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. This round was led by Kevin Spain from Emergence. 7mm in Series B.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 26, 2017

DR. CARMEN HIJOSA Originally from Spain, Dr. Hijosa has a track record in the design and manufacturing of leather goods, selling through her own company and supplying key retail outlets such as Harrods and Liberties in London. Outside the lab she likes to surf, scuba, sew, and amass exquisite shoes.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

I won’t get into the details of the presentation on mobile search and its impact on ecommerce, but rather, I want to share my quick insights on the atmosphere in Spain, based on my own observations and the conversations I had with both speakers and conference attendees. A few numbers about Spain. million people, a GDP of $1.47

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2013

I have lived (England, France, Italy, Spain, Japan & the US) and worked (Ireland, Germany, India) around the world. I have written before about the monocultural biases that I see Silicon Valley fall into and I know this isn’t a good thing. I adore accents. I listen not only for the country but the region.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. But Andreessens approach is also exposing a rift in Silicon Valley, where a group of young and relatively untested entrepreneurs have maintained control over their rapidly growing companies. Stock Quotes. more in Tech. Find New $LINKTEXTFIND$ » smaller.

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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. Example: More than 50% of all youth in Greece & Spain (34% in Italy) are unemployed and if you take “under-employment” it is even worse.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

It was the closest I could get to Spain. I didn’t have someone willing to offer me a job in Spain. I thought if I could live and work in Spain I could become bilingual, but I never got the opportunity. So at the end of ’94 I moved to France, because I wanted to learn Spanish. It’s actually true.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Not all hot startups are built in Silicon Valley – we’re seeing very talented entrepreneurs with big ideas and great execution all over the world. The winners will be announced at the various Startup Awards ceremonies in Germany, the UK, Ireland, France, Romania, Spain, Poland, Holland, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and Denmark.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

As I was reading a history of the startup years of Fairchild Semiconductor , I realized that a problem I thought was new – sales as an obstacle to Pivots – had occurred 50 years ago at the dawn of what would become Silicon Valley. —— Every chip company in Silicon Valley is descended from Fairchild.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I had the good fortune to moderate a panel at last week''s IBA Silicon Valley from Start-up to IPO / Exit Conference. start-ups that turn into “Unicorns” - businesses with exits via IPO or acquisition of greater than $1 Billion - emanate almost exclusively from the United States, and far more specifically from Silicon Valley.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

With huge unemployment rates in countries like Spain, Greece and Portugal, coupled with risk-averseness and impractical education this leads to a circle of hopelessness. FailCon , the startup failure conference that started in Silicon Valley six years ago, is now a worldwide event taking place in more than 15 countries.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

I sometimes feel that the Silicon Valley culture and we as technologists more broadly can breed monoculture in our approach to entrepreneurship, problem solving, market analysis and technology solutions. She was talking a lot about how the broader world doesn’t operate how we in Silicon Valley always perceive that it does.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

There Are Plenty Of Failures In Silicon Valley, Thanks – [link]. crowdSPRING designer interview … 12 Questions: Meet Xavier (Spain) - [link]. What Startup Life is Really Like; Entrepreneurs Share Candid Stories | Tech Cocktail - [link]. Does your startup require a miracle? Creative Halloween Makeup - [link].

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 21, 2010

The fund was started through a merger between Startup Factory, Yatir Ventures and Plug and Play Tech Center, the shared office complex and company incubator in Silicon Valley. To date, Plug and Play has funded 260 startups through its branches in silicon valley and its regional offices in Spain, Italy, Canada and Singapore.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

One of my goals in creating the Startup Lessons Learned event is to foster entrepreneurial communities around the world, not just in Silicon Valley. For some of my thoughts on Lean Startup Machine, see A month is fifteen weekends and The real entrepreneurs of New York City. For an up-to-date list, you can always check [link].

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VC Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

Four Israelis made the list of the 100 most influential women in high tech in Europe drawn up by the UK branch of Silicon Valley-based Girls in Tech, which seeks to promote women in high tech.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Most of the informed people I know are telling me that the sharp sell-off has more to do with European national debt (PIGS as it is called: Portugal, Italy, Greece & Spain) than the current US dilemma of a S&P downgrade of the US government debt. My prognosis? I’ve been parroting this for 2 years. We have a two-track economy.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Silicon Roundabout. silicon valley. Silicon Valley Bank. Silicon Wadi. Shoreditch. Shuly Galili. Sightic Vista. Sigma Designs. Siklu Communication. Silent Communication. Silver Lake Capital. Similar Group. similarsites. SimilarWeb. sintecmedia. SiteBlackBox. SK telecom ventures. Soffinova Ventures.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley. Tomas Pueyo : Yeah, I started figuring out it was going to happen around the middle of February, and I was waiting for the cases to really start appearing in Silicon Valley. You have a day job here in Silicon Valley at an education technology company.

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