Podcasts about Draper Fisher Jurvetson

In this compelling new episode of Searching for Mana, Lloyd Wahed engages in an insightful conversation with Tim Draper, one of the greatest venture capital investors. They explore the revolutionary potential of the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics in business sectors, the potentials of Bitcoin in modern economics and how it will shape our future. The CEOs candidly discuss their entrepreneurial journeys, shedding light on the challenges they've faced along the way. Tim Draper, in particular, delves into what he deems essential in business and whether he's unearthed his own "Mana" - his superpower, his magic. As a prominent venture capitalist and the founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Draper University, Draper Venture Network, Draper Associates, and Draper Goren Holm, Tim Draper boasts a multifaceted portfolio and an intuitive grasp of disruptive trends, positioning him as a driving force in molding the digital terrain. Follow Searching For Mana to stay tuned into our latest episodes. Website: https://manasearch.co.uk/browse-jobs/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mana.search/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mana1

Welcome to the "Secrets of #Fail," a new pod storm series hosted by Matt Brown. In this series of 2023, Matt dives deep into the world of failures and lessons learned along the way from high-net-worth individuals.  Join Matt as he dives into the world of failures and lessons.Series: Secret of #FailAndy Kurtzig is the founder and CEO of JustAnswer. Kurtzig is an established entrepreneur with two successful acquisitions before founding JustAnswer. Kurtzig has been recognized as “One of the Bay Area's Most Admired CEOs” by the San Francisco Business Times and one of Goldman Sachs “Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs.” Prior to JustAnswer, Kurtzig founded and later sold eBenefits, a cloud-based Human Resources application. eBenefits received funding from established venture capital firms NEA, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and WR Hambrecht. Before that, Kurtzig developed and sold ANSER, a software program for the newspaper industry, while still in college. Kurtzig is also an angel investor, with successful investments including StubHub (acquired by eBay) and iLike (acquired by MySpace), and an active philanthropist, with a passion for finding a cure for juvenile diabetes. Kurtzig holds a B.S. in Business Administration from UC Berkeley. When he's not working, Kurtzig's interests include spending time with his wife and his three children.Get an interview on the Matt Brown Show: www.mattbrownshow.comSupport the show

Guest: Rachel Pike, COO at Modern TreasuryPayment operations startup Modern Treasury is not afraid to do things in “our own weird way,” says COO Rachel Pike. Its values statement is a 150 word essay, it has gone viral by writing about nerdy ACH payments minutiae, and it has an unusual rule for quarterly internal reviews: No slides. Instead, departments have to write one to two page essay, which are packaged together and then shared company-wide, and with the board. In previous jobs, Rachel laments, she and her coworkers would waste time “pushing pixels” around 50-slide decks. “It [the essay] actually takes more thinking and less hours to put together a summary of, ‘where have we been?'” she says.In this episode, Rachel and Joubin discuss the state of San Francisco, the value of tradition, hunger to learn, the Draper Fisher Jurvetson split, the opportunity cost of staying put, HIPAA and startups, two-entrepreneur households, career transition coaching, “try before you buy” hiring, learning to be remote, the downside of grasping, and fixing inequalities in compensation.In this episode, we cover: Why Rachel doesn't like talking about herself (01:20) Job-hopping and the Bay Area (02:38) Early adopters vs. brilliant innovators (05:16) Why Rachel left academia (07:44) “I got a phD in startups” (10:24) The “nights and weekends” gig at AngelList (14:05) Describing startups to aliens (16:50) Four years at Grand Rounds (18:28) What makes Modern Treasury “modern” (21:51) How she got hired as employee #1 (24:16) Advice for wannabe early-stage startup workers (30:18) “Wonder is contagious” (32:00) “Do it right the first time” (35:09) Hacker News and other growth levers (38:20) The excitement of scaling (40:49) Advisors and quarterly planning essays (44:02) Forced prioritization (49:20) Hard feedback (51:50) The working with Rachel doc (54:19) How Modern Treasury does comp and bonuses (57:21) What's past is prologue (59:43) Who Modern Treasury is hiring and what “Grit” means to Rachel (01:02:00) Links: Connect with Rachel Twitter LinkedIn Connect with Joubin Twitter LinkedIn Email: grit@kleinerperkins.com  Learn more about Kleiner Perkins This episode was edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod.fm

Billionaire venture capitalist Tim Draper has extended his $250,000 Bitcoin prediction by six months due to the FTX collapse and unfavorable crypto and macroeconomic factors. Draper, a founding partner of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, is known for successfully timing Bitcoin's $10,000 milestone in late 2017. In 2018, he predicted BTC would reach $250,000 before the end of 2022, based on the assumption that bitcoin will replace 6 percent of all the government-backed currencies in circulation in 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Hulett is the CEO and President of PetMeds. Matt is a seasoned technology executive leading world-class public and private companies and working closely with Boards and investors in organizations that include Rosetta Stone, RealNetworks, Expedia and many more. He has had multiple turnaround successes as a public company president as well as a private company CEO. He has a proven track record raising venture capital from blue chip firms (Sequoia Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Allen and Company, Intel Capital) with multiple liquidity events. Also, Matt is regularly featured in technology and business podcasts and media outlets, such as Recode, Forbes, Entrepreneur and others.   This Episode is Sponsored By: With Masterclass, you can learn from the world's best minds, anytime, anywhere, at your own pace. You can learn a science-based approach to the art of persuasion selling and motivating yourself from Daniel Pink, or improve your negotiation skills from Chris Voss, or you can learn how to be a disruptive entrepreneur from Richard Branson. With over 150 classes from a range of world class instructors, that thing you've always wanted to do is closer than you think. As a listener to this podcast, you can get 15% off in annual membership, go to: millionaire-interviews.com/masterclass If you have a brand that you've always dreamt of building, or business you want to take online, the first step is finding your domain name. Hover makes it super simple with clear and straightforward user experience, easy to use tools, and truly amazing support from friendly humans. Secure, simple, and reliable, Hover is a trusted and popular choice amongst millions of people launching any kind of brand or business. If you're ready to get your idea off the ground with the perfect domain name, head to: millionaire-interviews.com/hover to get 10% off your first Hover purchase. Great leaders don't do anything alone. Find the support you need to delegate those details with Belay. Belay has been helping business leaders with staffing solutions for over a decade. And you can find that out by checking out Episode 84 of our podcast where Austin interviewed the founder of Belay, Bryan Miles. Belay is offering an exclusive VIP offer to all of our podcast listeners, so just text STORY to 55123 to claim your VIP offer. Optimize workflow with NordPass Business, a platform where your company's digital wealth is managed. With the NordPass Business Password Manager, you will save time and energy allowing your team to focus on what matters most. NordPass eases the burden of access to business accounts, making it possible for your team to work across devices and apps uninterrupted. Log in to your account in seconds, securely share sensitive data with your colleagues, and make payments efficiently backed by the highest standard of cyber secure technology. You could see NordPass Business in action right now, with a 3 month free trial with our special URL: millionaire-interviews.com/nordpass and use code Millionaire at check out. Richard in Missouri listened to our first Patreon Group Call, which got him intrigued with some of our members. You can also be a part of our Group Call and One-on-One Calls by joining our Patreon community, just sign up at: millionaire-interviews.com/patreon   Want to Support the Show? Well we'd love for you to join our Patreon Group!  What's in it for you?  Well you'll instantly get a scheduled call from Austin, where he'll help you with your current or future business... Sign-Up Now at millionaire-interviews.com/patreon.

