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Startup Trek TV had the opportunity today to interview the co-founder & CEO of Digital Music analytics startup “Next Big Sound” this evening at their headquarters in downtown Boulder, Colorado.
This startup came together in Chicago during the spring and summer 2008, and moved to the Boulder area after entering and winning a spot [...]
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StartupTrek TV interviews Boulder, CO Digital Music analytics startup “Next Big Sound”
Startup Trek visits with Mr. Max Shapiro, senior member of the Keiretsu Forum
Yesterday afternoon Startup Trek ventured to Sausalito, CA to visit with esteemed, senior Keiretsu Forum member Mr. Max Shapiro, CEO of innovative human resources firm PeopleConnect.com :
Keiretsu Forum member and spokesperson Dennis Erokan enters statement responding to Jason Calacanis “Twitter war”
Nine years of helping entrepreneurs equals $200 MM in fundings for 200+ companies. Our track record speaks for itself.
We are not VCs. The Keiretsu Forum is a professionally managed association for Angel Investors. Keiretsu Forum is not the venue for every entrepreneur. With more than 200 fundings, we know we are filling a market need. [...]
Sequoia-backed blogger Jason Calacanis launches “terrorist Jihad” campaign against Keiretsu Forum
Unfortunately young entrepreneur, blogger, and self-proclaimed startup guru, and Sequoia Capital backed “Mahalo” CEO Jason Calacanis has chosen to launch what he calls a “Holy War to destroy the Keiretsu Forum”. He is portraying himself as Bin Ladin and calls his rage-a-thon “Jason’s Jihad”.
This absurdity started last Friday with a very uncivil series of blog [...]
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 on Twitter:
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/09/30/where-twitter-ranks-in-vc-history/
This article shows how the odds are against Twitter 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 [...]
Cal Poly Business School Seniors tackle pre-launch planning for new Digital Media Firm
Business School Seniors in the School of Business at California Polytechnic University (San Luis Obispo CA; “Cal Poly”) enrolled in “Business 454″ are tackling the pre-launch planning for a new digital media production firm which will launch in January 2010 as “StartupTrek.TV”
The 36 business school seniors in the Orfalea School of business will gain hands-on [...]
Startup Trek covers the 2009 AlwaysOn Venture Capital “Summit at Stanford” with Tony Perkins
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, [...]
Steve teams with Cal Poly business school to launch tech startup partnership programs
It was my pleasure on Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 to participate in presenting a cutting-edge collegiate, socially-enabled web 2.0 application to students in the Orfalea School of Business at California Polytechnic (“Cal Poly”) in San Luis Obispo. Professor Jeffrey Danes of the Orfalea School of Business invited me speak to his entrepreneurial marketing class, the third [...]
Web 2.0 Expo conference arrives in San Francisco (#W2E)
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!
Matt Mickiewicz (SitePoint.com and 99Designs.com founder), and Steve Bell interviewed by CBS
Matt’s first startup, Sitepoint.com, launched ten years ago when he was 15. While living in Vancouver Island, Canada, and his staff working in New Zealand, Matt has just opened an office for his spinoff called 99Designs.com in San Francisco. Sitepoint is the 799th busiest site on the internet, and Matt has run it magnificently. Startup [...]