Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Being a resource-constrained entrepreneur, I wanted a co-founder because even if I got a paid engineer or an outsourced team to build it, I would still need to build a team, and there would be continuous development needs. female founders. founder friday. Conference 2012.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

The summit opened with a panel of Investors sharing their insights of what the funding environment for entrepreneurs, non-profits and small businesses will look like as the economy recovers. Besides sharing tips for teaching traditional entrepreneurs the discussion also included how we could help Main Street businesses.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Last week, the House of Representatives passed the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act (H.R. Since small businesses are responsible for the vast majority of new jobs, legislators believe that these new rules will make it easier for entrepreneurs to raise capital and ramp up hiring. Crowdfunding - Good Idea or Really, Really Stupid Idea?

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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. Rather, you tag a woman wearing a speedo swimsuit with a Speedo GoodyTag and then encourage your social network to further propagate that as part of an incentivized advertising campaign.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

At this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we put a special focus on entrepreneurs in the northwestern part of the United States, and we had three presenters, all from Washington. We also had two other entrepreneurs who are working with the William Factory Incubator in Tacoma, Washington. Wise Mind Studios LLC. Social Pulse.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

However, I have seen some blog posts posing the question about whether the same principles of valuing baseball players could be applied to entrepreneurs. I encourage entrepreneurs to give it a shot and let me know what you think. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Steve Bennet.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

While spending time with the entrepreneurs and championing the deal through the group, you tend to become emotionally attached. In most cases, the entrepreneur hasnt hidden anything, it is just buyers remorse kicking in and the realization that the hard work is beginning. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The decentralization conversation in blockchain is more of a libertarian ideology than information architecture — most of the people talking about decentralization are libertarian quacks rallying up thoughts of not being beholden to tyranny and has nothing to do with actually implementing decentralized networks.

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Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

This will also serve as a good pointer for all the entrepreneurs who ask why I am not interested in their company led convertible note financing round. Ive seen a number of entrepreneurs, angels and VCs fall into the trap of providing debt in small pieces. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Professor VC

MAY 29, 2008

An entrepreneur will pitch their business plan to what they think is a group of angel investors and will get a number of follow-up calls afterwards, but they are pitches for services not investment interest. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ► January. (1). ► 2010. (7).

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

was part of a Dow Jones VentureWire webinar last week titled Negotiating An Angel Deal: What Angels, Entrepreneurs & VCs Need to Know. I let him know that he just accomplished two things - left a bad taste with the entrepreneur and opened the door for the next investor to ask for a multiple preference that is senior to yours.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2008

Im going to continue to follow the paths of entrepreneurs turned VCs turned entrepreneurs again and see how it evolves. Labels: entrepreneur , entrepreneurial finance course , venture capital. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Steve Bennet. at 12:47 PM. ► January. (1).

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

Each week we discuss the latest news, resources, and advice for entrepreneurs and small business owners. Someone tweeted out of San Jose, they did a really amazing review of the book. Some of them have young professional networking events. You can go on there and say, “I’m an entrepreneur, and I am starting a business.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Do you have the right make-up to be an entrepreneur? You need to be true to yourself and many people arent cut out to take the personal and professional risk associated with being an entrepreneur. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

The NIF (in its 5th year), is essentially a science fair for entrepreneurs. Here are a few of the budding entrepreneurs that I chatted with at the event: Jeff Gibboney, a graduate mechanical engineering student, developed a battery operated skateboard for cruising to school or work. A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. One group charges entrepreneurs "an administrative fee" to present to the group. Touched by an Angel. for a total of $10.5M

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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. They wake up earlier than a lot of entrepreneurs do, and, I get a lot of late night emails from VCs working through their email inboxes late at night. Real entrepreneurs find a way to make it work.

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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. They wake up earlier than a lot of entrepreneurs do, and, I get a lot of late night emails from VCs working through their email inboxes late at night. Real entrepreneurs find a way to make it work.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

From a tech perspective, we are excited about how fast edge devices, including mobile devices, are improving both in processing and networking capabilities. What’s your favorite thing about being based in San Jose, Calif.? If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

According to the most recent annual Kauffman Index report , which ranks “the rate of new entrepreneurs, the number of entrepreneurs who started their companies when unemployed, and the number of startups per capita,” it’s neither New York City nor Silicon Valley. versus $10M+). However, Austin is well poised to catch up quickly.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JUNE 3, 2010

The competition will leverage Cisco TelePresence(TM), which enables collaboration through a live, face-to-face video network communications experience, to allow finalists from around the world to present their business plans in real time to a joint panel of DFJ and Cisco executives based in San Jose.

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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. Originally published on PRWeb.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Rather than going through their networks or targeting specific sectors for deal flow, they are going to rely on an algorithm to select companies. For firms that dont have access to the most successful entrepreneurs, trying to predict an individual or individual teams success rate based on experience, personal attributes, intellect, etc.

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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. In addition to the first prize, he was also given office space at the Plug and Play incubator for the summer and get to spend his days with other entrepreneurs and investors. Saturday, May 30, 2009. ► January. (1).

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I have been following the rallying cry of entrepreneurs with some amusement over the past couple of weeks in response to a blog post by Jason Calacanis, " Why Start-ups Shouldnt have to pay to pitch angel investors." Ive written about the practice of charging entrepreneurs in earlier blog posts and it is not something we would ever do at SHA.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

VFAs tagline is "Mobilizing graduates as entrepreneurs" and is "A program for young, talented grads to spend 2 years in the trenches of a start-up with the goal that these graduates will become socialized and mobilized as entrepreneurs moving forward." You network! I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

I thought about the name some more and I do spend much of my time teaching entrepreneurship and coaching entrepreneurs. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. Of course, she thinks most things I do are lame. ► 2010.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

I get asked this question a lot by entrepreneurs (and students). Related to this, I got an email from an entrepreneur this week interested in meeting with me. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. ProfessorVC.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

had mixed emotions when I read the the press release on the recent funding of iControl Networks. There are definitely some lessons in the story for entrepreneurs and angel investors, but before discussing, I thought Id share a bit about the early financing history for iControl. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Professor VC

JULY 22, 2009

Ross is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, battered but still standing after the Internet collapse. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). ► 2010. (7).

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Entrepreneurs struggle to find investors and investors struggle to find the best start-ups. This is a brutal process for entrepreneurs and many have no interest in the angel groups for this reason. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Why can’t anyone just say, “it wasn’t a great outcome for investors, but was for the entrepreneurs and glad we could help make that happen” I guess nobody wants to pull a kazoo out of their pocket when it feels so much better to blare a trumpet. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

Of course, the most important funding statistic to an entrepreneur relates to one specific company, and whether there is sufficient capital available to build and scale his business. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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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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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

At a high level, I definitely agree that being an entrepreneur and being in school dont necessarily mix. Most of us know of Exhibits 1 ( Bill Gates ) and 2 ( Mark Zuckerberg ) from Harvard, but I have met dozens of other successful entrepreneurs who felt a greater need to get going on an opportunity than to wait around to complete a degree.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

In my neighborhood, successful entrepreneurship meant small businesses entrepreneurs. Decades later, I realized that the broadband network company where I worked, installing high-speed process control networks in automobile assembly plants and steel mills (before Ethernet existed), was one of the few pioneering startups in Ann Arbor.

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