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I had the chance to interview Randy Peterson of P&G for his upcoming participation in Search Engine Strategies 2008: San Jose where he will be speaking on the Keynote Roundtable: “Why Does Search Get the Credit for Everything?” You are participating in a keynote roundtable this year at the SES 2008 show in San Jose about attributing sales to Search – How much credit does an SEM program deserve in an overall marketing mix? MORE
Last weekend in the heart of San Jose, over 100 people gathered at PayPal for Startup Weekend. What startup would you create in 54 hours if you were thrown into a room with a small group of people? For $100 or less (discounts!), you get to be part of a community that has a common goal of working / creating a startup over a course of the weekend - Friday night, all day Saturday, then all day Sunday. What more could you ask for? Here how it usually works. MORE
We held our annual business plan competition at San Jose State this month and first prize was $10,000. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Saturday, May 30, 2009. Can you start a company on $10K? MORE
One day the company sent me and an engineer across the country, to a city none of us had ever heard of – San Jose, California – to install a process control system in a Ford Assembly plant. (We I just finished reading J.D. MORE
Cool student entrepreneur story out of San Jose State University where students and recent alum use the school’s business plan competition to raise basic funding and launch a beta product for their student note sharing service. The SJSU students company offers have a note sharing service for students and they seem to be communicating with both students and professors in building this out. MORE
I spent the summer between middle school and high school busing from San Jose’s suburban edges to downtown where I spent my days tutoring students at the local elementary school in their worn down, gang ridden neighborhoods. MORE
Given that San Francisco and San Jose/Silicon Valley are effectively one market the right way to think about this market is that 19% sits in the winning region, and the rest of venture capital activity is highly fragmented. The table below was published by Martin Prosperity. MORE
I attended yesterday the 10th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends organized by the Churchill Club at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Thursday, May 15, 2008. MORE
One day the company sent me and an engineer across the country, to a city none of us had ever heard of – San Jose, California – to install a process control system in a Ford Assembly plant. (We I just finished reading J.D. MORE
Patrick May of the San Jose Mercury News reports on Peter Thiel’s continued bizarre dance with higher education: Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley investment guru who last year offered students $100,000 each to drop out for two years to test their entrepreneurial mettle, is going back to college himself — to teach a class at Stanford University called “Computer Science 183: Startup.” MORE
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. ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Tuesday, March 10, 2009. Bootstrapping 101. MORE
For example, for the easiest access to talent, San Francisco and San Jose is your best bet. But if rental costs are your concern, San Jose and San Mateo are good possibilities. MORE
Source: Flickr via The San Jose Library. Thinking about starting a business while you’re still in school? Getting your business off the ground before you graduate has several benefits. Your college can offer useful resources that can help you learn more about business ownership. MORE
San Jose, CA (PRWEB) October 27, 2014 Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS), an outsourced financial services firm that provides accounting, CFO, strategic finance, tax, and valuation services and support to small to mid-sized businesses nationwide, has been ranked #13 on Silicon Valley Business Journal’s Fastest Growing Private Companies Award for 2014. Originally published on PRWeb. MORE
Earlier this month, San Jose was graced with Ms. If you go to YouTube the night of the concert (search “lady gaga san jose concert 2010″), you can re-live the concert through someone else’s lens. MORE
For the past 7 days I've been working round the clock to organize and promote a StartupWeekend in San Jose. It start in two days. A ridiculous and ill advised timeline. Entrepreneurship Finding Co-Founders lean startup Marketing startup startupweekend MORE
As I schlep through the San Jose airport at 5:30am to catch a flight to Los Angeles, I have a moment of nostalgia. Monday was a full day that ended with a flight to San Francisco. I haven’t been here in a while since I’ve dramatically cut back on my travel, but I’ve probably wandered through this airport pre-dawn 50 times. Thirty minutes ago when I got here, the airport was empty. MORE
From New Scientist a week or so back (apologies for the long quote, but it’s worth it): IN MAY last year, a supercomputer in San Jose, California, read 100,000 research papers in 2 hours. MORE
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 also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. ProfessorVC. MORE
But if your good idea pops big time then trust me there will be three PhDs from Stanford sharing a cheap apartment in San Jose working around the clock to beat you. In the future they won’t only be in San Jose but also in Shanghai, Seoul and Bangalore. MORE
TweetDeck, Seesmic and HootSuite can help keep your digital life under control – San Jose Mercury News. Is Facebook a Worthy Social CRM? tags: blog facebook. What the Betamax Case Teaches Us About Readability | Mike Industries. tags: blog readability. Making Your Users Happy: The Business Tools We Use | Alfred App – Mac OS X Quicklaunch Application. tags: blog get satisfaction. Larry Summers and the Technology of Money – Technology Review. tags: blog. MORE
