While in Portland, Oregon this week Startup Trek TV waslucky to land an interview with 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 [...]
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Tag Archive: Angel-Investing
An open letter to Mr. Leo Laporte of TWIT.tv
Leo, I’m writing this open letter to you because i discovered your excellent, entertaining, but ultimately disconcerting TWIT.tv show today, due to all the unchallenged mis-statements coming out of Jason Crass-a-canis, CEO of Mahalo.com. I watched with a great degree of incredulousness, as you let Jason call myself, and 849 of my fellow Angel Investors [...]
Serial Entrepreneur Ron Weiner fires back at Jason Calacanis, over “Jason’s Jihad”
Jason Calacanis’ Homework Assignment #2
The article below is a “required reading” homework assignment for Mr. Calacanis, as part of our custom lecture series desired to re-educated the boy, entitled “Jason’s Homework”.
After studying this article by Ron Weiner, Jason might gain an inkling towards a better understand what the Keiretsu Forum Angel investing network (the largest, [...]
Startup Trek Television announces 20 City “Innovation in the Western USA” tour featuring tech entrepreneurs
Startup Trek Television, Inc. announces a Nov 10 > Dec 8, 2009 “Innovation in the Western USA” Tour:
We’ll video interview six to twelve startups in each city. Interviews will be published within 72 hours of being conducted, once we catch up with our backlog from the Portland-Seattle area.
Below is our finalized schedule for this tour.
Startup Trek visits with Mr. Max Shapiro, senior member of the Keiretsu Forum
Yesterday afternoon Startup Trek ventured to Sausalito, CA to visit with esteemed, senior Keiretsu Forum member Mr. Max Shapiro, CEO of innovative human resources firm PeopleConnect.com :
Keiretsu Forum member and spokesperson Dennis Erokan enters statement responding to Jason Calacanis “Twitter war”
Nine years of helping entrepreneurs equals $200 MM in fundings for 200+ companies. Our track record speaks for itself.
We are not VCs. The Keiretsu Forum is a professionally managed association for Angel Investors. Keiretsu Forum is not the venue for every entrepreneur. With more than 200 fundings, we know we are filling a market need. [...]
Sequoia-backed blogger Jason Calacanis launches “terrorist Jihad” campaign against Keiretsu Forum
Unfortunately young entrepreneur, blogger, and self-proclaimed startup guru, and Sequoia Capital backed “Mahalo” CEO Jason Calacanis has chosen to launch what he calls a “Holy War to destroy the Keiretsu Forum”. He is portraying himself as Bin Ladin and calls his rage-a-thon “Jason’s Jihad”.
This absurdity started last Friday with a very uncivil series of blog [...]
Cal Poly Business School Seniors tackle pre-launch planning for new Digital Media Firm
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 [...]
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 [...]
Keiretsu Forum Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
I attended the Keiretsu Forum’s “Entrepreneurship Bootcamp” training in downtown San Francisco today {March 13, 2009}. 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.