Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Mark: Google had trouble dealing with customers and contracts because they historically were so engineering driven. While that happens sometimes, it was a challenge for Google because it frequently had trouble adapting from an engineering driven culture. What is the best reporting structure for an engineering team.

Software Review 285

Software Review Software St. Louis API 285

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Scalable startups tend to group together in innovation clusters (Silicon Valley, Shanghai, New York, Boston, Israel, etc.) To date, Israel is only country that has engineered a successful entrepreneurship cluster from the ground up. If they’re still publically funding startups after five to ten years they’ve failed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. investors, for example, it may be worthwhile to set up an office in New York City or Silicon Valley. Your startup is in a high-failure-rate business sector. If you want U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I’ve had this conversation with several communities such as in San Diego where I believe there are way more qualified and talented engineers than available local capital to support them. Local Press / Websites / Organizational Tools – New York has an amazing startup scene and the energy and momentum is palpable.

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View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

But we’re also very active in New York, as five of the most recent startups we’ve funded are based in Manhattan (which is 40% of this recent flurry of investments). We’ve been remarkably consistent on this dimension as well: five of the recent 13 investments were B2C, five were B2B, and three you could categorize as B2B2C.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

VC has operated as an “old boys club”, with access to capital often requiring entrance through an elite university engineering department in one of two cities. Some of our most successful deals have been in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Baltimore and London.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

We’d previously contributed to another project Fred and Joanne spearheaded for the Academy of Software Engineering last year. Philanthropy computer science new york non-profit' A few weeks ago Fred sent me a note and asked if Amy and I would make a contribution from our foundation.

New York 137

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. New York has an extremely active Meetup culture; almost every night there are 3-10 tech-focused events.

Government 146

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Henrik Werdelin , the Managing Partner of Prehype , a venture development firm based in New York City that has helped build companies like Tradable , Barkbox , FancyHands , Basno and Path , says recreating Twitter isn’t necessarily difficult, but the layered features will take time to get right. 1) Twitter. 3) Facebook. 6) Pinterest.

Cost 168

Cost San Francisco New York City Ruby 168

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Today, especially in tech hubs like Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, New York, or Seattle, none of these facts hold. In other words, the most compelling reasons for NOT relying on remote engineering talent to build software no longer apply. We test for software engineering fundamentals, and we use technology-specific tests.

Technical Review 184

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2015

Just before the holidays I had coffee with Anne, an ex MBA student running a fairly large product group at a search engine company, now out trying to raise money for her own startup. She had an interesting insight: existing content/media companies were having the same problem as hardware companies that rarely made the leap to new platforms.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley New York City New York Venture Capital 120

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Organizing your data so you can quickly locate what you are looking for is a great idea for the New Year, just as soon as there are 60 hours in each day instead of 24. In the real world, downloading a search engine is a more realistic option to finding data. What kind of searching can your search engine support?

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Venture Capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York. While those firms are still there (and getting larger), the pool of money that invests risk capital in startups has expanded, and a new class of investors has emerged. Where is it going?

Restful 249

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen. Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Marty Zwilling.

Silicon Valley 149

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

Second, most websites that a non-Chinese would use are blocked including Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Google Docs, Scribd, Blogspot, Dropbox, New York Times, etc. Though they’re familiar with technology in the valley, I picked up some important cultural difference from students and startup engineers I talked to. Fear of Failure.

China 328

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 328

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. investors, for example, it may be worthwhile to set up an office in New York City or Silicon Valley. Your startup is in a high-failure-rate business sector. If you want U.S.

New York City 254

New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 254

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Enter “ The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses “, a New York Times bestseller by founder of IMVU (creator of 3D avatars) Eric Ries. There are principally three engines of growth in any startup.

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Lean Technical Review North America Startup 193

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2023

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. investors, for example, it may be worthwhile to set up an office in New York City or Silicon Valley. Your startup is in a high-failure-rate business sector. If you want U.S.

New York City 246

New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 246

The Next Web

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Amanda Foley is a writer and marketing associate at audience.io , a New York and London based audience development company. ly” extension is New York-based Lover.ly , a visual search engine for wedding planners, aiming to forever change the way brides plan their big day. “I Another company using the popular “.ly”

Naming 166

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. The Torch Program is the worlds largest “lets engineer entrepreneurial clusters” experiment.

