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	<title>Startup Trek TV, Inc :: Web 2.0 Startups :: Mobile Computing :: Digital Media :: Entrepreneurship and Innovation &#187; Tech Startups</title>
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		<title>An hour with top internet software Venture Capitalist Brad Feld, at his offices in Boulder, CO</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/hour-with-top-internet-software-venture-capitalist-brad-feld-at-his-offices-in-boulder-co/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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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 session, covers Brad&#8217;s prolific career [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cal Poly Business School Team interviews web startup RememberItNow.com</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/cal-poly-business-school-team-interviews-web-startup-rememberitnow-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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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 &#8220;Business 454&#8243;, are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>StartupTrek TV interviews Boulder, CO Digital Music analytics startup &#8220;Next Big Sound&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/startup-trek-tv-interviews-boulder-co-digital-music-analytics-startup-next-big-sound/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/startup-trek-tv-interviews-boulder-co-digital-music-analytics-startup-next-big-sound/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[VIDEO LINK PENDING
Startup Trek TV had the opportunity today to interview the co-founder &#38; CEO of Digital Music analytics startup &#8220;Next Big Sound&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A wide-ranging interview with Angel investing researcher, expert Dr. Rob Wiltbank, Venture Capitalist and Business School Professor</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/interview-top-angel-investing-expert-dr-rob-wiltbank-venture-capitalist-and-business-school-professor/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/interview-top-angel-investing-expert-dr-rob-wiltbank-venture-capitalist-and-business-school-professor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A visit with Edgardo Nazario of Seattle Tech Startup (Video Platform Provider) Delve Networks</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/a-visit-with-edgardo-nazario-of-seattle-tech-startup-video-platform-provider-delve-networks/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/a-visit-with-edgardo-nazario-of-seattle-tech-startup-video-platform-provider-delve-networks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s platform is unique in a number of ways.  Delve has built their solution around partnerships with leading CDN (content delivery network) and elastic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A visit with Jerry LaChapelle, founder &amp; CEO of Manufacturing Enterprise Systems (MES) of Seattle</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/a-visit-with-jerry-lechappelle-founder-ceo-of-manufacturing-enterprise-systems-mes-of-seattle/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/a-visit-with-jerry-lechappelle-founder-ceo-of-manufacturing-enterprise-systems-mes-of-seattle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An open letter to Mr. Leo Laporte of TWIT.tv</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/open-letter-leo-laporte-twittv/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/open-letter-leo-laporte-twittv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leo, I&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jason&#8217;s partner Mike Arrington opens a new front in &#8220;Jason&#8217;s and Mike&#8217;s Jihad</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/jasons-partner-mike-arrington-opens-front/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/jasons-partner-mike-arrington-opens-front/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, it&#8217;s not just Jason Crassacanis who are angering good business people by &#8220;Trolling&#8221; 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 &#8220;Mike&#8221; Arrington (this PC World Article describes them both rather well) founder of TechCrunch.com [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serial Entrepreneur Ron Weiner fires back at Jason Calacanis, over &#8220;Jason&#8217;s Jihad&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/keiretsu-forum-member-ron-weiner-fires-jason-calacanis/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/keiretsu-forum-member-ron-weiner-fires-jason-calacanis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jason Calacanis&#8217; Homework Assignment #2
The article below is a &#8220;required reading&#8221; homework assignment for Mr. Calacanis, as part of our custom lecture series desired to re-educated the boy, entitled &#8220;Jason&#8217;s Homework&#8221;.
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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Startup Trek Television announces 20 City &#8220;Innovation in the Western USA&#8221; tour featuring tech entrepreneurs</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/startup-trek-television-announce-20-city-150-entrepreneur-interviews/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/startup-trek-television-announce-20-city-150-entrepreneur-interviews/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Startup Trek Television, Inc. announces a Nov 10 &#62; Dec 8, 2009 &#8220;Innovation in the Western USA&#8221; Tour:

We&#8217;ll video interview six to twelve startups in each city. Interviews will be published within 72 hours of being conducted, once we catch up with our backlog from the Portland-Seattle area.
Below is our finalized schedule for this tour.
If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Bell&#8217;s slides for &#8220;This Week in Startups&#8221; with Jason Calacanis</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/steve-bells-slides-week-startups-jason-calacanis/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/steve-bells-slides-week-startups-jason-calacanis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo and coverage, courteousy of Domain Noob &#60;dot com&#62;:
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Steve Bell&#8217;s note:
Jason Calacanis called earlier this week to invite me to appear in his studio in Santa Monica, to debate his call for &#8220;a Jihad to destroy the Keiretsu Forum&#8221;, but he chickened out.  Just as I was jumping in the car, his (very nice guy) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Startup Trek visits with Mr. Max Shapiro, senior member of the Keiretsu Forum</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/startuptrek-visits-max-shapiro-senior-member-and-sponsor-of-the-keiretsu-forum/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/startuptrek-visits-max-shapiro-senior-member-and-sponsor-of-the-keiretsu-forum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday afternoon Startup Trek ventured to Sausalito, CA to visit with esteemed, senior Keiretsu Forum member Mr. Max Shapiro, CEO of innovative human resources firm PeopleConnect.com :

Backdrop for the interview: Jason Calacanis of Mahalo.com and TechCrunch.com launches &#8220;Jihad to destroy&#8221; competitor Keiretsu Forum
A campaign of false information is being directed against the Keiretsu Forum, by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keiretsu Forum member and spokesperson Dennis Erokan enters statement responding to Jason Calacanis &#8220;Twitter war&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/1-keiretsu-forum-member-spokesperson-dennis-erokan-enters-statement-responding-jason-calacanis-twitter-war/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/1-keiretsu-forum-member-spokesperson-dennis-erokan-enters-statement-responding-jason-calacanis-twitter-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nine years of helping entrepreneurs equals $200 MM in fundings for 200+ companies. Our track record speaks for itself.
