crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. All of these things aside, one of its biggest attractions may be what is not: Silicon Valley.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. ” Put simply, if you care about building a successful tech community outside Silicon Valley you should read this book.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2018

At the rate it’s growing, Toronto will have more technology jobs than Silicon Valley within the next two years. Starting with just 5,000 attendees in Las Vegas, it is expected to host more than 25,000 tech executives, entrepreneurs, investors, and media from approximately 120 countries in New Orleans this year.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. All of these things aside, one of its biggest attractions may be what is not: Silicon Valley.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 22, 2018

So much happened when the Lean Startup Community came together in Las Vegas last month for this year’s conference that I’m still processing it all. Las Vegas was a new home for the conference this year, thanks to a partnership with Zappos and Tony Hsieh, with whom I talked as part of the program.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Locations and Dates: Silicon Valley, CA – March 29, 2018. New Orleans, LA – September 27, 2018. Las Vegas, NV – November 10-11, 2018. Silicon Valley, CA – September 21-22, 2018. Silicon Valley, CA – November 16 – 17, 2018. Behind Every Leader.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

billion IPO), HealthDataInsights (Las Vegas, $400 million) as well as LA (Maker Studios $1 billion, TrueCar $1.3 Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley. But some of our largest investments have come from all across the country: BillMeLater (Baltimore, $1 billion eBay), DealerTrack (NYC, $1.3

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

After taking Inside Bitcoins to Las Vegas this past winter, this definitive Bitcoin event is returning to New York City, April 7-8 at the Javits Convention Center. Venture Summit Silicon Valley. Inside BitCoins NYC.

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Diego Basch

JUNE 21, 2012

I believe that Silicon Valley is like Las Vegas, except they make you pass a number of tests before they let you gamble. The purpose of this post is to analyze the folowing problem: Joe Founder comes to Silicon Valley with a laptop full of dreams, but no money. What should Joe do?

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

We were on an immersion trip to Silicon Valley, and we said, “Let’s find a way to leverage [a previous open source project],” and we decided to build something around that. What Michelle wanted to get out of it was to get experience pitching to VCs and to build a better relationship with Prof. Tom Eisenmann.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Luckily (or maybe because we were in Silicon Valley where there was a domain expert for everything) there was a very smart consultant in the retail computer space, Seymour Merrin, who preached about the importance of packaging. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Order Here. Now In Print!

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 12, 2012

The first came out of a set of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley who said something like “CES is irrelevant – no one important is there and nothing interesting gets launched.” Finally, I had plenty that is the weirdness of Las Vegas. I had a death defying run on the Las Vegas strip.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

The juxtaposition of the two experiences (my talk vs. the casual madness of the Apple Store) combined with a line from Peter Thiel’s book Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future reminded me of another line that I heard at the UP Global Annual Summit in Las Vegas over the summer.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 26, 2015

The first was The Making of Silicon Valley: A One Hundred Year Renaissance. This book was written in 1995 and published by the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association so the updated subtitle should be “A One Hundred Year Renaissance – 20 Years Later.”

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Drive around Silicon Valley looking for buildings with a blank spot on the wall that used to be a logo. Or are they just folks who don’t happen to live in Las Vegas, and thus are getting their adrenaline fix from economic vagaries instead of cards? They’re not hard to find.

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Early Growth Financial Services

APRIL 23, 2014

EGFS, a Silicon Valley-based outsourced financial services firm, has just announced that they have opened operations in Chicago to provide accounting, CFO, tax, and valuation services to the local startup and small business communities.

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Diego Basch

MAY 18, 2012

Silicon Valley is more similar to Las Vegas than many people would have you believe. The main difference is that in Vegas most people gamble on games of chance. In Silicon Valley we believe we have an edge. Do we really? I don’t know. But the fact that we believe it is what makes it fun.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. They have the same trade-off decisions that you do about packing up and moving to Silicon Valley vs. staying and building locally. The ingredients are all here. Stating the obvious but you can’t will a region into success.

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readwrite.com

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Believe it or not this is actually a big story in Silicon Valley right now. For the past few years we’ve had people calling themselves “investors,” who have no experience investing, swanning around the Valley, slinging money at people calling themselves “entrepreneurs” who have never held an actual job, let alone run a company.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. While Silicon Valley covers a large amount of turf, it is very small. are going to add this story to our blog via our IT guy at [link] we have a audience in las vegas that will read your article. ProfessorVC. Thursday, November 19, 2009. Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

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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.) At the same time, early-stage companies are thinking beyond the high prices of Silicon Valley to put down roots and find financing and growth partners. After more than eight years?—?they’ve

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2014

This week marked the annual b2b marketing frenzy known as the Consumer Electronics Show (URL) in Las Vegas. ” Las Vegas has become the new Cannes and the stakes are indeed high. Surrounded by roulette wheels and craps tables, Madison Avenue has chosen to double down on the Silicon Valley model.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

I doubt Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures believed that a horse with a horn existed when she wrote Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups in late 2013, but she probably had no idea that it would become a hot buzzword in Silicon Valley and hit the cover of mainstream business press, Fortune Magazine.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Conventional wisdom says that you can only build big businesses in Silicon Valley so as a VC you need to be there. Some of the biggest wins of the past 5 years were built outside of the Valley. And the great monetization engines of the Internet were built in LA – Overture (AdWords) & Applied Semantics (AdSense).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

They either convinced themselves that no big tech companies would ever be built in LA or that LA-based investors wouldn’t have strong enough returns or that “Our strategy is to invest in the top ten firms in Silicon Valley.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

And then you fast forward a couple of weeks, I live here in Santa Clara County in Silicon Valley, which actually I think had one of the first cases or one of the- Eric Ries : Of community spread, yeah. You were hanging out in Silicon Valley, I'm sure many people must have told you, "You’ve got to monetize this.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 6, 2012

On the left hand side of the spectrum is the pure “expo/tradeshow” – you know the type — held at Moscone or in Las Vegas, hundreds of exhibitors on a concrete floor – think CES or Dreamforce. Who do you know that’s been to what? What’s the reputation?

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Sir Martin Sorrel , the founder of WPP (the worlds largest media organization), recently said he went to Tech Punta in Montevideo instead of the CES in Las Vegas. A bit like Silicon Valley. The key risk for developed markets (countries) is that they don’t take the concept of technology poverty seriously enough.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Back then, in the relatively innocent days of the digital Neolithic, San Francisco was a boutique outpost hovering beyond the northern border of the Silicon Valley heartland. In Silicon Valley, they say there is no bubble, just gas pains at the birth of a brave new world. Is Wall Street going sour on tech?

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