Version One Ventures

MAY 29, 2014

Business Insider recently crunched the numbers behind 26 of the top venture capital funds in Silicon Valley and learned that the percentage of female-founded startups in their portfolios ranged from a high of 19% to a low of just 4%. selling primarily to a female audience). venture capital deals go to women founders and CEOs.

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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. If we try to dissect the magic of Silicon Valley, I think there are five key factors at play: Great schools. He also goes on to write: What cities provide is an audience, and a funnel for peers. Great senior talent.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

When I tell audiences that Americans consume 6 hours of video per day people seldom believe me (thus I publish the data). As a result it only makes sense to produce the highest quality video and to market it like hell to consumers since if it doesn’t capture an audience when it runs then losses are incurred.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Five companies will dazzle a live audience, panel of judges with their ideas, innovations, product and/or service on Sunday, March 10th in Salon DE on the 4th floor of the Hilton Hotel. As a result, Latin America has emerged as a new hotspot for tech startups, alluring some of the top investors from the Silicon Valley and China.

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View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

Furthermore, one of our recent investments was in Silicon Valley, as all three of us have lived and worked there. These two marketing and publishing platforms, respectively, allow for a more intimate relationship between creators and their audience. We opportunistically invest in other geographies across the country as well.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2011

And the third was a discussion on Silicon Valley: The Next Decade. Silicon Valley: The Next Decade. The audience came up with lots of great points and I strongly recommend you listen to this discussion here. Silicon Valley photo by Revol Web. You can listen to the recording of this segment here.

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Up and Running

JULY 25, 2016

Of all the television shows that center around businesses, none feel closer to reality than HBO’s “Silicon Valley.” What makes “Silicon Valley” work is the truth behind the exaggerated situations. Image via HBO. See Also: How to Find a Business Partner. Violating non-disclosure agreements.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

” Sean is somebody widely respected in Silicon Valley (although he now lives in SoCal) for having helped many early-stage companies go through major growth periods by quantitatively testing features with audiences to help diagnose what led to growth.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 18, 2011

Probably nowhere else in the world is the idea of a startup happy place more entrenched than in Silicon Valley, where one electrical engineering professor, Frederick Terman, spawned an entire culture of new ventures back in the 1950s.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Which is precisely why I mention *it depends on audience* — take genuine interest in cultivating the relationship by talking about things that interest your customer — for some it could be sports scores, for others it could be the latest presentation on highscalability. Find out Memorex’s position in Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The mantra of “ first mover advantage ,” the idea that winners are the ones who are the first entrants in their market, became the conventional wisdom of investors in Silicon Valley.“ Ironically, for this new audience that makes the next generation of Lean – the Innovation Pipeline – more relevant than ever.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley and Who Will Win. If you want to understand my thesis behind Maker you can read this article that outlines the trend , but in summary: People watch 5.3 hours of TV / day. The Future of the Digital Living Room. 10 signs Internet TV is Ready to Disrupt the Industry. My Video Interview with Jon Miller.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Airbnb learned its audience used Craigslist to list and search for accommodation. For each potential channel, look at: Customer acquisition cost How many customers you can reach Whether the channel reaches the right audience. But it’s not a channel you can scale as easily as LinkedIn , which offers a similar audience.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Special Report: Silicon Valley’s dirty secret – age bias | Reuters – [link]. Venture-Backed Commerce Sites Banking on TV Ads to Lure in Audiences | AllThingsD – [link]. In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

And, most importantly, the Lean Startup idea is starting to take root in industries and contexts very different from it’s Silicon Valley roots. Brad Smith is the CEO of Intuit, one of the most successful software companies in Silicon Valley. Brad doesn’t meet your typical image of a scrappy entrepreneur.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2024

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin talked about DIU in his keynote address and came to Reagan immediately following a visit to its headquarters in Silicon Valley, where he met with innovative companies.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Smart startups first delve into an in-depth market analysis where they learn more about their target audience and its pain points. 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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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

It follows up on my posts discussing why early stage startups should — or should not — move to Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley is known for early adopters among both consumer and enterprise customers. Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Customers?

