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 :
Interviewing innovative tech startups
Tag Archive: Social Networking
Keiretsu Forum member and spokesperson Dennis Erokan enters statement responding to Jason Calacanis “Twitter war”
Nine years of helping entrepreneurs equals $200 MM in fundings for 200+ companies. Our track record speaks for itself.
We are not VCs. The Keiretsu Forum is a professionally managed association for Angel Investors. Keiretsu Forum is not the venue for every entrepreneur. With more than 200 fundings, we know we are filling a market need. [...]
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 [...]
Wall Street Journal article: “Where Twitter ranks in Venture Capital (VC) History”
Are Venture Capitalists going to lose their shirts on Twitter?
Some historical perspective on the immense bet Venture Capitalists have made on Twitter:
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/09/30/where-twitter-ranks-in-vc-history/
This article shows how the odds are against Twitter returning funds to investors. Because Twitter falls into the zone of “VC insanity” Tulip-bulb style investing, circa the 1999 Nasdaq bubble.
We were big fans [...]
Twitter-Gate update: a hand-delivered appeal for tech support to Evan Williams
As we’ve detailed in a previous post, on July 21 2009, StartupTrek’s Twitter account was hijacked. Someone — likely someone within a third-party Twitter service provider — seized control of our account and changed the email address, leaving us unable to use Twitter’s automated “password reset”. We need actual “human” tech support to fix this and recover [...]
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, [...]
Henry Blodget’s “Startup 09″ entrepreneurship conference debuts at NYU
I am attending Henry’s “Startup 09″ conference in lower Manhattan today, and the first thing I’d like to report is that Alley Insider has done a fantastic job of orchestrating the debut of a first-rate, high level technology industry business conference. Thanks to Henry Blodget (CEO of Business Insider, Julie Hansen (COO) and the rest [...]
Steve teams with Cal Poly business school to launch tech startup partnership programs
It was my pleasure on Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 to participate in presenting 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 speak to his entrepreneurial marketing class, the third [...]
Web 2.0 Expo conference arrives in San Francisco (#W2E)
The Web 2.0 Expo made its way to San Francisco, CA March 31st through April 3rd. There was a lot of talk about the design of mobile applications, twitter vs google vs facebook vs linkedin, and much more!
Matt Mickiewicz (SitePoint.com and 99Designs.com founder), 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. Startup [...]