If you're familiar with the Silicon Valley world or venture capital space, Steve Jurvetson is a name that needs no introduction. For the rest of you, Steve's a legendary venture capitalist perhaps best known for his early backing of companies like Hotmail, Skype, Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX, and more. He sat on Tesla's board of directors for years, and currently sits on SpaceX's board, too. These big bets he's taken on then-risky and out-there companies have led Steve to astronomical financial success (pun intended), but also to become an influential thought leader on space and technology issues, along with others. He was also an early backer of the cultivated meat industry, investing in Upside Foods' Series A. In 2016, President Obama appointed Steve as a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship. Steve's also been honored as one of "Tech's Best Venture Investors" by Forbes, and as the “Venture Capitalist of the Year” by Deloitte. The dude's a pretty prolific photographer too, it turns out, as I've learned. In fact, if you enter his name into Google without hitting enter, one of the dropdowns you get served is Steve Jurvetson Flickr!  Today, Steve runs a venture capital fund called Future Ventures with his business partner Maryanna Saenko, and for full disclosure, as you'll hear in this interview, Future Ventures is an investor in my own company, The Better Meat Co. But as you'll also hear in this interview, that doesn't stop us from discussing taboo topics like Steve's personal wealth, how he spends his money, and more.  Other interesting topics we explore include: What led a deep tech investor like Steve to invest in alternative meat? How many startup pitches does Steve hear weekly?  What makes a good pitch, and what gets him to cross the finish line to actually wire investment dollars? What company does Steve want you to start and pitch him on? What does Steve think you should look for in a cofounder? For what does Steve think his future self will condemn his current self? What would be one of the greatest discoveries ever, in Steve's view? What happened in his life when Steve stopped drinking? What does Steve suggest you try as “the funniest google exercise”? In all, it's a riveting conversation with one of the most consequential names in business, including businesses that are seeking to do good in the world.  Resources referenced in this episode NASA's Planetary Protection Division and Paul's thoughts in Astronomy magazine about its implications Massive liquid water oceans in our solar system, such as on Europa and Enceladus Europa report, which Steve still needs to see Steve's thoughts on Boston Consulting Group's report on where best to invest for the climate Steve's review of Paul's book Clean Meat (which he reviewed before the two knew each other) Other books Steve's enjoyed: Steve Jobs, The Founders, and Code Breaker More about Steve Jurvetson Steve Jurvetson is an early-stage venture capitalist with a focus on founder-led, mission-driven companies at the cutting edge of disruptive technology and new industry formation.  Steve led founding investments in several companies that had successful IPOs and others that were billion-dollar acquisitions, representing $800 billion of aggregate value creation. Some of those early VC investments include Planet Labs, SpaceX and Tesla. Before co-founding Future Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson,  Steve was an R&D Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where seven of his chip designs were fabricated.  He also worked in product marketing at Apple and NeXT and management consulting with Bain & Company.  He completed his undergraduate Electrical Engineering degree at Stanford in 2.5 years, graduating #1 in his class, and went on to earn a MSEE and MBA from Stanford.  In 2017, Steve received the Visionary Award from SV Forum. In 2016, President Barack Obama appointed Steve as a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship. Steve has also been honored as one of "Tech's Best Venture Investors" by Forbes, and as the “Venture Capitalist of the Year” by Deloitte.

Can a struggling company change its destiny? Can you reliably turn a company's fortunes around? If you're Matt Hulett, the answer to both of these questions is a resounding yes.Over his 30 years as an executive in the technology sector, Matt Hulett has become the go-to company fixer. From RealNetworks to Rosetta Stone to Expedia, he has steered start-ups and large companies into renewed areas for growth and driven more than $2 billion in value creation. He's in the midst of his latest venture as the CEO of PetMeds. In this conversation, Matt shares his operating framework for turning companies around and evaluating a company's likelihood of success — T3PM: trends, timing, track record, planning and momentum. Matt recently documented the T3PM framework in his book Unlock: 5 Questions to Unleash Your Company's Power. He relates each of these factors back to real-world examples from companies like Expedia, Rovio, Concur, and yes, even Convictional. He also shares how he's leveraging T3PM through his current turnaround at PetMeds, where he is CEO and President. No matter where you are in your career, you'll have something to learn from Matt. Episode Highlights 09:37 - How Matt built his triage mindset 13:58 - The T3PM framework 25:28 - The difference between TAM and SAM 32:53 - Finding the right timing with learned secrets 38:58 - How Matt earns trust from his teams 50:32 - Navigating PetMeds through the market downturn 55:54 - PetMeds' competitive edge in a crowded market About MattMatt Hulett is a seasoned technology executive with more than 30 years of experience building and leading world-class SaaS and consumer companies. Matt has led the growth of companies in the private and public sectors, including Rosetta Stone, RealNetworks, Expedia and many more. He has had multiple turnaround successes as a public company president as well as a private company CEO. Matt has a proven track record raising venture capital from blue chip firms (Sequoia Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Allen and Company, Intel Capital) with multiple liquidity events.Connect with Matt on Linkedin and TwitterCheck out Matt's book UnlockConnect with Chris on Linkedin and Twitter

