Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It’s the one thing I miss having switched from player to manager – I love the joy of winning and of competing. I came several times to NorCal (where I grew up, actually) and went and met several partners from each Silicon Valley firm. Entrepreneurs are neurotic about it. They’re competitive.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It’s the one thing I miss having switched from player to manager – I love the joy of winning and of competing. I came several times to NorCal (where I grew up, actually) and went and met several partners from each Silicon Valley firm. Entrepreneurs are neurotic about it. They’re competitive.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

This 4-part story, however, explores the Austin ecosystem based on the 4Cs framework —  culture , capital , customers, and competencies. It follows up on my posts discussing why early stage startups should — or should not — move to Silicon Valley. As the state capital, the city boasts a high number of non-profits.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. Founder Institute is the brain child of Adeo Ressi , a super passionate and successful serial entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley, probably best known for founding TheFunded.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

But a market in which every network competes to sign up the largest talent by throwing rev share deals at them is also stupid. And the company is now working on tools to also help producers figure out how to compete in a world where video is moving toward even shorter formats designed to be socially shared. Build Non-Ad-Based Revenue.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Most of the other VC firms with a history of picking unicorns have significantly benefited from being based in Silicon Valley, having much larger investment teams, and having multi-decade Tier-1 reputations, which has led to them seeing most of the best deals in the market. – Thoughtful fund management.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Most of the other VC firms with a history of picking unicorns have significantly benefited from being based in Silicon Valley, having much larger investment teams, and having multi-decade Tier-1 reputations, which has led to them seeing most of the best deals in the market. – Thoughtful fund management.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

In the case of Freshdesk, their main competitor, Zendesk, is operating with a San Francisco - Copenhagen cost-structure and will find it harder to compete with this strategy. They charge $9, $29 and $59 per agent per month and I am eager to see bootstrapped, scrappy Freshdesk morph their pricing structure to aggressively compete with them.

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

Who better to advocate for the capability of the disabled than Keller, who not only triumphed and demonstrated communication competency, but a mastery of all forms of communication? Stuart Butterfield had a vision for a non-violent MMO, and founded Tiny Speck to bring that vision to life. What makes you so special?”

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

We both are concerned about non-traditional capital entering the late stages and the impact that may have in the next downturn in the economy to the startups who merely trying to optimize for short-term valuation maximization. .” Most of those industries are fee-based and are competing on revenue growth. And we ended.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley. As a firm we start by wanting to attract future partners who have worked at startups before and have developed a competence which might be marketing (Greg) or product and CEO experience (Kara) plus amazing Biz Dev experience (Hamet).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. Think of that challenge like competing for limited venture capital.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

They connect buyers and sellers in creative new verticals, helping merchants and non-profits interact with customers or donors. Entrepreneurial success requires three key ingredients: new ideas for solving old ways of doing things, sufficient drive, and a competent team of players. Thinking Aloud Bill Clerico technology trends WePay'

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It’s why Canva can call itself a multibillion-dollar platform and how ConvertKit pulled itself up to compete with goliaths like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. Like Slack, Canva launched with two things in its favor: it was different from anything around at the time (a design platform for non-designers), and it had a freemium business model.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Before we talk about how this might work, it’s helpful to take a look back at a case study of what gave rise to Silicon Valley as an innovation cluster and the San Francisco Bay Area as a modern supercity. In the case of Silicon Valley, it was a combination of: Universities like Stanford. Federal government.

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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. I couldn’t believe how inefficient and non-transparent the rental industry was and I knew then that I’d one day come back to take it on.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. This approach would shape Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial ethos: In startups, failure was treated as experience (until you ran out of money). Yet this system isn’t perfect. – seems like another planet. Until today.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

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. Instead of competing, why don’t you do what Uber does and find a way to ‘own’ the lot?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Watch out for non-compete clauses, and conflicts of interest with the current employer. Maybe it’s time to consider relocating to one of the hubs for startups, like Silicon Valley, Boston, Seattle, or Austin. Move to the right geography.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process. went after enterprise sales model with a non-recurring, small price. So What is Customer Development?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

