Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2020

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), actually do provide management services to startups, invest in startups, or provide early-stage venture capital, but that is not called an investment service and is part of a function called Emerging Technologies, or sometimes Private Equity.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 9, 2014

venture capital investing activity, Silicon Valley is the nation’s unrivaled tech early technology investing epicenter. But it does beg the question: Has Silicon Valley become so dominant - has it so separated itself - that the best opportunities can only be found there? With 41% of all U.S. Great for them. Of course not.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building. to make sense of the unstructured feedback received from customers. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Recognizing the ability of these teams to produce real results, 38 members of the venture and private equity community dialed in to these presentations. Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Every year they fund several teams as they launch companies.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 8, 2022

We pointed out that Silicon Valley and Stanford have done this for 50 years. We combine the unique strengths of Stanford and its location in Silicon Valley to solve problems across the spectrum of activities that create and sustain national power.

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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.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

So even within the “alternative class&# our LPs are looking at other asset investment choices such as distressed buyout funds, private equity or hedge funds. The best and most consistent funds in Silicon Valley (e.g. Many firms didn’t even return LPs their original money let along a profit. VC will shrink.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Also portfolio management strategy has shifted a bit in recent years, and many large investors now evaluate at all risky assets together (US tech IPOs, Brazilian bonds, Chinese private equity, etc) rather than making discrete allocations to each bucket. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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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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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

They aren’t exclusive to Silicon Valley types. Advice For The Young At Heart business financing financing Kristen Gramigna private equity' She brings more than 15 years of experience from the bankcard industry in direct sales, sales management and marketing to the company and also serves on its Board of Directors.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

And as more economies worldwide seek to shift their investment strategies offshore and seek out technology, hubs like Silicon Valley and Shanghai, among others, have reaped the benefits. Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 2011

On Friday Silicon Valley Bank released a survey of 375 executives at startup technology companies in the 4 core venture capital investment sectors – Software/Internet, Hardware, Life Science, and Cleantech. Here is what they found: Tech. Are Bullish. To download this complimentary report, please click here.

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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. You don’t.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

The focus of our first segment is how Silicon Valley and the U.S. military and are now helping government agencies operate with the speed and urgency of Silicon Valley. military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Also, as startups move from a uniform growth path to one that considers a wider variety of sources of capital (angel, non-traditional seed, strategic, private equity, debt, royalty-based, etc.), they need to accept that the standardization found in conventional Silicon Valley-style fundraising is simply not a possibility.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Failcon Singapore , on the other hand, is an offshoot of Silicon Valley’s Failcon , an established event for technology entrepreneurs, investors, developers and designers to share how they have built upon their previous failures to succeed, and will be held in Asia for the first time. Innovation. Renaissance.’,

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), actually do provide management services to startups, invest in startups, or provide early-stage venture capital, but that is not called an investment service and is part of a function called Emerging Technologies, or sometimes Private Equity.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Or, as my friend Marc Andreessen might say, Software Eats the Private Equity World. note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley). Scaling Up & Out: The Valley is Flat (and Global). Ok, let’s dive in and discuss in more detail. Mega VC, Micro VC.

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OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

” While the founding team was exploring potential business opportunities that allowed us to make a bigger impact on the world, Silicon Valley Bank and High Alpha Innovation were together envisioning a platform to help VC-backed portfolio companies more effectively navigate the complex world of executive talent needs.

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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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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

There are many investors in Silicon Valley that are looking to invest not just in great companies but those that are thinking really big and looking to create and define new categories. We would also welcome seeing more high risk, high reward investing by the firms in Austin.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

While private equity has a history in the U.S. that dates back over a century , the “boom or bust” period of the 1980s to early 1990s is considered the period that marks the rise in private equity and venture capital funding as we know it today. How did women seeking venture capital funding fare during this time period?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Summit is a hugely respected firm in Silicon Valley and a long-term “institution&# but they’re better known as more of a “private equity&# investor meaning that they do later stage investments in much larger companies that are profitable. Obviously they see big things in Wildfire. 4mm in Series A.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

Fast forward a decade, today the Private Equity and Venture Capital business is booming in China with over 1000 firms actively investing. The next posts Part 4 Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley and part 5, the Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers describe the Beijing entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2011

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), actually do provide management services to startups, invest in startups, or provide early-stage venture capital, but that is not called an investment service and is part of a function called Emerging Technologies, or sometimes Private Equity.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

Mannie and I share a strong interest in research in the field of venture capital and private equity. This textbook combines the strength of my Silicon Valley experiences as a venture capitalist and Mannie’s research as a professor, and it will help strengthen Chinese college-education programs in this particular field.

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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. ProfessorVC. Tuesday, March 10, 2009. Bootstrapping 101.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Last week , I wrote about the strong ambition across the globe to have a "Silicon Valley of One''s Own," and to replicate the otherworldly innovation of a region that has produced more than 75% of the World’s Unicorns - technology companies started since 2003 that now have valuations of more than $1 billion.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

We provide revenue-based funding and business acceleration support to service-based small businesses located outside of major capital markets such as Silicon Valley and New York City.”. “We Jim Toth writes, “One thing that makes us different is that we live inside of an $8Bn private equity firm.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

And it goes beyond the fact that like so many of the great investment stories of the past 15 years - PayPal, YouTube, Zynga, LinkedIn, Yelp - Facebook’s early investors primarily came from a very small group of interconnected Silicon Valley investors. And when stormy weather comes as it always does, courage’s cousin grace is needed.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

Fast forward a decade, today the Private Equity and Venture Capital business is booming in China with over 1000 firms actively investing. The next posts Part 4 Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley and part 5, the Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers describe the Beijing entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

It's similar to the way LinkedIn started with Reid Hoffman and the network of Silicon Valley VC's that initially populated the service or the network of developers who were following Joel Spolsky and began the Stack Overflow community.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

a lot of them are moving here from Silicon Valley! Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio are four of the fastest growing cities in the country and have been for the past decade. Who’s moving here? Highly entrepreneurial, well-educated, upwardly mobile?—?a That said, more money will accelerate the growth of the region. Big thanks!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2010

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), actually do provide management services to startups, invest in startups, or provide early-stage venture capital, but that is not called an investment service and is part of a function called Emerging Technologies, or sometimes Private Equity.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

It's similar to the way LinkedIn started with Reid Hoffman and the network of Silicon Valley VC's that initially populated the service or the network of developers who were following Joel Spolsky and began the Stack Overflow community.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

A slow-growth, but cash rich business like this could be a better fit for a retailer, private equity fund, or other type of owner in the longer run. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized. Read More ».

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