Venture Alpha–October 18, 2012
Public Group active 2 hours, 8 minutes agoThe Thomson Reuters Venture Alpha event includes leading LPs and GPs from the VC community, as well as the staff of peHUB, Venture Capital Journal and Reuters. Agenda is here: http://www.vcjconferences.com/events/sf_2012/
Featured speakers include: Steve Case of Revolution; Dixon Doll of DCM; Alastair Mitchell of Huddle.Net; Victoria Ransom of Wildfire Interactive; Jeff Fluhr of Spreecast; and Domingo Guerra of Appthority.
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Lawrence J. Aragon posted an update in the group Venture Alpha–October 18, 2012 1 month, 1 week ago
Just lined up another great keynoter: Kirsten Green of emerging manager Forerunner Ventures. She’s backed some really cool consumer startups, including Birchbox, Bonobos and Warby Parker. More on Kirsten here: http://www.forerunnerventures.com/about#kirsten-green
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Jonathan Marino posted an update in the group Venture Alpha–October 18, 2012 1 month, 2 weeks ago
We may have some big news coming to this page shortly… stay tuned!
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Lawrence J. Aragon posted an update in the group Venture Alpha–October 18, 2012 1 month, 4 weeks ago
You read it here first: BILL GURLEY of Benchmark has just confirmed as a keynote speaker for Venture Alpha. Should be awesome! Bill is an investor in Uber, OpenTable and Zillow and writes the popular ”Above the Crowd” blog: http://abovethecrowd.com/about/
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Jonathan Marino posted an update in the group Venture Alpha–October 18, 2012 2 months ago
It’s mid-August… but perhaps VCs are sweating this report instead of the heat: http://www.pehub.com/162392/pension-giant-calpers-appears-ready-to-abandon-most-venture-capital-investing/ It will be tougher for many GPs out there to raise a fund if and when CalPERS reduces its exposure to the asset class. Peep our Venture Alpha schedule for ways…[Read more]
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Lawrence J. Aragon posted an update in the group Venture Alpha–October 18, 2012 2 months ago
One Venture Alpha speaker I’m particularly excited to hear from is VICTORIA RANSOM, co-founder of social marketing startup Wildfire Interactive, which was snapped up by Google for $250M on July 31. Details of the acquisition are here: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/31/google-wildfire-idUSL2E8IVE4H20120731
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Lawrence J. Aragon joined the group Venture Alpha–October 18, 2012 2 months ago
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Jonathan Marino posted an update in the group Venture Alpha–October 18, 2012 2 months ago
Just so we’re all on the same scorecard, peHUB will list all of the VC fundraisings in our Venture Alpha page between now & our event on 10/18. Today: PELION Venture Partners http://www.pehub.com/162155/pelion-piling-with-new-fund-but-easing-up-throttle/
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Jonathan Marino posted an update in the group Venture Alpha–October 18, 2012 2 months ago
One of our boldface names in attendance for the event will be Victoria Ransom, Founder & CEO, Wildfire Interactive: she’ll be discussing, among other things, how to run a startup that gets bought by Google. See our full attendee list here: http://www.vcjconferences.com/events/sf_2012/
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Jonathan Marino created the group Venture Alpha–October 18, 2012 2 months ago