Scott Sandell: The Current State of Silicon Valley and Unicorns

source: Stanford    2016年8月30日
Scott Sandell is a Managing General Partner at NEA and head of the firm’s technology investing practice. NEA raised a venture fund with over $3 billion in new capital, and this talk was given one week after that raise.
In this talk, Scott discusses the state of Silicon Valley and unicorns.
MS&E 476: Entrepreneurship through the Lens of Venture Capital
We often discuss how technology is reinvented and disrupted, but there is also a good amount of change occurring within the venture capital industry. Within the past several decades there have been new entrants, from incubators to angels to different models of venture capital.
The course explores changes in the venture capital industry: from the rise of Sand Hill Road and investing in the dot-com bubble, to incubators and accelerators, equity crowd funding platform, and different models of venture capital today.