Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

However, most countries don’t have sufficient population to support scale with just their local market and ultimately need to be global players – from day one. Born Global or Die Local. And as good as the Australian angel investors have been, there still is dearth of serious follow-on funding in Australia.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. Beijing Venture/Angel Ecosystem.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

The Next Web

JULY 20, 2013

And if they do, they complain about lack of global potential or misunderstand my product completely. “Do We receive about one business plan a day, and the Silicon Valley VCs at least 10 times more, so I am pretty sure we face a similar issue: too many business plans, too little time to respond. Image credit: Thinkstock.

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Silicon Valley Mongolia Technical Cofounder Entrepreneur 124

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. Beijing Venture/Angel Ecosystem.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

The differences between the Bend, Oregon region and Silicon Valley are obvious. The sheer density of talent, companies, capital and universities that exist in the Valley are second to none. Silicon Valley Transplants. But the real surprise was learning that for some Bend is a Silicon Valley bedroom community.

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Silicon Valley Oregon Lean Venture Capital 312

Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Rose of Gust, roughly 1,500 startups get funded by venture capitalists, and 50,000 by angel investors in the United States each year. Running a startup in New York or Silicon Valley is very expensive, so no wonder that recently, there has been an explosion of new locations starting to see growth in tech startups.

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Startup Estonia Poland Silicon Valley 115

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

But the right funding strategy for her is $900,000-$1 million, potentially from angel investors or small funds. I know Silicon Valley and the MBA types look down upon lifestyle businesses. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. We will work on that with her.

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Valuation Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Bootstrapping 119

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Contrasting China via their Zhi-Xing (? ?, March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM 4:30PM Hilton?—?Salon 12:00PM Hilton?—?Salon

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Texas Austin 58

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

Of the ten startups in the inaugural 2012 class, four have raised follow-on funding to date, and one even reached the break-even point and expanded to Silicon Valley. It recently announced the results of its incubator program – and the results look promising.

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Silicon Valley Europe Venture Capital Incubator 231

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Well, Steve Hoffman (02:34): First of all, I did three venture funded startups in Silicon valley and two bootstrap startups. We called them founder space, round tables, and we'd meet, I'd introduce 'em to angel investors and marketing experts and lawyers, and really try to help them get off the ground. It's a lot of work.

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San Francisco Technical Review Incubator Silicon Valley 97

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley). Many of these now-trendy Micro-VC funds began as individual angel investors who gradually grew up and started small funds (myself included). Scaling Up & Out: The Valley is Flat (and Global).

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

YoungUpstarts

MAY 27, 2013

California’s Silicon Valley and New York tend to hog the headlines as America’s most lauded hotbeds of innovation, but Launch Tennessee (LaunchTN) wants to prove that the country’s South also features plenty of innovative startups that can challenge for dominance in the global marketplace.

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Tennessee Nashville North Carolina South Carolina 147

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. In the stealth phase , prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists (VCs) start investing in an industry or market segment that others have not yet found.

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Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 327

A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Great founders sometimes avoid it - more on that later) They’re good enough to build some buzz, get some angel investors to publicly invest in and endorse their company, introduce them to more angels, get solid press coverage, and write guest posts about the future of the xyz economy. Hype sometimes spreads quite deliberately.

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San Diego Software Review San Francisco Silicon Valley 60

The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The main observation of differences between Silicon Valley and emerging tech hubs in the rest of the world is access to early stage seed funding and international press. Many startups are Silicon Valley clones. Startups are up to Silicon Valley standards.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Look at the 500 largest companies in the world (Fortune Global 500). Getting seed capital (1M EUR or less) has become easier, but raising significant money (25M EUR and more) to turn your company in a global business continues to be difficult. Without a vibrant exit market, it’s harder to attract both entrepreneurs and investors.

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Europe Government Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 149

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Jones Lang Lasalle: Global commercial real estate services. Cushman and Wakefield: Global commercial real estate services. Bill Warner – Avid, Techstars, Angel investor (@billwarner). Dan Allred – Silicon Valley Bank (@dgallred). T3 Advisors: Real estate brokers with deep VC relationships.

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Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Sites like KickStarter have for years offered rewards and pre-sales for crowd investments, but real equity won’t be legalized until sometime this year for people other than accredited investors. Super-angels. This is the youngest demographic, people born after 1995, who are sought-after by all new businesses.

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Entrepreneur Accredited Investor Silicon Valley Angel Investor 274

Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Finally, one of Airbnb’s angel investors, who’s very smart and whom I respect a lot, reached out to me and said, “Hey, you should really look at this. But I thought that if this actually works, it can have a global impact and generate virtually uncapped returns.”. Airbnb had to figure out a path forward from first principles.

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Hosting Hockey Stick IPO Silicon Valley 69

Austin Startup

JUNE 29, 2017

I used to think I needed an institutional venture capital firm from Silicon Valley to make my vision for Localeur a reality. I wanted us to expand globally, partner with great brands like JetBlue and build one of the best travel startups in America, and I thought I needed a VC firm to do that.

