ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

Meanwhile, financing the company will be quite challenging, and I advised Satya to manufacture parts based only on signed contracts and advances against orders, to avoid getting into an inventory-rich, working capital-poor situation. These resellers buy devices from the U.S. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 29, 2013

And given the fact that the majority of top investors were congregated around Silicon Valley, many entrepreneurs felt compelled to move to the valley to start their business. The post Funding goes global: location is no longer your financing destiny appeared first on Version One Ventures. Look global and local.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”. According to John Borchers, Co-founder, Decathlon is the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. Bigfoot Capital.

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Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. We could for example, find warning signs in popular literature about e.g. finance suggesting rapid maturation in bond trading. What Do VC’s Do? Warning sign? At best. ~

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

We can’t talk about Switzerland without mentioning finance. The undeniable centre of this particular scene is Zug, located about 20 miles away from Zurich, which has been fondly named “Crypto Valley” in direct comparison to the Californian Silicon Valley. Fintech and blockchain giants. billion to $3.7

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As I’ve highlighted I believe we’re in a unique period similar to 2005-08 where the biggest tech firms of Silicon Valley (and some media companies) are scooping up small software companies as “talent acquisitions&# versus accretive revenue / profit generators. And these are people with deep pockets.

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A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Don’t get me wrong – we love it when a company in our portfolio does exceptionally well and receives a lot of attention. This can lead to lots of hype among investors and very rapid financings where VCs are forced to “act quickly” and provide term sheets in less than 48 hours. Many investors pride themselves on that ability.

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San Diego Software Review San Francisco Silicon Valley 60

Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Our firm has a portfolio of companies across a broad range of markets and the way we look at it is pretty simple – the deals fall into two types: those with customer/market risk and those with invention risk.” Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2015

Many of our portfolio companies are those types of cloud services and the ecosystems that AppDirect powers can help them get to market faster, reach more users, and drive more revenue. AppDirect is growing like crazy and they plan to open more offices, in Silicon Valley and around the world, in the coming months.

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Business Plan Blog

JULY 31, 2013

Seed funding to both San Francisco and Silicon Valley reached over $192M across 242 deals in the first half of 2013 alone. The Bay Area seed investment portfolio has seen a steady increase in internet seed deals since 2010. Funding By Sector.

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Silicon Valley San Francisco Mobile Internet 45

Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 2011

On Friday Silicon Valley Bank released a survey of 375 executives at startup technology companies in the 4 core venture capital investment sectors – Software/Internet, Hardware, Life Science, and Cleantech. The top challenge listed across all respondents was access to financing. Here is what they found: Tech. Are Bullish.

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Silicon Valley Ratchet Private Equity Startup 69

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) But Quibi has raised $1.4 Meg shared their reasoning that Quibi would face two big challenges.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley). YC is a VC fund that looks and operates like a guild of geeks , and hardly looks anything like a traditional fund comprised of VC partners with MBAs or finance degrees. They are operators, through and through. Why should VCs be any different?

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Not Boston focused, but definitely follow his reports of PE and VC financings and the state of the venture market. @danprimack. Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company). GrabCAD – 3D Community and Collaboration (NextView Portfolio Company). Dan Allred – Silicon Valley Bank (@dgallred).

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 18, 2012

But I think he's missing one important trend that is happening outside of Silicon Valley. For those of us who practice the VC craft outside of Silicon Valley, it is clear that the mega VC strategy just doesn't work. Nearly all of the mega hits have been Silicon Valley based. They are in the middle.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley. As a result we need somebody well networked into these communities already. That’s why Greg Bettinelli has become such a successful partner addition to Upfront. She has been in operations in Seattle and Los Angeles.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 14, 2013

I don’t plan to allocate more than 5% of my portfolio to startups. One of my portfolio companies is about eight blocks from where I live, and another one is fifteen minutes away by Muni. I prefer investing in health, transportation, education, and (under some very specific circumstances) finance. Some lawyers, even.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

But I’ve come to the view (only after being in the industry for a few years) that the best investors influence their end-games through well cultivated relationships with eventual buyers of their portfolio companies. He’s backed so many of the Silicon Valley’s young elite tech professionals.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

By 1991, 70% of the Torch funded startups were getting bank financing for expansion and later stages of the new ventures, with local governments acting as guarantors. At the same time neither banks nor local governments had the cash to finance startups on the scale the country needed. Like the U.S. It went bankrupt in 1997.).

