A new report shows startup valuations increasing at pre-2008 levels — but can these soaring numbers weather the recent market instability?
The most recent Silicon Valley Venture Capital Survey from tech-focused law firm Fenwick & West looked at 117 Silicon …
The biggest question on every mind in Silicon Valley relates to our collective worst nightmare: Could a macroeconomic collapse trigger another dotcom-esque bust?
For at least one VC, Draper Fisher Jurvetson partner Tim Draper, the market for U.S. startups just …
Two lonely entrepreneurs in Chicago, far from their homes in Los Angeles, hacked together a site in 2010 that let people sign up to meet them over lunch or dinner.
Their novel idea was an instant hit, and now, one …
Investor confidence in Silicon Valley slumped in the second quarter of 2011, according to the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index.
Although the index saw a year-over-year increase, the metric was lower than in the preceding three quarters, registering at …
L.A. isn’t just a mecca for film and video game studios. In the past three years, the Los Angeles tech scene has evolved from a small cadre of social media-happy party animals to a legitimate and sustainable tech community …
Quick: what words are Silicon Valley singles more likely to use than other Americans when describing themselves on Internet dating sites?
Try these: queer, decadent, robot, raiding, wacky and telepathic, to name a few.
Musician and exerimental media dude R. …
The bulls are back in Silicon Valley in a variety of ways. Let’s hope reports of the recovery are true and that the optimism doesn’t get overheated too fast and turn into a bubble of the dot-com era’s scale.
The …
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I love Boston. I lived there for five of the best years of my life, when I was working at D. E. Shaw & Co., and then when I attended Harvard Business School.
If anyone asks, I always tell them, …
IT search engine provider Splunk is opening an office in Seattle, Wash., to try to acquire some of the talent in the area — and will be competing with a number of Web 2.0 titans and tech giants to do …
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(Editor’s note: David Brussin is the founder and CEO of Monetate. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
Contrary to conventional wisdom, Silicon Valley isn’t the only place to go when you get serious about building a new company in the …
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(Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. A longer version of this story originally appeared on his blog.)
As we wrap up 2010, things might seem bleak. The common wisdom …
We don’t hear “death of Detroit” stories as often now as we did a year ago.
When GM and Chrysler plunged into bankruptcy and the entire U.S. industry laid off tens of thousands of workers in one year, the effects …
Microsoft has a sprawling campus in tech’s heartland, right by the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif. It has thousands of employees in the Bay Area. But the departure of a high-profile evangelist once called the software giant’s “ambassador to Silicon …
Despite what today’s young entrepreneurs might think, Silicon Valley didn’t launch with the Internet – or even Steve Jobs. It goes back to the World War II days. Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank has given talks on the evolution of the …
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(Editors’ note: Ali Davar is the CEO of Worio, a Vancouver-based startup. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.)
It’s easy to feel left out if you’re a startup that’s not based in Silicon Valley.
We’ll admit to feeling the occasional …
