I attended the Keiretsu Forum’s “Entrepreneurship Bootcamp” training in downtown San Francisco today. This is offered once per month at a reasonable rate, and let me tell you, if you’re starting a company you want to attend this all-day interactive seminar put on by business consulting, finance, valuation, and valuation professionals.
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Category Archives: Tech Startups
SMX West 2009 Search Engine Expo
The SMX West 2009 Search Engine Expo (Conference) was held Feb 10-12 at the Santa Clara Convention Center
SMX West turned out to be an outstanding conference. There was a strong presence from the big search engines including Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, ASK, as well as many SEO optimization industry experts and gurus.
If you want a lot [...]
Steve Bell interviewed by ABC News about breaking news at Apple Computer
Steve was interviewed by Lisa Amin, Reporter for ABC News this evening on the breaking news about Steve Jobs leave of absence from Apple Computer:
We’d like to wish Steve and his family the best.
Matt Mickiewicz of SitePoint.com and 99Designs.com, and Steve Bell interviewed by CBS
Matt’s first startup, Sitepoint.com, launched ten years ago when he was 15. While living in Vancouver Island, Canada, and his staff working in New Zealand, Matt has just opened an office for his spinoff called 99Designs.com in San Francisco. Sitepoint is the 799th busiest site on the internet, and Matt has run it magnificently. He’s [...]
Sprint + Google deal update
Will the $3.2B Sprint + Google+(et al…) mega-deal bring WiMax coast-to-coast in the USA?
Back on June 8 2008 we wrote about a deal announced by Sprint and Clearwire, that was the best news for WiMax imaginable: http://tinyurl.com/cjo59d
This is a Mega-deal between Sprint, Google, Clearwire, Comcast, Time Warner, and Intel, which was intended to create “the [...]
Nortel Ends Joint Agreement with Alvarion for Mobile WiMAX
Nortel will discontinue its mobile WiMAX business and end its joint agreement with Alvarion. The agreement, announced in June 2008, outlined the integration of Alvarion’s advanced radio access network technology with Nortel’s core network solutions, backhaul solutions, and global services. It also covered the resale by Nortel of the Alvarion platform of WiMAX access products.
Nortel [...]
Seismic shift in the social landscape: How did Twitter pass LinkedIn? Is Facebook next?
In Startup Trek’s view, Twitter is likely the most “disruptive” startup to emerge since Google’s emergence ten years ago; and perhaps since the arrival of the personal computer era back in 1982. According to just released primary research, Twitter is about to pass LinkedIn in daily uniques @~11.5M uniques/mo in April, 2009. [...]
The best Genealogy web 2.0 application: Ancestry.com
Once in a while you discover an amazing web application, a brew of ever-updating SaaS code resident with a unique, compelling set of content. One of the best state-of-the-art web applications I’ve found recently is located at: http://Ancestry.com. With over 250,000 Genealogy sites on the internet (last time i checked, which was about three years [...]
GigaOM Mobilize Conference
I’m at GigaOM’s Mobilize conference today in San Francisco. I just attended a session on “Angel and Seed financing”, the art of structuring deals. The conference hosts are ably live-blogging every session at GigaOM .
I have much respect for Mr. Om Malik, founder of http://GigaOm.com; and formerly the top technology business writer for [...]
SVASE panel on which tech startups get funded, and why
This SVASE panel discussion held Thu Aug 7 2008 at Wilson-Sonsini in Palo Alto
Delved into the question of what types of startups are attracting funding, and why.
What types of startups are getting funded? Consumer? Technology? Social? Wireless? or what?
What are the most attractive markets; 5 million free members to the next Flickr, or the [...]