A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 15, 2013

So when Austin said he wanted to move to San Francisco from eponymous Austin (Texas), supporting his move was a no-brainer. But wait, what if Austin finds a hot new startup in San Francisco and bails on us? I just got an email from our VP Marketing about an interesting conversation she had with Austin and, now that they’re both in San Francisco, that’s happening all the time. So welcome to San Francisco, Austin.

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YFS Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Culture collaboration community building entrepreneurship ecosystems san francisco startup cities startup cultureHere's a look at key takeaways which thriving entrepreneurship ecosystems have in common; and they left quite an impression on me.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 27, 2015

Stationed on the West Coast of the United States, flanked by the blue hues of the Pacific Ocean, is a city that’s home to some of the greatest companies in the world – 700 miles south of that is San Francisco. I moved to San Francisco two years ago to work for a startup called Padlet. Entrepreneur San Francisco startup

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 14, 2021

Digital Realty, a company that operates data centers worldwide, announced plans Thursday to relocate its corporate headquarters from San Francisco to Austin.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 28, 2020

QuestionPro has moved its headquarters from San Francisco to Austin. The post QuestionPro Moves its Headquarters from San Francisco to Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The post Soggy In San Francisco appeared first on Feld Thoughts. I arrived this morning to a downpour and a city that feels exceedingly waterlogged. I’m sitting at a coffee shop in Berkeley in advance of a talk I’m giving on Startup Communities , a topic that to me suddenly feels even more relevant than before given the self-inflicted chaos going on at a macro level in America.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 11, 2014

RideScout, an app that helps people find transportation, announced it is expanding to the San Francisco area. The Austin-based company has also recently expanded its coverage to include “Sidecar, Silvercar, Muni, BART, Caltrain, Golden Gate Transit, AC Transit, Blue & Gold Fleet, Baylink Ferry and SamTrans — along with Flywheel, City CarShare, Bay Area Bike […] The post RideScout Expands to San Francisco appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 16, 2011

If you’re not lucky enough to get into those events (or don’t have enough scratch) there is a new event coming named Pitch San Francisco 2011. There are a ton of great events in the Fall in the Bay Area. Disrupt. They anticipate about 2,000 tech people and about 100 startups, and it’s within days of those other high profile events. Here’s the great thing about it. If you’re interested in attending I’ve got [.]. Events

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 18, 2017

Today, we are excited to announce that we will be hosting our second meetup in San Francisco, on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 5:30pm on Data-Driven Marketplaces. The post Announcing our next meetup: Data-Driven Marketplaces, San Francisco, May 16 appeared first on Version One. Back in October, we hosted our first marketplace-themed meetup on the topic of The Holy Grail of the Marketplace: The Virtuous Cycle.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 26, 2018

He said: “Being a VC is like taking a walk from Boston to San Francisco” I’d never heard that before so I said: “tell me more.” By the time you get to Chicago, you can’t remember why you are walking San Francisco. The post A Venture Capital Career Is Like Walking from Boston to San Francisco appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 21, 2013

This weekend I had the very good fortune to attend Ryan Deis and Perry Belcher's Traffic and Conversion Summit in downtown San Francisco. Headlined by speakers including Guy Kawasaki and William Shatner, it was an awesome gathering of 2,000+ of the best, brightest, and most accomplished from the worlds of online marketing and sales. Aha” moments were aplenty for all who made the effort to attend.

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Altgate

APRIL 25, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← HBS Student Business Plan Contest Finalists CompStudy: Useful Resource For Entrepreneurs & VCs Alike → 104 Year Old Video of San Francisco Posted on April 25, 2010 by fnazeeri I love stuff like this. I didn’t fact check it, but several reports on the web place this video in San Francisco just a few days before the 1906 earthquake.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Austin-based HomeAway, the world’s largest online marketplace for vacation rentals, filed a lawsuit Monday against the city and county of San Francisco seeking to stop the city from enforcing a new short term rental law. Austin Airbnb HomAway lawsuit San Francisco short term rentals

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SiliconHills

JULY 18, 2013

Chaotic Moon Studios, an app development and software company, has bought ThoughtLeadr, a digital ad service based in San Francisco. The post Chaotic Moon Studios Buys ThoughtLeadr of San Francisco appeared first on SiliconHills. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Austin-based Chaotic Moon focuses on mobile content development and ThoughtLeadr, founded in 2011, thought that was a good fit. ThoughtLeadr has created an advertising platform that reaches more [.]