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Silicon Valley Angel Investor Venture Capital Incubator 54

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Andy is a global thought leader in remote work, telecommuting, and distributed workforces having served as CEO of Crossover and Sococo and on the board of Texas Central, our new bullet train. He was also born here and went to UT Austin before heading out to Silicon Valley for a stint. Edwards University.

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Austin Texas Cofounder Los Angeles 110

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination? The second wave of companies were mainly concentrated in Silicon Valley, and coincided with the rise of platforms (Google, Facebook, etc.) Was this going to happen anyway?

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The Next Web

APRIL 27, 2013

Riding the wave of global awareness for the need to stay competitive, Tanzania has taken some positive steps forwards, including government investments in a fibreoptic backbone as well as strategic initiatives around promoting start-ups. industry in Tanzania.

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Ecuador Tanzania Developer Silicon Valley 144

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Now a successful hedge fund operator and angel investor, Thiel regularly gets asked his opinion on most everything. Most recently, he took to Reddit to answer questions on everything from the CIA’s role in Palantir to Facebook’s effect on the global advertising market. And he doesn’t hold back.

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Silicon Valley Founder .Net Angel Investor 60

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

This is our first major partnership with an incubator whereby MAD will adopt the 1M/1M methodology to foster Silicon Valley-style technopreneurship in Malaysia. At present, ISA has a set of pilot clients and is toying with the idea of going global. global market a strong channel through Silicon Valley.

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Malaysia Incubator Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 5, 2016

Brian Kasser most recently led the global Software and SaaS Practice for Russell Reynolds Associates, based in Palo Alto. A Silicon Valley native, for years Brian has been in the business of high stakes match-making, with the mission of bringing the right talent to the right company at the right time.

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Silicon Valley Advisory Board Flash Pennsylvania 60

VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

Funding comes largely from angel investors and government grants. I see an opportunity in spotting innovation in these markets and globalizing their products and there’s also a gap in micro seed funding. 3) You don’t have to be in Silicon Valley to start a successful startup [or do you?].

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Austin Startup

JUNE 1, 2018

More than 1,000 customers globally use Pingboard to power their live org chart, including companies like GoFundMe, Udemy, Sequoia Capital, Khan Academy, and the Linux Foundation. How most SaaS Companies should be funded Earlier this year, I considered raising a typical Silicon Valley series A. In fact, this was our third $2.5

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Silicon Valley SEC Venture Capital Angel Investor 48

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

If you look at the numbers of super angels in Silicon Valley, they are even scarier. I'd like to hear from venture capitalists, angel investors, incubators, and accelerators on this topic. To give you some further context, we recently spoke with a VC in Boise, Idaho, who gets 500 deals a year.

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Incubator Silicon Valley Idaho Entrepreneur 116

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

But you have, perhaps, heard less specific discussions on what angel investors are looking for. Well, some angel investors are looking for exactly the same thing as what VCs are looking for. In other words, these are angels looking for billion dollar opportunities as well.

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Bootstrapping Marketing Angel Investor Silicon Valley 114

Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

In addition to our mentoring program, we host “Ask Me Anything” sessions with entrepreneurs, angel investors, and venture capitalists designed to help get new people plugged in as efficiently as possible. Epic Office Hours” is a speed dating event with dozens of entrepreneurs, mentors and investors meeting in rapid fire.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

I’m in my seventh year now as a leader and an angel investment group where we just announced an investment last Thursday, and I’m very familiar with how this works for angel investors. Tell your angel investors a story about need. Depending on who the investors are, some want more, some want less.

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Lean Business Plan Video Software Review 60

Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lane served as Executive Vice President at Disney for five years before returning to his entrepreneurial roots to become an angel investor and launch FreshGrade. . Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies. Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111.

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Cofounder New York City Entrepreneur New York 145

The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

At home we have entrepreneurs who think global day one. We have 30 procedures to go through when starting a legal business entity – ranking us #5 globally of light bureaucracy when incorporating. Think of Stanford and Sandhill road in Silicon Valley, Route 128 in Boston or IIT in Bangalore India.

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Netherlands Technical Review Stock Silicon Valley 143

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 5, 2011

My view is that it’s time to harness the incredible enthusiasm and talent of these individuals to drive impact, locally in NYC as well as nationally and globally. Make no mistake: NYC has arrived solidly as major global tech hub. Founded in 2004, it has grown in leaps and bounds along with NYC’s tech sector.

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Ghana Indonesia Silicon Valley DC 84

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

The company has bootstrapped using services, a philosophy we espouse heavily in 1M/1M, and has simultaneously gathered a group of angel investors who are supporting it through the next phase.

San Jose 115

San Jose Entrepreneur United States Washington 115

Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lane served as Executive Vice President at Disney for five years before returning to his entrepreneurial roots to become an angel investor and launch FreshGrade. . Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies. Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111.

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Cofounder New York City Entrepreneur New York 120