Gabriela Ariana Campoverde sits down with Blair Silverberg, Founder and CEO of Hum Capital, a funding platform connecting great companies with the right capital for their growth. Hum believes that every qualified company should be able to raise the capital they need to flourish without bias or friction. On Hum's Intelligent Capital Market, companies are evaluated on fundamentals and performance, not on who they know. In this episode, you will learn all about: - The platform that Blair and his team are building - How Hum builds an efficient two-sided marketplace - The current issues companies face when attempting to access capital - Blair's journey from investor to founder - And much more! About Blair Silverberg Blair Silverberg is the Founder and CEO of Hum Capital. Prior to launching Hum, he was an investor at Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He is passionate about using data to identify great businesses. He studied Product Design at Stanford University. About Hum Capital Launched in 2019, Hum is turning the tables on the traditional fundraising process. The platform strives to make fundraising more efficient, transparent and data-driven. To learn more about Hum, visit humcapital.com. For more FinTech insights, follow us below: Medium: medium.com/wharton-fintech WFT Twitter: twitter.com/whartonfintech Gabriela's Twitter: twitter.com/byGabyC Gabriela's LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/gcampoverde

Tim Draper Tim Draper is a venture capital investor, and founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) (https://www.dfj.com/),Draper University (https://www.draperuniversity.com/), Draper Venture Network (https://drapernetwork.com/), Draper Associates (https://www.draper.vc/) and Draper Goren Holm (https://drapergorenholm.com/). He has been awarded and received numerous awards such as Forbes Midas List, Top 100 Most Influential Harvard Alumni, Independent Institute's Tocqueville Liverty Award and a lot more. He is a proponent of Bitcoins and decentralization. His most prominent investments include Skype, Tesla SpaceX, Hotmail, AngelList and more. Connect with Tim LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothydraper/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/timdraper) Twitter (https://twitter.com/TimDraper) Connect with Sam: LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharris48/) ReasonFM (https://reason.fm/user/Sam) Sam's newsletter on creativity and entrepreneurship - Explosive Thinking (https://explosivethinking.substack.com/) Sam's podcast on books - Wiser than Yesterday (https://www.wiserpod.com) Support the Show - Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/growthmindset) Subscribe! If you enjoyed the podcast please subscribe and rate it. And of course, share with your friends! Special Guest: Tim Draper.

Tuesday,  February 22: For this episode, I am thrilled to  bring you my conversation with Courtney McColgan, a serial entrepreneur and the founder and CEO at Runa HR, one of the leading payroll software providers for SMBs in Spanish speaking Latin America.  Prior to starting Runa, Courtney was the CMO of Cabify, a taxi application for Latin America, where she grew the company from 3 cities and $20M valuation to 130 cities across 12 countries and a $1.5B valuation. Previously, she also worked in venture capital and finance at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Morgenthaler and Morgan Stanley.In today's episode we will learn:1) What were the key leadership decisions Courtney had to make to navigate Runa HR through covid-19 crisis?2) What are the critical elements of Runa's corporate culture?3) How to think about fundraising? Does venture capital as a source of capital work for all kind of founders? And what was Courtney's rationale behind taking venture capital money?4) What are the most important things founders have to get right to build scalable organizations?5) What are the unique challenges founders face while building business in Latin America?

Mohanjit Jolly is the Co-founder and Partner at Iron Pillar Fund (IPF). IPF provides growth capital to founders building from India for the world.Mohanjit has been working with and investing in technology start-ups in the US and India for over 20 years. He is one of a few VCs who has been on the ground as a partner in India and Silicon Valley. Mohanjit has led Iron Pillar's investments in Sibros, Jiffy, Uniphore, Vyome, Ushur and CoreStack.Before co-founding Iron Pillar, Mohanjit served as a Partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson for 9 years, establishing their India operations, overseeing the India venture portfolio and coordinating business development efforts with Fortune 500 companies for DFJ's global portfolio. Prior to this, he was a Partner at Garage Technology Ventures, a Silicon Valley seed stage VC firm. His early years in California and Boston saw him help launch ViaSpace, a technology incubator in conjunction with Caltech and JPL and Intel Play, a joint venture between Mattel and Intel. He also worked at Itek Optical Systems, a manufacturer of high-resolution reconnaissance systems.Mohanjit serves on the Boards of The Unreasonable Group and The SETI Institute.Mohanjit earned his MBA from The Anderson School at UCLA and a B.S. and M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).In this episode, we will cover:1. Learnings from running a fund that operates cross-border – in the US and India (3:13)2. How does Mohanjit view the next 10 years of venture and the ecosystem in India (7:58)3. How did Iron Pillar build its growth and support network around its fund? (15:18)4. Examples of leveraging growth partners 24:01)5. How should investors build relationships with founders to advocate for transparency beyond the traditional sense? (33:20)6. What convinced Mohanjit that Anand was the right partner to start the fund with? (43:26)7. How does Iron Pillar think about LP construction (51:05)8. What are Mohanjit's insecurities as an investor (57:43)

In this episode we talk to Jennifer Fonstad about her experience as a venture capitalist for over two decades. Jennifer touches on her journey growing DFJ from a $150 million fund to $3.5 billion AUM and her experience working closely with entrepreneurs as an angel investor. Lastly, she dives into her experience with gender dynamics in the VC industry and actions she has taken to bridge the gap, including founding a network of female angel investors, Broadway Angels and her commitment to funding female entrepreneurs at Aspect Ventures. 

Whether you're an experienced crypto trader or just starting out, Kraken has the tools to help you achieve financial freedom. With 50+ cryptocurrencies to choose from, industry leading security and wide variety of features to suit any investing strategy, Kraken puts the power in your hands to buy, sell and trade digital assets. Visit Kraken.com to get started today. Bryce Hall & Anthony Pompliano have partnered up to bring Capital University to you. This show is a new age business/entrepreneurship podcast, geared towards helping young entrepreneurs and influencers create long term wealth. Throughout the show, Pomp and Bryce will be discussing investing, business, social media, and much more. They will also be bringing on world-class entrepreneurs and business leaders to further the learning. Be sure to subscribe to the show, share the episode with your friends, and check out the show on YouTube for the full uncut video. Meet Tim Draper, an American venture capital investor, and founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Draper University, Draper Venture Network, Draper Associates and Draper Goren Holm.

