blog villoslado » venture capital http://www.blogvilloslado.com all about tech, economics, and venture capital Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:50:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Goldman Sachs thinks these startups will IPO http://www.blogvilloslado.com/2011/12/04/goldman-sachs-thinks-these-startups-will-ipo/ http://www.blogvilloslado.com/2011/12/04/goldman-sachs-thinks-these-startups-will-ipo/#comments Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:23:32 +0000 Gerardo Villoslado http://www.blogvilloslado.com/?p=81 Goldman Sachs held its “Private Internet Company Conference” this week in Las Vegas. A bunch of companies presented their business models to an audience of bankers, investors, and peers.

Marc Andreessen, Keith Rabois, and Ron Conway were present at the event. This event functions as a foresighted form of lead generation. These are the 30 startups Goldman Sachs has designated as potential IPO candidates and it wants to make a relationship as early on as possible.

  • Rovio
  • Shopkick
  • Specific Media
  • Survey Mokey
  • Square
  • TrialPay
  • Trunk Club
  • Tumblr
  • Uber
  • Warby Parker
  • WePay
  • Xoom
  • ZocDoc
  • Zoosk

* Check this one out!

]]> http://www.blogvilloslado.com/2011/12/04/goldman-sachs-thinks-these-startups-will-ipo/feed/ 0 Horowitz tells you what it’s like at a startup http://www.blogvilloslado.com/2011/12/04/ben-horowitz-tells-you-what-its-really-like-at-a-startup/ http://www.blogvilloslado.com/2011/12/04/ben-horowitz-tells-you-what-its-really-like-at-a-startup/#comments Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:54:08 +0000 Gerardo Villoslado http://www.blogvilloslado.com/?p=77 Ben Horowitz is the co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and has invested in Twitter, Skype, and Facebook.

In a 2009 talk, he said what it’s like to start a tech company. He also discusses what it was like during the dot-com bubble and eventual burst, blaming it on technology not being quite there yet to support all of the great ideas.

It’s a must-watch for entrepreneurs.

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Abbott has a deep background in social and mobile applications and infrastructure, and is an expert in enterprise infrastructure and cloud computing and big data businesses. At KPCB he fill focus on investments in startups in the social, mobile, and cloud arenas. He will be just the third senior partner added in three years, joining Bing Gordon and Mary Meeker.

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