XSeed Capital is excited to announce the April 6 book launch of Becoming Facebook: The 10 Challenges That Defined the Company That’s Disrupting the World, written by XSeed Executive-in-Residence, Mike Hoefflinger. The following is an excerpt from Chapter 3.
In the summer of 2009, Silicon Valley’s (and my) past met its (and my) future.
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This article was written by XSeed Capital Executive-In-Residence, Mike Hoefflinger, and originally appeared on TechCrunch.
In-home video entertainment is a very big deal. $381 billion globally in 2019 big. About $100 billion in North America big. Triple the revenue of apps and games big.
No wonder, then, that it won’t get
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This article was written by XSeed Capital Executive-In-Residence, Mike Hoefflinger, and originally appeared on TechCrunch.
I’m impatient to see breakthroughs in cars. I have high expectations for what Apple will do and respect for what Tesla has already done. I agree with Peter Thiel on the we-were-promised-jet-cars-but-got-140-characters
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This article was written by XSeed Capital Executive-In-Residence, Mike Hoefflinger, and originally appeared on TechCrunch.
With each of the six biggest global consumer technology companies now deeply invested and feverishly in development, VR/AR has become too big to fail. Facebook Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR (powered by Oculus), Google Cardboard and its Magic Leap investment
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This XSeed blog was written by Executive-in-Residence, Mike Hoefflinger, and originally appeared on Forbes.
Will Elon Musk’s navigation from near-bankruptcy to becoming the first new public American car company started in nearly a hundred years end with Model 3?
RecapIn a previous post, I introduced the “Clever-Foolish 2×2” behind
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This XSeed blog was written by Executive-in-Residence, Mike Hoefflinger, and originally appeared on Forbes.
If the Clever-Foolish 2×2 is Silicon Valley’s strategic playbook, here is how Mark Zuckerberg has employed it in the past, and will employ it long into the future.
RecapIn a previous post, I introduced the
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This XSeed blog was written by Executive-in-Residence, Mike Hoefflinger, and originally appeared on Forbes.
Neither Incrementalism Nor An Infinite MonkeyThere’s something special about breakout Silicon Valley-style innovation. Not the ecosystem that makes it possible for hundreds — if not thousands — of efforts to launch, but the handful that win. And keep
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This XSeed blog was written by Executive-in-Residence, Mike Hoefflinger, and originally appeared on VentureBeat.
Silicon Valley has remained the innovation engine of the world since its consumer beginnings in 1977. After that first wave of innovation, when the Apple II and the Atari VCS/2600 debuted, we’ve been through two more waves of innovation. The second
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