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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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:
November 12 & 13: interview ten tech startups in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. November 14-15: (weekend) interview six tech startups in Portland, [...]
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 [...]
Are Venture Capitalists going to lose their shirts on Twitter?
Some historical perspective on the immense bet Venture Capitalists have made:
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/09/30/where-twitter-ranks-in-vc-history/
This article shows how the odds are against this investment returning funds to investors. Because Twitter falls into the zone of “VC insanity” Tulip-bulb style investing, circa the 1999 Nasdaq bubble.
We were big fans – [...]
Business School Seniors in the School of Business at California Polytechnic University (San Luis Obispo CA; “Cal Poly”) enrolled in “Business 454″ are tackling the pre-launch planning for a new digital media production firm which will launch in January 2010 as “StartupTrek.TV”
The 36 business school seniors in the Orfalea School of business will gain hands-on [...]
These six start-ups pitched at AlwaysOn 2009:
Mpowerplayer, Michael Powers, CEO
This start-up provides a socially-enable “Application Store” for major web properties, including Sprint, European Telcos.
Promptu, Giuseppe Staffaroni, President & CEO
A start-up with a slick iPhone application for browsing train and transit schedules by voice command.
Mobclix, Vishal Gurbuxani, C0-founder
Mobile application analytics for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Nokia applications. [...]