In tech startups stock options were here almost from the beginning, first offered to the founders in 1957 at Fairchild Semiconductor , the first chip startup in Silicon Valley. It drove the relentless “do whatever it takes” culture of 20 th century Silicon Valley. So why should non-founding employees of startups care?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

In 2019 and 2020, we saw hundreds of millions of dollars in non-dilutive funding go to Texas startups, most of which had never worked with the government before. The second wave of companies were mainly concentrated in Silicon Valley, and coincided with the rise of platforms (Google, Facebook, etc.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2011

Watch out for non-compete clauses, and conflicts of interest with the current employer. Maybe it’s time to consider relocating to one of the hubs for startups, like Silicon Valley, Boston, Seattle, or Austin. Move to the right geography.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

MITX : Non-profit trade association hosting many events focused on digital marketing and internet business. David Cancel – Founder of Performable and Compete ( blog , @Dcancel). Dan Allred – Silicon Valley Bank (@dgallred). Mobile Mondays : Boston chapter of the world’s largest Mobile professional community.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

When Austin Ventures got its start in 1979, the venture capital industry was nascent nationally and almost non-existent in Texas. Access to capital is important for scaling companies and competing in active markets. As the local capital base grows the opportunity to attract non-local funding sources increases.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 22, 2011

I love seeing non Silicon Valley markets boom as it broadens our country’s innovation hubs. How do you compete with free if group texting is your only product?). In a word, awesome. Awesome for these talented young entrepreneurs and awesome for their investors. And awesome for NYC that GroupMe will be based there.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Watch out for non-compete clauses, and conflicts of interest with the current employer. Maybe it’s time to consider relocating to one of the hubs for startups, like Silicon Valley, Boston, Seattle, or Austin. Move to the right geography.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

The world still has economic challenges that often aren’t perceived by many of us the tech world in our little cocoons of Silicon Valley, NYC or Los Angeles. Think about it – most retailers can’t compete with the scale and costs of Amazon. Prices down. Network Up. But what else?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2010

Watch out for non-compete clauses, and conflicts of interest with the current employer. Move to Silicon Valley. Maybe it’s time to consider relocating to one of the hubs for startups, like Silicon Valley, Boston, Seattle, or Austin.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2015

And every great company is raising at north of a billion dollars now so I need to in order to compete.” Can it be that Silicon Valley (the HBO show) isn’t farcical enough? ” The report also notes that 75% of mega financings are led by non-VCs. ” “Ok. ” “Deal.”

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

Reflect on the stage you’re investing at and be sure that you’re staying within the bands of your competency (and ergo not riding the spiral up to a level of incompetency). A lot of this capital is coming from non-traditional geographies like China, Russia, Middle East, India. Implications for LPs. Too Much Capital.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2021

In addition, they’re fiercely competing with every other burgeoning business that is vying for the same funding, compounding the obstacles they face when trying to grow their business. Instead, they are usually earmarked for businesses that have a philanthropic angle, such as a non-profit or charitable company.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Our application tool will be free and will immediately compete with Peterson’s, Kaplan, Princeton Review, and other smaller players. In the longer term we will compete with social networks and online advertising. We are a startup and this is essential (and non-negotiable). Silicon Valley Bank seems interesting.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Some are strategic peers, some are near peers in specific areas, some are threats as non-state disrupters operating with no rules. In most industries, manufacturing is no longer a core competence of the U.S. He’s spent the last four years in Silicon Valley out of uniform continuing that work.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. This approach would shape Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial ethos: In startups, failure was treated as experience (until you ran out of money). Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the $6.8-billion billion U.S.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

And, there are potential tax traps as well, especially when Non Qualified options are traded for services. That will keep the Silicon Valley wags buzzing for some time to come. Your investors, the smart ones at least, are certainly making decisions the other way among competing deals. How about your Investors ?

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Additionally when she heard about the work I was doing with YouTube as a platform for causes and non-profits, she immediately offered to introduce me to several Hollywood executives who had shared goals. JB: Media and Internet companies – Hollywood and Silicon Valley—are more interconnected now than ever.

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