Back from the Silicon Valley Trek
I am back from the Silicon Valley trek, one week of visits with leaders of the California venture capital community and with founders and CEOs of startups and successful enterprises in the life sciences, medical technology, software, information technology, advanced materials, and new energy fields based in Silicon Valley, California. It has been one of the most inspiring experiences I have had about entrepreneurship.
We were located in Stanford Park Hotel, next to Stanford University and Sand Hill Road. We have visited startups such as Meraki, Plusmo, Intelleflex, Adify, Mywaves.com, Mobi.tv, Nebuad, Aeroscout, or Telenav, meeting with their founding teams. We have also had receptions at more established (but leading) companies such as Salesforce.com, VMWare or Google. We have also met partners of VCs such as Venrock, Morgenthaler or Menlo Ventures. And the week ended with a reception on the top of the Bank of America building in San Francisco with MIT alumni and representatives from all these companies. During the next days I plan to post about these experiences.
After the trip, we visited some wineries in Napa Valley and went skiing to Lake Tahoe.
This week I am doing the Massachusetts Tech Trek visiting some VCs in the Boston Area (Charles River Ventures, Atlas Ventures or General Catalyst Partners) and Tech Companies (Akamai, Care.com, JumpTap, Novell, Visible Measures, or Hubspot).
Wow, sounds amazing that trek... how is being in the MIT Sloan?
I'm thinking about applying, I don´t know if I am good enough or if it fit my career path...
PD: By the way, we may be cousins or something like that. Are you Spanish?
Posted by: Kike Belenguer | January 14, 2008 at 03:05 PM