San Jose, CA (PRWEB) April 22, 2014 Chicago-based small businesses can now access a full suite of outsourced financial services from small business financial experts, Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS). In addition to its Silicon Valley headquarters, EGFS currently operates in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Colorado, and Austin. Originally published in PRWeb. MORE
San Jose, California. The sunny city of San Jose boasts the highest number of available full time jobs and houses the headquarters for some of the highest paying companies in the world, including Adobe, Cisco, and EBay just to name a few. MORE
Boulder came in third, behind “San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA” (what most of us think of as “Silicon Valley”) and “San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA” (what most of us think of as San Francisco.). Richard Florida continues to write amazing stuff about Startup Communities in The Atlantic Online. Two of his latest articles talk about entrepreneurial density and venture capital. High-Tech Challengers to Silicon Valley. MORE
As we can see, Boulder came in third behind San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara (AKA Silicon Valley) and San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont. In terms of total dollars invested, San Francisco attracted some $7B in VC funding, compared to the $4B in Silicon Valley. MORE
Raising the minimum wage in Silicon Valley (beyond San Jose which has already done so) is a very important and rational thing to do for the economic health of the valley, California, and the USA economy as a whole. Sometimes Cinderella Boys Hit Innovation Holes-in-One. MORE
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. MORE
I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). Just a minor nitpicky point: San Jose is actually much larger than SF, in both population and land area. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. MORE
SAN JOSE, CA (PRWEB) AUGUST 20, 2015 For the second year in a row, Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS) has placed on the Inc. This year, EGFS earned a ranking of #1003 and the #13 spot in the San Jose Metro Area where the company is headquartered. Last year, in 2014, EGFS ranked #797 nationally, and #13 in the San Jose Metro Area. Originally published on PRWeb. MORE
Picture I took in 2002 of WC stadium Daegu, South Korea. Those of you who know me are probably aware that I’m a rabid soccer (football) fan. MORE
The San Jose Sharks used this high-value segment to successfully to drive 33x ROI on their Facebook Ads campaign. Here’s a masterful execution of reselling: The San Jose Sharks Facebook Ad. MORE
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. MORE
The global 2015 BattleHack , organized by leading global payments providers PayPal and Braintree , will be coming to Singapore as part of a worldwide global hackathon competition that will see developers across the globe tasked with creating applications that solve specific challenges. MORE
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. Originally published on PRWeb. EGFS presenting in day-long “Equipping Entrepreneur” workshop at Googleplex to support startups in the autism space. MORE
San Jose, CA (PRWEB) July 24, 2014 Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS), an outsourced financial services firm that provides accounting, CFO, strategic finance, tax, and valuation services and support to small to mid-sized companies nationwide, has just announced the launch of their new JumpStart program. Originally published in PRWeb. MORE
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 [.] MORE
is based in San Jose, CA and has offices in Netanya, Israel. Wanova , the Israeli corporate cloud services provider, has announced the completion of its round B financing totaling $10 million. MORE
The company’s early operations were based in Mountain View before it relocated to San Jose, San California in February, 2016. MORE
Cincinnati, NEO HQ, 3700 Park 42 Dr Cleveland Columbus Oklahoma: Tulsa Pennsylvania: Lititz Philadelphia Puerto Rico: San Juan South Dakota: Sioux Falls Texas: Austin: Tech Ranch Austin, 9111 Jollyville Rd. One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. MORE
percent, higher than San Francisco. San Francisco. The City by the Bay has earned the title of being the new heart of Silicon Valley, a distinction once bestowed upon San Jose. MORE
Austin-based DRAFT, a mobile app-based investment tool, launched Thursday at DEMO Fall 2014 in San Jose, Calif. The app aggregates all of a user’s […] The post Austin-based DRAFT Debuts at Demo Fall in San Jose appeared first on SiliconHills. The startup helps investors make smart investment decisions and reach their savings goals through a crowd-sourced mobile app. MORE
Here''s one for you from the legandary DEMO conference in San Jose this week. Austin continues to make "Top 10" lists for everything, and break new records. MORE
This technology is being tested now, as I experienced a few months ago while driving north on Highway 101 from Los Angeles to San Jose. MORE
Let’s start with a high level discussion in the San Jose Mercury News article titled Startup boot camp illustrates dearth of women in tech. The meme of the lack of women in tech (or software, or entrepreneurship) appeared in several places today. Regular readers of this blog know that I’ve been the chairman of the National Center for Women & Information Technology for a number of years and deeply involved in this issue. MORE
San Jose Related Topics SiliconHills
NOVEMBER 20, 2014
Austin-based DRAFT, a mobile app-based investment tool, launched Thursday at DEMO Fall 2014 in San Jose, Calif. The app aggregates all of a user’s […] The post Austin-based DRAFT Debuts at Demo Fall in San Jose appeared first on SiliconHills. The startup helps investors make smart investment decisions and reach their savings goals through a crowd-sourced mobile app.
