February 2012
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“Take immigrants out of Silicon Valley and you have no Silicon Valley”
– Michael Moritz
Feb 25th
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Feb 17th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
Feb 3rd
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Feb 3rd
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Feb 1st
January 2012
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Jan 28th
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Jan 25th
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“People may know us today as the magic folder on their desktop or the app on...”
– Drew Houston, Dropbox
Jan 17th
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Airbnb, reestablishing a sense of community.
Jan 16th
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“The truth is that start ups are hard, they’re a slog, they’re a huge amount of...”
– Aaron Harris of Tutorspree to Forbes.
Jan 5th
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December 2011
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“On one hand, I’m really proud of that, and I’m really proud of our team. But on...”
– Phil Libin of Evernote on growing from 6 million to 20 million users in one year.
Dec 28th
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Tutorspree Blog: Funding the future of... →
Dec 22nd
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“At that point I would barely have been able to pick California off a map, and I...”
– Michael Moritz on making the move from the UK after advice from Bill Deedes.
Dec 22nd
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Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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“This is the public financing of twelve years ago, it is just done privately.”
– Michael Moritz on Klarna’s $155M round.
Dec 10th
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November 2011
22 posts
Four trends that shaped cloud computing in 2011 -... →
Nov 29th
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Stripe makes it easy to start accepting payments... →
Nov 29th
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David Lieb of Bump on reaching over 60 million downloads.
Nov 29th
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Nov 23rd
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Nov 21st
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Nov 17th
Green Dot founder Steve Streit named the Ernst &... →
Nov 15th
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How Flite is reinventing display ads
Nov 15th
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At GigaOM RoadMap 2011, Hosain Rahman explains how devices like Jawbone’s Up Band could make it possible to move into an era where our bodies can be connected to everything in our world.
Nov 11th
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“The hardest thing is for any entrepreneur is to start” Jack Dorsey, Square at GigaOM RoadMap 2011
Nov 11th
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Interview with Matt MacInnis of Inkling at GigaOm RoadMap Conference - As books go digital, traditional bookstores will have to emphasize the social aspects of reading if they want to survive. 
Nov 11th
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Married to your start-up. Sugar, Eventbrite and... →
Nov 11th
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Interview with Drew Houston of Dropbox at GigOM RoadMap Conference - The company’s success has been greatly aided by the fact that consumers want the same nifty tools they use from home, in the office.
Nov 11th
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What’s next from Airbnb? Co-founder Brian Chesky tells TechCrunch about Asian expansion and more.
Nov 11th
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Whole raft of companies from all over the world will solve problems and needs we can’t even imagine today, Michael Mortiz of Sequoia Capital, GigaOm RoadMap Conference
Nov 10th
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TUNE IN! Stellar speaker line-up at GigaOm’s RoadMap conference today. We are proud to be in business with some of the headliners Airbnb, Dropbox, Inkling, Jawbone and Square.
Nov 10th
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In the final installment of DropBox’s founder stories, Drew Houston offers this advice to other founders and entrepreneurs. 
Nov 4th
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In the third video of ‘Founder Stories,’ Drew Houston reflects on when he knew Dropbox was going to be a success and what they did to get their first 10 million users.
Nov 4th
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The second installment of Drew Houston’s ‘Founder Stories’ video interview with TechCrunch.  In Part 2, Drew discusses early testing of the DropBox product.
Nov 3rd
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DropBox co-founder, Drew Houston recently sat down with TechCrunch for a 4 part ‘Founder Stories’ video interview to discuss the origins of Dropbox. Part 1 covers the beginning days of DropBox.
Nov 3rd
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Great perspective at Disrupt Beijing from Hosain Rahman of Jawbone on why Silicon Valley needs China to survive
Nov 2nd
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View the presentation while listening to Jim Goetz discuss founders, ideas and timing from Sequoia’s perspective at last weekend’s Y Combinator Start Up School  http://bit.ly/ucc8Zj
Nov 2nd
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October 2011
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Three pieces of advice that Dropbox’s Drew Houston gives young entrepreneurs (Sequoia Capital became Drew and Arash’s first business partner in 2007): 1) Everything starts small 2) Get out of your comfort zone 3) Stack the odds in your favor 
Oct 31st
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“Starting a company requires you to become oddly unemotional. That means dumping fear of failure, dumping fear of judgement, dumping the desire to impress anyone.” Max Levchin, Paypal Co-founder (Sequoia Capital got into business with Max in ‘99 at PayPal)
Oct 31st
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“Sequoia Capital’s 40 years of experience shows us that today is a spectacular time to start a company.” Jim Goetz at Y Combinator’s 7th Annual Start-up School 
Oct 31st
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3 from Fortune's 40 under 40 =Drew Houston & Arash... →
Oct 20th
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Oct 18th
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Evernote in Fortune Magazine: Making the Whole World Smarter
Oct 12th
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Summing up Square
2B in Payments + 800K Merchants Signed Up= Square http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/10/square-processing-2b-in-payments-per-year-signed-up-800k-merchants-drops-new-user-limits
Oct 12th