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An hour with top internet software Venture Capitalist Brad Feld, at his offices in Boulder, CO

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Startup Trek spent a week in Boulder, Colorado last month, getting to know some of the entrepreneurs in Boulder.  We were fortunate to kick things off by interviewing leading Venture Capitalist Brad Feld, Managing Director of Foundry Group, at their offices in Downtown Boulder, CO. Segment 1, a 12-minute [...]

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Greylock Ventures invests with Jason Calacanis

Amazing…
Here is my response, printed in the LA Business Times Monday Dec 14th, to Jason Calacanis’ latest publicity stunt, attacking the Keiretsu Forum.
-steve

LA Business Times,
In two recent articles, you wrote of Jason Calacanis of Mahalo.com in Santa Monica who has launched a self-proclaimed “Holy War” against so-called pay-to-play angel investor groups, particularly the Keiretsu Forum, [...]

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Cal Poly Business School Team interviews web startup RememberItNow.com

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.
The 36 students enrolled in “Business 454″, are [...]

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StartupTrek TV interviews Boulder, CO Digital Music analytics startup “Next Big Sound”

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Startup Trek TV had the opportunity today to interview the co-founder & CEO of Digital Music analytics startup “Next Big Sound” this evening 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 [...]

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A wide-ranging interview with Angel investing researcher, expert Dr. Rob Wiltbank, Venture Capitalist and Business School Professor

While in Portland, Oregon this week Startup Trek TV waslucky to land an interview with 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 [...]

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A visit with Edgardo Nazario of Seattle Tech Startup (Video Platform Provider) Delve Networks

Startup Trek interviewed Edgardo Nazario, VP of Product Management at Seattle Startup Delve Networks.  Delve 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.  Delve has built their solution around partnerships with leading CDN (content delivery network) and elastic [...]

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A visit with Jerry LaChapelle, founder & CEO of Manufacturing Enterprise Systems (MES) of Seattle

We had an interesting visit with Boeing Technical Principal, turned serial entrepreneur Jerry LaChapelle.  In our pending series of six short video segments, Jerry discusses his firm’s new web-based, Software as a Service (SaaS) platform which provides between numerical control (NC), Computer-Aided Design (CAD), and Computer-Aided Manufacturing.  The result is that manufacturers and component suppliers [...]

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An open letter to Mr. Leo Laporte of TWIT.tv

Leo, I’m writing this open letter to you because i discovered your excellent, entertaining, but ultimately disconcerting TWIT.tv show today, due to all the unchallenged mis-statements coming out of Jason Crass-a-canis, CEO of Mahalo.com. I watched with a great degree of incredulousness, as you let Jason call myself, and 849 of my fellow Angel Investors [...]

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Jason’s partner Mike Arrington opens a new front in “Jason’s and Mike’s Jihad

No, it’s not just Jason Crassacanis who are angering good business people by “Trolling” them.  In their escalating war of rage against anyone else (besides them) who makes a profit while offering services on the internet, #1 technology business blogger Michael “Mike” Arrington (this PC World Article describes them both rather well) founder of TechCrunch.com [...]

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Serial Entrepreneur Ron Weiner fires back at Jason Calacanis, over “Jason’s Jihad”

Jason Calacanis’ Homework Assignment #2
The article below is a “required reading” homework assignment for Mr. Calacanis, as part of our custom lecture series desired to re-educated the boy, entitled “Jason’s Homework”.
After studying this article by Ron Weiner, Jason might gain an inkling towards a better understand what the Keiretsu Forum Angel investing network (the largest, [...]

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