When you earn your keep vetting startups, it can come as a shock to hear someone say that the startup landscape isn’t as fully formed as it should be. The volume of companies sprouting up these days feels overwhelming at times. But my conversation with YouNoodle CEO Bob Goodson this morning put [...]
Continue Reading →I woke up Friday morning to discover that I’d become a cat herder. You know the role: trying to get dozens and dozens of pieces and people corralled into some semblance of order. I should come to expect it in the few days before a DEMO Conference is set to begin. After all, I’ve been [...]
Continue Reading →I just had the most gratifying conversation with Carol Sands, founder and managing director of The Angels’ Forum.
Later this month, a group of young Taiwanese Web 2.0 entrepreneurs will be coming through the Valley. A few have aspirations to move their companies [...]
Continue Reading →Over the past 30 days, I’ve been corralling a about 80 companies into the DEMO 2008 program.
Now let me be the first to say that being invited — and accepting an invitation — to DEMO is a high hurdle for a young company, and it’s particularly tough [...]
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