A while back I spoke to my friend Jeff Bone in an interview entitled The Technology Entrepreneur, I encourage you to read it if you haven’t, so you can get a feel for who Jeff is and why we think he’s a genius! Jeff had promised to talk to me again and get a bit [...]
Angels, Incubators, Venture Capital and Crowdfunding…
Filed Under: Entrepreneurship, Interviews, Mark Wallace Tagged With: angel investing, Entrepreneurism, entreprenuer, Jeff Bone, Private Equity, private placements, social media, Social Networking, startups, technology, venture capital
Tech Geekery – Part II
We’re digging a bit deeper today with Dan Faiman, CEO of a music industry-targeted start-up, and a partner in a new incubator targeting the mobile app space. Despite what some think, Dan doesn’t agree that tech is in a bubble, and he tells us why towards the end of the interview. He also talks about [...]
Filed Under: Angel/Venture Investing, Entrepreneurship, Interviews, Mark Wallace Tagged With: angel investing, Entrepreneurism, entreprenuer, Private Equity, private placements, social media, Social Networking, startups, venture capital
The Technology Entrepreneur
Technology will save us. OK, maybe that’s a stretch… or maybe it isn’t. I had the pleasure recently of meeting Jeff Bone. Jeff is a long-time technology entrepreneur and visionary. My friend who introduced us made the comment that “Jeff is always the smartest person in the room.” I quickly found out how true that [...]
Filed Under: Entrepreneurship, Interviews, Mark Wallace Tagged With: angel investing, Entrepreneurism, entreprenuer, Jeff Bone, social media, Social Networking, startups, technology
Serial Optimism and Technology
I’m an optimist overall. Despite war, famine and inequality globally, it’s hard to argue that we have not improved our lot over the millenia. I talked about this in my post The Manufacture of Virtue, where I said that, “Despite my occasional tendencies to play out the worst-case scenarios in my head, I am pragmatic, [...]
Filed Under: Angel/Venture Investing, Entrepreneurship, Mark Wallace Tagged With: angel investing, Capitalism, Entrepreneurism, entreprenuer, Private Equity, private placements, social media, Social Networking, Start ups, technology, venture capital
Incubators, Wunderkinds and Social Media…
Start-ups are risky by nature, the upside however is potentially life-changing… We have written previously about the art of the private deal. In that post we alluded to a very successful friend of ours who we also interviewed for our readers. This gentleman, who focuses among other things on start-ups in the technology sector, has had quite a few homeruns. [...]
Filed Under: Angel/Venture Investing, Chris Tell, Entrepreneurship Tagged With: entreprenuer, incubator, mobile apps, open source, social media, Social Networking, Start ups, technology
The Distraction Industry and Virtual Crack
Recently I found myself interviewing a founder of a business who is seeking funding. While on a video call I could hear a TV talk show in the background, and during our conversation the gentleman I was talking to kept a text messaging conversation going on his mobile phone. While I couldn’t actually see what [...]
Filed Under: Capitalist Viewpoints, Chris Tell, Current Affairs/Politics, Other Tagged With: facebook, Investing, investment trends, mobile video, niche market, online gaming, Social Networking, startups, virtual crack
