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AUGUST 27, 2012

By now you probably know that David Sacks , co-founder of PayPal and founder of both Geni & Yammer made some observations on Facebook that Silicon Valley “as we know it” was coming to an end. We once thought Microsoft was a monopoly on the Internet due to IE. It simply hasn’t played out in history. Laughable now.

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JULY 29, 2010

The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc). Tough, but true.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders. That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. Public stock market trades by senior executives of corporations. I have talked in the past about other layers that are emerging particularly in social networking and mobile applications.

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