Tag Archive: Angel Investors

An education in Angel investment with Dr. Rob Wiltbank – part 2

How many U.S. Angel investing groups are there? How are they organized?  How do they conduct due diligence?

In this 4 minute “part 2″ video segment from our educational interview series with Prof Rob Wiltbank of Willamette University, we explore how U.S. Angel investing groups are formed,

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An education in Angel investment, with Dr. Rob Wiltbank – part 1

This is part 1 of 14 short video interview segments with Dr. Rob Wiltbank of Willamette University (Salem & Portland, OR).

Rob has been studying, analyzing, publishing papers, and speaking about Angel investments, focusing on investment outcomes, for the past ten years.

In addition to teaching entrepreneurship, Rob is a Venture Partner with Seattle venture capital firm Montlake Capital. He has recently raised a $300k Angel investment fund which his business school students are in the process of

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Startup Trek visits with Mr. Max Shapiro, senior member of the Keiretsu Forum

Yesterday afternoon Startup Trek ventured to Sausalito, CA to visit with senior Keiretsu Forum member Mr. Max Shapiro.  Max is a Keiretsu Forum enthusiast, and CEO of innovative human resources firm PeopleConnect.com

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Cal Poly Business School Seniors tackle pre-launch planning for new Digital Media Firm

Cal Poly Business 454 Class, Day 1Business 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 experience working in a tech startup company, as it plans a high-profile launch on the web, in advance of developing cable and broadcast television content relationships.

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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 a very impressive and accomplished young entrepreneur.

At 99Designs, graphic artists from around the world compete with each other to develop logos, web pages, and other graphics for corporations, small businesses, individuals, and others.

Steve Bell, consistently being one of the highest-rated contest holders at 99Designs.com since 2004, was invited into to this interview when he was in San Luis Obispo, taking photographs at Cal Poly.  He spoke to CBS for 30 minutes, but only got 30 seconds of video in the edited version.

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GigaOM Mobilize Conference

img_5534jpg1I’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 Fortune Magazine.

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SVASE panel on which tech startups get funded, and why

The Tech Startup Gets Funded

The Tech Startup Gets Funded

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 Fortune 500?

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Panel discusses state of venture investing in midst of financial turmoil, frozen IPO

This Churchill Club panel met at Dinah’s Poolside Cafe/Hotel April 23 2008 for a breakfast panel discussion of the state of venture investing almost half way into 2008.

The backdrop, of course, being an essentially closed IPO market, a buyer’s M&A market, soaring oil prices, a second quarter of weakening consumer spending, and of course US bond and stock markets undergoing continued major turmoil due to the ongoing mortgage derivates triggered financial crisis. But this panel of leading venture and angel investing professionals for the most part characterized the private equity investment business as percolating along just fine, thank you very much.

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Churchill Club discusses state of venture investing in midst of credit crisis, frozen IPO market

{mosimage}This Churchill Club panel met at Dinah’s Poolside Cafe/Hotel April 23 2008 for a breakfast panel discussion of the state of venture investing almost half way into 2008.  The backdrop, of course, being an essentially closed IPO market, a buyer’s M&A market, soaring oil prices, a second quarter of weakening consumer spending, and of course US bond and stock markets undergoing continued major turmoil due to the ongoing mortgage derivates triggered financial crisis.

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The Amidi Group Plug and Play Tech Centers

To download the .pdf (easy read) version, click here

Steve takes a look at a first class, large-scale Silicon Valley startup incubator

118 startup companies and a data center in 177,000 sq feet

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