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2012

Following is a guest post from Cyril about the program along with a link to their Demo Day event in San Francisco on June 18th. The HAXLR8R team will hit San Francisco on June 18th for their Demo Day , which will be hosted at Autodesk on Embarcadero. I love software wrapped in plastic.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

That idea – a way to organize, in the cloud, every aspect of your physical mail – is the crux of the two men’s venture, called Outbox, that is opening up to public beta in San Francisco on February 26 after a 6-month test in Austin, Texas, in 2012. million in funding from investors like Peter Thiel and Mike Maples of Floodgate , the company chose San Francisco for a full-blown launch.

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SiliconHills

MAY 22, 2013

Virgin America this month launched a new daily roundtrip service from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport to San Jose. The post Virgin America’s Nerd Bird Flight from Austin to San Francisco appeared first on SiliconHills. To keep the high tech travelers happy, Virgin America offers WiFi on every flight and has other features like power outlets and personal touch-screen entertainment platforms at every seat. The addition of the direct route shows the growing [.]

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A Crowded Space

APRIL 8, 2010

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Baseball, more so than other sports, is known for its massive data collection, complex statistics and informed managerial decisions. So it should be no surprise that, just as corporate enterprises are going through a big data revolution, so will baseball. While the technology that enables big data is quite technical and designed to operate behind the scenes, the direct impact of big data on the average consumer will be quite visible over time.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

The post Outbox Mail of Austin Makes Huge Strides, Launches in San Francisco appeared first on SiliconHills. BY IAN PANCHEVRE Reporter with Silicon Hills News Austin-based Outbox Mail has been making huge strides as of late. Outbox, a self-described “beautiful inbox for your postal mail,” is expanding beyond its initial pilot in Austin, where for the past year and a half more than 500 customers have enjoyed the service. As of this [.]

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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. Co-hosted by First Ascent Associates and Runway Incubator, “Cannabis Startups: Exploring the Opportunities & Challenges” will take place on May 26, 2015 at Runway Incubator in San Francisco, California. Originally published on PRWeb.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 8, 2021

Investment real estate can include houses in San Francisco or San Jose. Home price growth across the nation has caused markets to inflate. Paul Kaulesar is known for helping clients find investment and opportunities in this dynamic market.

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Bryce Dot VC

APRIL 25, 2014

Try Berlin, try London, try New York, try San Francisco. “Try out a bunch of different places. You may not be able to stay in a given place because of visa issues but just the exposure that will give you, the context, it will give you the mindset it will give you will be invaluable.” - Naval

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

San Francisco and Tel Aviv are two of the greatest cities in the world for tech, each with a distinct culture and unique benefits to offer. Leadspace was founded in 2010 and maintains offices in both San Francisco and just outside Tel Aviv in Hod HaSharon, Israel. Let’s start with San Francisco. The San Francisco Bay Area is home to one of the world’s leading B2B technology markets.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

He hopes to expand to Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, and San Francisco. Product is shipped to Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and San Diego on occasion.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

For seven years after founding The Rand Group, I worked 12 hours per day and barely took a day off,” says Daniella Rand, a San Francisco-based wealth manager with two decades of experience in the field. Fewer and fewer fields qualify as “male-dominated.”

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 6, 2010

More jobs – this time in San Francisco. We recently invested in Triggit – my partner Seth blogged about our investment and the rise of real time bidding platforms and we put up a post about Triggit on the Foundry Group blog. Triggit is one of a group of recently emerging companies called demand side platforms (DSP ) that provide technology to advertisers enabling them to buy display media across millions of websites.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2020

In the US, places like San Francisco, Austin, Seattle, and Washington, DC get the lion’s share of attention as startup sweet spots. Compare the Philadelphia startup scene proximity to other cities with that of startup heavyweight San Francisco and neighboring Silicon Valley.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 16, 2011

I lived in San Francisco for four years and the little city had some tech startups, but its clear that the South Bay is the heart and soul of Silicon Valley. From Michael Arrington at TechCrunch : San Francisco, unlike most other cities in Silicon Valley, has a 1.5% The city isn’t thanking Twitter for bringing all these high paying jobs to San Francisco, either.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2019

As an example, SOMAcentral in San Francisco is located close to the main Cal train station which makes it easy to travel to from anywhere in the San Francisco Bay area. Real Estate Build Business Owners Coworking designing facilities Interior design Marketing network Office Space planning San Francisco storage workforce

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 31, 2015

I also spent one month working out of the Union Square Ventures office in New York, and one month in the First Round Capital office in San Francisco in order to get a deeper understanding of the start-up world in these two worlds. News First round capital Fred Wilson New York San Francisco Toronto Venture capital Version One VenturesOne of the most common questions I get is “How can I become a Venture Capitalist?”

