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,
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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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,
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 – [...]
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” [...]