ReadWriteStart

MAY 22, 2023

According to Rolf Illenberger, co-founder of VRdirect, a virtual reality platform in Munich, none of the big European tech companies are currently relevant to the future of the Metaverse. Europe has also lagged behind the US in venture to finance. However, he also admits that they face major challenges.

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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. billion in financing in 2015 (with 395 deals). If we try to dissect the magic of Silicon Valley, I think there are five key factors at play: Great schools. Waterloo has another unicorn with Kik. Great senior talent.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Jeremy Johnson.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Founder’s perspective. You’ll get empathy. Experience. Relationships.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Bigfoot Capital. Key elements: .

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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. Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 In terms of access to capital, Austin is not Silicon Valley or New York — but it is Austin.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley.

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

I find it intriguing that species not only evolve against their environment, but their environment co-evolves simultaneously against them. When you look at a biological ecosystem, the creatures in it have spent thousands and thousands of years co-evolving against one another in a careful dance. A nice account of Stuart’s story is here.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. Technical founder. You’re 42.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Jeremy Johnson.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

Jeff Decker is a co-instructor of the Hacking for Defense class and the Stanford program director. Anduril founder Palmer Luckey has sardonically noted that the only defense companies to reach unicorn status in the past 30 years have all been founded by billionaires able to endure long gaps in funding. He’s a former U.S.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. I remember presenting our ideas for Marketing Automation to one VP of Marketing in a large Silicon Valley company. Welcome to the Internet bubble.) Order Here.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Intro to the Austin EdTech Startup Scene Come meet Sean Duffy , founder of EdTech Austin and let him tell about everything going on in EdTech in Austin! Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. as in pro wrestling?—?you’re and easy to remember?—?framework

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. Matt Prince , Co-Founder and CEO, CloudFlare (Web performance and security to protect and accelerate websites; $72.1

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Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

Developers, designers, and finance experts from around the world go through a rigorous process that includes live screening and weeks-long test projects before being invited to join Toptal’s network. Why did you prioritize finance over another capability? How did you come up with the idea for Toptal? Focus on what to focus on.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

By Daniel Sokolovksy, Co-Founder and CEO, WARP and Troy Lester, Co-Founder and CRO, WARP The dissolution of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was more than just a bank collapse, it was a reality check for both startups and the VCs that fund them. As founders, remind yourself that you aren’t ever alone.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Our co-host for the program was TiE Midwest, based in Chicago. The discussion today was around Social Media financing and go-to-market strategy. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will be co-hosted with TiE Chennai and TiE Mumbai. My assessment is that this is a good company that should be able to raise money at this point.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

Amsterdam-based startup accelerator Rockstart last year launched a program to find and support ten teams of startup founders in Europe. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

VC Financings: 1. Summit is a hugely respected firm in Silicon Valley and a long-term “institution&# but they’re better known as more of a “private equity&# investor meaning that they do later stage investments in much larger companies that are profitable. Add this new model to the mix. 13mm in Series B.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

I’ve been writing up reviews of this season’s Shark Tank pitches from a silicon valley VCs perspective. The founders were very sympathetic; a man, laid off from his job, and his very pregnant wife, who sold their house and investing $150k into the business and are working hard to make a go of it. BACK 9 DIPS.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. She found non-traditional financing. Without this money she wouldn’t have been able to finance operations. And through this industry legitimacy she was able to get the ear of Dany Levy, the co-founder of Daily Candy.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

“In a lot of the industries in which I ended up launching companies, there was a pre-existing profile of what a successful entrepreneur should look like—typically a young, white male with a technical, finance, or political background,” says Aguirre de Carcer. According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Held on October 8-11, Global Startup Youth is designed by StartupMalaysia in collaboration with partners including Malaysia’s Ministry of Finance, the US State Department, YouNoodle Inc., UPGlobal, Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd, Global Entrepreneurship Week, and Startup Nations.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2013

I’m sure you know, but Elon was the co-founder (and largest shareholder) of PayPal, the most important payment transfer technology of its era and still the most instrumental to date. This made my friend Dorrian Porter ‘s KickStarter initiative to create a statue of Tesla in Silicon Valley even more poignant.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event that has featured Boston’s BEST founders. OnStartups: One of the largest online startup communities founded by HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah. Boston Hardware Startup Meetup – Meetup organized by the founders of BOLT.

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Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The Silicon Valley ethic now runs deep – despite the current tech-lash. Access to knowledge, finance, manufacturing, promotional tools, distribution, logistics, publishing, you name it. If you run a startup – here are a few things that are highly unfashionable at the moment. To be profitable. To self-fund.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

Silicon Valley’s pay-it-forward culture means that others will help when you’re starting up. The show follows the journeys of founders sharing their experiences of what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Dave Kashen.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

M&A experience (Morgan Stanley and later co-headed M&A for Barry Diller at IAC). Wonderful human being who is civically engaged, mother of 3, mentorer of younger founders, hard worker and arguer extraordinaire (so says her current Twitter bio). Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Where did Silicon Valley come from? Among those: plentiful financing and nerds , a culture that celebrates both failure and success, and an ethos of openness and sharing. Sturgeons "How Silicon Valley Came to Be" and believe that Federal Telegraph is a better origin point.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

But a new class of life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space is another. identify financing vehicles before you need them. A new life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space. Co-working spaces seem to be evolving into the startup garages of the future.

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OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

On the heels of the announcement we made last month about our Series B financing , we are now announcing the launch of a new program called Bolster Prime and a new venture capital fund called Bolster Ventures. In our prior lives, the Bolster founders worked together to scale up a business called Return Path and also.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Speaking at the Dublin Web Summit on Thursday, Elon Musk refuted the assertion that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs aren’t afraid to fail. “I Musk said that he financed Space X to have enough money for its first three launches. I certainly have fear of failure,” he admitted.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Bill Wood, founder of Silverton Partners and an early General Partner at Austin Ventures before, said something that got me thinking (quoting from the SiliconHills article ): Because it’s easy to startup a company and doesn’t take a lot of money, Silverton Partners sees more startups forming, Wood said. in the long-run, I say!?—?success

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Several funds and firms are participating in this investment including Rincon Ventures , Idealab ( Bill Gross built the original incubator and there will be active support from Allen Morgan ), Baroda Ventures , GRP Partners , David Cohen (founder of TechStars ), David Tisch (founder of TechStars NY ), DLA Piper and Stubbs Alderton.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 17, 2012

In return, all Davis and his cofounders had to do was promise to spend six months in the country working on their startup, CruiseWise - an online travel agency for booking cruises - and engage with Chilean businesspeople. In Silicon Valley, if you fail quickly and cheaply, people think that's awesome because you learned a lot.".

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 28, 2011

But if you are a competent engineer, sales executive, online marketer or general manager in Silicon Valley, NYC, Boston or other start-up hotspots, the unemployment rate is 0%. CNN recently reported that 40% of the 130,000 job openings in Silicon Valley are for software engineers. Immediately.

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