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’s prolific career [...]
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A visit with Microsoft online video and television expert Charles Finkelstein
We had a great time this morning at Microsoft’s new high-rise “Bravern” campus complex in downtown Bellevue, Washington.
We had the pleasure of a visit and freewheeling discussion about technology and business on camera with Charles Finkelstein, who has been a pioneer in developing computer networking protocols, email technologies, protocol analysis, collaborative computing systems, online video, [...]
Central Valley Venture Forum in Fresno this Thursday Sept 24
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 [...]
Startup Trek seeks class action legal remedy to get Twitter’s attention
In this lengthy post we will describe how Startup Trek has exhausted all options in attempting to reach technical support and/or management at Twitter, leading to the current point where we have begun to work with a law firm to become the claimant in a class action suit against the social networking firm.
Background
As we described [...]
13 Startups spin for 6 minutes in “CEO Showcase” session at AlwaysOn 2009
1. PreVisite – Jeffrey Nortman, COO:
A new, easier, better way to list private homes for sale online.
2. Skymeter – Kamal Hassan, CEO
Provides a specialized GPS road tolling service.
3. Magic Studio Network – Ben Hayman, CEO
An interactive learning network for educational applications.
4. iPeak Networks – Martin Horne, CEO
Hardware play, improving wide-area network performance for video conferencing.
5. AdParlor [...]
Panel discussion examines Angel versus Venture investing
This panel 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
Conway, sometimes referred to as the Godfather of Silicon Valley because of the propensity for and success of his [...]
Summary of Startup Trek’s AlwaysOn “Summit at Stanford” coverage
As of 4:00PM PDT Wed July 30 (event runs another 1 hour):
Pending: Tony Perkins and senior staffers wish Stanford Summit Audience Audu (photo, article pending)
An interview with John Kish, President & CEO, Pano Logic (in edit)
An interview with Dave Kroetsch, President, Aeryon Labs (in edit)
An interview with Promptu CEO (interview at 4:40PM)
An interview with Liquid [...]
AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford opens with review of M&A, IPO market
Tony Perkins, CEO of AlwaysOn, and TIm Miller, VP at 451 Group opened the AlwaysOn “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. We’ve recorded a 10-minute segment from the core of the [...]
AlwaysOn panel discusses open source software for SaaS web applications
A panel of entrepreneurs and intellectual property experts discussed the issue of using open source software for SaaS applications, at the AlwaysOn 2009 Summit at Stanford:
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
The issues discussed ranged [...]
Rafe Needleman of CNET moderates AlwaysOn Cloud Computing panel
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 [...]