YoungUpstarts

MARCH 17, 2015

The 2015 BattleHack series will culminate in the World Finals in San Jose, California in November, and the Singapore winner will be flown to the finals at PayPal’s headquarters in Silicon Valley to battle it out with teams from 14 cities around the world for the US$100,000 grand prize and a “battle axe” trophy.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

During this week's roundtable, we had Inoh Choe from San Jose, California, pitch DemoTunes, a freemium concept. How do you find co-founders who are willing to work for 18 months without getting paid? One of the discussions that ensued was about how to bootstrap a freemium venture. How long can you go without a salary?

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BeyondVC

MARCH 31, 2004

As Jim Pitkow, co-founder of Outride says in a San Jose Mercury News article : “That’s good because the search engine doesn’t have to try hard to infer anything from the user’s behavior. This one is based on profiles rather than behavior.

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

.” Now that last statement is a little off, since I have a portfolio company in Berkeley and one as far south as San Jose. I must admit that I do also have some exceptions to this rule – LucidChart is based in Provo, UT, and Occipital is presently in Boulder, CO. I suspect this is also the case for most VCs.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Sumukh was doing some research on Apple and he asked me if I knew about the third co-founder of Apple. I learned that there was indeed a third co-founder of Apple – Ronald Wayne. Founders know that their position gets diluted. Example 2: Conclusion. I didn’t. At 1% it would still be a healthy $2.4

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

MAY 10, 2010

Here are my observations of people trying to start up: Finding co-founders is harder than you think, there’s a reason why there are events just for finding co-founders. The best place to do networking is in the Silicon Valley area because we have the best, brightest people around. Yep, the best hands down.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Ed Yu , CEO and co-founder of StrongSalt The Forrest Four-Cast: February 3, 2020 Is it possible for companies to protect their customers with data privacy that complies with regulations and is easy for developers to use? StrongSalt Co-Founder and CEO Ed Yu says yes it is. “Encryption sucks and we fix that.”?—?

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

.” Now that last statement is a little off, since I have a portfolio company in Berkeley and one as far south as San Jose. I must admit that I do also have some exceptions to this rule – LucidChart is based in Provo, UT, and Occipital is presently in Boulder, CO. I suspect this is also the case for most VCs.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 31, 2004

As Jim Pitkow, co-founder of Outride says in a San Jose Mercury News article : “That’s good because the search engine doesn’t have to try hard to infer anything from the user’s behavior. This one is based on profiles rather than behavior.

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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. Founder and CEO … Continue reading → Originally published on PRWeb.

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K9 Ventures

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

A founder who’s in it to make money will take too many shortcuts. Not many folks know this, but Lyft ‘s co-founder Logan Green has been passionate about transportation for a long time. Logan’s co-founder John Zimmer studied hospitality at Cornell. There are no shortcuts. Logan grew up in LA.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 12, 2017

All of their headquarters sit in a 50-mile stretch from San Francisco to San Jose. In this week’s Masters of Scale podcast , we ask this of Linda Rottenberg, the CEO and co-founder of Endeavor, which selects, mentors, and accelerates high-impact entrepreneurs around the world.

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Professor VC

MAY 30, 2009

We held our annual business plan competition at San Jose State this month and first prize was $10,000. Also, if it turns out he neglected his girlfriend too much while starting up the company, hell certainly have the opportunity to meet plenty of co-eds as he hands out flyers for the site on campus. Saturday, May 30, 2009.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. At this time, we had secured a term sheet from a co-investor from one of my other angel investments (Thanks, Graeme!)

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

I describe this in part as the “Social Network” effect… not just the movie itself but the example of Mark Zuckerberg and many other high profile young founders as role models ( who can forget this image? ) Just a minor nitpicky point: San Jose is actually much larger than SF, in both population and land area.

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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 We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.).

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Co-founder Dustin Moscovitz is referred to as a programmer, but he is actually an operations guy. Several weeks after Zuckerberg and the team move to Palo Alto for the summer, co-founder Eduardo Saverin finally pays a visit. Also, be sure to include vesting for all founders. October 18, 2010 2:41 PM.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. I guess if youve run a pattern across the middle with Ray Lewis waiting to knock your head off, a 6 minute pitch in front of a bunch of geeks is a piece of cake.

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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 We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. It's one of those things that founders can do sometimes where other employees are afraid to do it.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

And since VC dollars tend to concentrate around high-tech R&D areas, it’s notable that more than 90% of the nation’s innovation-sector growth (2005-2017) is accounted for by just five metro areas — Boston, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and San Diego. in the mid-1940s — derived from East Coast institutions.

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