Programming 179

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 179

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

when to build out our offices in Silicon Valley, New York & Los Angeles. Brett was formerly SVP of the Marketing Cloud at Salesforce with an enormous organization of sales, marketing, implementation, sales engineers, etc. So our board meetings consisted of discussion about. how to build an initial sales organization.

Technical Review 325

Technical Review Early Stage Software Review Los Angeles 325

YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

brrhodes : IceRocket search engine founder and CEO Blake Rhodes tweets about his insights into social media and the online world. JimKnickman : Check out James Knickman to see what’s going on with health in New York, with his updates as the President and CEO of the New York State Health Foundation.

Cofounder 239

Cofounder Technical Review Social Media PR 239

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

While all your competitors are trying to copy your model, you’re already on to the next thing on your engineering team. At one company I work with it’s clear that our target user today is youth-oriented and middle America as opposed to 20-something and Silicon Valley or New York.

Early Stage 380

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen. Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Marty Zwilling.

Las Vegas 120

Las Vegas Silicon Valley Phoenix Montana 120

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2013

Once a year New York City is overcome at 5 p.m. I witnessed people who rarely worked together, in part due to their proclivity to stay behind their laptop screens, bonding over frosting-piping and giggling over their poorly engineered graham cracker rooftops that perpetually squashed their “perfect homes.”

Green 178

Green Artificial Inteligence New York City Startup 178

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. investors, for example, it may be worthwhile to set up an office in New York City or Silicon Valley. Your startup is in a high-failure-rate business sector. If you want U.S.

New York City 202

New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 202

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Jeremy Rappaport is a writer at Fueled , the leading iPhone application developers and masters of mobile design in New York City. Entering the connected device space can seem like an attractive pursuit for a budding entrepreneur, but unless you have a background in electrical engineering, it may also be a daunting endeavor.

Internet 132

Internet New York City Technical Review Software Review 132

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Marketing, advertising, positioning — they’re all forms of persuasive writing, just like an op-ed in the New York Times. But that’s how you build a hobby, not a company. What’s the answer? What are the initial questions your 7th-grade English teacher taught you to ask before crafting a persuasive piece?

Customer 279

Customer Software Review SEM Technical Review 279

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

A secondary, under-appreciated, challenge is that search engines value freshness of content. It is also immensely beneficial for search engine optimization (great content, delivered fresh, every day!). Ditto for one of my favorite hotels in New York, The Standard. And so on and so forth.

Analytics 156

Analytics Marketing Social Media Technical Review 156

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

He wanted to bring the same level of technology focus and energy that Mayor Bloomberg had brought to New York City. The “Snapchat effect” as I like to call it is that many engineers now want to stay and many more want to move here.

IPO 191

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Hunter Walker

MAY 26, 2014

Besides having a great animated graphic, yesterday’s New York Times “ Faking Cultural Literacy ” OpEd got me thinking about the role of verified data. A software engineer who claims proficiency in Ruby might display a github score. It’s sort of an “experience gate” as opposed to a paygate.

API 129

API Ruby Software Review Software Engineering 129

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Check out his website if you live in or are visiting New York! In addition to Seth, the core team he pulled together consisted of Elaine, a product person with front-end engineering skills and sharp design sense, and Sandy a back-end server engineer. So some show notes if you’re a bit busy to watch the video.

Connecticut 286

Connecticut Cofounder Silicon Valley Web 286

ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

News sites have long been at the forefront, but plenty of speciality sites (e.g., Search engines are vital for discoverability. As such, Google continued to get stopped at our paywall during crawls, and we became virtually non-existent in its search engine results pages. — Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) April 16, 2020.

SEO 122

SEO HTML Technical Review Caching 122

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2020

To capture this search engine gold, the leadership team must first agree this is a priority, create a budget for it, and then adopt a notability strategy. New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Reuters, Bloomberg ). This should be all you need to convince your leadership team that inclusion is advantageous.

Entrepreneur 174

Entrepreneur Cleveland Portland Wiki 174

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

Second, most websites that a non-Chinese would use are blocked including Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Google Docs, Scribd, Blogspot, Dropbox, New York Times, etc. Though they’re familiar with technology in the valley, I picked up some important cultural difference from students and startup engineers I talked to. Fear of Failure.

China 220

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 220

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Companies are relying on the engineering talent provided by remote, distributed, or as we call them , boundaryless teams. For some time now, it has been possible to outsource engineering labor to other countries. They’re low cost and capable of delivering specific — but mostly basic — engineering services.

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