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Peter Thiel

Pour les articles homonymes, voir Thiel. Peter Thiel Peter Thiel en 2007 Peter Andreas Thiel né le est un entrepreneur américain, gérant de hedge fund, et investisseur de capital risque. Avec Max Levchin, Thiel cofonde PayPal et devient son CEO. Biographie[modifier | modifier le code] Peter Thiel naît le à Francfort-sur-le-Main en Allemagne mais sa famille déménage à Cleveland aux États-Unis alors qu'il n'a qu'un an. À l'université Stanford, il étudie la philosophie du XXe siècle[2]. Après avoir obtenu un J.D. de Stanford en 1992, Thiel a été greffier pour le juge J.L.

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Podcasts. Dave McClure. Dave McClure. Dave McClure is an entrepreneur and prominent angel investor based in the San Francisco Bay Area, who founded and runs the business incubator 500 Startups. He is often described as one of the super angel investors.[2] David S. Rose. SIIA (the US Software and Information Industry Association) named Gust the Best Collaboration Solution of 2013, at the gala during the All About The Cloud annual conference in San Francisco on Thursday.

David S. Rose

Read more Equity dilution works when the same pie is divided among more people. The Founder of a company starts by owning all the shares representing ownership of the company. Notes Essays—Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup—Stanford, Spring 2012. David S. Rose. David Semel Rose (b 12 June 1957) is a serial entrepreneur[1] and angel investor, based in New York.

David S. Rose

He is an investor in startup technology companies and founder of New York Angels, an early-stage technology investment group.[2] He is Managing Partner of Rose Tech Ventures,[3] a venture fund focused on Internet-based business,[4] and CEO of Gust (formerly known as Angelsoft), which operates a collaboration platform for early stage angel investing[5][6] Rose was involved in the early development of the Silicon Alley technology community in New York,[7][8] including working with pre-Internet era online data services and founding Ex Machina, a computer software company;[9] The Computer Classroom, an early personal computer training company;[10] and AirMedia, an early wireless Internet information network.[11] In an interview in 2010, Rose stated: "When AirMedia went down it was the single biggest disappointment of my life at that point.

I cried myself to sleep. Thoughts. Steve Blank. Steve Blank. Steve Blank (born 1953) is a Silicon Valley serial-entrepreneur and academician who is based in Pescadero, California.[1] Blank is recognized for developing the Customer Development methodology, which launched the Lean Startup movement.[2] Blank is also the co-founder of E.piphany.[3][4] Blank has spent over thirty years within the high technology industry.

Steve Blank

He has founded or worked within eight startup companies, four of which have gone public.[3][5] Blank's Google Tech talk, The Secret History of Silicon Valley, offers a widely regarded insider's perspective on the emerging Silicon Valley's start-up innovation. Blank has published three books: The Four Steps to the Epiphany, Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost and The Startup Owner's Manual.[6][7] 2X Entrepreneur Turned Venture Capitalist.

Marc Huster. Marc Huster (born 1 July 1970 in Altdöbern) is a German weightlifter and sports commentator.

Marc Huster

World Champion in Istanbul 1994, European Champion in Rijeka 1997, Riesa 1998, and Deportivo La Coruña 1999. World records in clean and jerk 1993 (210 kg) and 1996 (213.5 kg), world record in Olympic weightlifting combined 1994 (382.5 kg), European record in clean and jerk 1999 (215 kg). He ranked 7th at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, won a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta in the 83 kg class, and another silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney in the 85 kg class. Huster retired his weightlifting career in 2002. Since 1997 he comments on weightlifting events for Eurosport, in 2002 he started working for German broadcaster Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. Ben's blog. Ben Horowitz. Ben Horowitz (born June 13, 1966 in London, England and raised in Berkeley, California) is an American businessman, investor, blogger, and author.

He is a high technology entrepreneur and co-founder and general partner along with Marc Andreessen of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He co-founded and served as president and chief executive officer of the enterprise software company Opsware, which Hewlett-Packard acquired for $1.6 billion in cash in July 2007.[1] Horowitz is the author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers.[2] In the book, published on March 4, 2014 by HarperCollins, Horowitz offers advice on building and running a startup.[3] Paul Graham.

Paul Graham. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Paul Graham. A VC. Fred Wilson. Fred Wilson (born August 20, 1961) is a New York City-based venture capitalist and blogger.

Fred Wilson

Wilson is the co-founder of Union Square Ventures, a New York City-based venture capital firm with investments in Web 2.0 companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Zynga, Kickstarter, and 10gen. Wilson has served as a judge for Mayor Michael Bloomberg's NYC BigApps competition in NYC. Pmarca. Marc Andreessen. Early life and education[edit] Andreessen was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and raised in New Lisbon, Wisconsin,[10] the son of Patricia and Lowell Andreessen, who worked for a seed company.[11] In December 1993,[10] he received his bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Marc Andreessen

As an undergraduate, he interned one summer at IBM in Austin, Texas, United States. He also worked at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, where he became familiar with Tim Berners-Lee's open standards for the World Wide Web. Andreessen and a full-time salaried co-worker Eric Bina worked on creating a user-friendly browser with integrated graphics that would work on a wide range of computers.

The resulting code was the Mosaic Web browser. Chris Dixon. Chris Dixon. Business career[edit] In the 1990s, he spent three years as a software programmer at a high-frequency trading firm. He then joined the venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners. R. Paul Singh's Blog. Startup Related Blogs. Lessons Learned. Eric Ries. Eric Ries (born 1979)[1] is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author recognized for pioneering the Lean Startup movement, a new-business strategy which directs startup companies to allocate their resources as efficiently as possible.

Eric Ries

He is also a well-known blogger within the technology entrepreneur community.