In a reversal of history, Wall Street took its cue from Sand Hill Road.
The geniuses on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley aren't looking so brilliant these days.
Cashmere hoodies are all the rage on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, Calif.
's Sand Hill Road with stakes in the likes of Twitter, Google, Spotify and Square.
They founded Sand Hill Group in 1997 before the dot-com bubble and that yielded some big investment returns.
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Sand Hill would meet entrepreneurs, invest in their companies, and work with the founders to build the company.
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The public face of their San Francisco firm, Venture Frogs, is more Melrose Place than Sand Hill Road.
If a pencil and notepad are up for disintermediation, why not a few folks on Sand Hill Road?
The same might be said of Sand Hill Road, in Menlo Park, Calif.
If there are still any VCs out there who are not intimidated by Sand Hill Road newcomer Andreessen Horowitz, they will be now.
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China has leapt ahead of India with startups that have excelled with IPOs on Wall Street and investment returns for Sand Hill Road.
There are different models for how partnerships operate on Sand Hill.
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After attending two social mixers on Palo Alto's Sand Hill Road, she removes her sleek black pantsuit and heels, leaving a royalblue ruffled blouse that transforms into a short dress.
His rapid ascent to Valley Brahmin--one who picked an address far from venture capital's Sand Hill Road epicenter and still attends board meetings in shorts and sandals--has surprised many longtime venture capitalists.
They also get a crack at pitching their ideas to investors on Demo Day, an event that lures venture capital's Sand Hill Road crowd and every prominent angel investor in the Valley.
The venture capitalists dotted along just one street in Silicon Valley--Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park--control around a third of America's independently-raised venture capital, and around a sixth of the world's total.
My impression is that the men socialize with one another and build on these connections better than the women do on Sand Hill Road, not to mention Wall Street and corporate America.
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But then last November Stock had a breakthrough: A Sand Hill Road venture firm (which didn't end up investing in Zvents) asked him to map out the events being submitted on Zvents' Web site.
Sand Hill Road was, metaphorically, a one-way street.
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Every investors dreams of finding the next Google ( GOOG), but unless you work on Sand Hill Road, you do not have access to these deals until they are already brought to market via IPOs.
The new Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park and with offices in Korea and Israel is led by Young Sohn, President and Chief Strategy Officer of Device Solutions, Samsung Electronics.
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Pincus was ultimately forced to look beyond Sand Hill Road for cash at Boulder-based Foundry Group, New York-based Union Square Ventures and Avalon Ventures, a firm not well-known outside of biotech circles or its San Diego headquarters.
Sand Hill Road about China innovation.
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Laura is President of the Marc and Laura Andreessen Foundation, and she sits on multiple boards, including the Sand Hill Foundation, the Arrillaga Foundation, Stanford University School of Education, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and, formerly, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
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The fast-growing market opportunity in China and India also gives women a chance to get into top tier venture firms that are new to the market rather than on Sand Hill Road, where positions are already taken by partners who started the firms years ago, and their successors.
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