We are not VCs. The Keiretsu Forum is a professionally managed association for Angel Investors. Keiretsu Forum is not the venue for every entrepreneur. With more than 200 fundings, we know we are filling a market need. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sequoia-backed blogger Jason Calacanis launches &#8220;terrorist Jihad&#8221; campaign against Keiretsu Forum</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/sequoia-backed-blogger-jason-calacanis-launches-jihad-against-keiretsu-forum/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/sequoia-backed-blogger-jason-calacanis-launches-jihad-against-keiretsu-forum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately young entrepreneur, blogger, and self-proclaimed startup guru, and Sequoia Capital backed &#8220;Mahalo&#8221; CEO Jason Calacanis has chosen to launch what he calls a &#8220;Holy War to destroy the Keiretsu Forum&#8221;.  He is portraying himself as Bin Ladin and calls his rage-a-thon &#8220;Jason&#8217;s Jihad&#8221;.
This absurdity started last Friday with a very uncivil series of blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What makes a company a &#8220;startup&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/what-makes-a-company-a-startup/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/what-makes-a-company-a-startup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week Nima Salke, a School of business senior enrolled in Business 454 at Cal Poly, asked me an excellent question: &#8220;what criteria exactly, defines a company as a &#8217;startup&#8217;?&#8221;.
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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street Journal article: &#8220;Where Twitter ranks in Venture Capital (VC) History&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/wall-street-journal-article-where-twitter-ranks-in-vc-history/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/wall-street-journal-article-where-twitter-ranks-in-vc-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are Venture Capitalists going to lose their shirts on Twitter?
Some historical perspective on the immense bet Venture Capitalists have made on Twitter:
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/09/30/where-twitter-ranks-in-vc-history/
This article shows how the odds are against Twitter returning funds to investors.  Because Twitter falls into the zone of &#8220;VC insanity&#8221; Tulip-bulb style investing, circa the 1999 Nasdaq bubble.
We were big fans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cal Poly Business School Seniors tackle pre-launch planning for new Digital Media Firm</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/cal-poly-business-school-seniors-tackle-pre-launch-planning-for-new-digital-media-firm/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/cal-poly-business-school-seniors-tackle-pre-launch-planning-for-new-digital-media-firm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Startups]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business School Seniors in the School of Business at California Polytechnic University (San Luis Obispo CA; &#8220;Cal Poly&#8221;) enrolled in &#8220;Business 454&#8243; are tackling the pre-launch planning for a new digital media production firm which will launch in January 2010 as &#8220;StartupTrek.TV&#8221;
The 36 business school seniors in the Orfalea School of business will gain hands-on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter-Gate update: a hand-delivered appeal for tech support to Evan Williams</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/twittergate-update-a-personal-hand-delivered-appeal-for-tech-support-to-evan-williams/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/twittergate-update-a-personal-hand-delivered-appeal-for-tech-support-to-evan-williams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we&#8217;ve detailed in a previous post, on July 21 2009, StartupTrek&#8217;s Twitter account was hijacked.  Someone &#8212; likely someone within a third-party Twitter service provider &#8212; seized control of our account and changed the email address, leaving us unable to use Twitter&#8217;s automated &#8220;password reset&#8221;.  We need actual &#8220;human&#8221; tech support to fix this and recover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 Wireless startups spin for 6 minutes, at AlwaysOn 2009</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/6-wireless-startups-spin-for-6-minutes-at-alwayson-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/6-wireless-startups-spin-for-6-minutes-at-alwayson-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Startups]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ll have video snippets of the highlights from each of these presentations online in this post within 24 hours:
1. Mpowerplayer, Michael Powers, CEO
Provides a socially-enable &#8220;Application Store&#8221; for major web properties, including Sprint, European Telcos.
2. Promptu, Giuseppe Staffaroni, President &#38; CEO
Slick iPhone application for browsing train and transit schedules by voice command.
3. Mobclix, Vishal Gurbuxani, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Startup Trek interviews Doron Reuveni, CEO of hot mobile application startup uTest</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/startup-trek-interviews-hot-mobile-application-startup-utest/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/startup-trek-interviews-hot-mobile-application-startup-utest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[uTest co-founder and CEO Doron Reuveni interviews with Startup Trek about his fast-growing company during a break at the AlwaysOn 2009 conference.  uTest is a venture capital funded startup based in Boston, MA which has invented a &#8220;crowdsourced&#8221; testing model for mobile device applications.
uTest has invented a way to globally &#8220;crowdsource&#8221; mobile application testing. [...]]]></description>
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