Startup Trek spent a week in Boulder, Colorado last month, getting to know some of the entrepreneurs in Boulder. We were fortunate to kick things off by interviewing leading Venture Capitalist Brad Feld, Managing Director of Foundry Group, at their offices in Downtown Boulder, CO. Segment 1, a 12-minute session, covers Brad’s prolific career [...]
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Cal Poly Business School Team interviews web startup RememberItNow.com
Cal Poly Business School seniors Lelani Torres and Brandon LaRose prepare for a remote/Skype video interview with Web 2.0 startup RememberItNow.com.
The students are conducting interviews with entrepreneurs this quarter, as part of their 3rd-party independent market research, beta testing, and business model analysis for Startup Trek Television Inc.
The 36 students enrolled in “Business 454″, are [...]
StartupTrek TV interviews Boulder, CO Digital Music analytics startup “Next Big Sound”
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Startup Trek TV had the opportunity today to interview the co-founder & CEO of Digital Music analytics startup “Next Big Sound” this evening at their headquarters in downtown Boulder, Colorado.
This startup came together in Chicago during the spring and summer 2008, and moved to the Boulder area after entering and winning a spot [...]
A visit with Jerry LaChapelle, founder & CEO of Manufacturing Enterprise Systems (MES) of Seattle
We had an interesting visit with Boeing Technical Principal, turned serial entrepreneur Jerry LaChapelle. In our pending series of six short video segments, Jerry discusses his firm’s new web-based, Software as a Service (SaaS) platform which provides between numerical control (NC), Computer-Aided Design (CAD), and Computer-Aided Manufacturing. The result is that manufacturers and component suppliers [...]
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 :
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 [...]
What makes a company a “startup”?
This week Nima Salke, a School of business senior enrolled in Business 454 at Cal Poly, asked me an excellent question: “what criteria exactly, defines a company as a ’startup’?”.
This is an not a particularly easy question to answer, and it is not a question that there is any perfect, black-and-white answer for. This question [...]