Steve Blank

MAY 27, 2011

17:00 – The Secrets to Social Networks – Bowling Alone. 21:39 – What Makes Silicon Valley Special? 22:50 – Risk and Culture in Silicon Valley. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching , Venture Capital. 17:45 – Who Are the Best Entrepreneurs?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Professional angels / former entrepreneurs / seed funds – In Silicon Valley there are people like Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples and many more. In SoCal we have Crosscut Ventures, Matt Coffin, Mike Jones, Klaus Schauser, etc. Social Network s / Search / Blogs – Obvious, huh? How much to raise?

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Silicon Valley Ireland Technical Review Valuation 291

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. If you live in Texas, find out how you can tap into the network. Time: 2:00PM?—?3:00PM 10:30AM Hilton?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2020

Here are three pieces of advice that are tossed around Silicon Valley as if they are gospel, but they are really Startup Myths. I don’t know exactly when it happened but at some point, Silicon Valley became obsessed with the word billion. My first institutional financing came from people who were in the “MIT” network.

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Finance Silicon Valley Valuation Startup 205

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Hiring technology talent in Silicon Valley is getting difficult, and the time it takes to drive across Palo Alto has tripled—all signs of the impending apocalypse. In the stealth phase , prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists (VCs) start investing in an industry or market segment that others have not yet found.

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Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 330

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Thats real money." Only 3% were online when I started AOL.

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San Francisco Technical Review Zimbabwe New York City 105

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. Stanford was also the right place because of nearby Silicon Valley. We then spoke about startups.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

GigaOM Structure aims tackle the challenge of understanding how to architect data centers, networks and applications along with the big questions emerging in computing and IT. The conference brings the top marketing, technology and social media professionals together to share their tips and tools on making the latest marketing trends work.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

My former Partner John Frankel of ff Venture Capital observes that 20 years ago, the defining movie of the generation was “Wall Street”. But now, the defining movie of today’s twentysomethings is “The Social Network”. It’s a cliche that one of the most important benefits of attending an elite university is the network.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

Pre-launch funding is pretty common in Silicon Valley, but that’s a unique case. But to get that Silicon Valley angel funding you have to be part of that social network; most of the rest of the world doesn’t have that frothy environment. They’re betting on you. They risk money they can afford to lose.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. Carpe Diem.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. 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. Jon Fisher purposely avoided raising venture capital in his ventures.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

Magazine calls it a “hybrid venture capital fund and business school”. Watsi - the first non-profit to receive venture backing from Y Combinator. It’s the poor quality version of HBO’s Silicon Valley. Attracting angel investment and getting ‘Valley’ respect is. You’re solving a problem!

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Startup Silicon Valley Cofounder Non-Compete 80

Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

Do you feel like a lot of people who are starting businesses look at the Silicon Valley common advice and common model and really fall prey to that in a not so positive way? Rand Fishkin: I’m one of those people who absolutely fell prey to the classic Silicon Valley startup, taking venture.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 8, 2016

Another is the point where a network or ecosystem has sufficient supply and demand that the user experience starts to work. Most networks crack this chicken and egg problem by using a hack of some kind to get either supply or demand in place. Inevitably we have been sub-critical mass for much of that time, and it’s been painful.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

IE, the leading business school in the country has launched Venture LAB , an incubator program, Startup Bootcamp has kicked off its first Spanish version last week with 10 startups participating, and new co-creation/co-working offices are popping up. 2) There’s a hunger for venture capital funding.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

It's been done before--whole social networks have been built out around the idea of product sharing and cool finds, but their comprehensiveness (complexity) seemed to be their downfall. There hasn't been a lot of buzz about the service yet, so the people in my network who are using it are the people I'd consider to be tastemakers.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. With all of the new ways to see early companies such as TechCrunch and YCombinator, I had a feeling that much of the luster was gone and debated whether it was worth the time to attend.The last time I went to DEMO was in 2005 for the launch of one of my companies, iControl Networks.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I strongly believe (at least for very early stage technology ventures) that you will get diminishing returns and arguably negative returns once you get past an initial threshold of team, product, market and financial diligence. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Silicon Valley San Jose 31

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I attended the annual LP meeting for a venture capital firm this week and got into a discussion about the above question. The seminar course combined an internship at a start-up or venture firm with classroom learning and sharing of experiences. ProfessorVC. ► January. (1).

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

It's been done before--whole social networks have been built out around the idea of product sharing and cool finds, but their comprehensiveness (complexity) seemed to be their downfall. There hasn't been a lot of buzz about the service yet, so the people in my network who are using it are the people I'd consider to be tastemakers.

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Nebraska Silicon Valley Private Equity Product 84

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Social-Mobile-LOCAL: “Local” Will Be The Biggest of the Three. Congratulations on the Best Venture Capital Investment.

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Technical Review Early Stage San Jose Angel Investor 38

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The PR agency helps the company understand and influence key bloggers, social networks, industry analysts, luminaries, and references. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. All this leads up to a flurry of press events and interviews, all geared to the product/web site launch date. Order Here.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. What I mean by this is that a lot of folks are perched on soap boxes across social networks, shouting from the hilltops.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Lobbying is ongoing by both the National Venture Capital Association and Angel Capital Association and James Geshwiler on the panel wrote a recent post on the ramification. Labels: Angel Investors , fundraising , term sheets , venture capital , venture financing.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

We both tapped into our respective networks, asking (almost pleading with) people to join our team and vision. We have a myriad of connections to local Venture Capital firms, entrepreneurs, CEOs, and many other important individuals. In the longer term we will compete with social networks and online advertising.

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Professor VC

MAY 29, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. To the SEC, it means that you are an accredited investor and To the man (or woman) on the street, a minimum qualification would seem to be an interest and ability to invest in early stage ventures. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

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Angel Investor Angel Groups Accredited Investor San Jose 28

Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. We recently had our Neat Ideas Fair, which is my favorite annual event of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship at SJSU. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic.

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San Jose Silicon Valley Technical Review Angel Investor 28

Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Not to worry, I was busy working on closing the Series B financing for iControl Networks. Labels: CFO , home security , M and A , venture capital , venture financing. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

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Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Social-Mobile-LOCAL: “Local” Will Be The Biggest of the Three. Congratulations on the Best Venture Capital Investment.

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San Jose Technical Review Angel Investor Valuation 36

Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. During the next four months, we will examine over a dozen entrepreneurial ventures from a diverse mix of industries - technology, service, food & beverage, and fashion. There used to be a fairly standard career path in the venture capital industry. ProfessorVC. Steve Bennet.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Speaking of bootstrapping, this is always a subject near and dear to my heart and Ill be moderating a panel on the topic on March 9th as part of our eminent speaker series at the Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

He’s focused on that sector (not exclusively but predominantly) and therefore has an amazing network at large financial services firms to help you with business development. Fred Wilson likes, “large networks of socially connected people” while Foundry lists its 5 key themes on its website. Do your homework.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. If network B has 20 users than it’s value is 400 (20*20). If network B has 20 users than it’s value is 400 (20*20).

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For much of 2014 and 2015, I banged my head against a plane window flying back and forth between Austin and Silicon Valley while trying to raise institutional VC money for Localeur. Are there amazing Silicon Valley VCs out there with whom entrepreneurs should work to partner? Most definitely.

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