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Video interview with Amy Errett, Partner Maveron.  Amy has more than 25 years of business and operating expertise as a leading entrepreneur, senior executive and social-mission visionary. Her focal points are emerging Web enabled consumer trends, e-commerce social shopping, and online education. Amy currently serves on the Altius Education, General Assembly, Latimer Education, Livemocha, SAY Media and Sway boards of directors.  Amy’s multifaceted career has ranged from the online Web  [ Read More ]

Video interview with Christina Brodback, CoFounder The Icebreak, a fun and new service that helps couples to create more rewarding relationships with snack-sized activities that take no more than two minutes a day. Facebook is for friends, dating sites are for singles, theicebreak is for couples. Prior to theicebreak, Christina was a founding team member at YouTube and the company’s first UI Designer. She later went on to lead UI  [ Read More ]

Leonard Nimoy, (of Dr Spock fame on Star Trek) actor, writer, director & photographer gave the keynote speech @DEMO Enterprise Disruption.  He was really inspiring particularly about the creative life. I particularly loved his quote at the end: “Edwin Booth, the actor heard the solemn whisper of a god of all arts.  He said ‘I shall give you hunger & pain & sleepless nights.  Also beauty & satisfaction known to  [ Read More ]

For over a year I have been video interviewing venture capitalists, angel investors and women founders trying to investigate the apparent shortfall in funding for women led technology startups. My goal has been to listen to as many people as I could from both sides of the table, in order to get a diversity of opinions on this controversial subject. Whilst I have been doing these interviews, many people have  [ Read More ]

We attended the AlwaysOn Venture Summit last week at the fabulous Ritz Carlton Half Moon Bay.  The mashup includes Trends in Venture Capital Financing Terms in Silicon Valley w Barry Kramer, Partner, Fenwick & West & Tony Perkins, Founder AlwaysOn.  Venture Capital Business Outlook w Ann Winblad, Managing Director Hummer Winblad; Rob Chaplinksy, Managing Director Bridgescale; Paul Matteucci, General Partner USVP. The Socialization of the Entertainment Industry w Eric Kuhn,  [ Read More ]