Interview with Brad Feld, Boulder CO software internet venture capital partner
Startup Trek spent a week in Boulder, Colorado recently, getting to know some of the local entrepreneurs.
We were fortunate to kick things off by interviewing Foundry Group venture capitalist Brad ...
In this 3-minute video interview we get the story on Web 2.0 startup GoMiles from co-founder Michael Komarnitsky.
GoMiles was formed seven month ago, and is an applicant to the new ...
An education in Angel investment, with Dr. Rob Wiltbank – part 1
This is part 1 of 14 short video interview segments with Dr. Rob Wiltbank of Willamette University (Salem & Portland, OR).
Rob has been studying, analyzing, publishing papers, and speaking about ...
Next Big Sound interview – Boulder, CO Digital Music analytics startup
Startup Trek TV had the opportunity to interview the co-founder & CEO of Digital Music analytics startup "Next Big Sound" at their headquarters in downtown Boulder, Colorado.
This startup came together ...
I’m screening technology startups for a group of investors who are putting together a seed-level venture capital fund to make investments in promising startup ventures. You may have seen our ad online on popular entrepreneurship sites, or in the Wall Street Journal classified advertising section.
We are looking at early-stage ventures with some demonstrated market traction, who require capital for growth.
We are open-minded about looking at companies which may have be getting overlooked by the Angel and Venture Capital investment community.
We’re interested in startups with compelling products in the following areas:
Software as a Service (SaaS) applications
Social Media applications
Internet Service Providers
e-Commerce applications
Network security
Mobile applications
Online payment systems
Semiconductor technology
Bio-Medical products
Medical devices
(Physical) security
Defense-related technology and systems
Please tell us a bit about your Company:
Product or Service
Date founded, location, type of business entity, milestones reached to date
Competitive environment; differentiation
Your team: Founders, employees
Funding requirements and use of funds
Contact Steve, sbell22@gmail.com with an executive summary (no confidential information please)
This week the StartupTrek team was immersed in LeadsCon, which one of the biggest, best conferences covering lead generation, which constitutes about 30% of the $475B annual global advertising and marketing spend worldwide.
Our focus, of course was to learn as much as possible about new online technology being developed by technology startup companies, for the lead generation and advertising industry. We visited with, and attended sessions featuring some of those companies including Twilio, eLocalListing, and others; we’ll report on those visits here, as this post is updated.
Here’s a photo of the plenary session; we’ll update this post to add photos and notes from the conference sessions which are listed below, and from our sweeps of the trade show floor.
Update, post-conference: This was another terrific AO event. We ended up doing about 60 Tweet-Photos… plan to post them as a photo gallery here; so earmark this url:) Here’s a teaser:
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I’m pleased to be attending, and reporting for StartupTrek via blog posts, Tweets, and video updates, one of Tony Perkins’ excellent AlwaysOn conferences – this week in New York City.
Steve Bell of StartupTrek TV traveled to Boulder, Colorado to interview John A. De Goes of ReportGrid.com. John and his team have created an API that allowed developers to track and visualize simple metrics. ReportGrid says that it has developed “the first API for analytics and visualization”.
New StartupTrek TV three-question / three-minute founder interview: Steve Bell of StartupTrek TV interviews FlixMaster.com founders Cameron Mccaddon and Erika Trautman, in Boulder Colorado. Flixmaster is one of the 10 startups that beat out 600 others, to become Techstars in 2011.
Steve Bell interviews Joey Alfono, Head of Mission Control at Boulder startup GoSpotCheck.com. GoSpotCheck is one of the 10 Techstars class of 2011, that beat out 600 other startups to become Techstars. This is a classic tale of a successful startup “pivot”:
60 days into the summer 2011 Boulder Techstars Techstars program, Joe and co-founder Mat Talbot performed what David Cohen of Techstars, calls a “LEAP” – Leave Everything behind And Punt”.
August 22, 2011 StartupTrek TV ventured to Boulder, Colorado where Steve Bell interviewed the founders 5 of the 10 Techstars class of 2011. These startups beat out 600 others in a grueling competition to win one 10 coveted slots, to become the Techstars class of 2011.
In this 3-question, 6-minute interview format, conducted August 22, 2011 in Boulder Colorado, Steve Bell of StartupTrek TV (http://StartupTrek.net) interviews Full Contact (http://fullcontact.com) co-founder Dan Lynn.
In 2011, Dan, Bart Lorang and Travis Todd beat out 600 other startups to win one of the coveted slots in the Techstars Boulder class of 2011. Today, the company is headquartered in the Denver area, and employs 10.
Monday Dec 12, 2011 I was scheduled to play a bit of Golf with Tony Perkins’ crew and attendees, to his “AlwaysOn Venture Summit” at the Ritz Carlton “Ocean” Golf Course in Half Moon Bay, CA – 30 miles Southwest of San Francisco.
That was my last chance to “breath” before diving into two days of intense panel sessionns, finance, and founder presentations.
So the hard part was out of the way, by 7PM Monday evening:) Now… on to a series of photos and posts about what I see over the next two days of the conference. Posted below, in reverse chronological order… so the newest posts are on top.
I’m disappointed with my photos from this conference… i was shooting using an Android phone, and an iPhone. As I recently blogged, my almost-new Nikon camera gear was stolen recently in downtown San Francisco. You can’t buy one to replace it, even if you want to — because the flooding in Thailand shut down the production lines at Nikon.
From this post forward, I will continue to interview and blog about technology startups; but StartupTrek.net now becomes the official “blog voice” for Kinesis, Inc — the disruptive internet firm that I’ve been putting together since June.
Here’s the story on it — wish us luck…
-steve bell
december 12, 2011
Investor Database Submission: Kinesis, Inc.
A Delaware Corporation was formed Oct 12, 2011: Kinesis, Inc.
Executive Summary:
Kinesis, Inc. was formed to bring the full power of the internet to small and medium scale businesses worldwide.
Today, in late 2011, the internet is serving large enterprises, those with typically over 500 employees, rather well. But… smaller companies are having difficulty leveraging the power of the internet to bring in new customers (sales). Kinesis has architected, tested, and is now deploying a powerful HTML5 network of machines, called “SIMA’s” (Smart Internet Marketing Agents) to solve this problem. The company’s mission is “To bring new customers (money) to small and medium scale businesses in North America, Western Europe, Asia, and the developing countries… by more efficiently delivering the power of the internet.”.
My Nikon D7000 16Mpx Pro DSLR, fitted with a 10-24mm Tamron wide-angle lense, were stolen a week ago Wednesday in San Francisco… at a classy, restored place called “The House of Shields”, 39 New Montgomery Avenure – per attached public notice.
