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 [...]
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 [...]
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
Hardware play, [...]
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 [...]
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
6 Wireless startups spin for 6 minutes
13 Startups spin for [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
Mark Newhall, C0-founder IdealWave and INMobile.org moderated a panel at AlwaysOn 2009, examining the health and viability of mobile computing applications, advertising, and marketing. The panelists were:
Bart Decrem, CEO Tapulous Simon Khalaf, CEO Flurry Matt Murphy, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers [...]
Paul Jacobs began his talk by expressing great optimism about the health and robustness of the US cellphone business
He pointed out that US cell phone users consume four times the cell phone minutes of European users.
He brought up some of the past debates between technologies that have come up in recent years, e.g. is Wi-Fi [...]