Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

It was my first time in the city and I must say that I was immediately taken by the energy of the city and of the entrepreneurs that I met at the conference. One of the big data team collected and analyzed all the data of accidents on Route 101 linking San Francisco to San Jose.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2015

We live today in a golden age of writing and resources for entrepreneurs. Even 10 or 15 years ago, when I first cut my teeth as an entrepreneur, there were very few things to read. It wasn''t meant to be an encyclopedia or a work of theory, but it had one overriding virtue: it was useful to actual practicing entrepreneurs like me.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Startups based in the region stretching from San Francisco to San Jose raise more funding, make more money and have smarter people than startups in any other place. One-fifth of New York’s entrepreneurs are women and it’s home to twice as many female-run startups as Silicon Valley. But not its startup culture.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

He opened the first of many PanIQ Escape Rooms in Hollywood, California, and today, they have locations in San Jose, Phoenix, Miami, NYC, Dallas, Nashville, Chicago and many more. Any advice you would give to entrepreneurs and business owners? It only seemed logical for Akos and his partners to bring this concept to the US.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 15, 2020

Aspiring entrepreneurs may mitigate the risk of litigation however by taking steps to avoid infringing the legal rights of established players. To avoid infringing a copyright, the entrepreneur should understand the basics of fair use. Christopher Rosario is an associate attorney with trial law firm McManis Faulkner in San Jose, CA.

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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. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2020

And entrepreneurs and business people agree! Major cities in the region are San Jose, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, and Mountain View. San Jose is the biggest city. The post 10 Silicon Valley Facts Every Entrepreneur Should Know appeared first on Young Upstarts. Valley of the Heart’s Delight”.

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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. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2013

For a long time I’ve suggested that an interesting measure of entrepreneurial density would be ((entrepreneurs + employees of startups) / total population). The Connection Between Venture Capital and Diverse, Dense Communities. In it, he looked at Venture Capital financing (total dollars and number of deals) on a per-capital basis.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

I fell in to all three camps representing San Jose State University, Startups (through my CFO/board roles) and Investors (with my angel investor hat on). We were specifically advocating to fix the broken H1-B and Green Card programs and to provide visas and green cards to startup entrepreneurs and STEM degree holders.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The Changing Face of Entrepreneurs. The Connected World of Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneur Magazine Blog. San Jose Mercury News: Maker Faire Mixes Business With Wackiness. Business Week: Twitter for Entrepreneurs: 20 to Follow: Steve King. immigrant entrepreneurs. Defining Small Business Innovation.

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Steve Blank

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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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 23, 2011

Strengthening ties between entrepreneurs is one of our most important values. We struggle with this issue every year, because we strongly encourage everyone who can to participate with their local entrepreneurship community. That said, there comes a point where that's not possible for everyone.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

During today's roundtable, we worked with two entrepreneurs and also had a segment on our yearlong engagement with incubators around the world. As for the pitches, first , Eddie Godshalk from San Jose, California, presented QuantGeo , a geospatial data service for real estate investors, property buyers, banks, etc.,

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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. Please note, that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS, Intarka, and Uuma.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2010

Let’s start with a high level discussion in the San Jose Mercury News article titled Startup boot camp illustrates dearth of women in tech. If you are interested in this issue, I have three articles from the last 24 hours that I encourage you to read.

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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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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Roughly 1,200 miles away in the heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed is pushing for restrictions that will shutter many of the city’s medical marijuana dispensaries. Entrepreneur Insider United States Analysis and Opinion' We couldn’t agree more. Image credit: Evan Meyer /Shutterstock.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 20, 2012

And I’m in Austin, not San Jose, where there’s 100x fewer customers I could land at meetups. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. And there’s no Twitter or Facebook (or even a strong culture of blogging) to enable my few zealous fans to spread the word.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MARCH 18, 2014

Raising the minimum wage in Silicon Valley (beyond San Jose which has already done so) is a very important and rational thing to do for the economic health of the valley, California, and the USA economy as a whole. Let’s put politics aside for a moment and pretend the minimum wage is not a party-centric issue.

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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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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. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. September 27, 2011 5:09 PM.

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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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Agile VC

JUNE 24, 2014

Success in the World Cup, just like success as an entrepreneur, depends on a mix of skill, hard work, and luck. As a tech entrepreneur you know that the odds are long from the outset, that most startups are ultimately unsuccessful. Those of you who know me are probably aware that I’m a rabid soccer (football) fan.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

In 2016, Miami posted a startup density of 113 small tech firms per every thousand companies, and the city’s rate of new entrepreneurs is nearly 0.5 percent, higher than San Francisco. The City by the Bay has earned the title of being the new heart of Silicon Valley, a distinction once bestowed upon San Jose.

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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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Campus Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Cool student entrepreneur story out of San Jose State University where students and recent alum use the school’s business plan competition to raise basic funding and launch a beta product for their student note sharing service. New Web site lets students share notes from SJSU classes – News.

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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. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. Steve Bennet. at 12:47 PM. Email This BlogThis!

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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. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. I think this sentiment has given angel groups a bad name.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

Fast-paced, thought-provoking and social, this Ignite features presentations from in-the-trenches entrepreneurs ready to share their lessons learned. For some of my thoughts on Lean Startup Machine, see A month is fifteen weekends and The real entrepreneurs of New York City. Also: booze.

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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. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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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.

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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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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Natural language statements examples such as “download album #8832” or “take ABC to airport” make it easy for entrepreneurs to get up and running.

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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. You can go on there and say, “I’m an entrepreneur, and I am starting a business. Welcome to the Bcast, the official podcast of Bplans.com.

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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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