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
Frank Quattrone of Qatalyst gives startups M&A advice
Frank Quattrone moderated a panel featuring three startups
With the premise being he would give each of them his sought-after merger and acquisition advice. Quattrone recently co-founded a new tech M&A investment advisory firm Qatalyst.
The startups were:
- Teemu Huuhtanen, EVP Sulake. Sulake – a social networking and virtual world play.
- Lance Tokuda, CEO RockYou – a social networking site with 90M unique users.
- Phillip Alvelda, CEO MobiTV – a mobile content broadcasting company.
What's hot in venture capital investing during 2008?
I attended this interesting panel discussion session Thursday Jan 10. It was organized by the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs, held at the Wilson Sonsini Goodrich campus in Palo Alto, and attended by about 130 local entrepreneurs and business people. The panel discussion was moderated by Mark Albertson, Executive Producer of Tech Closeup TV, and the four venture capitalists were selected because they are ‘A-round’ (sometimes also called ‘seed’, or first-round) investors, who need to be ahead of the cutting edge of investing trends. ‘A-round investment’ is currently the place to be due to systemic changes underway in the venture capital business.
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.
Churchill Club discusses state of venture investing in midst of credit crisis, frozen IPO market
{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 US bond and stock markets undergoing continued major turmoil due to the ongoing mortgage derivates triggered financial crisis.
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.