Silicon Valley Uncovered: Loic says Seesmic.tv ‘was 10-years too early’ + Seesmic office tour [video]

Seesmic office tour Interview with Loic Le Meur part 1 Interview with Loic Le Meur part 2 This video was bought to you bySitePenandViadeo. Last week I caught up withLoic Le Meur, Founder of LeWeb andSeesmic, the social management tool for enterprises that started off as a video chat platform and pivoted into a desktop client. The company recently raised $4million in funding from Salesforce and Softbank Holdings which also gives Seesmic access to Salesforce client base....

1 min · 201 words · Brenda Williams

Silicon Valley Uncovered: PariSoma to launch innovation hubs in New York, London, Sao Paulo, Moscow, Beijing [video]

This video was bought to you bySitePenandViadeo. The Internet and technology industry is growing all over the world and it’s not only Silicon Valley that needs space to house all the innovation taking place. Dotted around SF and Palo Alto there’s incubators, co-working spaces and innovation lofts. I visited one of the valley’s most prolific co-working spacesThe Parisoma Innovation Loft, aptly named because it is located south of Market in the heart of San Fran’s startup district....

2 min · 231 words · Monica Humphrey DDS

Silicon Valley Uncovered: Park Circa -make money from your parking space when you’re not using it

This video was bought to you bySitePenandViadeo. Utilizing location data to offer services more efficiently than traditional models is hot property right now; there’s Airbnb, the startup that utilizes spare space andRent My Car, the company allowing peer-to-peer car sharing and now there isPark Circa, the company that connects people who have empty parking spaces during a set time to people that need them. Calling all Scaleup founders! Join the Soonicorn Summit on November 28 in Amsterdam....

2 min · 293 words · Joseph Aguilar

Silicon Valley Uncovered: Q: Most exciting technology? A: A European company

Paul Bragielis a partner ati/o ventures, astartupprogram that focuses heavily on it’s mentorship. i/o has one ofSilicon Valley‘s famous incubators/coffee shopThe Summitwhere people sit with their laptops building startups and it’s easy to bump into someone who has sold their company for millions of dollars toGoogle. Paul has been around the valley since the first.com boomin the 90’s and so I sat down with him to talk about all things tech and was surprised to find out the most exciting technology he’s seen lately is Polish startupCodility– the software that tests developers and coders’ skill levels....

1 min · 184 words · Rachel Rice

Silicon Valley: From Aerospace to Angel Investing

Moffett Field in Sunnyvale, CA. Today it is home to theNASA Aimes Research Center, but it’s the Garden of Eden from which today’s vibrant Silicon Valley startup culture first emerged. Not what you expected? In order to understand how an airstrip lies at the heart of the world’s most dynamic technology hub, it’s important to quickly examine the role of the area’s role in World War II. The area south of San Francisco, today known as Silicon Valley, was little more than farmland throughout the War years, but there was one man in particular who shaped the outcome of the war and the destiny of this area, Stanford University DeanFrederick Terman....

6 min · 1088 words · Lonnie Moran
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