Sentences with phrase «prominent venture capitalist»

This all comes at the same time as prominent venture capitalists are increasingly talking about social issues as promising markets.

Tim Draper, the billionaire technology investor and prominent venture capitalist who has invested in some of the most successful technology startups in the likes of Coinbase,...

3 min readGuy Kawasaki, one of the most prominent venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as well as one of the original marketers of Apple, has struck out on his own and self - published a book (which fittingly enough, is about self - publishing).

Recently Steve Blank, a very prominent venture capitalist began working collaboratively with the SBIR team to implement a more hands - on scientist entrepreneurship training program called I - Corps.

That disclosure came after Cadre had raised $ 65 million more in venture funding from major donors including Andreessen Horowitz, adding to a list of prominent venture capitalists such as Democratic donor George Soros and tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel.

The summit brought together prominent venture capitalists and entrepreneurs in the Korean and Korean - American startup ecosystem, including Charlie Kim, founder of e-commerce startup Next Jump.

Flipboard, which is backed by some of Silicon Valley's most prominent venture capitalists with over $ 160 million in investment, has its own growth problems.

After Mr. Szabo led the company in a new direction, it was renamed Mirror, and it recently raised $ 12.5 million from several prominent venture capitalists, these people said.

Prominent venture capitalist Fred Wilson spoke at a recent event held by the NYC Foundation for Computer Science Education, in which he highlighted the two biggest threats holding back bitcoin from entering into the realm of the mainstream: security and hoarding.

The problem, as one prominent venture capitalist observed recently, is that the City focuses on acquiring current income instead of building long - term value.

At a conference hosted by TechCrunch and prominent venture capitalist Naval Ravikant, Buterin also emphasized that for blockchain networks to handle IoT, they need to be able to process hundreds of thousands of data points per second.

Tim Draper, the billionaire technology investor and prominent venture capitalist who has invested in some of the most successful technology startups in the likes of Coinbase,...

Guy Kawasaki, one of the most prominent venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as well as one of the original marketers of Apple, has struck out on his own and self - published a book (which fittingly enough, is about self - publishing).

Coinbase's founders have a proven startup track record and have raised money from very prominent venture capitalists.

One of the most prominent venture capitalists in Silicon Valley is leaving the sector for political reasons.

And, she says the sexual harassment scandal that resulted in the resignations of prominent venture capitalists this summer has «some venture capitalists and top leadership paying more attention.»

But if, as prominent venture capitalists have predicted, some billion - dollar unicorns turn into unicorpses in 2016, the opaque world of startup investing will get ugly.

And Trump's performance dismayed some prominent venture capitalists, such as Marc Andreessen, who tweeted about it:

And prominent venture capitalists and entrepreneurs like Marc Andreessen, Max Levchin and Reid Hoffman are also not attending.

Prominent venture capitalist and co-founder of Kholsa Ventures Vinod Khosla was back in the news this week after being sued over his privatization of a once - public California beach, which he purchased in 2008 for nearly $ 40 million.

The prominent venture capitalist and Facebook board director had condemned the Indian government for banning the social - media company's free Internet service.

Vinod Khosla, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems who is today a prominent venture capitalist, has publically spoken about his preference for funding young entrepreneurs on multiple occasions, the post points out.

Bill Gurley, the prominent venture capitalist at Benchmark, is still issuing sky - is - falling bubble warnings.

Marc Andreessen, the prominent venture capitalist, has gone so far as to call this the «secret formula to becoming a C.E.O.» The most successful corporate leaders, he wrote, «are almost never the best product visionaries, or the best salespeople, or the best marketing people, or the best finance people, or even the best managers, but they are top 25 percent in some set of those skills, and then all of a sudden they're qualified to actually run something important.»

This is one if not the most prominent venture capitalists in the world, chairman of Sequoia Capital.

Two of the most prominent venture capitalists in the United States have launched a new investment firm that's generating buzz in Silicon Valley and beyond...

Two of the most prominent venture capitalists in the United States have launched a new investment firm that's generating buzz in Silicon Valley and beyond at a time of intensifying debate about diversity in the technology industry.

«Starting as a person who really had never been in any other corporation except Affymetrix, he grew into a real business leader,» says Siegel, who is now a prominent venture capitalist.

The former Google executive convinced Mark Zuckerberg and prominent venture capitalists to commit $ 175 million to his startup, AltSchool.

Steve Jurvetson, the prominent venture capitalist who left DFJ in a messy split late last year, is starting his own firm, Recode has learned.

He's a prominent venture capitalist who has invested in dozens of tech companies — including Tumblr and, once upon a time, GeoCities too.

Balaji Srinivasan, a prominent venture capitalist and partner at A16Z pointed out that the Bitcoin phenomenon will soon take up a magnanimous form with everyone treating it as the sole mode of financial operations.

As prominent venture capitalist and NBA's Golden State Warriors owner Chamath Palihapitiya stated:

Tim Draper, the billionaire technology investor and prominent venture capitalist who has invested in some of the most successful technology startups in the likes of Coinbase, Patreon, SpaceX, Tesla, Box, FourSquare, has profited over $ 110 million from his investment in bitcoin less than three years ago.

As Chamath Palihapitiya, the prominent venture capitalist and owner of the Golden State Warriors stated, governments are limited in what they can control in regards to Bitcoin and public blockchain networks.

At the conference in which Dimon spoke, Chamath Palihapitiya, a prominent venture capitalist and the owner of the Golden State Warriors, also refuted Dimon's claims.