I’ve heard a lot of comments about the iPad lately along the lines “someone needs to find a killer application”. Well, for business people, serial entrepreneurs, and anyone that is using GTD to manage their business… here it is: running your GTD “trusted system” on an iPad (video follows). In short, GTD on the iPad… sizzles!
[ Video tutorial here ]
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 Feld, Managing Director at Foundry Group‘s offices in Downtown Boulder, CO. Part 1 of our interview with Brad is a six minute session, covering Brad’s prolific career from his M.I.T. days to starting to make Angel investments, well before Foundry Group and TechStars.
Cal Poly Business School seniors Lelani Torres and Brandon LaRose prepare for a remote/Skype video interview with Web 2.0 startup RememberItNow.com.
The students are conducting interviews with entrepreneurs this quarter, as part of their 3rd-party independent market research, beta testing, and business model analysis for Startup Trek Television Inc.
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 in Chicago during the spring and summer 2008, and moved to the Boulder area after entering and winning a spot in the competitive and selective “TechStars” program, which attracted 600 companies to the competition for ten slots (we’ll report TechStars shortly).
Alex’s story of how he went from being a College Student to a Venture Capital funded, post-grad entrepreneur is quite the informative story. He gave up a lucrative
While in Portland, Oregon this week Startup Trek TV interviewed Professor Rob Wiltbank, one of the top authorities in the US on the subject of Angel investing. In addition to teaching Entrepreneurship at Willamette University in Salem OR, Rob is a partner at a Seattle venture capital firm. He has recently raised a $300k Angel investment funds which his entrepreneurship students at Willamette Univ. are in the process of beginning to invest, in $50k chunks. Rob plans to scale this innovative, first-of-type student-managed Angel fund to $5M.
Startup Trek interviewed Edgardo Nazario, VP of Product Management at Seattle Startup Delve Networks. The startup has developed a first-rate Video Publishing Platform which StartupTrek takes a close look at in this (pending) video.
Delve’s platform is unique in a number of ways. They have built their solution around partnerships with leading CDN (content delivery network) and elastic hosting (cloud computing) partners. As a result, videos hosted on their platform can “scale” in the event of traffic surges and load spikes – a common event with some of their customers, which include the Kansas City Chiefs Football team.
Orfalea School of Business Student Kaila Anderson of Cal Poly “Business 454″ class, studying entrepreneurship, interviews Niites.com founder Dustin Ryen.
Q: WHAT IS NIITES.com? A: It is a local content website for students, featuring local nightclubs.
Q: WHY ARE CAL POLY STUDENTS CONDUCTING STARTUP INTERVIEWS? A: Startup Trek is the subject of Cal Poly’s “Learn by doing” Entrepreneurship Class, Business 454, this Quarter. More information about the program is available in this Startup Trek article.
Startup Trek Television, Inc. announced and completed another (November 10 > Dec 8, 2009) “Innovation in the Western USA” Tour:
We video interviewed startups in each city. This was our schedule:
Yesterday afternoon Startup Trek ventured to Sausalito, CA to visit with senior Keiretsu Forum member Mr. Max Shapiro. Max is a Keiretsu Forum enthusiast, and CEO of innovative human resources firm PeopleConnect.com
This week Nima Salke, a School of business senior enrolled in Business 454 at Cal Poly, asked me an excellent question: “what criteria exactly, defines a company as a ‘start-up’?”.
This is an not a particularly easy question to answer, and it is not a question that there is any perfect, black-and-white answer for. This question reminds me of famous quote by Supreme Court Justice Potter Steward while discussing the Larry Flynt Pornography case: ”I do not know what hard-core pornography is, but I know it when I see it”.