I had the pleasure of grabbing coffee with Eric Olson yesterday in Evanston. Eric recently joined the team at DFJ Portage specializing in consumer web plays after a successful run at Feedburner. Eric is also the cofounder of Tech cocktail, a meetup for technology enthusiasts, bloggers and anyone else in traditionally underserved technology markets (think [...]
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Eric Olson from DFJ Portage
April 19th, 2008 · No Comments
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Kellogg Private Equity Conference
April 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Sorry for the delay in posting. My MS keyboard’s “m” key stopped working, making it very difficult for me to write anything from home while my laptop was in dock mode. I performed minor surgery on it this evening and fixed the issue. Last week I had the pleasure of chairing the Web 2.0 panel [...]
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I love Starting Up
March 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Kellogg is a great school, the best business school in the world according to many sources. One of the things that set Kellogg apart from other business school is our GIM program. The Global Initiative in Management brings groups of Kellogg students to every corner of the planet for a student run and organized trip [...]
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Randy Woelfel leaves HTC
March 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Today I was startled to get a bounce-back on a routine email to Randy Woelfel, Energy Director at the Houston Technology Center. Randy has accepted the COO role at Cereplast, a bio-plastic company in California. I had the pleasure of helping Randy with the organization of the Energy Technology VC Conference, and saw first-hand how [...]
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Texas Web 2.0 Investments
March 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Last night I read a post by Neil Savage at Xconomy talking about how Web 2.0 investments may be peaking based on data from Dow Jones VentureSource. Although I find the discussion about Web 2.0’s maturity to be incredibly interesting (disclosure, I am co-chairing a panel on Web 2.0 at the Kellogg Private Equity Conference), [...]
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