Campus Entrepreneurship
FEBRUARY 23, 2010
Cool student entrepreneur story out of San Jose State University where students and recent alum use the school’s business plan competition to raise basic funding and launch a beta product for their student note sharing service. The SJSU students company offers have a note sharing service for students and they seem to be communicating with both students and professors in building this out.
Eric Friedman
JULY 28, 2008
I had the chance to interview Randy Peterson of P&G for his upcoming participation in Search Engine Strategies 2008: San Jose where he will be speaking on the Keynote Roundtable: “Why Does Search Get the Credit for Everything?” You are participating in a keynote roundtable this year at the SES 2008 show in San Jose about attributing sales to Search – How much credit does an SEM program deserve in an overall marketing mix?
Sophia Perl of Wisdom
MAY 6, 2010
Last weekend in the heart of San Jose, over 100 people gathered at PayPal for Startup Weekend. What startup would you create in 54 hours if you were thrown into a room with a small group of people? For $100 or less (discounts!), you get to be part of a community that has a common goal of working / creating a startup over a course of the weekend - Friday night, all day Saturday, then all day Sunday. What more could you ask for? Here how it usually works.
Campus Entrepreneurship
MARCH 14, 2012
Patrick May of the San Jose Mercury News reports on Peter Thiel’s continued bizarre dance with higher education: Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley investment guru who last year offered students $100,000 each to drop out for two years to test their entrepreneurial mettle, is going back to college himself — to teach a class at Stanford University called “Computer Science 183: Startup.”
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
MARCH 18, 2014
Raising the minimum wage in Silicon Valley (beyond San Jose which has already done so) is a very important and rational thing to do for the economic health of the valley, California, and the USA economy as a whole. Sometimes Cinderella Boys Hit Innovation Holes-in-One.
Grasshopper Herder
APRIL 13, 2011
For the past 7 days I've been working round the clock to organize and promote a StartupWeekend in San Jose. It start in two days. A ridiculous and ill advised timeline. Entrepreneurship Finding Co-Founders lean startup Marketing startup startupweekend
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Austin Startup
NOVEMBER 20, 2014
Here''s one for you from the legandary DEMO conference in San Jose this week. Austin continues to make "Top 10" lists for everything, and break new records.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 11, 2012
For example, for the easiest access to talent, San Francisco and San Jose is your best bet. But if rental costs are your concern, San Jose and San Mateo are good possibilities.
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. Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Thursday, May 15, 2008.
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 also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. ProfessorVC.
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 [.]
Professor VC
MAY 30, 2009
We held our annual business plan competition at San Jose State this month and first prize was $10,000. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Saturday, May 30, 2009. Can you start a company on $10K?
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 5, 2015
As I schlep through the San Jose airport at 5:30am to catch a flight to Los Angeles, I have a moment of nostalgia. Monday was a full day that ended with a flight to San Francisco. I haven’t been here in a while since I’ve dramatically cut back on my travel, but I’ve probably wandered through this airport pre-dawn 50 times. Thirty minutes ago when I got here, the airport was empty.
The Next Web
MARCH 23, 2014
I spent the summer between middle school and high school busing from San Jose’s suburban edges to downtown where I spent my days tutoring students at the local elementary school in their worn down, gang ridden neighborhoods.
Early Growth Financial Services
AUGUST 21, 2015
SAN JOSE, CA (PRWEB) AUGUST 20, 2015 For the second year in a row, Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS) has placed on the Inc. This year, EGFS earned a ranking of #1003 and the #13 spot in the San Jose Metro Area where the company is headquartered. Last year, in 2014, EGFS ranked #797 nationally, and #13 in the San Jose Metro Area. Originally published on PRWeb.
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. ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Tuesday, March 10, 2009. Bootstrapping 101.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 31, 2014
San Jose, California. The sunny city of San Jose boasts the highest number of available full time jobs and houses the headquarters for some of the highest paying companies in the world, including Adobe, Cisco, and EBay just to name a few.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 15, 2013
Boulder came in third, behind “San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA” (what most of us think of as “Silicon Valley”) and “San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA” (what most of us think of as San Francisco.). Richard Florida continues to write amazing stuff about Startup Communities in The Atlantic Online. Two of his latest articles talk about entrepreneurial density and venture capital. High-Tech Challengers to Silicon Valley.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 17, 2015
The global 2015 BattleHack , organized by leading global payments providers PayPal and Braintree , will be coming to Singapore as part of a worldwide global hackathon competition that will see developers across the globe tasked with creating applications that solve specific challenges.