Alan Berman is Vice President for Research and Strategic Initiatives at SMA, Inc. He specializes in market analysis, strategy development, and new business creation. He focuses on growing the SMA business through new systems and processes to enable rapid scaling in core and adjacent markets. Alan also leads the SMA Research team, which conducts analysis on government contractors, major programs, and government agencies, to support business development and client engagement teams. Prior to SMA, Alan spent 11 years in strategy consulting at Monitor Group and Deloitte Consulting, focused on growth strategy and innovation. In that role, he led engagements with clients that included senior leaders of Fortune 500 companies, emerging technology-based firms, and the Department of Defense. These engagements tackled thorny challenges with multi-billion dollar implications. The projects spanned the aerospace & defense, healthcare, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. Prior to consulting, Alan was at Zone Reactor, a technology incubator funded by the Draper Fisher Jurvetson venture capital network, where he served as Entrepreneur in Residence. Projects centered on technology commercialization of government-funded R&D and resulted in commercial application of over a dozen patents. Prior to Zone Reactor, Alan worked as a hard drive and tape drive development engineer and tribologist at Seagate Technology. Alan received his Bachelors and Doctorate degrees in Chemical Engineering from UCLA and UC Santa Barbara, respectively, and earned an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA. TOD : https://tod.smawins.com/TOD_Web/SMA : https://smawins.com/

About this episode In our entrepreneurial journeys, we need to think much bigger and therefore set our expectations and goals much higher. By doing so, we're forced to shift our perspective to play the long game. Steve Jurvetson knows this well and has a comparable perspective when it comes to investable technologies. While most investors want to know what your three to five-year plans are, Steve wants to know what your company will look like in 50 years. Steve is the co-founder of Future Ventures, current board member of SpaceX, and former board member of Tesla. Prior to Future Ventures, Steve was the co-founder and managing director for Draper Fisher Jurvetson, where he led the firm's investments in SpaceX, Tesla, Planet, Memphis Meats, Hotmail, and Skype. In 2016, former President Barack Obama announced Steve's appointment as a presidential ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship. He has also been honored by Forbes as one of the text best venture investors and by Deloitte as the venture capitalist of the year. Steve is arguably one of the most brilliant individuals I have ever spoken to. Tune in and enjoy a conversation that will blow your mind. In this episode, you'll hear. What Steve thought he wanted to do as a kid and what his parents encouraged him to do. His experience in electrical engineering and business school. How he progressed from Bain to venture capital. The moment he realized he wanted to do venture capital for the rest of his life. How he developed an intuitive approach to the market. How he connected with Elon Musk for an investment opportunity. The core areas he invests in now. Resources from this episode Join Grindology: https://grindology.com/ ExpressVPN: Get 3 Months Free → https://www.expressvpn.com/startupstory Get Emails: https://app.getemails.com/referrals/newaccount?ref=R18HWW5 The Startup Story Inner Circle: https://www.thestartupstory.co/vip The Startup Story on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thestartupstory The Startup Story is now on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/jamesmckinney The Startup Story on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thestartupstory Steve on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevejurvetson/ Learn more about Future Ventures: https://future.ventures/ Share the podcast The Startup Story community has been so incredible sharing our podcast with others, and we thank you! We do have more stories to tell and more people to reach. There are three ways you can help. First, the most powerful way you can support this podcast is by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts. Second, follow us on Facebook and Instagram, and be sure to share your favorite Startup Story episodes with your friends and on social media. Tag or mention @thestartupstory.co so we can give you a virtual high five and a thank you! Lastly, share the podcast on LinkedIn. The Startup Story podcast is for entrepreneurs. Don't underestimate the power of sharing on LinkedIn so other entrepreneurs can discover us. With your support, we hope to further our reach in encouraging and inspiring the founders of today and tomorrow. Thank you! EPISODE CREDITS If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment. He helps thought leaders, influencers, executives, HR professionals, recruiters, lawyers, realtors, bloggers, and authors create, launch, and produce podcasts that grow their business and impact the world. Contact him today at https://emeraldcitypro.com/startupstory

This week, I spoke with Blair Silverberg, the CEO of Capital Technologies which is a software-based lending platform focusing on the venture debt space. In prior years, he worked at the illustrious venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and also invested personally in the private credit space. In his current role as CEO of Capital, he leads a team whose mission is to create a modern alternative to equity financing to put power back into the hands of the entrepreneur. Founded in 2019, Capital helps company founders understand their cost of capital and secure financing offers from $5-50 million. We discuss the burgeoning venture debt space, venture capital industry as a whole, capital allocation for entrepreneurs, and his vision for a fully-automated, artificial intelligence driven lending platform at Capital. --- ABOUT THE PODCAST: Hi, I'm Benton Moss. I launched The Circle of Competence Podcast in June 2020 to focus on the nexus between entrepreneurship and investing, and explore how each guest's journey led them to start and grow their own business from the ground up. From real estate to technology to public equities to small business investing and more, I hope this podcast will be a wide-ranging exploration of what it takes to be an entrepreneurial investor in today's competitive world. SUBSCRIBE: iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6BW1ZZC... FOLLOW: Website: https://circleofcompetence.co Twitter: https://twitter.com/benton_moss Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/circle_of_c... --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-circle-of-competence/support

Steve Jurvetson is the Co-Founder @ Future Ventures who announced their debut and flagship $200M Fund in 2019. Steve's incredible portfolio includes the likes of SpaceX, Tesla, Planet, Memphis Meats, Hotmail, and the deep learning companies Mythic and Nervana. Steve also sits on the board of both SpaceX and Tesla. Prior to founding Future, Steve was the co-founder of renowned valley firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson where he led investments in 5 companies that went public in successful IPOs and several others that became billion-dollar acquisitions. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Steve made his way into the world of startups and Silicon Valley and how that led to his creation of “The Lean Startup Movement”? 2.) How does Steve think about and assess market timing? How does Steve assess technical risk? Given the long term horizons of such deep tech projects, does Steve think we need to change the 10 + 2-year fund life structure? How would Steve like to see funds structured? 3.) Given the sheer size of outcomes if these plays work, how does Steve assess his own price sensitivity? How does Steve approach the challenge there is a lack of downstream investors for such deep tech projects? How does Steve try and catch an industry on the cusp of a transition? 4.) How does Steve assess his own relationship to money? How has it changed over the years? Why does Steve fundamentally believe that venture partnerships do not scale? Where do venture partnerships breakdown? How can one introduce cognitive diversity into a firm? 5.) Having worked with Elon Musk across both SpaceX and Tesla, what does Steve believe makes Elon one of the most gifted entrepreneurs of our time? What is Steve's most memorable moment from his many years of friendship with Elon? What have been his biggest takeaways from SpaceX and Tesla? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Steve’s Fave Book: Out Of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World Steve's Most Recent Investment: Prellis Biologic As always you can follow Harry and The Twenty Minute VC on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Instagram here for mojito madness and all things 20VC.

