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December 13, 2011 by
Steve
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.
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Written on
December 12, 2011 by
Steve
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.”.
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Written on
December 10, 2011 by
Steve
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.
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October 6, 2011 by
Steve
Steve and Laurene Jobs - after his WWDC keynote speech - June 2011
The day that many people in tech dreaded was coming soon, arrived yesterday.
Mr. Steven P. Jobs, Chairman and co-founder of Apple Computer; holder of over 300 patents; and all-around business genius, died of Pancreatic cancer yesterday, and the world that he changed is in mourning. He leaves behind his wife Laurene Jobs, and three children.
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October 1, 2011 by
Steve
StartupTrek is getting G2 from a well placed source within Oracle, about a major announcement pending at Oracle’s OpenWorld conference this week in San Francisco. We are told that Larry Ellison will make a major announcement: Oracle’s entry into the cloud-based ERP market with a new platform.
This will put Oracle in direct competition with SAP’s “Business by Design”, NetSuite, and best-in-class point solutions for CRM, accounting, sales pipeline, inventory management, and many related business applications.
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September 10, 2011 by
Steve
To watch the premier of the new Bloomberg Television documentary about Techstars. More information / detail about this, and interviews with founders of five of the ten startups that beat out 600 other startups, to become the TechStars Class of 2011″, pending this week.
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August 1, 2011 by
Steve
Roger McNamee gave “the speech of a lifetime” at the AO Innovation Summit held at Santa Clara University (SCU) this Wednesday and Thursday, July 27-28, 2011.
I was at the conference all day Wed, July 27 and it was a terrific event. I shot 100GB of video and 30GB of still photography. Back home in Los Gatos Wednesday night, i began editing raw footage and preparing it for a series of blog posts.
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July 29, 2011 by
Steve
"The Zuck" made me a Latte...
Hangin’ with Mark (aka “the Zuck”) late this Friday afternoon. He told me his family owns the Woodside Bakery & Cafe! Figures.
This is the bakery right next door to the legendary “Bucks” of Woodside. About 5 miles N of Sand Hill Road, the global epicenter of venture capital.
Said it helps him to unwind from the stress, doing the Barrista thing.
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July 27, 2011 by
Steve
Tony Perkins’ Always On is hosting the annual “Innovation Summit” at Santa Clara University (SCU).
This excellent high-level business conference, which i’ve attended for four years out of the past five, has been renamed this year. Formerly, it was the “Venture Capital Summit at Stanford”.
It has been relocated from Stanford University, 20 miles to the north (just West of Palo Alto), to Santa Clara University (SCU), in the heart of San Jose California.
Written on
July 20, 2011 by
Steve
I recently had the opportunity to visit with Mr. Tom Alexander, Founder & CTO of VC-funded Veriwave of Beaverton OR; and their CEO Chris Dimenico.
My report, and a photo essay are pending.
