Written on
December 13, 2011 by
Steve
Monday Dec 12, 2011 I was scheduled to play a bit of Golf with Tony Perkins’ crew and attendees, to his “AlwaysOn Venture Summit” at the Ritz Carlton “Ocean” Golf Course in Half Moon Bay, CA – 30 miles Southwest of San Francisco.
That was my last chance to “breath” before diving into two days of intense panel sessionns, finance, and founder presentations.
So the hard part was out of the way, by 7PM Monday evening:) Now… on to a series of photos and posts about what I see over the next two days of the conference. Posted below, in reverse chronological order… so the newest posts are on top.
I’m disappointed with my photos from this conference… i was shooting using an Android phone, and an iPhone. As I recently blogged, my almost-new Nikon camera gear was stolen recently in downtown San Francisco. You can’t buy one to replace it, even if you want to — because the flooding in Thailand shut down the production lines at Nikon.
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Written on
October 6, 2011 by
Steve
Steve and Laurene Jobs - after his WWDC keynote speech - June 2011
The day that many people in tech dreaded was coming soon, arrived yesterday.
Mr. Steven P. Jobs, Chairman and co-founder of Apple Computer; holder of over 300 patents; and all-around business genius, died of Pancreatic cancer yesterday, and the world that he changed is in mourning. He leaves behind his wife Laurene Jobs, and three children.
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Written on
April 5, 2010 by
Steve
Startup Trek spent a week in Boulder, Colorado recently, getting to know some of the local entrepreneurs.
We were fortunate to kick things off by interviewing Foundry Group venture capitalist Brad Feld, Managing Director at Foundry Group‘s offices in Downtown Boulder, CO. Part 1 of our interview with Brad is a six minute session, covering Brad’s prolific career from his M.I.T. days to starting to make Angel investments, well before Foundry Group and TechStars.
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Written on
September 19, 2009 by
Steve
Startup Trek will be attending and reporting from the Central Valley Venture Forum this Thursday Sept 24.
The California State Controller, Mr. John Chiang, will be keynoting the event, along with Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay and candidate for Governor in California.
Steve Bell, Startup Trek’s founder, will be speaking on two panels and acting as a judge in a “startup showdown”.
The full day’s agenda follows:
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Written on
July 30, 2009 by
Steve
The AlwaysOn 2009 conference at Stanford featured these 13 startup CEO presentations:
1. PreVisite – Jeffrey Nortman, COO:
A new, easier, better way to list private homes for sale online.
- Skymeter – Kamal Hassan, CEO
Provides a specialized GPS road tolling service.
- Magic Studio Network – Ben Hayman, CEO
An interactive learning network for educational applications.
- iPeak Networks – Martin Horne, CEO
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Written on
July 30, 2009 by
Steve
This panel about the merits of Angel versus Venture capital investment was moderated by Sam Angus, Partner at Fenwick and West. The panelists were:
- Ron Conway, Founder Angel Investors LP
- Rob Hayes, Partner, First Round Capital
- Joyce Chung, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures
- Aydin Senkut, Founder & President, Felicis Ventures
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Written on
July 29, 2009 by
Steve
As of 4:00PM PDT Wed July 30 (event runs another 1 hour):
Tony Perkins and senior staffers wish Stanford Summit Audience Audu
An interview with John Kish, President & CEO, Pano Logic
An interview with Dave Kroetsch, President, Aeryon Labs
An interview with Promptu CEO
An interview with Liquid Scenarios CEO
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Written on
July 29, 2009 by
Steve
Tony Perkins and TIm Miller, VP at 451 Group opened the “Summit at Stanford” this evening with an overview of the current M&A and IPO market, and by reviewing the status of the AO 250 announced at last year’s conference.
One of the highlights from the 451 Group, 90 percent of strategic acquirers expect private company valuations to decrease six months ago, whereas now only one third do.
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Written on
July 29, 2009 by
Steve
At the AlwaysOn 2009 Summit at Stanford a panel of entrepreneurs and intellectual property experts discussed the issue of using open source software for SaaS applications:
- Matt Asay, VP Business Development, Alfresco; & Blogger, CNET
- Ron Yekutiel, CEO, Kaltura
- Satish Dharmaraj, Partner Redpoint Ventures, and Founder, former CEO Zimbra
- Tom Erickson, CEO, Acquia
- Kim Polese, CEO, SpikeSource
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Written on
July 29, 2009 by
Steve
This panel discussion, moderated by Rafe Needleman of CNET, brought together six founders and executives from the cloud computing world:
- Ken Comee, CEO Cast Iron Systems
- Monica Lam, Co-Fouder and Chief Scientist, MokaFive
- Juan Carlos Soto, VP Sun Microsystems
- Chip Hazard, General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
- Michael Stein, CEO Darkstrand
- Michael Peachey, Chief Architect & Dir. Engineering-Cloud Computing, TIBCO
The concept of an “internal” (private/enterprise) cloud was broached and contrasted to the more conventional notion of a public, internet-attached cloud environment.
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