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	<title>Startup Trek TV, Inc :: Web 2.0 Startups :: Mobile Computing :: Digital Media :: Entrepreneurship and Innovation &#187; Venture Capital</title>
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		<title>Michael Arrington of TechCrunch takes on, defeats Seattle at TechFlash event</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/michael-arrington-techcrunch-defeats-seattle-techflash-event-2/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/michael-arrington-techcrunch-defeats-seattle-techflash-event-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Startups]]></category>
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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&#8217;s Co-Op and the founding director of TechStars Seattle, and Michael Arrington of TechCrunch.  The event was hosted and moderated by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renegotiated Financial Regulation bill (FINREG) still stands to cripple Angel investment, job formation</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/renegotiated-financial-regulation-bill-finreg-stands-wipe-angel-investment-jobs-3/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/renegotiated-financial-regulation-bill-finreg-stands-wipe-angel-investment-jobs-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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The War on Reg D &#8211; Redux


There&#8217;s been a LOT of complaining recently about the terms which negatively impact the $26B annual world of &#8220;Angel&#8221; investing, which have been slipped into Senator Chris Dodd&#8217;s Financial Reform bill (&#8220;FINREG&#8221;).  The Wall Street Journal railed about it under the banner &#8220;Angels Out of America&#8220;:


   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An education in Angel investment with Dr. Rob Wiltbank &#8211; part 2</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/part-2-education-in-angel-investment-dr-rob-wiltbank-2/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/part-2-education-in-angel-investment-dr-rob-wiltbank-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 01:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Startups]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many U.S. Angel investing groups are there? How are they organized?  How do they conduct due diligence?

In this 4 minute &#8220;part 2&#8243; video segment from our educational interview series with Prof Rob Wiltbank of Willamette University, we explore how U.S. Angel investing groups are formed, how they are structured to invest, and how they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An education in Angel investment, with Dr. Rob Wiltbank &#8211; part 1</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/angel-investment-education-14-part-interview-dr-rob-wiltbank-willamette-university-3/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/angel-investment-education-14-part-interview-dr-rob-wiltbank-willamette-university-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Finance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Angel-Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entrepreneurship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Reform Bill]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The War on Reg D]]></category>
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This is part 1 of 14 short video interview segments with Dr. Rob Wiltbank of Willamette University (Salem &#38; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 4, Brad Feld:  How does Techstars work?  And advice for young entrepreneurs</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/part-4-of-4-brad-feld-interview-how-does-techstars-work-and-advice-for-young-entrepreneurs-2/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/part-4-of-4-brad-feld-interview-how-does-techstars-work-and-advice-for-young-entrepreneurs-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[advice for entrepreneurs]]></category>
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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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brad Feld tells the story of his Angel investing and Venture Capital career</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/part-2-brad-feld-interview-angel-investing-and-venture-capital-3/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/part-2-brad-feld-interview-angel-investing-and-venture-capital-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
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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&#8217;t work.
    Why he moved to Boulder in 1995 (he&#8217;s often credited with turning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Brad Feld, Boulder CO software internet venture capital partner</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/hour-with-top-internet-software-venture-capitalist-brad-feld-at-his-offices-in-boulder-co-2/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/hour-with-top-internet-software-venture-capitalist-brad-feld-at-his-offices-in-boulder-co-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
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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&#8217;s offices in Downtown Boulder, CO. Part 1 of our interview with Brad is a six minute session, covering Brad&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We complete another Western USA innovation tour featuring tech entrepreneurs</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/startup-trek-television-announce-20-city-150-entrepreneur-interviews-3/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/startup-trek-television-announce-20-city-150-entrepreneur-interviews-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Startups]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Startup Trek Television, Inc. announced and completed another (November 10 &#62; Dec 8, 2009) &#8220;Innovation in the Western USA&#8221; Tour:

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


    November 12 &#38; 13: interview ten tech startups in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue.
    November 14-15: (weekend) interview six tech startups in Portland, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street Journal article: Where Twitter ranks in Venture Capital (VC) History</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/wall-street-journal-article-where-twitter-ranks-in-vc-history-3/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/wall-street-journal-article-where-twitter-ranks-in-vc-history-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Startups]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;VC insanity&#8221; Tulip-bulb style investing, circa the 1999 Nasdaq bubble.

We were big fans &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve interviews Fusion IO cofounder, CEO at Networld + Interop Las Vegas</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/video-interview-with-fusionio-founding-team-engineers-at-networld-interop-las-vegas-2/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/video-interview-with-fusionio-founding-team-engineers-at-networld-interop-las-vegas-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 19:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Startups]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Venture Capital]]></category>

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Fusion IO, of Salt Lake City has raised $48M in venture financing to develop next generation, Flash memory based &#8220;solid state server drive&#8221; 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 &#8220;Moore&#8217;s Law&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve teams with Cal Poly business school to launch tech startup partnership programs</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/cal-poly-partnership-2/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/cal-poly-partnership-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was my opportunity on Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 to present a cutting-edge collegiate, socially-enabled web 2.0 application to students in the Orfalea School of Business at California Polytechnic (&#8220;Cal Poly&#8221;) in San Luis Obispo.  Professor Jeffrey Danes of the Orfalea School of Business invited me into his entrepreneurial marketing class, the third in a four-course [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SVASE panel on which tech startups get funded, and why</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/what-type-of-tech-startups-get-funded-and-why-2/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/what-type-of-tech-startups-get-funded-and-why-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Angel Investors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This SVASE panel discussion held Thu Aug 7 2008 at Wilson-Sonsini in Palo Alto

Delved into the question of what types of startups are attracting funding, and why.

What types of startups are getting funded?  Consumer? Technology? Social? Wireless? or what?

What are the most attractive markets; 5 million free members to the next Flickr, or the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple, with a little help from KP, opens iPhone to developers</title>
		<link>http://startuptrek.net/apple-with-a-little-help-from-kp-opens-iphone-to-developers-2/</link>
		<comments>http://startuptrek.net/apple-with-a-little-help-from-kp-opens-iphone-to-developers-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Today Apple went beyond opening up the iPhone to software developers with the expected software developer kit (SDK).

They also announced MS-Exchange Compatibility by licensing ActiveSync technology from Microsoft.

The third major component of this announcement was provided by John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins, who announced the establishment of a $100M &#8220;iFund&#8221;, dedicated to companies developing iPhone [...]]]></description>
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