Author Archives: Steve

Serial Entrepreneur, Photographer, Runner, Dad

Startup Occipital in Boulder, CO sells Red Laser to eBay

After selling their product to eBay, bootstrapped “computer vision” startup Occipital may no longer need to seek outside capital for growth

Startup Trek recently interviewed Vikas Reddy, engineering co-founder of iPhone application startup Occipital, the developer of top iPhone application “Red Laser”, in Boulder Colorado.  Today the product was acquired from Occipital by eBay.

Occipital, as a [...]

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Michael Arrington of TechCrunch takes on, defeats Seattle at TechFlash event

TechFlash, a Seattle blog which covers tech startups, held an event which featured Mike Arrington

This lively panel discussion featured Bill Bryant from Draper Fisher, Hillel Cooperman from Jackson Fish Market, Serena Glover of Twango, Andy Sack of Founder’s Co-Op and the founding director of TechStars Seattle,

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Renegotiated Financial Regulation bill (FINREG) still stands to cripple Angel investment, job formation

The War on Reg D – Redux

There’s been a LOT of complaining recently about the terms which negatively impact the $26B annual world of “Angel” investing, which have been slipped into Senator Chris Dodd’s Financial Reform bill (“FINREG”). The Wall Street Journal railed about it under the banner “Angels Out of America“:

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An education in Angel investment with Dr. Rob Wiltbank – part 2

How many U.S. Angel investing groups are there? How are they organized?  How do they conduct due diligence?

In this 4 minute “part 2″ video segment from our educational interview series with Prof Rob Wiltbank of Willamette University, we explore how U.S. Angel investing groups are formed,

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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 Angel investments, focusing on investment outcomes, for the past ten years.

In addition to teaching entrepreneurship, Rob is a Venture Partner with Seattle venture capital firm Montlake [...]

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Seattle TechStars applicant GoMiles eases travel reward tracking

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 “Seattle TechStars“ program for early-stage startups.  GoMiles has a slick, automated solution to ease the pain of tracking those pesky, vexing travel mileage program accounts.

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Seattle CAD-CAM startup MES raises capital to lower part cost

We had an interesting visit with Boeing Technical Principal turned serial entrepreneur Jerry LaChapelle.  In our interview (video below) Jerry discusses his firm’s new web 2.0, Software as a Service (SaaS) application which lowers the cost of manufactured parts.  The firm is in the midst of raising a private equity financing round for it’s CAD-CAM [...]

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Part 4, Brad Feld: How does Techstars work? And advice for young entrepreneurs

This 6-minute video, part 4/4 of our interview with software-internet venture capitalist Brad Feld covers how the Techstars 90 day venture incubation program works. Techstars currently has programs running in Boulder, Boston, and Seattle.

We also asked Brad what advice he would give young entrepreneurs just getting started today and he came back with several specific, [...]

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Brad Feld describes how Foundry Group looks at investing venture capital in startups

Part 3 of our interview with software-internet venture capitalist Brad Feld covers how Foundry Group looks at and thinks about putting venture capital into startup companies. That is, their strategic framework for looking at opportunities.  Our 7 minute part 3 video interview follows:

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Brad Feld tells the story of his Angel investing and Venture Capital career

This 7-minute, part 2 of our interview with software-internet venture capitalist Brad Feld covers how he broke into tech investing after selling Feld Technologies:

Initial forays into Angel investing; some of the winners; what did and what didn’t work. Why he moved to Boulder in 1995 (he’s often credited with turning [...]

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