Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2010

But I had an hour to kill before lunch and I was on California Street in Palo Alto. I generally try not to stalk people I don’t know when they announce they’re in town, but as a fellow VC (and a partner in Southern California’s largest fund), I felt we had a legitimate reason to connect. Brad did not know Mark.

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Social Network Networking Southern California Term Sheet 347

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

They were wrapping up participation in an accelerator program and Ben was planning to move back to Chicago to build the company there, having previously worked at Groupon before moving on to other tech companies in Asia, as well as a brief time in California.

Chicago 177

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 177

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2014

California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention. Asian teams in California raised median funding rounds of $4.4M, significantly higher than the $3M raised by mixed or all-white founding teams. No surprises here. Experience does count.

Silicon Valley 271

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Massachusetts California 271

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

They were wrapping up participation in an accelerator program and Ben was planning to move back to Chicago to build the company there, having previously worked at Groupon before moving on to other tech companies in Asia, as well as a brief time in California.

Chicago 156

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 156

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms. My goal is to bring in informative speakers who stretch our collectively thinking on topics that will influence our investment strategies and use it as a way for us to share our experiences in ways that I [.].

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Southern California Asia California Venture Capital 188

Hunter Walker

APRIL 9, 2015

Like Douglas McGray , the CEO and EIC of California Sunday Magazine , a newly launched multiplatform magazine. Hunter Walk: So a few months back this amazing magazine called California Sunday started showing up monthly. Hunter Walk: So a few months back this amazing magazine called California Sunday started showing up monthly.

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California San Francisco Los Angeles Sacramento 48

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

I was in the midst of sizing the mobile handset markets in 3 regions: US, Europe and Asia. I was leading the analysis with a team of 14 people: 12 Japanese, 1 German and 1 Turk. I was the only one whose Japanese was limited to just a sushi menu. Unless it’s a major publication there’s no time to fact check data in a report.

Investment Bankers 415

Investment Bankers Mobile Software Review Japan 415

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally), and I have a connection there if you need a start. The reach is very broad, however, with 30 branches worldwide covering over 50 countries in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia, and over 60,000 members worldwide.

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Angel Investor North America South America Accredited Investor 120

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

They were wrapping up participation in an accelerator program and Ben was planning to move back to Chicago to build the company there, having previously worked at Groupon before moving on to other tech companies in Asia, as well as a brief time in California.

Chicago 136

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 136

Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2010

At times I’ll do what I consider an extension of teaching; a two-day Customer Discovery/Validation intensive session with a large corporation serious about Customer Development at my ranch on the California Coast. My last session was with a passionate, smart, entrepreneurial team from a Fortune 100 company.

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Customer Development Developer Customer South America 237

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2013

California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention. Asian teams in California raised median funding rounds of $4.4M, significantly higher than the $3M raised by mixed or all-white founding teams. No surprises here. Experience does count.

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley Massachusetts California 238

Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2014

California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention. Asian teams in California raised median funding rounds of $4.4M, significantly higher than the $3M raised by mixed or all-white founding teams. No surprises here. Experience does count.

Silicon Valley 182

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Massachusetts California 182

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2010

California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention. Asian teams in California raised median funding rounds of $4.4M, significantly higher than the $3M raised by mixed or all-white founding teams. No surprises here. Experience does count.

Venture Capital 221

Venture Capital Massachusetts California New York 221

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Last week I had my “public servant” hat on in my official capacity as a California Coastal Commissioner. With the Vietnam War going full tilt, I left school and joined the Air Force, spending a year and a half in Southeast Asia. Filed under: California Coastal Commission , Family/Career. And pay no worship to the garish sun.

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Michigan California Silicon Valley Georgia 263

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Last week, (seems that all of my postings start this way) I attended the Second Annual West Coast Businesswomen’s Sustainability Leadership Summit , a Women’s Network for Sustainable Future event , at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. Asia will become 50% urban in next 15 years.

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Leadership San Jose Green Harvest 69

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 17, 2015

The 2015 BattleHack series will culminate in the World Finals in San Jose, California in November, and the Singapore winner will be flown to the finals at PayPal’s headquarters in Silicon Valley to battle it out with teams from 14 cities around the world for the US$100,000 grand prize and a “battle axe” trophy.

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Singapore San Jose Los Angeles Silicon Valley 100

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

, a mobile application built around the idea of location-based social buying and allows users to snap QR codes to unlock special privileges and “loyalty points” at partipating retailers and other outlets in Southeast Asia and Australia. It so happens that there’s a similar application for the U.S. market called Chatterfly.

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Mobile Asia Australia California 154

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Last week, (seems that all of my postings start this way) I attended the Second Annual West Coast Businesswomen’s Sustainability Leadership Summit , a Women’s Network for Sustainable Future event , at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. Asia will become 50% urban in next 15 years.

Leadership 40

Leadership San Jose Green Harvest 40

Hippoland

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

She has advised on dozens of startups across Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, China, and Southeast Asia. She was on the cover of Forbes Asia as a 30 Under 30 in Venture Capital, a LinkedIn Top Voices in VC & Entrepreneurship, and was featured on BBC, CCTV, Inc., The Straits Times, Harper’s BAZAAR, etc.

