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June 15, 2010 by
Steve
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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Written on
June 11, 2010 by
Steve
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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Written on
June 6, 2010 by
Steve
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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Written on
April 16, 2010 by
Steve
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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Written on
April 16, 2010 by
Steve
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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Written on
April 14, 2010 by
Steve
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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Written on
June 3, 2009 by
Steve
I am attending Henry Blodget ’s “Startup 09″ conference in lower Manhattan today. Business Insider has done a great job of orchestrating the debut of a first-rate, high level technology industry business conference.
Thanks to Henry Blodget (CEO of Business Insider, Julie Hansen (COO) and the rest of the team at Alley Insider for inviting me [...]
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Written on
July 23, 2008 by
Steve
Frank Quattrone moderated a panel featuring three startups
With the premise being he would give each of them his sought-after merger and acquisition advice. Quattrone recently co-founded a new tech M&A investment advisory firm Qatalyst.
The startups were:
Teemu Huuhtanen, EVP Sulake. Sulake – a social networking and virtual world play.
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Written on
May 14, 2008 by
Steve
Investment Banking star Frank Quattrone may be getting all the press with the launch of his new tech investment banking firm Quatalyst . But Quatrone’s former firm Credit Suisse is quitely making a renewed foray into silicon valley, investing face time in building business relationships with local entrepreneurs, business executives, and vc’s. I attended a [...]
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Written on
May 14, 2008 by
Steve
This Churchill Club panel met at Dinah’s Poolside Cafe/Hotel April 23 2008 for a breakfast panel discussion of the state of venture investing almost half way into 2008.
The backdrop, of course, being an essentially closed IPO market, a buyer’s M&A market, soaring oil prices, a second quarter of weakening consumer spending, and of course US [...]
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