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 [...]
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Jason’s partner Mike Arrington opens a new front in “Jason’s and Mike’s Jihad
No, it’s not just Jason Crassacanis who are angering good business people by “Trolling” them. In their escalating war of rage against anyone else (besides them) who makes a profit while offering services on the internet, #1 technology business blogger Michael “Mike” Arrington (this PC World Article describes them both rather well) founder of TechCrunch.com [...]
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, [...]
Steve Bell’s slides for “This Week in Startups” with Jason Calacanis
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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 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 [...]
Matt Mickiewicz (SitePoint.com and 99Designs.com founder), 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. Startup [...]
GigaOM Mobilize Conference
I’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 [...]