500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley).

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Carmen was the first CIA executive to envision many of the applications now used by CIA analysts, including online production, collaborative tools, and Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki developed by Don Burke and Sean Dennehy. It basically means like a senior statesman in country … without portfolio. Don : Exactly.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

My conclusion was that I should have realized that the first person who pitched me on Airbnb wasn’t a great consumer internet investor, which means I should have realized that he might not describe the opportunity accurately. This is going to be a drag on the portfolio, this is going to be a waste of time.”. CONCLUSION.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. The second wave of companies were mainly concentrated in Silicon Valley, and coincided with the rise of platforms (Google, Facebook, etc.)

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Genuine VC

JULY 8, 2010

With the support and encouragement of my Venrock colleagues, I am pleased to share that I am moving on to co-found a new Micro VC firm focused on seed internet investments. I am excited to remain on the Board of Directors for Venrock’s portfolio company BlogHer.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Create a profile for me in the Journal Community. As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Journal Community. The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. Why Register? Todays Paper.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community. And many of them view the local government as an irrelevant factor in their business.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In addition to having 66 million Internet users, the UK is home to its own rapidly growing tech sector, which attracted $13.2 And I have gotten to know Joe as a friend after he moved to Silicon Valley last year. billion in investment capital in 2019 and now employs nearly 3 million people. companies and U.K.

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View from Seed

JULY 28, 2015

This is expressed by people outside of Boston, but it often comes from those within our community too. Even ignoring Silicon Valley, places like New York and LA seem to have an edge relative to Boston because of its proximity to media outlets and the prevalence of marketers from big and exciting consumer brands or entertainment companies.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 8, 2012

I remember writing a blog post in 2008, post-financial crash, on how the recession was going to re-vitalize the city’s tech startup community, which would eventually help diversify the NYC economy. More importantly, building global networks is key in order to optimize exit opportunities for portfolio companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

By the way, this was still pre-Netscape, pre-Internet. There was one in Silicon Valley, unsurprising, one in Chicago, and there was this group out of the south of France that served all of Europe. So I joined this group called Network Solutions, we did computer networking, the predecessor to the internet.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

We make initial investments of $250-500K in the seed rounds of software and internet startups and reserve capital for follow-on rounds. Our portfolio has grown to 15 companies today, the bulk of which is on the US East Coast and roughly half the companies have already progressed from the seed stage to completing Series A rounds.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2018

Working with other business owners and entrepreneurs we are looking to create workshops for the local community to help assist them in entrepreneurship and winning the career lottery. I additionally want to expand Cinqe into Silicon Valley and welcome new clients within and surrounding that area. 4- Four goals.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 31, 2018

“Every company is a media company,” Tom Foremski, ex-FT journalist and the editor of Silicon Valley Watcher, said a decade ago. You’ll need access to a computer, an internet connection, and a space that work that’s comfortable for you, where you can occasionally take phone or Skype calls with clients. Build a portfolio.

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Bryce Dot VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

The misunderstanding is clear from the very first paragraph: While most VCs are busy searching for Unicorns, the mythical $1 billion and up startups that can define a portfolio, there’s a new firm in Silicon Valley looking at the opposite end of the spectrum: modest, cashflow businesses. See what they did?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally). This group claims to be the largest angel investment community in the world. But now to answer one of the most common questions I get “How do I find angel investors?”

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

With the internet access available almost everywhere finding an investor, nowadays, is just a Google search away. 4) The Startup Conference - It is an annual conference that takes place in Silicon Valley. Their community has already grown to more than 500 startups and 2,500 investors. Startup Funding'

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

It was really helpful for the community, and it is something we’ll probably do again, although not every year. I find the best angels tend to do great not because they are fixated on making money but because they want to participate in the startup community and be involved in the most exciting projects. Investment Strategy.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

It was really helpful for the community, and it is something we’ll probably do again, although not every year. I find the best angels tend to do great not because they are fixated on making money but because they want to participate in the startup community and be involved in the most exciting projects. Investment Strategy.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. and the major New York industries across the X-axis (internet, food, retail, fashion, etc.).

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 11, 2012

Carey at the Chronicle, A Future Full of Badges : Meanwhile, across the mountains, in Silicon Valley, the Mozilla Foundation was also thinking about the future. Mozilla, a nonprofit organization built around the ethos of the open Internet, created the popular Firefox Web browser, which anyone can download, free.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

The smaller size also allows the space for teams to get to know each other within the cohort and develop a true sense of community and friendship on a founder-to-founder level, which has proven to be an invaluable resource during and after the program. . Think alumni advice circles from founders who have successfully fundraised post-program.

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Programming Sacramento San Francisco Founder 156

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally). This group claims to be the largest angel investment community in the world. But now to answer one of the most common questions I get “How do I find angel investors?”

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Bill Gurley’s excellent piece on Silicon Valley IPO Anxiety inspired me to take a companion look at the East Coast, particularly Massachusetts and New York, and evaluate the health of the local IPO economy and prospective pipeline. Today, I'll cover Massachusetts; tomorrow, New York. Massachusetts. Brightcove ($50-60m).

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BeyondVC

JUNE 8, 2005

While there are not nearly the amount of startups on the East Coast as in Silicon Valley, being in New York I do have tremendous access to Fortune 500 companies. Instead they need to make sure the venture capital community understands what problems we face so that they fund the right portfolio companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

And then you fast forward a couple of weeks, I live here in Santa Clara County in Silicon Valley, which actually I think had one of the first cases or one of the- Eric Ries : Of community spread, yeah. Sal Khan : first cases of community spread. It was really myself and my boss, who was our portfolio manager.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. Entrepreneurs often ask me for help with their pitch decks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally). It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. Here are the largest flocks: Gust (formerly AngelSoft).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally). This group claims to be the largest angel investment community in the world. But now to answer one of the most common questions I get “How do I find angel investors?”

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Similarly, my research on venture capital portfolio operations found that Portfolio Operator VCs such as Andreesen Horowitz , First Round Capital , ff Venture Capital , and Google Ventures are hiring unusually large teams and structuring them in traditional pyramids. Notes: Only for IT & related sectors.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

While not obvious on the surface, there has been a fundamental sea-change in the investment community that has made the incremental Unicorn investment a substantially more dangerous and complicated practice. The same thing happened to many Internet stocks. The typical Silicon Valley term sheet does not include such terms.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 29, 2009

If you were funded by VCs in Silicon Valley, Boston, or Bombay, it still paid to have your CEO and sales team have eyes and ears in NYC for two main reasons. One of our portfolio company CEOs is amazing at spending all his time running around with clients and chasing new business. First, that's where the customers were.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Although relatively new, they announced early last year that their community had already grown to more than 500 startups, and 2,500 investors. The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally).

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Luckily, the startup community often courageously shares their stories – even when things don’t end well. Three notes before we begin: After reading these, you realize more than ever that the startup community is really like no other. Thin line between life and death of internet service is a number of users.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Jody didn’t exactly have an easy time fund raising because he’s not one of the prototypical Silicon Valley funded entrepreneurs. I think how hard it is for me to be hands-on with a handful of portfolio companies. He was talking profusely about their portfolio company email lists and the knowledge that is shared.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

In doing research for a post on “The Enterprise Cool Kids” at the tail end of last year, I interviewed Silicon Valley veteran Marc Andreessen about where he thought the enterprise was headed. So it would seem like they are an antidote to, or at least less offensive than, social/consumer Internet companies are to the public markets.

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