Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

DC/Virginia. Silicon Valley. Virginia Active Angels. Valley Angel Fund. Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley. 2) Competition for deals in regions, such as Silicon Valley, New York City and Boston, has resulted in higher and, in many cases, rising valuation. SeedStep Angels.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

Mike Lincoln (Washington DC / Virginia … Cooley). Mike Lincoln (on my list) had previously had huge success with Cooley (long considered a platinum-status Silicon Valley firm as depicted in the image in this post highlighting some of their clients) in expanding their presence outside their traditional NorCal stronghold.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2010

Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and the VT KnowledgeWorks Business Acceleration Center at Virginia Tech, led by Jim Flowers. Both provide excellent networking, relationship building, and on-site technical leadership, which I believe sets them apart.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

As a black guy, in central Virginia, solving poor people’s problems, I was 0 for 3!” And in response, our entrepreneurial, the Silicon Valley-style economy is putting $120 million into companies that are making $500 do-it-yourself cold-pressed juicers rather than respond to these pressing problems.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 17, 2009

Eric- I am an industrial design student at Virginia Tech. The problem is that the most authentic innovators and entrepreneurs are in the Valley. I want more than anything to come to Silicon Valley after I graduate and join the vibrant ecosystem. Tried it with multiple browsers. March 19, 2009 9:34 PM Chris Morgan said.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.) The second wave of companies were mainly concentrated in Silicon Valley, and coincided with the rise of platforms (Google, Facebook, etc.)

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

And more recently he has turned that into a fund called CrossCulture VC such that many in Silicon Valley and beyond now know Troy as well. The “what” Troy Carter does also led him to be an early investor in Uber, Lyft, Dropbox, Warby Parker and several other great startups of the last era.

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Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

With a great assist from the State Departments innovation outpost in Silicon Valley.) Hill in Virginia. Note that they plan a trip to San Diego to visit the customer. And they realized that an unclassified proxy for their data is the IUU fishing problem. The team certainly got out of the building this week.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital. In DC it’s George Washington University, the University of Maryland and Virginia Tech, and now Johns Hopkins… in the Bay Area, there’s Berkeley, Stanford and UCSF. … In Southern California, there’s Caltech, USC and UCLA.

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Pascal's View

JANUARY 28, 2010

The most important startup centers are Silicon Valley, metropolitan Boston, Seattle and Austin and, increasingly, northern Virginia. Public companies such as Google, Cisco and Intel, all initially venture-backed, today represent 17 percent of U.S. gross domestic product and have created a total of more than 12 million good jobs.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

I came to Silicon Valley when I was 25, turning 26. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. But there’s something else that I think I learned, and that was that a lot of focus on Silicon Valley is about growth.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

I came to Silicon Valley when I was 25, turning 26. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. But there’s something else that I think I learned, and that was that a lot of focus on Silicon Valley is about growth.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Virginia is number two in the amount of funding over the past quarter. With mobile, California takes the top spot for deals and dollars, with New York and Massachusetts following when it comes to mobile deals. You can read the entire CB Insights report here. Image credit: 401(k) 2012/Flickr.

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