Southern California 48

Southern California Los Angeles Seed Stage Asia 48

The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2013

percent, typical tech worker income tax in Denver is half of that in California (9.3 7) permits convenient communication with the East and West coasts, South America, Europe, and Asia all in the same business day. city), restaurants and nightlife. Its elevation also affords it the recognition as the largest U.S.

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Denver Silicon Valley San Jose Colorado 166

thenextweb.com

OCTOBER 17, 2011

In California? Entrepreneur. Shareables. Social Media. Latin America. Middle East. United States. Previous story. Next story. -->. Meetups are a great way to find users that are interested in what’s new in the startup world, so find out if there are any in your area. If not, try and organize one! 8 Leverage what you already have.

Social Media 67

Social Media Stealth India Startup 67

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Today, The Bean has approximately 350 company-owned stores, with locations in Southern California, Las Vegas, Honolulu, New York City and Southeast Asia. In 1945, Ruth and Elliot Handler and Harold “Matt” Matson launched Mattel and set up shop in a garage workshop in Southern California.

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Southern California Las Vegas Honolulu Massachusetts 162

Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2011

In 2009 I spent 10 months volunteering and traveling in South East Asia, India and Nepal. It was somewhere in the sticks in Kansas, and I love California too much. [To donate $5 from your first purchase to Kiva, and also get $2 in deal credit, go to https://efbuys.com/publishers/774/consumers/new and use the code 'KIVA5'] 3.

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Founder Nepal Kansas Asia 114

Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

I recently interviewed Motoko Hunt of AJPR for Search Engine Strategies Chicago where she will be speaking in the Search Around the World: Europe, Asia/Pacific & Latin America panel. Then I got into marketing, and worked as Senior Marketing and Procurement Manager at Japanese trading firm in California. Motoko Hunt.

Chicago 60

Chicago Search SEM Asia 60

Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 8, 2011

Early stage investment firm North Bridge Venture Partners has joined with the Asia-Pacific Entrepreneurship Society (ASES) and announced a $75,000 seed capital competition. Stanford is a leading campus when it comes to entrepreneurship and a new seed fund deepens the web of entrepreneurship on campus.

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Seed Capital Seed Stage Early Stage Asia 37

aweissman.com

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

He tells a story about how he can remember when he felt the most joy in his life: he was 19 and broke, his family had moved to California, his sister had moved out. I backpacked around Asia a long time ago with a friend. Springsteen refers to something similar in his Broadway show. His only friends were his bandmates. Stores opening.

Canada 36

Canada Asia California Cloud 36

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms. Benjamin Joffe (the author), a Frenchman who runs a consultancy in China that tries to help non-Asian investors understand the innovation occurring in Asia as a way to bring ideas to their local markets.

Asia 188

Asia Southern California China Japan 188

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

So, that was the first sign that it kind of dawned on us that, "Oh, we have a role to play in what's going on with this pandemic in Asia at the time." So, that was the first moment that we said, "This looks like it could be a thing in California." We weren't fully thinking about California or the country at that point.

California 60

California Silicon Valley Framework China 60

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 1, 2017

On the outside, Amanda appears to be a bright-eyed California woman with a penchant for Yoga. AMLA also stocks its e-commerce store with just the right items to help shoppers achieve the elegant, eclectic look inspired by the California lifestyle with a south of France twist. However, this former Texan is much more nuanced and complex.

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Los Angeles Founder California Asia 100

Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

Joe Felter was just appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia. At various points his Special Forces career took him to countries in Southeast Asia where counterinsurgency was not just academics. Soldier, Scholar, Entrepreneur. As a result, our country just became a bit safer and smarter.

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Washington Security Afghanistan Iraq 215

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Hacking for Defense is now offered at eight universities in addition to Stanford – Georgetown , University of Pittsburgh , Boise State , UC San Diego, James Madison University, University of Southern Mississippi , and later this year University of Southern California and Columbia University. of Management Science and Engineering.

Silicon Valley 191

Silicon Valley Southern California Lean San Diego 191

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally). The reach is very broad, however, with 30 branches worldwide covering over 80 countries in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia, and over 500,000 members worldwide, perhaps the largest Angel investment community in the world.

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North America Rhode Island Accredited Investor Angel Investor 289

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally). The reach is very broad, however, with 30 branches worldwide covering over 80 countries in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia, and over 200,000 members worldwide. New England Investment Network. Angel Capital Association (ACA).

Angel Investor 270

Angel Investor North America Rhode Island Accredited Investor 270

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Hacking for Defense is now offered at eleven universities in addition to Stanford – Georgetown , University of Pittsburgh , Boise State , UC San Diego, James Madison University, University of Southern Mississippi , University of Southern California and Columbia University. Over the next year it will expand to 22 universities.

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Southern California San Diego Mississippi SBIR 176

VC Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2011

Finally, I want to make a special mention of Treepodia.com, an Israeli video marketing company that markets to the USA, France, England, Germany and Southeast Asia. Ben Bakhshi is an Israeli citizen born in California. They recently signed a deal with Cliqa , one of the Israeli daily deal aggregators listed above.

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Aggregator Marketing Germany 102

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… Asia. When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. California. Asia/Pacific. California.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

This was a really fun episode for me because Mo is informed and knowledgeable on so many topics and being a Boston / NYC VC it gave us so much to talk about relative to just covering California VCs. Current round allows RockYou (US) to obtain a majority position in RockYou Asia. Competitor: Slide.

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Venture Capital Los Angeles Oakland Asia 217