This is where people meet their first investors, this is where they meet their co-founder for the first time. Sometimes this is a really important part of Silicon Valley. And you actually were in YC yourself. Oh, yeah. I lived five blocks down that way and YC is about five blocks do...
It really has to be someone who can not only be trusted by the community here [in Japan] and also by the headquarters,” suggested the investor, a former partner at Silicon Valley’s influential venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. That’s because a lot of the work needs to be done...
Silicon Valley has faced tough questions as the treatment of women and minorities in tech has become top of mind for the past several months. High-profile lawsuits and sexual-discrimination complaints have attracted additional scrutiny. But all this also speaks to how influential the sector has bec...
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Out of desperation, some in Silicon Valley seem intent on reviving McCarthy’s old playbook, distracting from real problems by feinting at Communists. Most prominently, Marc Andreessen, one of the richest investors in Silicon Valley, recently wrote a “Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” enumerating a ...
Again, future investors will judge you for your capacity to raise money from this network. That’s one of the reasons why Silicon Valley is such a fantastic hub for startups. If you grew up in the Bay Area you are likely to have friends and family who work in startups, understand th...
first-time founder, that are interesting enough for West Coast folks to place some bets on because they are doing 30 or 50 deals a year. For individual investors (like myself) or the scant superangels/micro-VCs here doing 10 deals a year, each one has to be thought through more fully....
"In those two or three months, I often traveled between China, New York and Boston." Zhang Zhaoyang said with great regret that at that time, venture capitalists in the US did not believe in entrepreneurs far from China. In order to call investors, he queued up in public telephone booths...
When you actualize the success you anticipate, you need to answer the question about how you plan to scale to meet demand. Most important, be honest. When you describe your market in generalities and exaggerate potential, you run the risk of investors thinking that you "don't know the ...
These are companies that start with a unique idea that can be built to a large scale—think Silicon Valley. The hopes are to innovate with a unique product or service and continue growing the company, continuously scaling up over time. These types of companies often require investors and large...