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What type of tech startups get funded and why?

Thursday, August 07, 2008

Startup panel discussion

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 Flagr/Fligr/Flikr, or the Fortune 500?
What are VCs looking for from startup teams – management, management, management?
What are VCs looking for in startup exits – a long term company, partnership, acquisition, or a quick flip to Google?
What happened to the IPO?
What business models are working, or not?
What do VCs want to know about you – funding pitch-KISS, the technology, patentable IP, the market, or ?

The Panel:

John C. Occhipinti, Managing Director, Woodside Fund
Carol Sands, Founder and Managing Member of The Halo Funds
Daniel Joensen, Deal Screening Committee, Band of Angels
Anthony Lee, General Partner, Altos Ventures
Moderator: Wes Rose, Senior Vice President, The Brenner Group

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AlwaysOn panel: Mobilizing your social network

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford 2008 Tech Startups Entrepreneurship

This panel, moderated by Adam Zawal of INmobile, examined whether social networks are merely features of existing applications and services, or are they a more fundamental element of the mobile ecosystem? The panelists were:

    John Faith, GM & VP for Mobile, MySpace
    Mauro del Rio, Chairman, Buongiomo
Babur Ozden, CEO, ZipClip
    Kamar Shah, Head of Marketing Services & Software, Nokia
    Shawn Conahan, CEO, Intercasting Corp

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AlwaysOn panel: Will SaaS disappear in the Cloud?

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford Tech Startup Entrepreneurship 2008

This panel, moderate by Michael Barker, Managing Director of Revolution Partners, examined the distinctions between SaaS, cloud computing, on-demand, and grid computing in order to clarify the differences and discuss their relative merits. The panelists were:

    Vance Checkett, COO, Mozy, EMC
    Russ Daniels, VP & CTO Cloud Services, HP
    Drew Clark, Director of Strategy, IBM Venture Capital Group
    Polly Sumner, President, Platforms & Alliances, Salesforce.com
    Rich Zippel, VP Technology, Chief Technologist Office, Sun Microsystems

Zippel: some IT services are best delivered off some form of homogeneous infrastructure... every few years we see a different name for it and it takes a different form...

AlwaysOn panel: The Open Mobile Competition Begins

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford Tech Startup Entrepreneurship

This panel, moderate by Adam Zawel from INmobile.org, examined the phenomena which started about 18 months ago, with Google's announcement that it would participate in the 700MHz wireless auction. That being, the "open mobile" idea wherein in concept, wireless customers will be able to connect with device purchased via channels other than the carriers, will be able to connect to cellular networks and run "any application" via the internet (as they largely do in Japan, Korea and Europe now).

The panelists were:

    Anthony Lewis, VP Open Development, Verizon Wireless
    Rich Miner, VP Mobile, Google
Matt Murphy, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Mark Rolston, Chief Creative Officer, Frog Design
    David Rivas, VP, Strategy & Business Dev, Software Platforms, Nokia

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