Tag Archive: Venture Capital

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch takes on, defeats Seattle at TechFlash event

TechFlash, a Seattle blog which covers tech startups, held an event which featured Mike Arrington

This lively panel discussion featured Bill Bryant from Draper Fisher, Hillel Cooperman from Jackson Fish Market, Serena Glover of Twango, Andy Sack of Founder’s Co-Op and the founding director of TechStars Seattle,

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Renegotiated Financial Regulation bill (FINREG) still stands to cripple Angel investment, job formation

The War on Reg D – Redux

There’s been a LOT of complaining recently about the terms which negatively impact the $26B annual world of “Angel” investing, which have been slipped into Senator Chris Dodd’s Financial Reform bill (“FINREG”). The Wall Street Journal railed about it under the banner “Angels Out of America“:

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An education in Angel investment with Dr. Rob Wiltbank – part 2

How many U.S. Angel investing groups are there? How are they organized?  How do they conduct due diligence?

In this 4 minute “part 2″ video segment from our educational interview series with Prof Rob Wiltbank of Willamette University, we explore how U.S. Angel investing groups are formed,

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An education in Angel investment, with Dr. Rob Wiltbank – part 1

This is part 1 of 14 short video interview segments with Dr. Rob Wiltbank of Willamette University (Salem & Portland, OR).

Rob has been studying, analyzing, publishing papers, and speaking about Angel investments, focusing on investment outcomes, for the past ten years.

In addition to teaching entrepreneurship, Rob is a Venture Partner with Seattle venture capital firm Montlake [...]

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Part 4, Brad Feld: How does Techstars work? And advice for young entrepreneurs

This 6-minute video, part 4/4 of our interview with software-internet venture capitalist Brad Feld covers how the Techstars 90 day venture incubation program works. Techstars currently has programs running in Boulder, Boston, and Seattle.

We also asked Brad what advice he would give young entrepreneurs just getting started today and he came back with several specific, [...]

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Brad Feld tells the story of his Angel investing and Venture Capital career

This 7-minute, part 2 of our interview with software-internet venture capitalist Brad Feld covers how he broke into tech investing after selling Feld Technologies:

Initial forays into Angel investing; some of the winners; what did and what didn’t work. Why he moved to Boulder in 1995 (he’s often credited with turning [...]

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Interview with Brad Feld, Boulder CO software internet venture capital partner

Startup Trek spent a week in Boulder, Colorado recently, getting to know some of the local entrepreneurs.

We were fortunate to kick things off by interviewing Foundry Group venture capitalist Brad Feld, Managing Director at Foundry Group’s offices in Downtown Boulder, CO. Part 1 of our interview with Brad is a six minute session, covering Brad’s [...]

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We complete another Western USA innovation tour featuring tech entrepreneurs

Startup Trek Television, Inc. announced and completed another (November 10 > Dec 8, 2009) “Innovation in the Western USA” Tour:

We video interviewed startups in each city. This was our schedule:

November 12 & 13: interview ten tech startups in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. November 14-15: (weekend) interview six tech startups in Portland, [...]

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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:

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/09/30/where-twitter-ranks-in-vc-history/

This article shows how the odds are against this investment 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 – [...]

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Steve interviews Fusion IO cofounder, CEO at Networld + Interop Las Vegas

Fusion IO, of Salt Lake City has raised $48M in venture financing to develop next generation, Flash memory based “solid state server drive” io subsystems.

As a Fusion IO co-founder explains in this interview on the opening day of N+I Las Vegas (in Startup City), hard disk drive technology has not kept up with “Moore’s Law” [...]

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