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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What makes a company a real start-up?
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 ‘start-up’?”.
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 reminds me of famous quote by Supreme Court Justice Potter Steward while discussing the Larry Flynt Pornography case: ”I do not know what hard-core pornography is, but I know it when I see it”.
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 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.
Central Valley Venture Forum in Fresno
Startup Trek will be attending and reporting from the Central Valley Venture Forum this Thursday Sept 24.
The California State Controller, Mr. John Chiang, will be keynoting the event, along with Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay and candidate for Governor in California.
Steve Bell, Startup Trek’s founder, will be speaking on two panels and acting as a judge in a “startup showdown”.
The full day’s agenda follows:
Startup Trek covers the 2009 AlwaysOn Venture Capital Summit at Stanford with Tony Perkins
Startup Trek will be at the Stanford Alumni Center next Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday this week for our second annual coverage of Tony Perkins’ Always On Venture Capital “Summit at Stanford” with Tony Perkins. The conference features many promising tech startups, along with panel sessions and debates about key trends impacting venture capital funded startups, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs across the tech spectrum.
Steve teams with Cal Poly business school to launch tech startup partnership programs
It was my opportunity on Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 to present a cutting-edge collegiate, socially-enabled web 2.0 application to students in the Orfalea School of Business at California Polytechnic (“Cal Poly”) in San Luis Obispo. Professor Jeffrey Danes of the Orfalea School of Business invited me into his entrepreneurial marketing class, the third in a four-course sequence. I described the business and technology strategy of a web startup that I’ve been helping out over the past year, to the 45 business school seniors enrolled in the “Entrepreneurship” program.
Tech Entrepreneurship Summit at Stanford opens
{mosimage}Tony Perkins opened the 2008 Summit at Stanford 6pm 7/22/08 with remarks about the economy, politics, and entrepreneurial environment. KPMG presented their analysis of the AlwaysOn top 250 Companies, including information on tech M&A over the past few years.
Jack Dorsey from Twitter showed up to accept the award as selection as the #1 startup out of the AO 250. He shared some more details about the Berkeley Journalism student who was freed from a jail in Egypt by the Twitter community. There was a lot of twittering going on throughout the conference, as attendees posted to Twitter; and exchanged notes while watching the conference live webcast feed.
Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital is conducting a panel on “Big Media’s Comeback” featuring Albert Cheng EVP Digital Networks at ABC-Disney, John Edwards CEO of Move Networks, Thomas Lesinksi President of Paramount Digital Entertainment, Michael Montgomery President of Montgomery & Co, and Todd Teresi SVP Yahoo!. Tom Lesinksi is explaining how Hollywood’s 50-year old business model, being very lucrative, are difficult to disrupt.
Entrepreneurial summit extraordinaire: The Summit at Stanford, put on by Always On
Tony Perkins of Red Herring Magazine fame, is putting on a conference for startups and vc’s like no other next week.
It’s called “Summit at Stanford “. Google, Salesforce.com, Skype, YouTube, Blue Lithium and Quigo all presented in past years while they were still privately held startups.
We’ll be there door-to-door next week, attending every session and always lurking in the hallways. We’ll be reporting here on The Bell Letter Blog about particularly interesting startups, sectors, and trends from the conference.
Five successful web entrepreneur-developers trade insights on SVASE panel
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This was a lively and insightful panel discussion Thursday evening May 8 2008, organized by SVASE and held at the Wilson Sonsini Goodrich campus in Palo Alto.
This panel was loaded with successful web entrepreneur-developers. What interested me the most was the running discussion thread regarding site (online business) development philosophy and methodology.
One panelist emphatically stated “If you can’t bring your application up within 90 days, you are doing it WRONG! wrong, wrong!!” (I noted experienced desktop software developers in the back of the room cringing). But the web platform is different.
Top Web Entrepreneurs talk Bootstrapping on Churchill Club panel
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The Churchill Club hosted an interesting panel on the topic of “Bootstrapping startups” in San Francisco Thursday evening, March 7. Although the panel never really managed to delve much into the topic of bootstrapping a startup, the discussion was interesting in it’s own right.