Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

When anyone can work from anywhere, they don’t evenly distribute across the country. Planting roots I was recently talking with someone who moved here from Silicon Valley and he pointed out something that really resonated with me. Silicon Valley is a transitional home for many who are not born there and don’t retire there.

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Silicon Valley Austin Texas Raleigh 100

Hunter Walker

JUNE 29, 2014

I’m suprised how many founders – even multiple time entrepreneurs – are unfamiliar with the institutional investors that back most of the major venture funds. At Homebrew’s first annual meeting this past spring we invited founders and fund advisors to a dinner with our four major LPs.

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Founder Institutional Investors Silicon Valley Portfolio 99

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Along with Greycroft, I was the first institutional investor in Maker Studios (sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion) and am still the largest investor in Mitu Network , the largest online video producer of Latino content. YouTube is a distribution and marketing channel like any other. I’ve written about that, too.

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SEM Los Angeles Silicon Valley Acquisition 150

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Dan: My question is related to all this talk that I hear in the Silicon Valley about Internet scale. It’s quite simple, which is when you had systems where you had limitations on distribution or transportation of products, it enabled you to operate with a certain cost structure. I was in a 10-year company.

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Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

If you are looking past or through Covid — and why not, all of Wall Street is — the topic du jour in Silicon Valley is Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs. The traditional way of going public is systematically broken and is robbing Silicon Valley founders, employees, and investors of billions of dollars each year.

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IPO Silicon Valley Warrant Matching 118

Austin Startup

AUGUST 1, 2017

While I work with a few companies in Silicon Valley, the vast majority of my clients are either in Austin or ecosystems that look much more like Austin than SV; “second tier” tech communities. The binary “get yacht-level rich or die trying” mindset is driven, first and foremost, by large institutional investors.

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Liquidation Preference Common Stock Valuation Silicon Valley 48

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We’re building a True SaaS company in Boise, Idaho, not in Silicon Valley or not in New York. This is really an exciting panel to be a part of. Bates: Fantastic. You have to invest in your company to grow. It teaches you to be—my approach has just been to do things differently. It’s weird. We’re growing like crazy.

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