YoungUpstarts
APRIL 2, 2020
The founders of Hewlett Packard. Major cities in the region are San Jose, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, and Mountain View. San Jose is the biggest city. You’re sensing a pattern here. Harley Davidson? Like all those giant companies, Silicon Valley essentially started with a garage. The “starters”?
Austin Startup
APRIL 10, 2017
Written by BuzzFeed Senior Culture Editor Doree Shafrir (pictured above), this book pulls apart the New York / Brooklyn entrepreneurial scene in the same bitter-sweet way that the HBO show “Silicon Valley” satirizes San Jose. One of the over-arching conceits of “Startup” is that everything is connected.
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crowdSPRING Blog
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. San Jose, CA. Atlanta, GA.
ReadWriteStart
JULY 15, 2020
Startup founders are trying to figure out how to fundraise through a pandemic and economic crash. Venture capitalists and early-stage investors have told all of us, founders are critical to a startup’s valuation. These investors also tell you the founder’s role cuts both ways. The founder stepped aside. Morality matters.
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 13, 2015
There''s a reason why people such as Larry Ellison can keep the San Jose airport open late for his private jet while you and I are munching peanuts on Southwest Airlines. In reality all they are showing is how naive they are about what it takes to build a successful business. We have a world-class, proven team."
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 17, 2015
The 2015 BattleHack series will culminate in the World Finals in San Jose, California in November, and the Singapore winner will be flown to the finals at PayPal’s headquarters in Silicon Valley to battle it out with teams from 14 cities around the world for the US$100,000 grand prize and a “battle axe” trophy.
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. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. Bootstrapping 101.
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