Tim Draper is an American venture capital investor, and founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Draper University, Draper Venture Network, Draper Associates, and Draper Goren Holm. His most prominent investments include Baidu, Hotmail, Skype, Tesla, SpaceX, AngelList, SolarCity, Ring, Twitter, DocuSign, Coinbase, Robinhood, Ancestry.com, Twitch, Cruise Automation, and Focus Media. In July 2014, Draper received wide coverage for his purchase at a US Marshals Service auction of seized bitcoins from the Silk Road marketplace website. Draper is a major proponent of Bitcoin and decentralization. Learn more about Draper University: https://www.draperuniversity.com/ Follow Tim Draper on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timdraper/?hl=en Learn more about Tim Draper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Draper

In this episode of The Reboot Chronicles Podcast, Dean DeBiase interviews Tim Draper, founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Draper Associates, and Draper University and early investor in Skype, Hotmail, Tesla, Baidu, Twitch, and SpaceX. They discussed how the global economy is being transformed in the age of cryptocurrency and Coronavirus. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rebootchronicles/message

Biography Wil Schroter, Founder & CEO of Startups.com Wil founded his first company, Blue Diesel, as a 19-year-old student at the Ohio State University. Three years later, he merged Blue Diesel with inChord Communications where, as CEO and Board Member, he helped grow the company to over $700 million in capitalized billings within 5 years. In 2003, the company was purchased and renamed inVentiv, which now generates over $2.5 billion in annual revenue and employs 15,000 professionals worldwide. The company was most recently valued at $3.8 billion. Following the sale of Blue Diesel, Wil founded Virtucon Ventures, an idea-stage incubator for Web startups. There he helped conceive and launch a number of well known companies including Swapalease.com, Unsubscribe.com (sold to TrustedID), Startups.co, and Fundable.com. Virtucon's portfolio of companies has attracted more than a dozen prominent venture funds, including Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Founders Fund, Bessemer Ventures, and Charles River Ventures. In 2012, Wil founded Startups.co, now .com, the world's largest startup launch platform. It has since been used by over 1 million startup companies globally. Since then, Startups.co has helped startups raise over $500 million in funding commitments, attracts 20 million early customers, has hosted over 500,000 product launches, and attracted over 10 million visitors per year. The company is based in Columbus, Ohio and employs over 150 full-time staff. The Startups.com platform consists of 6 related products that help entrepreneurs through the entire startup journey Startups.com (education) features lessons from founders including Elon Musk (Tesla), Brian Chesky (AirBnB), and Daniel Ek (Spotify). Fundable.com (equity fundraising) has helped startups raise over $500 million in capital commitments. Launchrock.com (early customer acquisition) has assisted startups in adding 20 million early customers. Clarity.fm (export mentorship) provides startups with access to 10,000 mentors, including Mark Cuban. Bizplan.com (business planning) is used for compiling and presenting business plans. Zirtual.com (virtual staff) adds a virtual team member to startup companies. Interview Notes: Wil got into this journey because he loves teaching others how to navigate  the startup journey. The founders journey is also filled with sleepless nights. Wil wanted to create something that offered guide posts along the startup path to guide other founders to success. The perception is different from the reality when you start a business as a founder, there is execution paralysis on how to deliver.  Wil and his team found there are three categories of being a successful startup and those things are: Education Bring Smart People to the Table Provide startups with the tools they need to succeed  Following that formula Startups.com has brought over 1.2M people to the platform. Fast forward to COVID-19 and the new challenges that brings, Wil is no stranger to challenging times.  He was able to navigate the 2000 dot.com bubble, then shortly there after the September 11, 2001 tragedy, then only to see the 2008 financial market bubbles burst. Startups.com was created to help two different segments. The first is the startup journey and the second is the founder's journey.  Finally Wil created a podcast called Startup Therapy, that really digs deep into the founder's journey. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ceocrossing/message

For complete show notes and for the full premium experience with video, visit our YouTube channel at CryptoNewsAlerts.net Bitcoin price topped $10,000 in February before dropping below $4,000 last month as investors and the financial markets reacted to the coronavirus pandemic. Despite the plunge and ongoing macro economic turmoil, billionaire investor Tim Draper remains bullish on the BTC price. In an interview with Chinese news outlet Bitpush, Draper, who runs venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, warns that prolonged isolation due to widespread lockdowns threatens to aggravate the disease-induced financial crisis. He also shares his thoughts on the projected V-shaped economic recovery, which would see the United States making a quick rebound from its current slump.

Elizabeth Holmes  was born on born on February 3, 1984 in Washington D.C. Her mother worked as a congressional staffer while her dad was employed by Enron and later worked for government agencies like the United States Agency for International Development.  She was considered to be a bright child and, at age seven, tried to invent a time machine. She filled notebooks with notes and ideas.  At age nine she told her family that she wanted to be a billionare when she grew up. She was known to be very competitive.  In high school she was a straight A student and started a business where she sold C++ compilers, a type of software that translates computer code, to schools in China. She also participated in a summer program at Stanford.  After graduating she went to Stanford to study chemical engineering. She spent the summer after her freshman year interning at the Genome Institute in Singapore.  In her sophomore year she went to one of her professors, Channing Robertson, and asked him if he wanted to start a company with her. With his help she founded Real-Time Cures, later changing the company's name to Theranos and filed a patent for a "Medical device for analyte monitoring and drug delivery”. She then dropped out of college to work at her company full time.  She claimed to be developing a machine that could run a variety of tests from a small drop of blood for things like high cholesterol and cancer. Some of the early Theranos investors were Larry Ellision, who founded Oracle, and Tim Draper, founder of VC firm, Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Holmes was able to raise over 700$ million dollars from investors. Holmes began to model her style and speech after her icon, Steve Jobs and was known to dress like him. She also dropped her voice to a lower tone.  She began dating the president and COO of Theranos, Sunny Balwani, who was 20 years older than her. They had met during Holmes' third year in Stanford’s summer Mandarin program, the summer before she went to college.  In 2008 the Theranos board attempted to remove Holmes to replace her with someone more experiences. After a two hour meeting Holmes convinced them to let her stay on.  As Theranos gained in fame so did Holmes. She was on the cover of Fortune and Forbes, gave a TED Talk, and spoke on panels with Bill Clinton and Alibaba's Jack Ma. Theranos also began partnering with other companies such as Capital Blue Cross and Cleveland Clinic. They made a deal with Walgreens to open testing centers in their stores.  Holmes became the world’s youngest self made female billionaire with a net worth of around $4.5 billion but no one in the outside world knew how her company worked. Anyone who visited Theranon had to sign NDAs and was escorted everywhere by security.  In 2015 Ian Gibbons, a chief scientist at Theranos, warned Holmes that the tests weren’t ready to take public and that there were issues with the technology. Others began voicing their concerns too.  In August of that year the FDA began investigating the company and found "major inaccuracies" in their testing.  Then in October John Carreyrou, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, published his investigation. He had discovered that the blood testing machine wasn’t giving accurate results and that they were running their samples through traditional blood testing machines. He spoke to ex-employees and retrieved official company documents.  Theranos threatened to sue if he published the story but did it anyway.  Holmes denied all allegations and appeared on CNBC’s Mad Money to defend herself and her company, saying that "This is what happens when you work to change things, and first they think you're crazy, then they fight you, and then all of a sudden you change the world.”  By 2016 the FDA, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and SEC were all looking into Theranos. In January Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sent Theranos a warning letter that talked about issues with staff, procedures an

