By Zoli Erdos on March 5, 2010
Under the Radar is Silicon Valley’s most established startup debut platform: a conference series organized by Dealmaker Media, covering business applications, social media, entertainment, mobility..etc.
This year’s conference in Mountain View, CA on April 16th will focus on Commercializing the Cloud – that’s a fairly wide definition, and one that perfectly mashes with our focus [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Dealmaker Media, Entrepreneurship, events, marketing, Networking, Silicon Valley, startups, vc funding
By Brad Feld on March 1, 2010
As of today’s announcement that Ted Wang at Fenwick & West has collaborated with a group of bay area early stage VC’s and angel investors to create the Series Seed Documents (the site isn’t up yet so I can’t opine on the quality of the docs but I expect them to be fine) we now [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Fenwick & West, financing, lawyers, Marc Andreessen, seed documents, Startup company, startups, Term Sheet, vc funding, Venture Capital, Y Combinator
By Brad Feld on February 24, 2010
Today, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) introduced the StartUp Visa Act of 2010. The group of us behind the Startup Visa project have been working closely with key members of each Senators’ staff on this and we are incredibly pleased with the proposed bill.
Following is the text from the press release [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Entrepreneurship, Immigration, Startup Visa, startups, Venture Capital
By Brad Feld on February 16, 2010
If you are a long time reader of this blog, you know that I’m a huge believer that the way we interact with computers in 20 years will be radically different than how we interact with them today. I’ve put my money where my mouth is as Foundry Group has invested in a number of [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged Foundry Group, HCI, Human–computer interaction, minority report, MinorityReport, oblong, Science fiction, startups, user interface
By Brad Feld on February 10, 2010
Scott Kirsner had a fun article in Boston.com today titled The Red Line Tour of Innovation in Boston. Several of the stops were regularly hang outs of mine between 1983 and 1995 most notably #10 (Miracle of Science) and #11 (Toscanini’s) but also including #5 (MIT Media Lab), #6 (Muddy Charles Pub), #7 (MIT Lobby [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged ADP, Boston, Boston Globe, Cambridge, Entrepreneurship, startups
By Sandy Kemsley on February 6, 2010
After we heard from Gurbaksh Chahal, the rest of DemoCamp proceeded as usual. We were in the Ted Rogers School of Management, part of Ryerson University, in a really great lecture hall space that seats a few hundred people; it seemed like most of the seats were filled that night.
First up was Albert Lai of [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged barcamp, DemoCamp, Entrepreneurship, Facebook, google, Social network, startups
By Zoli Erdos on February 3, 2010
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CloudAve readers know Mark Suster for his popular series on startups, getting funded, generally dealing with VCs but also on strategy, sales, management, presentations ..etc. In short as the very accessible all-around startup guy. I first met him as CEO of Koral, a startup later acquired by Salesforce.com.
Considering that he [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Entrepreneurship, grp partners, koral, mark suster, salesforce.com, startups, thefunded, vc, vc funding, Venture Capital
By Brad Feld on January 26, 2010
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Over the past eighteen months I’ve gotten to know Bill Warner through my work with the Boston program of TechStars. Bill was a well known entrepreneur when I lived in Boston between 1983 and 1995 – he’d founded Avid which is one of the famous MIT software companies to come out of the [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Boston, Entrepreneurial Communities, Massachusetts, startups, TechStars
By Brad Feld on January 21, 2010
My friends at NewsGator had a great 2009 – enterprise social computing came into its own and they were at the front of the pack. If an organization uses SharePoint and is interested in social computing, NewsGator Social Sites is a must have product.
Yesterday, NewsGator acquired Tomoye. The two companies are highly complimentary – Tomoye [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged acquisition, Mergers & Acquisitions, NewsGator, startups, Tomoye
By Brad Feld on January 20, 2010
Amy Cosper, the editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur Magazine, swung through Boulder recently and interviewed me, Scott McDaniel & Christian Vaneh of Survey Gizmo, Ari Newman of Filtrbox (recently acquired by Jive Software), Todd Vernon of Lijit Networks, and Tim Enwall of Tendril Networks. Unlike my two hour TWiST interview with Jason Calacanis, these are all short [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Colorado, Entrepreneurship, startups