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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. This is another big week for us at Bolster. What about the middle?

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cap Table Early Stage 62

VC Adventure

MARCH 19, 2023

Like many of you, I’ve been reflecting on the implosion of Silicon Valley Bank quite a bit this past week, now that the initial panic has faded into a dulled sense of disbelief. More broadly, our research for The New Builders showed us just how important smaller banks are to the broader entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. Ritter, a finance professor at University of Floridas business school. Why Register?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

Scott pointed to B-round SaaS valuations in excess of $100 million in $15m+ financing rounds with companies with very limited proof of customer traction or revenue. He said that a16z prefers to invest earlier stage in these types of businesses. And we ended. Startup Lessons'

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

VC Financings: 1. Other players such as Obopay have set out to focus on mobile person-to-person cash transfers, mFoundry (a GRP portfolio company) has focused on mobile banking and a mobile wallet and one of my favorite companies m-via is focusing on mobile remittances (right now between the US and Mexico).

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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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K9 Ventures

JUNE 12, 2012

Some days in Silicon Valley it feels like there are more investors than there are entrepreneurs. Founders typically get their equity in a company once — at the time of founding and then get diluted with each subsequent round of financing. And there absolutely are more investors than there are good deals.

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley Founder Seed Stage 117

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

By 1991, 70% of the Torch funded startups were getting bank financing for expansion and later stages of the new ventures, with local governments acting as guarantors. At the same time neither banks nor local governments had the cash to finance startups on the scale the country needed. Like the U.S. It went bankrupt in 1997.).

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While Silicon Valley remains iconic, cities from Bangalore to Berlin are making names for themselves as hotbeds of tech innovation. With its potential to revolutionize various sectors, from healthcare to finance, staying updated with such trends is essential.

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Technical Review Startup Silicon Valley Agile 137

K9 Ventures

JUNE 12, 2012

Some days in Silicon Valley it feels like there are more investors than there are entrepreneurs. Founders typically get their equity in a company once — at the time of founding and then get diluted with each subsequent round of financing. And there absolutely are more investors than there are good deals.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Because by an order of magnitude Silicon Valley has the most startups, VCs, large exits, etc., the majority of the content available online for founders to educate themselves comes from Silicon Valley. Apart from YC itself, Silicon Valley already is an aberration among startup ecosystems. Billion or bust.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

This supplement to our BVP VII fund will ensure that we can take advantage of future investment opportunities and that the companies within the Bessemer portfolio have continued access to capital." Labels: Portfolio , Venture Capital. Portfolio. (3). Yahoo Finance. To learn more, visit [link]. Posted by Philippe Botteri.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 5, 2016

Brian joins Lightspeed as our Partner in charge of executive level talent for Lightspeed and our portfolio of companies. We recognized their high IQ and EQ immediately, and we’re excited to see our portfolio companies put both to good use. He received his MBA in finance from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

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Silicon Valley Advisory Board Flash Pennsylvania 60

K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

In that presentation, I said that Seed is not the first round of financing any more and that K9’s investments were mostly “pre-seed”. Your early stage investment portfolio may no longer really be early stage. A re-jiggering of deal stages and sizes had begun in 2013. Implications for LPs.

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Seed Stage Venture Capital Early Stage Valuation 48

Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 4, 2020

I first met Joe when he was working as a General Partner for Entrepreneur First , a Greylock -backed early stage tech fund which has gone on to raise and run $200 million in capital for start-ups, creating a global portfolio with an aggregate value of more than $2 billion.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

The second wave of companies were mainly concentrated in Silicon Valley, and coincided with the rise of platforms (Google, Facebook, etc.) A significant strength of Texas lies in its diversified portfolio of unique cities. Each offers a different culture, resources and economic base. After more than eight years?—?they’ve

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 14, 2019

Then he tells you he likes being an investor but *really* misses being an operator, and is joining another one of his other portfolio companies as COO. Hunter’s draft script for SVU: Silicon Valley. You grit out a smile and weak ‘congrats’ while thinking ‘“fuuuuuuck.”

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