Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

With high enthusiasm after graduate school, I partnered with the founder of Insight Data Science , and together, we launched a training program that places PhDs as data scientists at the top tech firms in the Bay Area. I also learned how to draw actionable insights: to not just focus on the numbers (i.e. Related articles.

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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.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2011

The round was led entirely by previous backers: the Israeli offices of Greylock Partners and Carmel Ventures , as well as US fund Opus Capital. is based in San Jose, CA and has offices in Netanya, Israel. To date, Wanova has raised a total of $23 million since its inception in 2008.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Last week, (seems that all of my postings start this way) I attended the Second Annual West Coast Businesswomen’s Sustainability Leadership Summit , a Women’s Network for Sustainable Future event , at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. There were about 150-200 women in attendance (my guestimate).

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Sacramento has a thriving startup ecosystem with the San Francisco Bay Area just an hour and half by car or train to reach investors and partners. Fantag was started in San Jose and moved to Sacramento to take advantage of this ecosystem. Tell us about the startup scene there. How did your team come together?

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 15, 2020

Columbia University professor Sheena Iyengar has called out authenticity as being at the root of whether a customer, partner, or investor will do business with you. Harmonate, based in San Jose has developed private fund data operations tailored to the complexities of tracking social impact investing.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 22, 2016

Actually we wrapped two Caltrain cars that shuttle daily between San Francisco and San Jose. Those that are embracing the platform mindset and methodology are continually adding more value for their customers by building or partnering to add adjacent capabilities or processes. Why did WePay wrap a train car?”

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Steve and Carolyn are partners at Emergent Research and Senior Fellows at the Society for New Communications Research. San Jose Mercury News: Maker Faire Mixes Business With Wackiness. MBO Partners State of Independence in America Study. The authors are Steve King and Carolyn Ockels. Reports and Resources. Categories.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

I attended yesterday the 10th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends organized by the Churchill Club at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. This year, the panel included Steve Jurveston from DFJ, Vinod Khosla from Khosla Ventures, Josh Kopelman from First Round Capital, Roger McNamee from Elevation Partners and Joe Schoendorf from Accel.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

No university has said, “We should design the institution to have a bigger impact using academic work and join up with outside entities and organizations and partners to do that.” And we had people doing that, both in Africa and in San Jose. ” And that’s what the fourth purpose is all about.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

Based on this work, we have identified certain areas in the incubator industry where we can add value by acting as a partner and filling in some of the gaps that exist in the eco-system. At today's session, we discussed some of them. You can listen to the recording to learn more, and also find further details here.

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Early Growth Financial Services

MAY 19, 2015

San Jose, CA (PRWEB) May 19, 2015 Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS) is pleased to announce its first-ever panel event focused on cannabis-based businesses. Originally published on PRWeb.

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Early Growth Financial Services

MARCH 6, 2014

San Jose, CA (PRWEB) March 05, 2014 Autism Speaks is holding its second annual Autism Investment Conference (AIC2014), March 4 and 5, 2014 in San Francisco. EGFS presenting in day-long “Equipping Entrepreneur” workshop at Googleplex to support startups in the autism space.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

Once the point is reached where you want to move ahead, we put the sales hat on and convince our partners about the incredible opportunity that we are lucky enough to be able to invest on the ground floor. I started thinking about this yesterday when Jeff Fluhr, founder of Stub Hub spoke at my San Jose State class.

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Early Growth Financial Services

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

San Jose, CA (PRWEB) February 28, 2014 Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS), an outsourced financial services firm that provides accounting, CFO, tax, and valuation services to small to mid-sized businesses nationwide, has just announced their expansion into Austin, and active presence at the upcoming SXSW conference (March 7-16, 2014).

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

We also discussed Dan's options vis-à-vis channel partners. Up last, Thomas Vellaringattu from San Jose, California, pitched Social Pulse , a service through which he is helping small businesses that are not terribly net savvy set up profiles and use social media to market and curate relevant information to help them market.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Then, what’s missing — clearly an engineer — and why do I want a partner? Prior to that, she worked in venture capital at OpenView Venture Partners. Partner Events. Partner Events. Tell us at partners@women2.org. San Jose, CA. Scoring Founder “Dates” On My Own. Debriefing.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

Austin Texas, hometown of True Wealth Venture’s takes the top spot, followed by Miami, then San Jose and NYC ranks at number seven. As of now, the City of Austin’s startup density is greater than that of the Silicon Valley!

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

With that in mind, I created a new course at San Jose State last year, the Entrepreneurship Lab (E-Lab). If you have a reputation for cutting corners, not treating employees or partners right, it will become very difficult to do business. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

My partner in Menlo Incubator , Gary Kremen , and I had a recent debate on which one of us hates convertible debt more. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Thursday, April 7, 2011. Why I Hate Convertible Debt.Let Me Count the Ways.

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Up and Running

APRIL 14, 2011

As the Director of Sales for Palo Alto Software, I am required to travel all over the country to meet with our retail, affiliate and reseller partners. Over the next two weeks I will be in San Jose, Miami (not complaining), Raleigh, Chicago and possibly somewhere in Georgia.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2008

I think this same concept plays into what Ive seen happening a lot more in the venture community: partners at VC firms jumping back into entrepreneurial ventures. or one or more exits as a start-up founder, you were enticed to become a partner on Sand Hill Road, or as some call it, jumping over to the dark side.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2011

I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. Part of it was the out of the box thinking and turning the typical venture investment thesis upside down.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Nope, the above quote isnt from Richard Dawson on Family Feud, but similar to a headline that caught my attention on the front page of the business section of the San Jose Mercury News this morning. I was a limited partner in Angel Investors, LP, Ron Conways fund in the late 1990s. Survey says VCs invest on Gut Instinct.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

A partner from the law firm (sponsor, covers the drinks and food) tosses out some softball questions to the panelists, the audience chimes in with Q&A and finally, culminates with the meet and greet where the panelists are flooded with business cards and pitches on the next great thing, which is often very similar to the last great thing.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

My first reaction is incredulity that limited partners would buy into this idea. My colleague, Anu Basu , Director of the Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship at San Jose State , recently completed a paper on this topic, "Does Experience Matter? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

So I've been able to move to another location with my partner and another city, I should say. And so while she was at IBM, we were living in San Jose, California, where I grew up in the Bay Area. Well, I feel like we've been in a very fortunate position in that we've been able to run Coinbase in an entirely remote way.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

I put up my Bodega Partners web site in 1995 and it served its purpose for a number of years, but I just didnt spend the energy to keep it current and finally just took it down last month. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. Im so late hopping on the train that we are probably pulling into the station.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

million from Lighthouse Capital Partners , which ultimately became critical to our balance sheet and they turned out to be a great partner as we worked through the equity financing process. Some were also dealing with issues of limited partners struggles with capital calls and asset allocations. We drew $1.5

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

I spent most of the time with the reporter talking about Sand Hill Angels and how we add value to the start-ups and entrepreneurs that we partner with, which is why I just have a small mention in the article. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

” I’m quite sure with this article you alienated not only few potential customers or partners but also some existing ones. I once ran a startup company partnered with a US company. I have written countless products for startups including creating the internet kiosks at the San Jose airport you may have seen.

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