"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.
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.
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.
What’s the point of railing about Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Groupon?Do we once again have a “bubble” in dot-com? Do we have a “pre-IPO dot com valuation mania” underway, centered around companies with questionable business models? That question is being asked a lot.
In contrast to today’s social-media firms, Google has an insanely great business model. The made a fundamental invention which is changing the world, and delivers immense economic value.
On the tenth anniversary of the dot com bust, we may be running up to a second one
Brad Feld and David Cohen have created a “must read” blockbuster for every aspiring tech entrepreneur. But it’s a bit of a misnomer to attribute this seminal entry into entrepreneurship literature, to these two guys. Because Feld and Cohen have turned web 2.0 “crowd-sourcing” on themselves, and used it to create a terrific, wide-ranging collection of solid advice and insights for aspiring tech entrepreneurs.
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 tech startup venture, is impressive in quite a few ways. Vikas and his partner Jeff deserve some applause from their fellow tech entrepreneurs. Check them out in our 17-minute video interview, below.
Red Laser went through the Boulder TechStars program in 2008, but failed to raise Angel or Venture capital investment, despite great enthusiasm from TechStars mentors about the founders. So they were forced to bootstrap, and as a result ended up holding 100% of the equity when they sold Red Laser to eBay. That is good news, but also bad news; we will get into that in a follow-up post. Here is our video interview:
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,
The War on Reg D – Redux
Chris Dodd, an outgoing US Senator due to taking loans from Mortgage firms he helped, is pushing a bill which will strangle startups
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“:
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,