ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. MOOCs like Coursera, Udacity, and Udemy have unbundled university content to make education more accessible on a global scale. Ditto for Apple. The best way to win the talent war?

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

No more 60 hour weeks at a job where the owners apparently were unable to run a successful operation. In my entrepreneurship journey, I’ve made incredible retail partners from many countries, and eventually landed my own show on HSN for 19 years. My interests were in technology, and my dreams were in California. No hassles.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Union Square Ventures The next morning I got to spend time with Brad Burnham , partner at Union Square Ventures talking about their investment strategy and insights about web-based businesses. Bill and his partner Fred Wilson have invested in ~30 or so companies with 27 still active.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

We tried, and opted out of, potentials for pivots; we pitched for game-changing partners and acquisitions that did not ultimately convert. With the help of advisors Ada Ryland and Wayne Lopez, we set up data-driven operation to get clarity on what and why we measured?—?and you win on 50% + 1 or you don’t…). and the outcomes. “If

Silicon Valley 54

Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

Having grown up in Northern California and living near a Japanese family when I was really young, I always had a fascination with Japan and wanted to live there. If I asked and my partner predictably told me “no&# then the only way to go would be to directly defy his instructions – never a great idea in business.

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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. “think globally, act locally&#. ikea’s value co-creation.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

Khosrowshahi, who previously served as CEO of Expedia before taking the reins at Uber in 2017, sat down with Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman to discuss the past, present and future of the mobility and delivery business that now operates in 71 countries around the world and employs around 20,000 people globally.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2014

Partner with the competitors in your industry by creating key relationships with the right people who have the right skills and can properly complement your strengths. In Orange County, California, for example, there is a street called State College. We’re now living in the collaboration economy and your competition is now your ally.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

As she recalls, "once we as a team and ecosystem of stakeholders got our plan together--and a big part of that was our incredible school partners, who said, 'We are going to feed as many kids and families as we can,'-- within a week, we were building at light speed what would be the next iteration of Revolution Foods and our feeding system."

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination? Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. What’s bringing them here?

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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. “think globally, act locally&#. ikea’s value co-creation.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Austin has been one the fastest growing cities in the country for the past 20 years that I’ve been here, but it feels like COVID-19 and California wildfires broke the floodgates already under pressure from high taxes and expensive real estate in landlocked coastal cities.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

A few weeks ago, Coinbase , which facilitates buying, storing and purchasing cryptocurrency and also operates a cryptocurrency exchange, went public. Coinbase was founded in 2012 and operates a cryptocurrency exchange. So I've been able to move to another location with my partner and another city, I should say.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

"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. David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Mark Suster GRP Partners Advice. Philippe Botteri, Bessemer Venture Partners. Their Partners all come from industry, where each has held senior level executive positions delivering industry-leading products. Lodestone Innovation Partners (IP) Ltd are spin-out specialists. Guide to Super Angels - Chubby Brain.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Box has announced the launch of Box Accelerator , a global data transfer network that pushes the speed, security and scale of the Box service for business and enterprise users for a faster and more streamlined service. times faster than the closest competitor, globally, and 3.1 times faster than its closest competitor in the U.S.).

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. They communicate and pass on the DNA of how Silicon Valley operates and what level of performance is needed to compete on a global scale.

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David Teten

JUNE 12, 2014

I will continue to work closely with the group, while continuing to serve as a Partner at ff Venture Capital. HBS Alumni Angels is a global angel group, given our chapters in 15 cities. I’ve enjoyed working with our partners at VentureOutNY and Worldwide Investor Network. 3) Internationalization. 4) Inclusion.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

One of the drivers for that growth is that for European, Israeli, Latin American, and Eastern Canada-linked companies, the East Coast is much closer than California. Once fully operational, it will be a 140,000-square-foot space meant to serve as a landing pad for international startups looking to expand to the United States.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, also known as “The Bean” to loyal customers, is a Los Angeles based, family-run coffee and tea company that’s owned and operated by International Coffee & Tea, LLC. Party Pieces grew rapidly and the Middletons moved their operations to three converted farm buildings outside of London.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

I’m a partner in his latest venture, the Corporate Entrepreneur Community (CEC) , the newest addition to his long history of reinvention work that spans industries ranging from football to banking. Two weeks later, I was named the executive director of global marketing for GE at the corporate level, working for Beth Comstock.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2013

