description: a road in Menlo Park, California, known for its concentration of venture capital firms
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by Scott Kupor · 3 Jun 2019 · 340pp · 100,151 words
Left (The Good Kind) Conclusion: The World Is Flat Appendix: Sample Term Sheet Acknowledgments Notes Index About the Author FOREWORD Scott Kupor’s Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It is motivated by the desire to democratize opportunity. It demystifies venture capital, laying out how this crucial part
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a better world is one in which everyone is represented and served well by the companies and systems we create. That’s why Secrets of Sand Hill Road is so valuable, and so timely. It’s for people interested in venture capital, of course, but it’s also for anyone who cares about
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in corporate innovation (who can look to the VC world for inspiration on how to fund and grow projects within their organizations). Finally, Secrets of Sand Hill Road is for all the entrepreneurs who might not see themselves as a part of Silicon Valley—everyone who might not be considering trying to start
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to take us there. Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Introduction I am writing this book from my office on Sand Hill Road, the hallowed Silicon Valley street that holds as much promise for entrepreneurs as Hollywood Boulevard does for actors, Wall Street does for investment bankers, and
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Music Row does for country music artists. And, as with most of the storied streets, it’s not much to write home about—Sand Hill Road is a drab collection of modest, low-rise office buildings, upstaged by its much more famous neighbor, Stanford University. But I’m not writing it
by Joel Spolsky · 1 Jun 2007 · 194pp · 36,223 words
retire early and spend the next couple of decades going to conferences for women bloggers. So you might spend most of your time driving around Sand Hill Road talking to VCs who might buy the company and flip it to Yahoo!. But Janice the Programmer, one of your employees, doesn’t care about
by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake · 7 Nov 2017 · 346pp · 89,180 words
. Most of the intangible-rich businesses of Silicon Valley, and many high-growth businesses beyond, got their earliest investments from the venture capital firms on Sand Hill Road. This form of financing has evolved together with businesses like Intel, Google, Genentech, and Uber, whose competitive advantages depend on intangibles: valuable R&D, novel
by Vivek Wadhwa · 1 Oct 2012 · 103pp · 24,033 words
professors of that caliber. Jin has recruited other expat Chinese scientists to return to their country of birth and work as researchers and scientists. Beyond Sand Hill Road Immigrant entrepreneurs now have many options besides the United States. For the report “America’s Loss Is the World’s Gain”, which was published by
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and Decline of the Immigrant-Powered Startup Machine The Immigrant Entrepreneur Tide Peaks Chapter 3: The Innovator’s Dilemma: Leaving America for Greener Pastures Beyond Sand Hill Road The Decline of Silicon Valley Entrepreneurship: Why the IIT Grads Are Going Home Chapter 4: H-1B Visas and Immigration Limbo How the H-1B
by Joel Spolsky · 25 Jun 2008 · 292pp · 81,699 words
retire early and spend the next couple of decades going to conferences for women bloggers. So you might spend most of your time driving around Sand Hill Road talking to VCs who might buy the company and flip it to Yahoo!. But Janice the Programmer, one of your employees, doesn’t care about
by Sally Smith Hughes
’s ability to assess individual character and motivation. Late in 1974 Swanson joined Kleiner & Perkins as a junior partner in its Menlo Park office on Sand Hill Road. He was twenty-six. One of Swanson’s assignments was to monitor the partnership’s substantial investment in Cetus Corporation, the company about to acquire
by Chris Kuenne and John Danner · 5 Jun 2017 · 276pp · 64,903 words
go to the end of the earth to get the money I need on the terms I deserve. I’ve told plenty of people on Sand Hill Road [the favored address for many Silicon Valley VCs] to f— off.” Your early market momentum can lead to an arrogance with investors—arrogance that can
by Zoë Schiffer · 13 Feb 2024 · 343pp · 92,693 words
known as PayPal. That March, Musk took Thiel for a ride in the McLaren. “So what can this do?” Thiel asked, as they drove up Sand Hill Road in the heart of Silicon Valley. “Watch this,” Musk replied. He rammed his foot onto the gas, changed lanes, and hit an embankment. The car
by Tom Eisenmann · 29 Mar 2021 · 387pp · 106,753 words
YOUR Terms (New York: Portfolio, 2011); Jason Calacanis, Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups (New York: Harper Business, 2017); and Scott Kupor, Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It (New York: Portfolio, 2019). As my HBS colleague Bill Sahlman: Wasserman, Founder’s Dilemmas, p. 291. Marc Andreessen
by Rana Foroohar · 5 Nov 2019 · 380pp · 109,724 words
having earned it, by creating real value in the form of their companies. Yet most of that value would prove to be on paper only. Sand Hill Road venture capitalists were pouring millions into Silicon Valley’s dot-com companies; British investors tried to emulate them. Continental banks desperate for higher margins were
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