Ravi Belani vedie najväčší svetový akcelerátor - Alchemist accelerator, medzi ktorých investorov patria aj CISCO, Andreessen Horowitz, Sapphire Ventures, DFJ, Khosla Ventures, Salesforce, ... Ravi taktiež vyučuje podnikanie na Standforde, má MBA z Harvardu, strávil 6 rokov v Draper Fisher Jurvetson, kde viedol investície a zastával board pozície pri investovaní do spoločností ako Skype, Justin.TV & Twitch (acquirovaný Amazonom za $970m), Pubmatic, Vizu (acq’d Nielsen), Yield Software (acq’d by Autonomy).

On today's episode of Gritty Founder, Kreig Kent talks with Tim Draper about some of his biggest wins and losses as a venture capitalist. Tim also shares what he looks for when investing in businesses and founders. Tim Draper founded Draper Associates in July 1985, which when joined by John Fisher and Steve Jurvetson, became the venture capital firm of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (now DFJ). Investments include Skype, Hotmail, Tesla, Baidu, and others. With Draper Associates, investments include Twitch.TV, YeePay, Indiegogo, Docusign, and AngelList. He founded Draper Venture Network, a global network of venture funds working together to improve service to entrepreneurs, covering 30 cities around the world. He has been listed as #46 of the most outstanding Harvard alumni, #7 on the Forbes Midas List, #1 Most Networked Venture Capitalist by AlwaysOn and #98 on the 2014 Worth Magazine 100 Most Powerful People in Finance. Some Questions Kreig Asks Tim: - What do you look for in a founder? (7:26) - What do you think of the new way of starting companies? Fifty years ago, there was not a venture capital industry, and there were not a lot of people who would give you money and risk that money on a startup, and people just bootstrapped their businesses. Do you think the mentality of starting a business has changed and entrepreneurs think differently now? (14:18) - Has there been a time when you've backed an entrepreneur who you've felt did not have the right business model or hadn't figured out all the aspects of their business, but you truly believed in the entrepreneur? (16:48) - What are some failures that you've had in your journey as a venture capitalist? (19:13) - What is some advice that you can give to the Gritty Founders listening to this episode? (25:21) - What would you tell entrepreneurs who are working on a business right now who think they need an investor to give them some money? (27:14) In This Episode, You Will Learn: - About Tim's background, how he got into venture capital and started Draper Associates (2:38) - Why Tim looks for businesses in industries that charge too much for too little (7:51) - Signals Tim looks for in founders (9:54) - Why Tim says entrepreneurs should never personally guarantee anything (12:06) - About the risks of borrowing money (12:40) - Why looking at venture capitalists as your customer is a huge mistake (15:15) - Why Tim invested in Hotmail (17:04) - A few companies Tim should have invested but didn't (21:01) - The story of why Tim didn't invest in Airbnb (23:20) - The importance of feeling like you have a mission when building a company (25:39) Connect with Tim Draper: Twitter Personal Website DFJ Venture Capital Also Mentioned on This Show... Tim's favorite quote: "With great power comes great responsibility." ―Stan Lee Tim's book recommendation: The Startup Game by William Draper

Ravi Belani is a Co-Founder of Alchemist Accelerator and serves as its Managing Partner. He teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford University, served as an Associate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson until 2010, and as a Management Consultant of McKinsey. In the past, Ravi has served with Fortune 500 hi-tech and biotech companies on a range of strategic issues, including market attractiveness assessments, pricing, channel strategy, and new product development processes. Ravi is a well rounded person who thinks deeply on a wide variety of topics, as you would expect from an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 2006, a B.S. with Distinction in Engineering from Stanford University in 1997, and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University in 1998. Ravi, the Alchemist!

Ravi Belani is a Co-Founder of Alchemist Accelerator and serves as its Managing Partner. He teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford University, served as an Associate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson until 2010, and as a Management Consultant of McKinsey. In the past, Ravi has served with Fortune 500 hi-tech and biotech companies on a range of strategic issues, including market attractiveness assessments, pricing, channel strategy, and new product development processes. Ravi is a well rounded person who thinks deeply on a wide variety of topics, as you would expect from an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 2006, a B.S. with Distinction in Engineering from Stanford University in 1997, and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University in 1998. Ravi, the Alchemist!

The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Tim Draper, co-founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, to answer five big questions. Question 1: Why does he hold $140m in bitcoin? (3:05), Question 2: Why he wants to split up California (12:40), Question 3: Why does he still believe in Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes (25:1), Question 4: What was his worst miss, biggest hit and weirdest pitch? (30:40), Question 5: Is money ruining Silicon Valley? (44:25). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the 50th episode of NEOHUMAN, Agah is chatting with Tim Draper. Tim is an American venture capital investor, and in 1985, the founder of the firm that would become Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He also... The post 50: Tim Draper appeared first on LIVE IN LIMBO.

