Written on
June 11, 2010 by
Steve
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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Written on
June 6, 2010 by
Steve
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 [...]
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Written on
October 13, 2009 by
Steve
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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Written on
September 30, 2009 by
Steve
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 [...]
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Written on
December 12, 2008 by
Steve
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 [...]
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Written on
September 18, 2008 by
Steve
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 [...]
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Written on
August 7, 2008 by
Steve
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 [...]
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Written on
May 14, 2008 by
Steve
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 [...]
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Written on
April 23, 2008 by
Steve
{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 [...]
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February 1, 2008 by
Steve
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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