Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 29, 2013

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. Look global and local. The post Funding goes global: location is no longer your financing destiny appeared first on Version One Ventures.

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The Next Web

JULY 20, 2013

And if they do, they complain about lack of global potential or misunderstand my product completely. “Do We receive about one business plan a day, and the Silicon Valley VCs at least 10 times more, so I am pretty sure we face a similar issue: too many business plans, too little time to respond. Image credit: Thinkstock.

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deal architect

MAY 2, 2011

Soon after I posted on the President having dinner with many of Silicon Valley leaders, I had a conversation where the person said “Sitting next to Steve Jobs, I hope Obama gave him hell for all the jobs in China”.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

I advised him to get into deeper conversations with these 50 companies and get a better feel for what applications they would build and how they want to pay for the platform: license, subscription, or transaction fee.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

” Sean is somebody widely respected in Silicon Valley (although he now lives in SoCal) for having helped many early-stage companies go through major growth periods by quantitatively testing features with audiences to help diagnose what led to growth. If you can’t do this, nothing else really matters.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

By the time Silicon Valley white privilege culture, tech magazines that promote only white faces, Ethereum/Bitcoin fanboys, sellout black tech wannabees and globalists promoting their blockchain consortium get a hold of this article, it’s already too late and the game already ended a while ago.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 14, 2011

They are leveraging the same kinds of new technology, management thinking, and big data to improve lives that we routinely use here in Silicon Valley. I did my best to focus the conversation on key concepts like minimum viable product and rapid experimentation. And then I recruit them to join a virtual startup to do this thing."

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 28, 2023

She is a leading venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, where she mentors tech startups and helps them go public. She is the CEO & General Partner of the investment firm Street Global. Her online radio show: Global Fireside Chats, brings together global industry titans to share insights on our fast-changing world.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Contrasting China via their Zhi-Xing (? ?, March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM 4:30PM Hilton?—?Salon 12:00PM Hilton?—?Salon

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Business Model Affects Metrics and Exit Criteria Web-based Business Model Exit Criteria In a web-business model you’re looking for traffic, users, conversion, virality, etc – not revenue. That’s no longer the case in Silicon Valley. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Keep teaching!

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Not just in the military, but also in Silicon Valley, where it dooms otherwise successful companies. Conversely, the things you measure well, with easily understood and visible metrics, tend to improve without much extra push. faces in a global, interconnected system. More like a surgical strike. 1 is measurement.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 6, 2019

As part of connecting with local Argentinian entrepreneurs and part of the amazing Endeavor networks here and South America, Wences and I recorded a podcast to share what I and Silicon Valley can learn from the robust entrepreneurial ecosystem down here. My quintessential teacher here is Wences.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Silicon Valley can frequently be too provincial in its views of entrepreneurship, strategy, and markets. In my previous podcast with my friend and entrepreneur Wences Casares, we talked about the ability of entrepreneurs down here to see global markets that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs might miss.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2017

Over the past month, Silicon Valley has been at the forefront of many conversations outside of the technology world. I later became convinced that my different perspective (female, immigrant, global) enhanced my ability to see opportunities where others didn’t.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Igor's focus is large retailers, and he has had conversations with a couple of them in the UK. I know Silicon Valley and the MBA types look down upon lifestyle businesses. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ).

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round).

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2018

There’s a common thread linking what’s wrong in Congress, in Silicon Valley, in the media, on Wall Street and elsewhere. After studying 200+ companies, the global design firm IDEO has identified six essential qualities to drive innovation and creativity. How to Break an Industry.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

I’m an unabashedly pro-Silicon Valley homer. However, what Silicon Valley thinks about your startup has never been less important. However, what Silicon Valley thinks about your startup has never been less important. And it’s interesting to consider why. Largely American/Western.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

In conversations about freelancing and online marketplaces for remote contract workers of the tech industry, the name of oDesk floats up pretty often. Managing an online distributed global team takes different set of skills, a different set of tools, it takes a different level of discipline. million jobs.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two The Changing Venture Landscape was originally published in Both Sides of the Table on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. HP Style) are dead.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Some of the most creative technology coming out of Silicon Valley is designed to do exactly that. Even if you’re a global firm, it’s a good idea to restore community marketing. Two studies have shown that only about 10 percent of promoters actually refer profitable new customers. You have to make it easy for them to do so.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

