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Thursday, August 07, 2008 |
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 Startup panel discussion
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?
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What are VCs looking for in startup exits – a long term company, partnership, acquisition, or a quick flip to Google?
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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
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Daniel Joensen, Deal Screening Committee, Band of Angels
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Anthony Lee, General Partner, Altos Ventures
- Moderator: Wes Rose, Senior Vice President, The Brenner Group
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 |
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 Alwyas On Summit at Stanford 2008 Tech Startups Entrepreneurship
Quattrone recently co-founded a new tech M&A investment advisory firm Qatalyst.
The startups were:
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Teemu Huuhtanen, EVP Sulake. Sulake - a social networking and virtual world play.
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Lance Tokuda, CEO RockYou - a social networking site with 90M unique users.
- Phillip Alvelda, CEO MobiTV - a mobile content broadcasting company.
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
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This new SharePoint Magazine made it's online debut this morning. The first issue includes an article just written by Steve, "Microsoft SharePoint from the iPhone: First Impressions".
The article details how we've discovered that SharePoint workgroup productivity sites can be accessed from both 1st geneartion (2.5G) and 2nd generation (3G) iPhones, to accelerate the work of Startup teams.
 3G iPhone SharePoint challenge screen |
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 |
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I just returned from spending the better part of two days at a compelling conference organized by the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs (SVASE), held at Microsoft's Mountain View Campus, and sponsored by Garage Technology Ventures: Launch Silicon Valley 2008 .
A networking reception was held Monday evening prior to the conference at Cooley Godward Kronish headquarters in Palo Alto. 30 startups were picked from a field of 250+ applicants to present their business strategies, technologies, and go-to-market strategies at the conference.
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