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.
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Steve interviews TechStars Boulder GoSpotCheck co-founder Joey Alfono
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”.
Boulder, CO interview with Dan Lynn, Full Contact co-founder & TechStars Class of 2011 winner
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.
Snapshots from Tony Perkins Venture Summit Silicon Valley Conference
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.
Steve Bell founds startup Angel and Venture Capital backed internet company: Kinesis, Inc.
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.”.
StartupTrek’s Nikon D7000 Digital Camera, lense, stolen at The House of Shields in San Francisco, CA
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.
Silicon Valley, Apple Computer fans, and customers worldwide lose one of the greatest innovators of all time: Mr. Steven Paul Jobs (1955-2011)
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.
Larry Ellison to announce cloud-based ERP platform at Oracle Openworld
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.
StartupTrek is heading to Boulder – TechStars Bloomberg special event
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.
Roger McNamee about “Beyond Social – the next Big Thing”
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.