Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. In the last full year where we have data LA attracted $1.5 To some extent – of course they are. It is different.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Combined, these factors point to available money for business owners to invest in their ventures. The overall culture in Austin is renowned for its supportiveness of the small business community. Boulder’s entrepreneurial system is bolstered by a number of local venture capital firms, including Foundry Group.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

After being installed in 2014 as Microsoft’s new CEO, Nadella has turned around the Seattle ocean liner on a new course after the Ballmer regime. Buying that time and capital paid off, as Microsoft recently announced it would purchase GitHub for $7.5B. Satya strikes again.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2020

In the US, places like San Francisco, Austin, Seattle, and Washington, DC get the lion’s share of attention as startup sweet spots. Meanwhile, Philly quietly chugs away drawing entrepreneurs and venture capital (VC) dollars. An Abundance of Entertainment, Community, and Recreation. Image by David Mark from Pixabay.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

And I am often approached by entrepreneurs in cities which don’t have a vibrant VC community. Where do you want to build your community, your relationships, your family?” If their commitment to staying local is weak I normally say, “Well, it certainly would be easier on you to be in a larger community.

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Gust

DECEMBER 21, 2011

It hosts an environment which many other communities have attempted to emulate, although they haven’t and won’t. Many other communities are entrepreneur-friendly and, by any measure, have the tools in place to spawn new high growth companies. The Valley has been a unique place for over half a century.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. My recipe for Seattle or your community: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

We believe it’s important to have our partners all based in one location so our starting point is wanting our partners to be based in LA and be committed to making this city a vibrant startup community that is now the third largest in the country. As a result we need somebody well networked into these communities already.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Our particular focus is in San Francisco Bay Area, Toronto/Waterloo , Seattle, and NYC. As competitive as venture capital often seems, we are incredibly humbled by the amount of support and love we have gotten over the years from our community. And last but not least, we thank our investors, the LPs.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 28, 2017

Seattle inventor and entrepreneur Mark Grabham says that you can’t rely only on your own expertise to make things happen or to scale quickly. One mistake won’t kill you-the same mistake, twice, might.”. Never Stop Learning or Asking for Help. He says, “You have to get help from other people. There’s a large pool of talent to pull from.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

For starters they has asked him to hire a CEO (Hamet was a first timer) and that person lived in Seattle even though NextMedium was based in LA. Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa. I believe investors had forced him to do this. And he followed through.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

If you’ve begun the process of raising capital, ask the angels or venture capital partners to recommend technologists who consult on a part-time basis. Reply What To Do When There’s No Venture Capital « Web Startup Help says: January 13, 2009 at 10:42 pm [.] Also try a search on LinkedIn.

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David Cohen

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Most of those companies from the Kinect program are doing great, and many have gone on to raise venture capital or angel financing since the program ended. Companies in the program get $20,000 in funding and help from great mentors in the TechStars community in addition to access to top executives and engineers within Microsoft.

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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. In San Antonio we take great pride in our diverse, artistic, affordable and culturally rich community filled with a young and burgeoning creative class workforce.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

Since 2002, the law form of Fenwick & West has conducted a venture capital survey, a response to "the burst of the 'dot-come bubble' and a desire to provide the entrepreneurial community with objective information about the status of the venture environment."

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

My fourth book, Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City comes out at the end of the month. George, Chicago, Des Moines, Burlington, Seattle, Detroit, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, Lexington (KY), and Palm Desert. Foundry Group adds $225M to its venture capital pool. Or send her flowers.

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abovethecrowd.com

MAY 28, 2014

” The Seattle Times declared “ CIOs in hot seat since Target data breach.” Enter HackerOne, a shared community marketplace that brings together the Internet’s leading web sites, with a community of the Internet’s leading researchers.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Of course this can be done and of course I am a big proponent of the rise of startup centers across the country as the Internet has moved from the “infrastructure phase” to the “application phase” dominated by the three C’s: content, communications and commerce. So what can a community do?

