Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. Silicon Valley (and Alley) has been super excited about the new category of “group text messaging&# and for valid reasons.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation. Hiring technology talent in Silicon Valley is getting difficult, and the time it takes to drive across Palo Alto has tripled—all signs of the impending apocalypse.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Network effects of cities and innovation — and how it ties to inequality Just as there are network effects in online platforms, where a network grows more valuable to users the more users that join and use it, there are also network effects in the physical world. The same applies to cities. Federal government.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination? The second wave of companies were mainly concentrated in Silicon Valley, and coincided with the rise of platforms (Google, Facebook, etc.) Was this going to happen anyway?

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 8, 2012

I talked about creative disruption and how many significant companies would be formed as a result of this (not dissimilar to what I saw in Silicon Valley while investing post 2001 crash). In contrast, many Silicon Valley funds are large with much capital to put to work (which is why we are seeing them lead NYC deals at these stages).

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philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Silicon Valley Frontlines. Someone in my network forwarded an email to me from a recruiting firm that is quite active in the Valley. This same 'later stage can't pay you anything up front' ruse gets done for sales and marketing types, too. Globalization. Life in the Valley.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

To turn your company’s stock into cash, you engaged a top-notch investment bank (Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs) and/or their Silicon Valley compatriots (Hambrecht & Quist, Montgomery Securities, Robertson Stephens). provide experienced and hands-on mentorship; and offer a growing network of founding CEOs.

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