The Equity Kicker
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
From New Scientist a week or so back (apologies for the long quote, but it’s worth it): IN MAY last year, a supercomputer in San Jose, California, read 100,000 research papers in 2 hours.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 19, 2016
One day the company sent me and an engineer across the country, to a city none of us had ever heard of – San Jose, California – to install a process control system in a Ford Assembly plant. (We I just finished reading J.D.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 19, 2016
One day the company sent me and an engineer across the country, to a city none of us had ever heard of – San Jose, California – to install a process control system in a Ford Assembly plant. (We I just finished reading J.D.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
percent, higher than San Francisco. San Francisco. The City by the Bay has earned the title of being the new heart of Silicon Valley, a distinction once bestowed upon San Jose.
The Startup Magazine
APRIL 26, 2018
Source: Flickr via The San Jose Library. Thinking about starting a business while you’re still in school? Getting your business off the ground before you graduate has several benefits. Your college can offer useful resources that can help you learn more about business ownership.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 30, 2017
This technology is being tested now, as I experienced a few months ago while driving north on Highway 101 from Los Angeles to San Jose.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 15, 2010
Let’s start with a high level discussion in the San Jose Mercury News article titled Startup boot camp illustrates dearth of women in tech. The meme of the lack of women in tech (or software, or entrepreneurship) appeared in several places today. Regular readers of this blog know that I’ve been the chairman of the National Center for Women & Information Technology for a number of years and deeply involved in this issue.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 21, 2009
But if your good idea pops big time then trust me there will be three PhDs from Stanford sharing a cheap apartment in San Jose working around the clock to beat you. In the future they won’t only be in San Jose but also in Shanghai, Seoul and Bangalore.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 15, 2017
The company’s early operations were based in Mountain View before it relocated to San Jose, San California in February, 2016.
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.
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.
Venture Chronicles
APRIL 7, 2012
TweetDeck, Seesmic and HootSuite can help keep your digital life under control – San Jose Mercury News. Is Facebook a Worthy Social CRM? tags: blog facebook. What the Betamax Case Teaches Us About Readability | Mike Industries. tags: blog readability. Making Your Users Happy: The Business Tools We Use | Alfred App – Mac OS X Quicklaunch Application. tags: blog get satisfaction. Larry Summers and the Technology of Money – Technology Review. tags: blog.
Early Growth Financial Services
OCTOBER 27, 2014
San Jose, CA (PRWEB) October 27, 2014 Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS), an outsourced financial services firm that provides accounting, CFO, strategic finance, tax, and valuation services and support to small to mid-sized businesses nationwide, has been ranked #13 on Silicon Valley Business Journal’s Fastest Growing Private Companies Award for 2014. Originally published on PRWeb.
Business Plan Blog
JULY 18, 2013
As we can see, Boulder came in third behind San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara (AKA Silicon Valley) and San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont. In terms of total dollars invested, San Francisco attracted some $7B in VC funding, compared to the $4B in Silicon Valley.
Agile VC
APRIL 13, 2012
I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). Just a minor nitpicky point: San Jose is actually much larger than SF, in both population and land area. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.
Early Growth Financial Services
JULY 28, 2014
San Jose, CA (PRWEB) July 24, 2014 Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS), an outsourced financial services firm that provides accounting, CFO, strategic finance, tax, and valuation services and support to small to mid-sized companies nationwide, has just announced the launch of their new JumpStart program. Originally published in PRWeb.
Agile VC
JUNE 24, 2014
Picture I took in 2002 of WC stadium Daegu, South Korea. Those of you who know me are probably aware that I’m a rabid soccer (football) fan.
Early Growth Financial Services
APRIL 23, 2014
San Jose, CA (PRWEB) April 22, 2014 Chicago-based small businesses can now access a full suite of outsourced financial services from small business financial experts, Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS). In addition to its Silicon Valley headquarters, EGFS currently operates in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Colorado, and Austin. Originally published in PRWeb.
Sophia Perl of Wisdom
AUGUST 24, 2010
Earlier this month, San Jose was graced with Ms. If you go to YouTube the night of the concert (search “lady gaga san jose concert 2010″), you can re-live the concert through someone else’s lens.
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. Originally published on PRWeb. EGFS presenting in day-long “Equipping Entrepreneur” workshop at Googleplex to support startups in the autism space.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 1, 2012
Cincinnati, NEO HQ, 3700 Park 42 Dr Cleveland Columbus Oklahoma: Tulsa Pennsylvania: Lititz Philadelphia Puerto Rico: San Juan South Dakota: Sioux Falls Texas: Austin: Tech Ranch Austin, 9111 Jollyville Rd. One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere.
ConversionXL
MAY 3, 2017
The San Jose Sharks used this high-value segment to successfully to drive 33x ROI on their Facebook Ads campaign. Here’s a masterful execution of reselling: The San Jose Sharks Facebook Ad.
VC Cafe
AUGUST 25, 2011
is based in San Jose, CA and has offices in Netanya, Israel. Wanova , the Israeli corporate cloud services provider, has announced the completion of its round B financing totaling $10 million.
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