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

From Box to Glossier, and Comms to Venture Capital, Ashley Mayer Is Carving a Pretty Unique Path. I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. When I learned they were hiring a community manager, I threw everything I had at the interview process. Enter Box.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

The city’s close proximity to major business centers like Seattle and Silicon Valley is another notable benefit, enabling a vibrant flow of talent between cities up and down the west coast. of partners at venture capital firms in Canada are women , which more than double the US rate of 6%. ” Montreal. .”

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

If you live in a suburban community, there is little chance you could walk out your door and hail a cab. When I used to travel to Los Angeles and Seattle on business I would use a rental car. And if you call one of the phones, it is a very spotty proposition. This creates new use cases versus a historical model. Rental car alternative.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

A similar pattern exists for venture capital funding: In 2020, just three regions — the Bay Area, New York, and Massachusetts — accounted for 70%+ of total venture funding in the U.S. Venture capital. Silicon Valley didn’t create venture capital, and venture capital didn’t create Silicon Valley.

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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. Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. The Foundations of the Seattle startup community.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

John has rightly observed that many small companies, as well as foreign companies trying to get into the United States, have limited budget, and could use 25% of the time of a sales rep in each geography, say, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle. I like the idea, and recognize the problem.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 30, 2014

Techstars has become a power player in places like Boston, Boulder and Seattle: The program, known as a startup accelerator, takes entrepreneurs and offers them office space, funding and advice, taking a stake in the companies in exchange. Think of it as a cross between a landlord, summer camp, and venture-capital firm.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

The city’s close proximity to major business centers like Seattle and Silicon Valley is another notable benefit, enabling a vibrant flow of talent between cities up and down the west coast. of partners at venture capital firms in Canada are women , which more than double the US rate of 6%. ” Montreal. .”

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 29, 2015

Kyle and his team went through Techstars Boulder in 2012 before moving back to Atlanta and being leaders in energizing the Atlanta startup community. I don’t know if it’s because Danielle is in the bay area (while Rand is in Seattle), or the story has broadened. Interestingly, the media wrote more this time.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Veteran investor Timothy Draper says venture-capital firms are taking notice of Silicon Beach. Our vision for the school is to support the local ecosystem and our community, so this is fabulous," he says. Sign up to get: Top viewed stories, photo galleries and community posts of the day. But there will be," Citron says.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

I am so proud and humbled to be able to formally announce that Upfront Ventures has raised its 6th venture capital fund in the past 21 years. A huge thank you to all of the Limited Partners who have entrusted us with your capital, time and reputations. This brings our combined funds under management to nearly $2 billion.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. I grant you, it’s not like Coupa Cafe in Palo Alto – but there is a burgeoning tech community much as you’d find in NYC these days. Communities outside the Valley have matured.

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Up and Running

JULY 21, 2016

cities to start a business in for 2016 ), you will need to focus more on access to angel and venture capital funding, business incubators and accelerators, and a climate that is supportive of startups. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh has even claimed that he foresees Boston becoming the tech capital of the world—a bold statement, indeed!

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 31, 2015

I suppose this is because to many people, being a VC is a coveted position: you control large amounts of money and can pick and choose where that capital goes. The traditional career path in venture capital has been around for decades. The beauty of the web is just how much information is now at your fingertips.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 24, 2014

But today we are intentionally engineering six distinct activities to support this tech cluster: entrepreneurial density, university, transportation, capital, accelerator, and business community. This effort was over a decade in the making and something that the local community fought hard for. Local Early-Stage Risk Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Joel moved to Seattle, and worked at Microsoft for three years as a program manager on Excel 4.0 The software is not difficult to build and the hosting element has become a commodity; the hard part is building a community. Lesson: Joel had been building a community of readers since 2001. Building Communities.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Venture capital mean board meetings, which is a huge sap on time and resources. 8: Connect With the Community : Hold a live town hall where you can collect feedback and get advice from your users. Venture capital mean board meetings, which is a huge sap on time and resources. Rent servers, dont buy them.

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