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.
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Startup Trek covers the 2009 AlwaysOn Venture Capital Summit at Stanford with Tony Perkins
Steve Bell interviewed by ABC News about breaking news at Apple Computer
Steve was interviewed by Lisa Amin, Reporter for ABC News this evening on the breaking news about Steve Jobs leave of absence from Apple Computer:
We’d like to wish Steve and his family the best.
Matt Mickiewicz of SitePoint.com and 99Designs.com, 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. He’s a very impressive and accomplished young entrepreneur.
At 99Designs, graphic artists from around the world compete with each other to develop logos, web pages, and other graphics for corporations, small businesses, individuals, and others.
Steve Bell, consistently being one of the highest-rated contest holders at 99Designs.com since 2004, was invited into to this interview when he was in San Luis Obispo, taking photographs at Cal Poly. He spoke to CBS for 30 minutes, but only got 30 seconds of video in the edited version.
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 Fortune Magazine.
The Open Mobile Competition Begins
And they're off!
This panel, moderate by Adam Zawel from INmobile.org, examined the phenomena which started about 18 months ago, with Google’s announcement that it would participate in the 700MHz wireless auction. That being, the “open mobile” idea wherein in concept, wireless customers will be able to connect with device purchased via channels other than the carriers, will be able to connect to cellular networks and run “any application” via the internet (as they largely do in Japan, Korea and Europe now).
The panelists were: Anthony Lewis, VP Open Development, Verizon Wireless Rich Miner, VP Mobile, Google Matt Murphy, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Mark Rolston, Chief Creative Officer, Frog Design David Rivas, VP, Strategy & Business Dev, Software Platforms, Nokia