Tony Perkins and TIm Miller, VP at 451 Group opened the “Summit at Stanford” this evening with an overview of the current M&A and IPO market, and by reviewing the status of the AO 250 announced at last year’s conference.
One of the highlights from the 451 Group, 90 percent of strategic acquirers expect private company [...]
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, [...]
450 Angel investors, VC’s, entrepreneurs, and business people attended today’s fourth annual “Launch Silicon Valley” in the conference center on Microsoft’s Mountain View, CA campus. As was the case last year, 30 tech startup companies were selected from almost 500 that applied to present.
Here is a 29-photo gallery from the event, along with a bit [...]
I am attending Henry Blodget ’s “Startup 09″ conference in lower Manhattan today. Business Insider has done a great 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 of the team at Alley Insider for inviting me [...]
I spent Tuesday May 19 at the Mandalay Bay Conference Center in Las Vegas, attending the 4th annual “rise-from-the-ashes Networld + Interop (N+I) trade show. I’m happy to report that after three somewhat false start years of getting this great annual computer networking industry tradition “rebooted”, N+I is now truly “back”.
Once again, intelligent wire-speed switches [...]
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.
This AlwaysOn panel, moderated by Victor Boyajian, National Chair, Technology, Sonnenschein, examined the prospects for Tech M&A and IPO over the next two years.
The panelists were:
Lise Buyer, Principal, Class V Group Paul Deninger, Vice Chairman, Jefferies & Co Drew Guevara, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Jamie Montgomery, CEO, Montgomery & Co
Boyajian: What do [...]
{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 [...]
Steve Bell at Nxtcom 08 Monday June 16 2008
I arrived a day early at the NXTcomm 2008 show , formerly known as Supercomm and now merged or operated in concert with several other telecom and wireless shows – including Infocomm, Broadband Wireless World, and Light Readings’ Wireless Conference – making it the largest telecom show [...]