Improbably, founder and CEO Adam Miller and his partners soldiered on to eventually build a $2 billion+ cloud company. Moving forward, Miller believes Cornerstone can grow to become an “extremely global company.” When cloud services company Cornerstone OnDemand got its start in Los Angeles in 1999, the odds were against it.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

And gaming companies like EA, Ubisoft, Bioware, and Capcom are either based out of Canada or have large operations in the country. We’ve previously looked at the best cities in the US to build your startup , and we’ve even looked at some of the best cities globally. 25 best startup ecosystem in the world.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

My partner has a start-up and we went to his office and borrowed a bunch of office equipment and set up some real home offices. My parents and my brother live in Southern California. We're no longer operating at the speed of government. We're operating at the speed of need in this because people are there to just do it.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Spacetime Studios, a Texas-based indie studio, is expanding operations following a recent round of funding from Insight Venture Partners, a leading global technology and internet investment firm. We plan to add Android and PC users to the mix.” said Anthony L. Sommers, co-founder and CTO of Spacetime Studios. “In

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Up and Running

JANUARY 7, 2020

A simple way to achieve this is by finding the answers to “does it save money, make money, save time, or make operations more efficient?”. We made the same argument as almost every ambitious entrepreneur , “Should we attain merely 1percent of global market share…” Global market size was $246B, growing at 1.9 percent a year.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2017

To put that benchmark in context, the latest estimates place the total number of businesses operating in the U.S. Upfront Ventures, a California-based VC firm, released its annual VC Survey Results in January. at around 27 million. Of that number, only 98 are currently considered unicorns. Surprisingly different, actually.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Valuation Later Stage 86

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

A social translation program is one way you can make your website more accessible to a global audience for less. Presented by John Gruber of Daring Fireball and Jim Coudal of Coudal Partners and The Deck Network. A social translation program is one way you can make your website more accessible to a global audience for less.

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Silicon Valley Omaha Technical Review Social Media 79

Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

I didn’t set out to write a book but as we looked around the market for an operational playbook for sales, we couldn’t find one, so I tapped into my 20 years of sales experience and my network so that we could create a valuable resource for founders everywhere,” said Schwartzfarb. Austin, TX Nov. 12: Products that Count?—?Austin,

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

And gaming companies like EA, Ubisoft, Bioware, and Capcom are either based out of Canada or have large operations in the country. We’ve previously looked at the best cities in the US to build your startup , and we’ve even looked at some of the best cities globally. 25 best startup ecosystem in the world.

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Silicon Valley Canada Entrepreneur Startup 48

infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

The Southern California Tody car dealership in is forced to waste its mantra on explaining how to properly pronounce its name (“Not Toady… its Todey (toddy)”). Smucker’s grew from a family-owned, small Midwestern business into a $4 billion, global enterprise. infoChachkie. Hands-on startup advice for emerging entrepreneurs.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

AirPop hopes to connect with other entrepreneurs and partners in digital health who are exploring the potential of lo-fidelity/hi-value sensing in next generation wearables and smart city applications. Essentially, living in California and staying up to date with our China team 15 hours ahead means I’m always sort of in two time zones.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 8, 2010

Exanet, which was founded in 2000, provides scalable network-attached storage software solutions to OEM partners. Their clustered NAS software storage solution provides single file system scalability, and is compatible with Linux, Mac, and Windows operating systems. Exanet storage system solutions are hardware independent.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

"It was delusional for a guy operating in a walk-in closet, but I was like, 'You live once, you might as well swing for the fences.'" 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. It was a friend.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2020

Now he is on the leading edge of infectious disease research at the University of California, San Diego, and has been a leader in the civic response to the pandemic. Robert Schooley : I'm Robert Turner Schooley, professor of medicine at the University of California San Diego. His answer; pretty much all of them. so we know who has it.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

We are encouraging all of our companies to put in place a dual-class share structure if and when they go public, said Marc Andreessen, a general partner at the firm, which has taken stakes in 156 tech enterprises over the past three years. In just a year of operations, Fab has signed up nearly 5 million members, sold 1.8 POST A JOB.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

We been managing the field by plan more than 75 enterprise customers and channel partners. First of all, the enterprise level processes and the one like you described, where there is one or two people just trying to do basic sales with Highrise, extremely different context that they operate in, and different price points, by the way.

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