crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. behind Silicon Valley and New York), the city of flowers and sunshine boasts one of the largest concentrations of engineering graduates in the country.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

I describe this in part as the “Social Network” effect… not just the movie itself but the example of Mark Zuckerberg and many other high profile young founders as role models ( who can forget this image? ) Just a minor nitpicky point: San Jose is actually much larger than SF, in both population and land area.

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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. And to top it all off, she is an engineer.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. His goal in building the company was to spend 3 years building value and find a good home for the engineers and product. Bootstrapping 101.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Walk to downtown Palo Alto at lunchtime, and see the excited engineers ranting to one another on their way to lunch. Park on the circle and take a walking tour of the campus and then head to the science and engineering quad. Walk by the Terman Engineering building to stand next to ground zero of technology entrepreneurship.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Being a resource-constrained entrepreneur, I wanted a co-founder because even if I got a paid engineer or an outsourced team to build it, I would still need to build a team, and there would be continuous development needs. Then, what’s missing — clearly an engineer — and why do I want a partner?

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

However, for most of the rest of us, the analytical skills honed in college or grad school, along with the opportunity to network and explore different fields prove invaluable later. With that in mind, I created a new course at San Jose State last year, the Entrepreneurship Lab (E-Lab). May 14, 2010 10:56 PM. Steve Bennet.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

During this week's roundtable, we had Inoh Choe from San Jose, California, pitch DemoTunes, a freemium concept. Rather, you tag a woman wearing a speedo swimsuit with a Speedo GoodyTag and then encourage your social network to further propagate that as part of an incentivized advertising campaign. Discuss.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The Afro-Tech operates on a basis of permissionless innovation — we do not need pre-approval to be black and innovative in tech and as for me, I been doing advanced and epic Internet tech stuff since 1994 so I’m not exactly someone that is easily impressed by an “ex-Google engineer” like the rest of yall, just saying.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

Happy Grasshopper is an e-mail marketing service that assists real estate agents in reaching out to their networks and generating referrals. Next week, we are going to partner with the Indian Angel Network for the strategy roundtable. We discussed a numbers of customer acquisition methods to do so. Social Pulse. Discuss.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

Austin Texas, hometown of True Wealth Venture’s takes the top spot, followed by Miami, then San Jose and NYC ranks at number seven. The investment network here is growing, but is still grossly developing when compared to those coastal cities. versus $10M+). However, Austin is well poised to catch up quickly.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

The NIF brings together students from all parts of the university (business, computer science, mechanical engineering, design, life science, etc.) This was a collaboration between students in industrial design, electrical engineering and business. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

And then the network can come to an agreed upon state that says, hey, this is a valid transaction. It almost had like a social engineering component to it, as much as it was an algorithmic breakthrough. And so while she was at IBM, we were living in San Jose, California, where I grew up in the Bay Area.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

Someone tweeted out of San Jose, they did a really amazing review of the book. It depends on where you live, but every community has a Chamber of Commerce, and the Chamber of Commerce organizations typically do networking events. Some of them have young professional networking events. That ink smell.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Network effects of cities and innovation — and how it ties to inequality Just as there are network effects in online platforms, where a network grows more valuable to users the more users that join and use it, there are also network effects in the physical world. The same applies to cities.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

He was the first American in 30 years to graduate from the 5-year brewing program at the Technical University of Munich , the highest technical degree in brewing engineering. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

” Now that last statement is a little off, since I have a portfolio company in Berkeley and one as far south as San Jose. A few months later, after the product had launched, the CardMunch team went to an event, and happened to run into an engineer from LinkedIn. Again a casual conversation transpired.

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

” Now that last statement is a little off, since I have a portfolio company in Berkeley and one as far south as San Jose. A few months later, after the product had launched, the CardMunch team went to an event, and happened to run into an engineer from LinkedIn. Again a casual conversation transpired.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

You network! You go hang out at the engineering school! That is what I am doing with the ELAB program at San Jose State University. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. You attend start-up events!

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dickey.xxx

DECEMBER 10, 2012

networking. I attended another Startup Weekend in San Jose shortly after the one in Seattle that helped me network with people. These are the most engineer-focused. There is usually little-to-no need for non-engineers and non-designers in these types. Jeff Dickey. Let's grab a beer! email protected].

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Big things, like obscuring the networking stack under so many countless layers of abstraction that it’s virtually impossible to even imagine what bytes are actually going over the wire.

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Professor VC

JULY 2, 2010

He believes that this transfer of manufacturing and engineering expertise out of the country will ultimately lead to less innovation. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal.

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Professor VC

MAY 6, 2008

This reminds of a comment from the VP Engineering at one of my start-ups, who is a Brit with a dry sense of humor - "I used to teach at university, but then I realized I didnt like the students". Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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