well credentialed or have a product/idea that is outside the mainstream of what investors are expecting As this change has rippled up the venture industry, it has meant a lot more worthy companies are getting funded than just a few years ago. 12comments: Dougvs said.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2013

Guest author Gary Whitehill is Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Startup Weekend. Struggling entrepreneurs around the world are in deep envy of Nick D’Aloisio’s business acumen. Last month, the 17-year-old sold Summly , his news-aggregation app, to Yahoo for a reported $30 million! Non-Monetary Incentives.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2016

When we say on-demand, the glorious image of Silicon Valley and its technological environs pops up in the layman’s mind, and even that may be too imaginative. by Samar Singla, founder of Click Labs. One sees that the world needs to turn its eyes towards Asia, as it is a growing front for these ventures.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. I was on a panel earlier this week with several other investors from Angel Groups in the Valley.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

In addition, angels were up against a selection problem: All the best entrepreneurs and opportunities would naturally gravitate to the best venture capital funds, leaving only the “scraps” for angel investors. Valuable lessons learned from Andy’s personal experience venture investing in Silicon Valley. So which is it?

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

Well for entrepreneurs running late stage companies prepping for IPO in the next 12 months, it’s an excellent time. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. So now what? Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust. Most entrepreneurs start asking for money from this tier, when they have very little more than an idea. Do your homework before investing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust. Most entrepreneurs start asking for money from this tier, when they have very little more than an idea. Do your homework before investing.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 8, 2019

But it’s not just that the Foundation has been effective at aggregating and analyzing the “whos,” “whats,” “wheres,” “whens,” and “hows” of huge global challenges like childhood mortality. While Melinda was writing about development efforts in Senegal, she could just as easily have been talking about Silicon Valley.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Sam is one of the most prolific company builders in Silicon Valley. 6:56) A look at how many biotech companies and non-biotech entrepreneurs have pivoted to work exclusively on COVID-19. (7:35) I would encourage people to just reach out to the normal crew of Silicon Valley Investors [for].

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

5:01) Brian's thoughts on the human dimension to his approach and how that sets him apart in Silicon Valley. (6:06) 59:03) The need for creativity, intuition and compassion in Silicon Valley and business. (1:00:23) 59:03) The need for creativity, intuition and compassion in Silicon Valley and business. (1:00:23)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

But what I remind them is that great grades and successful founders/technology entrepreneurs have at best a zero correlation (and anecdotal evidence suggests that the correlation may actually be negative.) Nothing makes me happier then to see my students getting great grades (and as they can tell you I make them very work hard for them.)

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. Ironically, Carreyou is not a Silicon Valley-focused reporter, and the success of the piece served as a wake-up call for other journalists who may have been struck by Unicorn fever.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust. Most entrepreneurs start asking for money from this tier, when they have very little more than an idea. business entrepreneurs investing startups'

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