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Sierra Partner Robert Walker to Give Keynote at Cleantech Investor Forum
Join CleanTechOC and OCTANe for the inaugural Cleantech Investor Forum on May 14. The Forum will bring together over 250 innovators and experts in the cleantech space across California. The event will feature:
Whitman Buildings Renamed after Gift from Sierra Ventures Managing Director Peter Wendell
When Adam Smyles ’15, a current resident of North B Hall in Whitman College, logged onto the Residential College Facebook a few months ago and the search results informed that his building no longer existed, he said he was a bit confused.
Sierra Ventures Managing Director Peter Wendell Featured in New Yorker Article
Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it’s as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever. Students ride their bikes through manicured quads, past blooming flowers and statues by Rodin, to buildings named for benefactors like Gates, Hewlett, and Packard. Everyone seems happy, though there is a well-known phenomenon called the “Stanford duck syndrome”: students seem cheerful, but all the while they are furiously paddling their legs to stay afloat. What they are generally paddling toward are careers of the sort that could get their names on those buildings. The campus has its…Continue Reading »
Sierra’s Vispi Daver Participates in Panel at Plug and Play’s 2012 Spring Expo
Startup expos and hackathons are becoming pretty common these days in this new-age, entrepreneurial landscape. Recently, I attended one at Plug And Play Tech Center — one of the premier service providers for startups in Silicon Valley. Regular readers may remember my feature on them in February (Read: Plug and Play). They had organized a Spring EXPO March 22. These expos are Plug and Play’s quarterly flagship events showcasing “best of breed,” emerging technology companies and introducing new products and services. This was an all-day affair with various interesting events and presentations. This expo provides a platform for startups to…Continue Reading »
Sierra’s Vispi Daver Comments on Nasdaq Composite Crossed 3000: What It Means for Tech Startups
Zynga, creator of popular games like FarmVille which can be played on Facebook, successfully wrapped a $1 billion IPO last December. Exactly three months later, it was back to raise another $400 million in a follow-on offering.
Sierra’s Ben Yu Selected by AlwaysOn as a Power Player in the Cloud winner
Behind every successful cloud and SaaS startup is a handful of power players guiding the founders. Smart and savvy investors may give you a kick start, or a corporate strategic partner might chip in some expansion capital and join your board. In celebration of these key insiders, AlwaysOn is seeking nominations for your favorite Power Players in the Cloud.
Sierra Partner Robert Walker Panelist Speaker at TiE Energy Event
“For successful cleantech companies — and there have been 23, if success is defined as having gone public on a major U.S. [stock] exchange the average time to go public was nine years,” said Matt Trevithick of Venrock at a recent TiE (formerly The Indus Entrepreneurs) Energy event. “Entrepreneurs in cleantech have to have extraordinary patience. This is a 10-year journey just to get started.”