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Jeff Burkland , an experienced Silicon Valley CFO and CEO of Burkland Associates , says, “When you consider that most startups change so much and so frequently, trying to build a budget for a year and stick to it is useless. That allows larger companies to do rolling forecasts quickly and with limited staff resources.”.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

It’s often hard to tell stories about change—audiences grow wary or defensive—but Margolis helps leaders in Silicon Valley and other hotbeds of innovation make that change feel exciting and achievable. For our podcast audience, we can’t thank you enough for your support over the years!

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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. And it’s interesting to consider why. Largely American/Western.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Not only because Poles are the 4th largest audience of the HBO series Silicon Valley, but because it’s proving to be one of the most innovative up-and-coming startup hubs of the CEE region. In recent years, Poland has been receiving more attention on the startup scene and in tech news.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley. I got tired watching dignitaries fly into Silicon Valley, visit Google, Facebook, Apple, and Stanford and then say they understand startups and entrepreneurship. So for the rest of us I put together this Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley. Secret History of Silicon Valley.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 6, 2020

She covers tech, Silicon Valley, and venture capital. At Axios, I regularly go ahead and write stories that I know are important for our audience, and get an editor to work their magic on the draft before publishing it. Kia Kokalitcheva is a San Francisco-based technology and business reporter at Axios.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 25, 2011

As I talked about this model with several friends in Silicon Valley I always heard the same refrain, “we don’t invest in content business – they are ‘hits driven’ ” I had to laugh a bit at at the irony of this. You can get feedback from your audience and adjust based on their feedback.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. Founder Institute is the brain child of Adeo Ressi , a super passionate and successful serial entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley, probably best known for founding TheFunded.com.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

See the pitch at SXSW in the category of Enterprise & Smart Data Technology , 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm Saturday, March 14, before a live audience and a panel of expert judges. Winners in each of the 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Awards Ceremony , at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 15. Tell us about a memorable celebrity encounter.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2019

Coming out of Silicon Valley and the tech world, I was a complete novice on how policy gets made. It educated a mass audience, most who had never seen a scientific paper in their lives, about how these chemicals entered the food chain, accumulated in the tissues of animals and ultimately made their way up to humans.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2010

My first job in Silicon Valley was at ESL (a supplier of intelligence and reconnaissance systems,) I had managed to talk myself into getting hired as a training instructor. Every time I see my graduate students try to teach for the first time, it’s usually so painful I bite my lip. Long back-story here.) I was scared and nervous.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2011

As he told me, while Larry Page and Sergey Brin were building Google in Silicon Valley, Wise was a Marine combat medic in the Southeast Asia. For his part Matthew Wise wondered what it would have been like to hear stories from founders like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates during their early years.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

We were constantly creating metrics to see the effects of different PR messages, channels and audiences on end-user purchases. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. The Potrero benchmark strategy was one component of this creating end user demand through PR.) The same was true for the Product Marketing group.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2018

There’s a common thread linking what’s wrong in Congress, in Silicon Valley, in the media, on Wall Street and elsewhere. Due to extremely high audience demand, this presentation was scheduled for an additional two Encore Sessions during the event. How to Break an Industry.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

Over the past two years, I’ve been tasked with helping to grow the consumer audience for iHeartRadio , Clear Channel’s digital all-in-one music service, in the midst of an incredibly crowded and noisy field. Yet, if none of this deters you, here are the five things you should keep in mind when growing your consumer audience.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Not everyone is a “genius” or enmeshed in the Silicon Valley scene. Besides enjoying my freedom, I also find it very motivating to regularly check my business analytics, audience growth, and, monetary growth. Knowing that my work unites an audience with options to flaunt their true selves is what motivates me.

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

David Copperfield proposed and dramatically executed the disappearance and reappearance of the Statue of Liberty in 1983 to a live audience on Liberty Island, and television audiences around the world. —and a brilliant insight: tap-summoning black-cars skirts the laws that prevent non-taxis from picking up people on the street.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 11, 2010

Today, I'm writing to you about Vator's upcoming "Splash" showcase, where you'll have an opportunity to pitch Silicon Valley. I fully recommend that you register at Vator.tv. But that’s actually NOT why I’m writing today. These 10 companies will also have a high quality video of their presentation produced.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 19, 2012

And many in the audience took away a simple message: if they can do Lean Startup in government, what's my excuse? For last year's experiment, I teamed up with my friends at Appsumo to create a contest with epic prizes, including angel investment, spots in Silicon Valley incubators, and tons of mentorship.

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