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	<title>Startup Trek TV, Inc :: Web 2.0 Startups :: Mobile Computing :: Digital Media :: Entrepreneurship and Innovation &#187; Tech Finance</title>
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		<title>Renegotiated Financial Regulation bill (FINREG) still stands to cripple Angel investment, job formation</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/renegotiated-financial-regulation-bill-finreg-stands-wipe-angel-investment-jobs-3/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/renegotiated-financial-regulation-bill-finreg-stands-wipe-angel-investment-jobs-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Major Rant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NASAA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reg D]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rule 505]]></category>
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The War on Reg D &#8211; Redux


There&#8217;s been a LOT of complaining recently about the terms which negatively impact the $26B annual world of &#8220;Angel&#8221; investing, which have been slipped into Senator Chris Dodd&#8217;s Financial Reform bill (&#8220;FINREG&#8221;).  The Wall Street Journal railed about it under the banner &#8220;Angels Out of America&#8220;:


   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An education in Angel investment with Dr. Rob Wiltbank &#8211; part 2</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/part-2-education-in-angel-investment-dr-rob-wiltbank-2/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/part-2-education-in-angel-investment-dr-rob-wiltbank-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 01:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many U.S. Angel investing groups are there? How are they organized?  How do they conduct due diligence?

In this 4 minute &#8220;part 2&#8243; video segment from our educational interview series with Prof Rob Wiltbank of Willamette University, we explore how U.S. Angel investing groups are formed, how they are structured to invest, and how they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An education in Angel investment, with Dr. Rob Wiltbank &#8211; part 1</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/angel-investment-education-14-part-interview-dr-rob-wiltbank-willamette-university-3/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/angel-investment-education-14-part-interview-dr-rob-wiltbank-willamette-university-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tech Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Startups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angel Investors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angel-Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entrepreneurship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Reform Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FINREG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The War on Reg D]]></category>
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This is part 1 of 14 short video interview segments with Dr. Rob Wiltbank of Willamette University (Salem &#38; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 4, Brad Feld:  How does Techstars work?  And advice for young entrepreneurs</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/part-4-of-4-brad-feld-interview-how-does-techstars-work-and-advice-for-young-entrepreneurs-2/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/part-4-of-4-brad-feld-interview-how-does-techstars-work-and-advice-for-young-entrepreneurs-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Finance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[advice for entrepreneurs]]></category>
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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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brad Feld describes how Foundry Group looks at investing venture capital in startups</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/part-3-brad-feld-interview-how-does-foundry-group-look-at-investing-venture-capital-in-startups-3/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/part-3-brad-feld-interview-how-does-foundry-group-look-at-investing-venture-capital-in-startups-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 06:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Finance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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:



Brad calls Foundry Group&#8217;s approach &#8220;thematic investing&#8221;, describing 4 primary themes; illustrating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brad Feld tells the story of his Angel investing and Venture Capital career</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/part-2-brad-feld-interview-angel-investing-and-venture-capital-3/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/part-2-brad-feld-interview-angel-investing-and-venture-capital-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angel-Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venture Capital]]></category>
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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&#8217;t work.
    Why he moved to Boulder in 1995 (he&#8217;s often credited with turning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henry Blodget debuts Startup 09 entrepreneurship conference at NYU</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/henry-blodgets-startup-09-conference-debuts-at-new-york-university-school-of-business-3/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/henry-blodgets-startup-09-conference-debuts-at-new-york-university-school-of-business-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angel-financing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tech Industry Conferences]]></category>
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I am attending Henry Blodget &#8217;s &#8220;Startup 09&#8243; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frank Quattrone of Qatalyst gives startups M&amp;A advice</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/frank-quattrone-of-qatalyst-gives-startups-advice-at-alwayson-3/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/frank-quattrone-of-qatalyst-gives-startups-advice-at-alwayson-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AlwaysOn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#38;A investment advisory firm Qatalyst.

The startups were:


     Teemu Huuhtanen, EVP Sulake.  Sulake &#8211; a social networking and virtual world play.
   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit Suisse Bankers courting Silicon Valley</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/credit-suisse-bankers-courting-silicon-valley-2/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/credit-suisse-bankers-courting-silicon-valley-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investment Banking star Frank Quattrone may be getting all the press with the launch of his new tech investment banking firm Quatalyst .  But Quatrone&#8217;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&#8217;s.  I attended a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Panel discusses state of venture investing in midst of financial turmoil, frozen IPO</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/churchill-club-panel-discusses-state-of-venture-investing-in-midst-of-financial-turmoil-frozen-ipo-2/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/churchill-club-panel-discusses-state-of-venture-investing-in-midst-of-financial-turmoil-frozen-ipo-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 19:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Finance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Churchill Club panel met at Dinah&#8217;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&#8217;s M&#38;A market, soaring oil prices, a second quarter of weakening consumer spending, and of course US [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple, with a little help from KP, opens iPhone to developers</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/apple-with-a-little-help-from-kp-opens-iphone-to-developers-2/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/apple-with-a-little-help-from-kp-opens-iphone-to-developers-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Today Apple went beyond opening up the iPhone to software developers with the expected software developer kit (SDK).

They also announced MS-Exchange Compatibility by licensing ActiveSync technology from Microsoft.

The third major component of this announcement was provided by John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins, who announced the establishment of a $100M &#8220;iFund&#8221;, dedicated to companies developing iPhone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#039;s hot in venture capital investing during 2008?</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/whats-hot-in-venture-capital-investing-during-2008-2-3/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/whats-hot-in-venture-capital-investing-during-2008-2-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[CES]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[{mosimage}I attended this interesting panel discussion session Thursday Jan 10. It was organized by the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs, held at the Wilson Sonsini Goodrich campus in Palo Alto, and attended by about 130 local entrepreneurs and business people. The panel discussion was moderated by Mark Albertson, Executive Producer of Tech Closeup TV, and the [...]]]></description>
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