Global Later Stage Revenue Silicon Valley 
View from Seed
APRIL 30, 2015
Below, we talk to Glen Mello , Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank’s accelerator team in Boston. NVV: Let’s talk about the seed stage specifically. Traction and revenue? As a startup grows, venture debt becomes a viable option to continue that growth. Business model? Previous capital raised?
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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Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 12, 2013
Super-angel investors are a new category of investors (like Mike Maples Jr. ), closer to venture capitalists, who are perceived to be more sophisticated, insightful, or well-connected in the startup community, particularly with respect to technology companies in Silicon Valley and other technology centers (also called micro-VCs).
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 1, 2009
automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the global economy. This time in what would become Silicon Valley. The company was lucky to survive his later stage leadership, and would be gone today had Bill Ford not brought in the ex-Boeing fellow who turned it around and runs it today.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. Typically, this caliber of bankers wouldn’t talk to you unless your company had five profitable quarters of increasing revenue.
Austin Startup
JUNE 26, 2019
Our venture was selected for competitive accelerator spots & recognition from media and mentors from Austin, Chicago and Silicon Valley to work on this problem and capture the value its solution provided. You might notice what’s not on that list above: revenue, investors. He then called me “a real bone-crusher of a founder”.
Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
I’ve seen the Valley grow from Sunnyvale to Santa Clara to today where it stretches from San Jose to South of Market in San Francisco. I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley. So how did this happen? Where is it going?
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