COVID-19 has caused global acceleration of many trends that were already happening before the pandemic and the immigration to Texas and especially Austin are no exception. Planting roots I was recently talking with someone who moved here from Silicon Valley and he pointed out something that really resonated with me. Why Amy Sun?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 6, 2020

Breyer Capital’s Silicon Valley presence remains as important as ever, and at the same time, Austin offers a remarkable new frontier of opportunity. When I graduated from Harvard Business School after graduating from Stanford, I was one of a small number of classmates who made the decision to move to Silicon Valley.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2011

How a Tiny Company Created a Global Marketplace – [link]. Ex-Googlers at almost every Silicon Valley startup & VC – [link]. Conversions will still suck – [link]. How a Tiny Company Created a Global Marketplace – [link]. The image above has been altered using Adobe Photoshop.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Come enjoy the live band and intimate seating that also opens up into networking lounges designed to showcase Austin’s executive clout, global appeal, and the Austin tech scene and companies that live and thrive here 365 days a year. Can capitalism fulfill its promise to create a shared and durable prosperity for all of us?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2013

This made my friend Dorrian Porter ‘s KickStarter initiative to create a statue of Tesla in Silicon Valley even more poignant. Did you ever suddenly get more interested in a conversation when someone you didn’t initially think was relevant to your immediate business goals turned out to be?

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

It is for anyone who is interested in Marketing Optimization, Marketing Optimization, Predictive Analytics, Big Data, Conversion or Google Analytics, Role of affiliate networks, Affiliate recruitment techniques, and any Data Driven Business. Venture Summit Silicon Valley. Inside BitCoins NYC. Social Media Strategies Summit.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 26, 2017

She was named to the Business of Fashion 500 People Shaping the Global Fashion Industry List, Vanity Fair’s 8 Wildest Women of Silicon Valley and as one of Alleywatch’s 10 Most Influential People in Fashion Technology. Outside the lab she likes to surf, scuba, sew, and amass exquisite shoes.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

I asked Nirupama to identify paid, members-only networks and organizations (of which 1M/1M is a good example) that may want their own, members-only site on their own domain, and conduct a statistically significant set of market research conversations. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. Why or why not?

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Austin Startup

JULY 3, 2017

Moreover, the global entrepreneurial ecosystem adopted their name as the easiest way to describe any new venture that has sought to implement an alternative approach to long-standing conventions: “We are going to be the Uber of [insert industry of choice here].” Hugh Forrest tries to write at least four paragraphs per day on Medium.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Network for Good, Global Giving, Mission Fish (behind ebay’s GivingWorks). Follow us and join the conversation. We’re not just focused on NY/Boston/Silicon Valley. One year program for developers to work at cities/nonprofits to address challenges. Give to the Max” days. Promoting innovation. What can you do? There are 1.4m-1.6m

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

After that conversation, I called around to learn more about Brian, Joe and Nate, and I got really strong references. But I thought that if this actually works, it can have a global impact and generate virtually uncapped returns.”. No business I know of had a playbook for a global pandemic of this magnitude. CONCLUSION.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Id like to call special attention to Kurt Carr s perspective (lets hope he finishes his five-part series): Now that I’m back in Ohio (I was one of the token foreigners in a room full of Silicon Valley residents), I have found myself reliving and rethinking much of what I saw there. We all owe you. We all owe you.

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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. Global Support. Stock Quotes. more in Tech. link] [link] --> By JOANN S.

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2012

Entrepreneurship continues to be a sexy topic for governments, with every country worth its salt trying to create its own tech hub, mimicking Silicon Valley. The signs to me are all too obvious from our conversations. The appeal of promoting entrepreneurship is obvious. What is there not to like?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Customers Don’t Want Ads, They Want A Conversation | Fast Company – [link]. Why Silicon Valley needs critics like Morozov | San Francisco Chronicle – [link]. Bitcoin May Be the Global Economy’s Last Safe Haven – [link]. Chicago-based BrightTag ranked #4! ” – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

The gig economy has transformed and disrupted the global workforce. With markets dispersed globally, payments had to scale. Guests in Europe looking to book listings in the US would be charged in dollars and ended up paying an additional conversion fee. In its wake has redefined what we should expect from our payments.

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