Video interview with Tim Draper, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Tim is the Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. His original suggestion to use “viral marketing” in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and YahooMail, and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique by hundreds of businesses. On behalf of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tim serves on the boards of Glam, Kyte.tv, Meebo, ShareThis, SocialText, Wigix and DFJ Plug ‘N Play companies. Previous successes include: Skype (EBAY), Overture.com (YHOO), Baidu (BIDU), Parametric Technology (PMTC), Hotmail (MSFT), PLX Technologies (PLXT), Preview Travel (TVLY), Digidesign (AVID), and others. You can find Tim @ his blog The Riskmaster & Twitter @TimDraper
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Brad Feld, Foundry Group: Solving Venture Bias
Video interview with Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group. Brad has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur for over twenty years. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch and operate software companies. Brad is also a co-founder of TechStars & CEO NCWIT. You can find him at his blog Feld Thoughts & on Twitter @bfeld I interviewed Brad Feld a few weeks ago after having a ball interviewing his partner Jason Mendelson. They are both really generous in sharing their perspectives & also both have great senses of humor. To reinforce that the picture above is currently from their website Foundry Group in a Halloween frame of mind, loads of fun!
Cindy Gallop, IfWeRanTheWorld: Changing Venture for Women
Video Interview with Cindy Gallop, founder and CEO of IfWeRanTheWorld , a radically simple web platform designed to turn good intentions into action, one microaction at a time, which launched in beta with a demo at TED 2010, and of MakeLoveNotPorn, launched at TED 2009. She acts as board advisor to a number of tech startups and consults, describing her consultancy approach as ‘I like to blow shit up. I am the Michael Bay of business.’ Cindy Gallop’s background is brandbuilding, marketing and advertising – she started up the US office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty in New York in 1998 and in 2003 was named Advertising Woman of the Year. You can find Cindy on Twitter @cindygallop1