Randy Komisar, Partner Kleiner Perkins spent his youth working in the public sector & nonprofit sector. He was raised in a house where he learnt to buy low & sell high really well: he was a good businessman. He fought all those instincts to...
Robert Scoble led NoPanels Summer 2014 with NoKeynote. Fabulous talk – in fact it had a momentum all of its own.
Robert was also kind enough to give me a quick interview after the talk. (I got reprimanded!)
I met Jeff Axup, CEO Sense6 @Wearables World Demo Day & was very impressed with their service Sense6 is producing beautiful smart-jewelry for personal safety. The product looks like real fashion jewelry, but it has a hidden feature which lets a...
Interview with Stacy Dean Stephens, VP Marketing & Sales Knightscope @Launch 2104. Â Fabulous security robot! Â Knightscope creates autonomous data machines to predict & prevent crime. They are a seed stage company & they’re...
I spoke to Mateo Neri & Grant Delgatty, URB-E bicycle @Launch 2014. Â Its the world’s most compact bicycle & is designed to go 20 miles on a single charge. Â Its all electric & has a giant lithium battery in the front. Â Top speed of...
Interview with Fred Scille, Work Stylist poppin @Launch 2014. Poppin offers well designed, colorful products at the same price that you would get elsewhere. They are from NYC & they do all design in house & their own manufacture & their...
We bumped into Manu Kumar, K9 Ventures @Launch 2014. He was there to watch the demo for Coin as he was one of the earliest investors. He contributes greatly with a hands on approach with all startups in which he invests. As he said he invests...
I interviewed Richard Titus, CEO prompt.ly @GLAZED Conference. Â He spoke about London where he comes from originally & his startup prompt.ly. Â It is focused scheduling & is targeting to individuals. Â He spoke about being a serial...
Focused on innovative social design as IDEO discusses ways that their firm gains insights about customers & uses prototype  based experiments to help evaluate & explore business model options for business ventures.  Facilitators: David...
An interactive legal discussion answering term sheet questions entrepreneurs often have as they prepare to take on their first outside investments. Facilitators Jonathan Storper, Partner Hanson Bridgett & Leslie Keil, Senior Counsel Hanson...
Farid Haque launched his magazine ERLY STAGE in London today. Â I contributed an article about Female Venture Capitalists (see below). Â You can purchase the mag online @MAGZTER I do my best to promote female venture capitalists both to entrepreneurs...
We covered SFMusicTechSummit a week or so ago & true to past summits it was an interesting day.  Video of panels along with past summits.
I interviewed Guy Kawasaki on his new book, Ape. Â I was thrilled that we were aligned in our attitudes to social media, that it is important to publish relevant & interesting material. Â He is a great guy & has contributed to the ecosystem...
I interviewed Mike Arsenault, CoFounder Rejoiner @FailCon 2012 & he gave some advice to female entrepreneurs.
Here is the talk that Mike gave @FailCon “How NOT to Manager Product”
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The investor panel @SFMusicTech Summit 2012 was really interesting & lots of info for music startups that are looking to get funded. Â Moderator Mark Montgomery, FLO with Larry Marcus, Walden Venture Capital; Hany Nada, GGV Capital; Lewis Gersh...