Aspect Ventures co-founder Jennifer Fonstad talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about how venture capital works in 2018, when Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have access to more money from more sources than ever before. But that that money is not spread out evenly, Fonstad says: There’s a lot of very early “seed” dough, and a lot available to help succeeding companies grow bigger, but not enough to help them cross the “chasm” in which so many startups fail. She also talks about her 17 years as an investor at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, why Aspect is betting on the “picks and shovels” of the blockchain instead of currency, and why she’s excited about data-driven advances in health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Uday Seth interviews Jeff Stewart, Founder and Chairman of Lenddo. Founded in 2011, Lenddo leverages non-traditional data for credit scoring and social verification. Lenddo partners with financial institutions and other firms so its customers can use data from social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, Yahoo, and Twitter to prove their identity and creditworthiness. Before founding Lenddo, Jeff served in advisory, investing, and operating capacities. He also served as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Draper Fisher Jurvetson and founded two companies: Urgent Group and Mimeo. https://twitter.com/UrgentSpeed https://twitter.com/lenddofriend https://lenddo.com/

Bill Bryant is a partner at DFJ (formerly Draper Fisher Jurvetson), focused on early- and growth-stage investments in enterprise, consumer and disruptive technologies. Bill has had early and instrumental involvement in more than 25 leading software, mobile, and digital media companies, as a founder, senior executive, investor, and board member.    He has had founding roles with Visio (now part of Microsoft), Netbot (acquired by Excite), Qpass (acquired by Amdocs), Medio (Nokia), Mixxer, and Airworks.    Bill represents DFJ on the boards of Bright Computing, Chef, Ping Identity, Z2Live, Remitly, and The Clymb.  In addition to his DFJ investments, he is an active angel investor with investments in Winshuttle, LiquidPlanner, Bonanza, and Socrata.   Lets listen into Bill Bryant interview at our Seattle Chapter by director Mike Grabham. 

A special panel of highly scientific minds discusses what the future holds for tech innovation, education and entrepreneurship. Panelists include Google's "captain of moonshots," Astro Teller, Stanford bioengineer Christina Smolke, an associate professor at the university's medical school, and DFJ General Partner Steve Jurvetson. Persis Drell, dean of the Stanford School of Engineering, moderates the discussion, with introductions by Stanford Professor Kathleen Eisenhardt.

A special panel of highly scientific minds discusses what the future holds for tech innovation, education and entrepreneurship. Panelists include Google's "captain of moonshots," Astro Teller, Stanford bioengineer Christina Smolke, an associate professor at the university's medical school, and DFJ General Partner Steve Jurvetson. Persis Drell, dean of the Stanford School of Engineering, moderates the discussion, with introductions by Stanford Professor Kathleen Eisenhardt.

A special panel of highly scientific minds discusses what the future holds for tech innovation, education and entrepreneurship. Panelists include Google's "captain of moonshots," Astro Teller, Stanford bioengineer Christina Smolke, an associate professor at the university's medical school, and DFJ General Partner Steve Jurvetson. Persis Drell, dean of the Stanford School of Engineering, moderates the discussion, with introductions by Stanford Professor Kathleen Eisenhardt.

July 30, 2014 - Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://onforb.es/1klNBnz. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwitunes or on Stitcher by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwstitcher. Social venture CommitChange has developed a new fundraising platform for nonprofits that doesn’t rely on collecting a percentage of funds raised, potentially netting nonprofits with a higher percentage of total donations. The venture has garnered investments from power investors Mark Cuban, Tim Draper, Adam Draper and 500 Startups. Chris Sinton, co-founder of Network for Good and board chair of StartOut, has also invested and joined the board. “We’ve decided to make all of our core technology available for free to help bolster charitable giving in the United States. We are also eliminating donation skimming as a business model and we will never profit by taking a percentage of donations,” said Roderick Campbell, CEO and Co-Founder of CommitChange. Tim Draper, founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, said “a non-profit without CommitChange risks becoming a dinosaur.”

Do you want to be the best entrepreneur out there?! We have a treat today as we are joined by Tim Draper! You will learn from the best today! Tim is the course creator and Chairman of BizWorld, a 501c3 organization built around simulated teaching of entrepreneurship and business to children. He also serves on the Harvard Business School Board of Dean's Advisors. Along with this 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. As an advocate for entrepreneurs and free markets, Tim is regularly featured as a keynote speaker in entrepreneurial conferences throughout the world, has been recognized as a leader in his field through numerous awards and honors, and has frequent TV, radio, and headline appearances.Tobi Skovron saw a problem and rightly fixed it. This is exactly how entrepreneurs create successful products! Tobi explains that in 2003, he and his then-girlfriend (now his wife) Simone lived in a two-bedroom apartment in Melbourne. He bought her a dog and they immediately faced the problem of having to walk the dog regularly, as potty-training seemed unrealistic. "There needed to be a better way to live with a dog although we could only afford an apartment," Skovron thought. Simone said, "If we could only get a patch of grass on the balcony." Bingo! Skovron invented the Pet Loo. Two years of R&D as well as patent and trademark filings and it was time.

Simon Cook is the CEO of DFJ Esprit, the European arm of Draper Fisher Jurvetson of Silicon Valley, the largest venture capital network in the world with 140 investment professionals and 600 portfolio companies including SpaceX, Tesla, and Skype.

33voices, interviews Tim Draper, founder and MD at Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

In this lively presentation, Tim Draper, managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, shares his global experiences funding entrepreneurial heroes who "break down walls." Draper shares attributes that support viable entrepreneurial environments, and encourages aspiring entrepreneurs to attack established monopolies and to never fear making mistakes.

In this lively presentation, Tim Draper, managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, shares his global experiences funding entrepreneurial heroes who "break down walls." Draper shares attributes that support viable entrepreneurial environments, and encourages aspiring entrepreneurs to attack established monopolies and to never fear making mistakes.

In this lively presentation, Tim Draper, managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, shares his global experiences funding entrepreneurial heroes who "break down walls." Draper shares attributes that support viable entrepreneurial environments, and encourages aspiring entrepreneurs to attack established monopolies and to never fear making mistakes.

If you're interested in tech news, you're going to find this very interesting. If you're a media relations professional who works in tech, you've just hit the mother lode. In this podcast, Cathy Brooks (@cathybrooks), who currently handles marketing for Draper Fisher Jurvetson backed Israeli mobile search app provider DoAT interviews All Things D co-editor Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) about her tech blog's personality,… The post Kara Swisher on Murdoch, Huffington and Pogue appeared first on Eric Schwartzman.