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

First started in San Francisco, Founder Friday events draw an average of 350 attendees and take place the first Friday of every month, providing the opportunity for female entrepreneurs to interconnect while listening to valuable keynote speeches from local female founders. ” In the News Founder Friday Google San Francisco startup Women 2.0 Media and event company Women 2.0

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Version One Ventures

JULY 16, 2014

San Francisco-based web designer Rose Broome and mobile developer Zac Witte created the app to address two key challenges in the current system: While individuals and households donate $26 billion to human services like shelters and food banks, there is little transparency as to how effective these donations are, and how much of it actually goes to those in-need. HandUp is currently working in San Francisco and plans to expand into other cities by end of the year.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2014

Once I had a few under my belt, I realized I was a start-up junkie, and founded Five Mill Ventures in San Francisco before I was 30. Not only did we upgrade the San Francisco “coder” uniform, we accelerated to profitability at warp speed to become what we strive for in all our companies: a “best practices brand.” As president of San Francisco’s Five Mill Ventures, he helps young entrepreneurs brainstorm, network, gain market perspective and make key business decisions.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 28, 2013

She also runs the San Francisco Bay Area Skule Alumni Chapter for University of Toronto engineering graduates living in the Bay Area. News Analyst Bay Area Palo Alto San Francisco Bay Area Toronto University of Toronto Version One With approximately a dozen Seed and Series A investments, it has been a busy year since the initial launch of Version One Ventures.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 18, 2015

News connections Facebook funding LinkedIn San Francisco Silicon Valley twitter VolleyLast October, we made our first investment out of Fund II and are excited to announce this news today as the company launches publicly out of beta. Volley is a friendly place for helping others solve problems online. Volley members can post requests in response to the question, “What are you looking for?”

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Last Thursday, we hosted a private marketplace-themed event in San Francisco, The Holy Grail of the Marketplace: The Virtuous Cycle. News Indiegogo marketplaces network effects San Francisco Shippo ThredUp Uber Version One VenturesMore than 75 marketplace founders and investors attended the event – coming from as far as South Africa and Nova Scotia. We initially started bringing the marketplace community together when we published our Guide to Marketplaces.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 24, 2016

It meant frequent flights or moving your company to San Francisco to raise money from Bay Area VCs. News collective ambition NYC San Francisco Bay Area startups TorontoJust a few years ago, if you wanted to do something big, you needed to go to Silicon Valley. Times are changing, and these geographical barriers are beginning to break down. Waterloo has another unicorn with Kik. Toronto has become a hub for the blossoming machine intelligence market.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 14, 2014

News Los Angeles NYC San Francisco Bay Area Silicon Valley Start Up Toronto Valley The big debate among tech circles has always been if it’s possible to build a “Silicon Valley” company outside of the Valley. Is Silicon Valley a physical place or a state of mind ? Can upstart ecosystems in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, or Seattle churn out tomorrow’s billion dollar tech companies?

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 29, 2013

News Albert Wenger canada marketplaces New York City Point NIne Capital San Francisco Silicon Valley Software as a service Union Square Venture venture capital version one ventures If we look back ten years, the venture world was quite different. Investors weren’t too keen on investing out of town. And given the fact that the majority of top investors were congregated around Silicon Valley, many entrepreneurs felt compelled to move to the valley to start their business.

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Gust

APRIL 12, 2014

SIIA (the US Software and Information Industry Association) named Gust the Best Collaboration Solution of 2013, at the gala during the All About The Cloud annual conference in San Francisco on Thursday. Gust News academy awards David Rose Gust san francisco SIIA

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SiliconHills

JULY 17, 2021

The company, based in San Francisco, is not moving to Austin. Instead, it is opening a new San Francisco headquarters in August. Bright Machines announced plans to open a new regional office and lab in Austin.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

P.S. Follow me on Twitter , connect with me on LinkedIn , or find me on the field playing Ultimate Frisbee in Palo Alto and San Jose. News Analyst Data Science Palo Alto San Francisco Bay Area Toronto University of Toronto Version One If you told me a few months ago that the next chapter in my career would be in venture, I may not have believed you. But now, it makes perfect sense. Working on my PhD was often a lonely activity.

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