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The winner of our Positively Confidential pitch competition is Karla Stephens-Tolstoy, CEO and Co-Founder tokii.com Karla receives a copy of Naomi Fine’s book ‘Positively Confidential’  Good work Karla! Here is Karla’s pitch Bio Karla Stephens-Tolstoy, CEO and Co-Founder Frenetic energy with blonde hair: this is Karla Stephens-Tolstoy. Sometimes passionate and focused, the next minute wide-eyed and wondering, Karla is the idea generator behind Tokii – an online relationship management platform designed  [ Read More ]

Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures spoke @FailCon in October.   Cathy Brooks moderated the session.  Many thanks to Cathy for responding to my raised eyebrows & distress from the audience, to allow me to refute what Vinod was saying ! Vinod Khosla is an entrepreneur, investor, failure expert and technology fan. He is the founder of Khosla Ventures, focused on impactful clean technology and information technology investments. Mr. Khosla has a few  [ Read More ]

Undrip have come up with a fabulous way to pitch to investors via a rap song.  It’s fabulous, check them out! They also have some great rap songs for some of the venture capitalists & angels, check them out @ Undrip Related articles Rapping for dollars (finance.fortune.cnn.com) Native Hip-hop Wraps Alaska Reality TV Show (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com) Action Bronson Talks Handjobs, LP & Gourmet Raps (theboombox.com) ‘Yo! MTV Raps’ Returns For December  [ Read More ]

We attended GeoLoco last week & there was a fabulous line up of speakers.  Here is a mashup of some of the panels & speakers. The Future of Mobile-Loco Commerce Holger Luedorf, VP, Mobile and International, foursquare; Sylvain Carle, CTO, Needium; Victor Wong, CEO, PaperG; Chung Meng Cheong, VP, Ad Products, ATTi It’s the Context, Stupid: Turning Dumb Features into Smart Ones Darian Shirazi, CEO & Founder, Fwix; Rip Gerber , President &  [ Read More ]

Rudy Garza is a native of Austin and a recognized Texas leader in the technology start-up industry. He started G-51 Capital in 1996 a few blocks from the University of Texas campus and now has served as an investor and board member for over 20 companies, selling numerous to publicly traded strategic acquirers including SAP, ADP, Prudential, and Cisco Systems among others. Rudy has demonstrated success in seed-stage business identification  [ Read More ]