In the Balance: Energy, Economy and Environment Part of The Chevron California Innovation Series Raj Atluru, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Ralph Cavanagh, Energy Co-director, Natural Resources Defense Council Cathy Reheis-Boyd, President, Western States Petroleum Association Jack Stewart, President, California Manufacturers and Technology Association Virgil Welch, Special Assistant to the Chairman, California Air Resources Board Greg Dalton, Climate One - Moderator The low-carbon economy is California’s future. But this panel of energy experts convened by Climate One disagrees on how fast that transition will take, and how it will impact the economy. Jack Stewart, President, California Manufacturers and Technology Association, and Cathy Reheis-Boyd, President, Western States Petroleum Association, repeatedly stress that California could be more business friendly, and that green jobs alone won’t pull the state out of recession. “We all see a clean energy future,” Stewart says. “The question is: When do we get there? How fast do we get there? And at what cost?” “We cannot lose sight of the fact that we are not in a good state in California,” says Reheis-Boyd. “I can tell you my members are making some very difficult choices about where to invest their next dollar.” We have to get the rules right, the remaining panel members say, but they see no trade-off between environmental and economic good. “I think the energy history of California over the last 30 years is how to do both well,” says Ralph Cavanagh, Energy co-director, Natural Resources Defense Council. “Nobody is satisfied with 12.4% unemployment, but I don’t think the answer is doing less of what we already know we do better than anyone else. I think it’s speeding up.” For Virgil Welch, Special Assistant to the Chairman of the California Air Resources Board, it’s also about maintaining California’s global competitiveness. “The policies that we as a state are working on are not just what we need to do for our energy and environmental needs, but they’re critical to driving us towards where the global economy is heading, which is clean energy.” As long as California’s maintains its forward-thinking policy framework, green innovators will call the state home, says, Raj Atluru, Managing Director at the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. “California has succeeded over the last century because of its innovation. We’ve innovated in entertainment, flight, defense, communications, PCs, the Internet. Our bet, at our firm, is that the next wave of innovation is going to be the green jobs economy. ” This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on October 12, 2010

Steve Jurvetson, partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, offers perspective on the market opportunities in innovation and technology. Topics discussed include the necessity for utter market disruption and interdisciplinary solutions. (October 7, 2009)

Steve Jurvetson, partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, offers perspective on the market opportunities in innovation and technology. Topics discussed include the necessity for utter market disruption, interdisciplinary solutions, and advice for those interested in working in the venture capital arena.

Steve Jurvetson, partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, offers perspective on the market opportunities in innovation and technology. Topics discussed include the necessity for utter market disruption, interdisciplinary solutions, and advice for those interested in working in the venture capital arena.

Steve Jurvetson, partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, offers perspective on the market opportunities in innovation and technology. Topics discussed include the necessity for utter market disruption, interdisciplinary solutions (particularly across the "bio-nano" life sciences and engineering), and advice for those interested in working in the venture capital arena.

Clean tech is the topic discussed between Steve Perricone, CEO of waste management and energy company BioFuelBox, and one of his investors, DFJ veteran VC Jennifer Scott Fonstad. In addition to discussing the company's technology, structure, and applications, they also expound on current stimulus dollars for alternative energy systems.

Energy Efficiency Unplugged Jim Davis, President, Chevron Energy Solutions Ralph Cavanagh, Co-director, Energy Program, Natural Resources Defense Council Tim Draper, Founder and Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Alan Murray, Deputy Managing Editor and Executive Editor Online, The Wall Street Journal – Moderator Can we “save” our way to energy independence? Many energy companies contend the cheapest energy is unused energy. Changes in the construction and management of buildings help companies conserve, but is this a comprehensive strategy? What can we do in our personal lives to conserve, rather than consume? Turning off lights, pumping up tires and using the dishwasher’s “energy saver” mode are small, simple steps. Will they actually make a difference, or do we need more efficient technology to spur meaningful change? Join a panel of experts to discover what companies and consumers can do to become more energy efficient. This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club on January 13, 2009

Our region is on the cusp of an explosion of funding sources for technology businesses. Sources of angel capital, early stage funding and VC money have been locating here and finding great companies and ideas in which to invest. But unlocking the treasure chest requires more than a bright idea and a pretty business plan. Join us for a lively session featuring three local investors that focus on tech businesses for early stage or later stage investments. Our panelists include: Mike Stubler, Managing Director of the Cleveland office of Draper Triangle Ventures, an affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a midwest leader in seed and early stage venture Capital. Mike's experience not only includes professional investing but leadership positions in a variety of early stage tech businesses. Charles Stack, CEO of Flashline Partners; Charles is former founder and CEO of Flashline which was sold to BEA Systems; Charles has formed Flashline Partners to invest in promising, technology-based, early stage businesses in northeast Ohio. Becca Braun, COO of JumpStart; who co-founded and was the initial CEO of Supplier Insight, a company that offers supplier management services and software to corporations and government agencies and that was ultimately acquired by Ariba (Nasdaq: ARBA); Becca was also formerly VP of Kirtland Capital Partners. These entrepreneurs turned investors will share their insight into the changing environment for investing, positioning a company for investment, and working with investors.

Our region is on the cusp of an explosion of funding sources for technology businesses. Sources of angel capital, early stage funding and VC money have been locating here and finding great companies and ideas in which to invest. But unlocking the treasure chest requires more than a bright idea and a pretty business plan. Join us for a lively session featuring three local investors that focus on tech businesses for early stage or later stage investments. Our panelists include: Mike Stubler, Managing Director of the Cleveland office of Draper Triangle Ventures, an affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a midwest leader in seed and early stage venture Capital. Mike's experience not only includes professional investing but leadership positions in a variety of early stage tech businesses. Charles Stack, CEO of Flashline Partners; Charles is former founder and CEO of Flashline which was sold to BEA Systems; Charles has formed Flashline Partners to invest in promising, technology-based, early stage businesses in northeast Ohio. Becca Braun, COO of JumpStart; who co-founded and was the initial CEO of Supplier Insight, a company that offers supplier management services and software to corporations and government agencies and that was ultimately acquired by Ariba (Nasdaq: ARBA); Becca was also formerly VP of Kirtland Capital Partners. These entrepreneurs turned investors will share their insight into the changing environment for investing, positioning a company for investment, and working with investors.

Warren Packard, Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Andrew Frame, CEO of Ooma, present 10 lessons for building a successful start-up. They highlight the importance of dislocating large markets, active recruiting, organizational design, board construction, alignment of vision, managing mis-hires, building for scalability, product development, intellectual capital, and mentorship in establishing a lasting enterprise that adds value in the marketplace.