Tony Perkins’ Always On is hosting the annual “Innovation Summit” at Santa Clara University (SCU).
This excellent high-level business conference, which i’ve attended for four years out of the past five, has been renamed this year. Formerly, it was the “Venture Capital Summit at Stanford”.
It has been relocated from Stanford University, 20 miles to the north (just West of Palo Alto), to Santa Clara University (SCU), in the heart of San Jose California.
What’s the point of railing about Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Groupon?Do we once again have a “bubble” in dot-com? Do we have a “pre-IPO dot com valuation mania” underway, centered around companies with questionable business models? That question is being asked a lot.
In contrast to today’s social-media firms, Google has an insanely great business model. The made a fundamental invention which is changing the world, and delivers immense economic value.
On the tenth anniversary of the dot com bust, we may be running up to a second oneTechFlash, 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,
The War on Reg D – Redux
Chris Dodd, an outgoing US Senator due to taking loans from Mortgage firms he helped, is pushing a bill which will strangle startups
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“:
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,
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 Capital. He has recently raised a $300k Angel investment fund which his business school students are in the process of
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, detailed suggestions.
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 prolific career from his M.I.T. days to starting to make Angel investments, well before Foundry Group and TechStars.