Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The latest statistics from VentureSource show 554 financings in Q4, down from 620 in Q3 and 718 in Q4 2007. On that front, I take pride in the second headline with news that Fliqz , where I am CFO, just closed on $6 million in Series C financing. Labels: bootstrapping , CFO , Fliqz , venture capital , venture financing.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

I put up my Bodega Partners web site in 1995 and it served its purpose for a number of years, but I just didnt spend the energy to keep it current and finally just took it down last month. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I did a little searching around the web to try and find a truth vs. fiction comparison, but the closest I found was "The 10 Most Glaring Lies In The Social Network" on the Business Insider. link] We are developing a software technology that works on the web using cloud computing to build software 100X faster and reduce bugs and cut costs.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2011

Wanova , the Israeli corporate cloud services provider, has announced the completion of its round B financing totaling $10 million. is based in San Jose, CA and has offices in Netanya, Israel. To date, Wanova has raised a total of $23 million since its inception in 2008.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I laughed and said that our web site made this clear and we may have even put a brief posting to this effect on our twitter feed. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. For products that are simply “bits” delivered over the web, a first product can be shipped in weeks rather than years.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

And of course, I wasn't really interested in the finance side of it to me. TCP and the other foundational technologies of the web had that same property, that there was something really computationally especially complicated about them, but it was their social value. I'm curious. What was your first reaction when you saw it?

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Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

Conceptually, this is very intriguing and goes against the current popularity of accelerators in start-up hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, Seattle, Boulder) that are filled with recent grads and drop outs looking to build the next web sensation. That is what I am doing with the ELAB program at San Jose State University.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

I attended yesterday the 10th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends organized by the Churchill Club at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. the rise of CleanTech, and the next wave of web applications and services, with a hint to the potential of the baby boomers. Yahoo Finance. Thursday, May 15, 2008. Justin Label. Jeremy Levine.

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