Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Eric, as you know, I grew up in suburban New Jersey and in suburban New Jersey, we ate a lot of Benihana growing up and I love the Americanized version of this deeply traditional Japanese meal. I took on a senior role helping Silicon Valley Bank think about the future of their interactions with startup customers.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2015

A budding poet at the age of 10, I had filled my diary with poems of gold palaces, handsome princes and beautiful silks on the long plan ride from New York to Bombay…only to be greeted at 2 AM by a chaotic scene of humanity (and stray animals) in the humid air – the airport was not even enclosed.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2015

A budding poet at the age of 10, I had filled my diary with poems of gold palaces, handsome princes and beautiful silks on the long plan ride from New York to Bombay…only to be greeted at 2 AM by a chaotic scene of humanity (and stray animals) in the humid air – the airport was not even enclosed.

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Silicon Valley Tanzania New Jersey United States 40

thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

In the weeks leading up to 9/11, when I was working at Intel Capital in Silicon Valley, I was back on the east coast traveling with my family in the Berkshires and then had a meeting with a portfolio company that was headquartered in the World Trade Center. I had countless business dinners at Windows on the World.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 11, 2016

In the weeks leading up to 9/11, when I was working at Intel Capital in Silicon Valley, I was back on the east coast traveling with my family in the Berkshires and then had a meeting with a portfolio company that was headquartered in the World Trade Center. I had countless business dinners at Windows on the World.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 13, 2010

This weekend I was at a family celebration in New Jersey and spent some time with an uncle who is a chemical engineer by training but also well versed in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures. It is more important than ever to use cross discliplinary approaches to solve problems and arrive at answers faster.

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Rwanda Entrepreneur Advisory Board New Jersey 79

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

I sometimes feel that the Silicon Valley culture and we as technologists more broadly can breed monoculture in our approach to entrepreneurship, problem solving, market analysis and technology solutions. She was talking a lot about how the broader world doesn’t operate how we in Silicon Valley always perceive that it does.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 10, 2014

The Coastal Act saved California from looking like the coast of New Jersey. As a new commissioner I learned quickly what developers would do to bypass those requirements. After 30 years in Silicon Valley I thought I knew what a developer was: a software programmer building a web site, app, game, firmware, etc.

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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. And then a year out of school, I was getting married and actually in New Jersey, but my family was visiting me.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The Geography of Successful and Unsuccessful Venture Capital Expansion ” that the best performing VC funds are based in the major venture centers (Silicon Valley, Boston, and the New York area), but their best investments are outside of those geographies.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

I went back to the small town in New Jersey that I grew up in a few weekends ago. From 2006 to 2012, more than two-fifths of the start-up tech companies in Silicon Valley had at least one foreign-born founder, according to the Kauffman Foundation. There were many Trump/Pence signs and not one Clinton/Kaine sign.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 6, 2016

I went back to the small town in New Jersey that I grew up in a few weekends ago. From 2006 to 2012, more than two-fifths of the start-up tech companies in Silicon Valley had at least one foreign-born founder, according to the Kauffman Foundation. There were many Trump/Pence signs and not one Clinton/Kaine sign.

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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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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Believe it or not, the state of New Jersey has been experimenting with a free beer giveaway to encourage Covid vaccinations. According to an interview with Elon Musk, this campaign cost Paypal about $60 million , which most Silicon Valley historians would consider money well spent.

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