YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

This (somewhat liberally translated) Chinese proverb is something you hear often in Silicon Valley these days. by Pascal Finette from Singularity University. May you live in interesting times.” ~ Chinese Proverb. Some say it is a curse. Regardless, nobody denies its truth when it comes to the change technology brings to our world.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

You need to roll up videos into aggregated channels, “networks,” that are 30% of your views in the long-run. Many of the online video companies started by aggregating content from other people. To build a successful online network you must have some hit shows and then you can aggregate the rest. Set design.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

And for the record, that’s per month not total in aggregate! Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley and Who Will Win. This has been a very welcome addition. And this month we announced that Maker Studios, where I am an investor and board member, crossed 3 billion views. The Future of the Digital Living Room.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#. But he left to work on what he told me he came to do - crack the innovation code of Silicon Valley and share it with the rest of the world.

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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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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

In Silicon Valley, we've had access to the tribal knowledge, but no one has tried to capture it, derive a methodology out of it, and package it in a way that entrepreneurs around the world can benefit from this knowledge and expertise. With that, let's look at the two entrepreneurs who pitched today from Costa Rica.

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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. Personal Delights.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

A serious study here: [link] concluded that younger people being more creative is a highly predictable at the aggregate level. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Same idea – too young and naive to know it can’t be done. However, it is far more unpredictable at the individual level. Order Here.

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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. The real goal is growth; no one else hires. • There are 1.4m-1.6m

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

In Silicon Valley, most boards ultimately make decisions based on a consensus. Although the data is public, the startup may not have been able to manually aggregate that data on its own, or the owner of the website may expressly prohibit use of the data outside of the services the owner offers. Patent Trolls.

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

Are you aggregating and leveraging a competitive dataset none will be able to reproduce? In contrast to the heroism of Helen Keller, your startup’s story also needs to demonstrate its Kudzu-like invasiveness, how no incumbents are adapted, nor could any adapt fast enough.

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SVPG

JUNE 16, 2012

” "The company cares about what the leader cares about" - I attribute this to Bill Campbell, the product legend known as the Coach of Silicon Valley, and I argue this applies not just to the CEO, but also to the product managers (the team cares about what the product manager cares about). Very hard for me to pick just ten.

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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. Not as much as you might think.

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Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

But rather than just keep the info internal, wouldn’t it be more productive to publicly publish the aggregate results for the whole community? And the results were pretty interesting, especially as they clustered with meaningful overlap among companies. When we took the poll itself, one founder said: “This is a great idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

But there are notable examples of for-profit incubators that are thriving, including YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , led by David Cohen and located in several key cities around the country, that have an excellent reputation and track record. billion, with the total amount raised topping $2 billion.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 22, 2013

Not that VC dollars are the be all and end all, but it''s one important measure of the health of a startup community, and NYC''s latest quarterly numbers from the PWC Moneytree report are continuing a positive trend--not only relative to the Valley, but in the aggregate. We''re up 11.5%

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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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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. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

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. ReadWriteWeb readers also trended younger than ChubbyBrain's aggregate data. So how do ReadWriteWeb entrepreneurs stack up?

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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. To convince you it can work, TechCrunch recently aggregated the combined valuation of YCombinator companies at $7.78

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

. … Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively. Who is correct?

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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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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 4, 2020

I first met Joe when he was working as a General Partner for Entrepreneur First , a Greylock -backed early stage tech fund which has gone on to raise and run $200 million in capital for start-ups, creating a global portfolio with an aggregate value of more than $2 billion.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

You have to have some of your own content formats and not just be an aggregator of talent. Yet to develop audiences you also need to understand: compelling content, sound, special effects, etc which is why most online video startup digital media companies are in Los Angeles or New York and not Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. weeks ago, positioning it as a tool designed to help small businesses effectively manage their social media efforts. They see the big “Write Once, Publish Everywhere&# and immediately think “this is ping.fm or posterous, but you have to pay for it&#. Order Here.

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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. To convince you it can work, TechCrunch recently aggregated the combined valuation of YCombinator companies at $7.78

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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. Content aggregator app developer Timehop is an excellent example of this idea in action. In the technology industry, almost more than anywhere else, image is everything.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 2, 2014

To apply a form of Moneyball to the gigantic Old Economy backbone of our modern world and “eek out” 1%, 2%, and 3% efficiency gains that in their aggregate represent trillions of dollars of increased productivity and profitability. Its decidedly low glamour goal?

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2016

a company that aggregates data on treatment outcomes for hospital patients. Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies. Peter Arvai – cofounder of Prezi dreamed of being a particle physicist but working in a startup changed his career path.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

As part of the Techstars library, “Sell More Faster” contains aggregated knowledge from Techstars leaders, instilling lessons learned from the accelerator’s experience with years of work with startups. 10: Silicon Valley Bank?—?New 9: Silicon Valley, CA Oct. RSVP here Sept. 6: Houston, TX?—? RSVP here Sept.

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Valuable lessons learned from Andy’s personal experience venture investing in Silicon Valley. Fortunately there is now good data on angel returns in Silicon Valley and nationally, and while more research is certainly needed, the data suggest that angel investors can and often do make money.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Im not offering extensive studies or research to support this conclusion; the evidence from my peers right here in the innovation capital of America, Silicon Valley, is absolutely overwhelming. Asked to help, I am confident that Silicon Valley and every other innovation center will step up. They are nerds.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 26, 2010

Back in March, Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz wrote a post called The Case For The Fat Startup, where he outlined some of the reasons why a fledging company might want to consider taking a large amount of funding — a strategy that contrasts with the ‘lean startup’ model that has become common in Silicon Valley.

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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. Click Labs excels in product development outsourcing in general and building On Demand platforms in particular.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2013

Last month, the 17-year-old sold Summly , his news-aggregation app, to Yahoo for a reported $30 million! Silicon Valley companies like Google and Facebook are well known for providing employees with everything from in-house chefs to daycare. Guest author Gary Whitehill is Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Startup Weekend.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Most publishers are still caught up in an outdated “vision vs. metrics&# argument, which is already obsolete here in Silicon Valley. The world is generally not as tech-savvy as Silicon Valley and will continue to rely on traditional mechanisms for content distribution for the foreseeable future.

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