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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
{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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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.