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Breakfast with an Investor David Teten

Breakfast with an Investor David Teten

Good morning, All,

First off, our next Breakfast with an Investor will be this Wednesday, December 17th and our guest investor will be the one and only David Teten. Register here, and more about David Teten below.

Being EIC of AlleyWatch, and taking the pulse of the industry in general and startups in particular, here are what we hope are some takeaways that might help you in future with some decisions you might have, or moves you plan on making: Read More...

Future In REview (FIRe) conference

Future In REview (FIRe) conference

Good morning, All,

First off, our next Breakfast with an Investor will be Wednesday, December 17th and our guest investor will be the one and only David Teten. Register here, and more about David Teten below.

This past week we went to a dinner where the keynote speaker was Mark Anderson, Chair, Future In REview (FIRe) conference. He made ten predictions, and for the record, he tends to be right 94% of the time. One prediction was that the connected home was a non-starter: “home networks finally get off the launch pad and it turns out that all people want is low energy bills, TVs everywhere and a single remote. What they don’t want is talking refrigerators, things that don’t work, complexity replacing reliability, more nested menus instead of real buttons, dumb things talking to other dumb things and worst of all, hackable home networks.” Read More...

ff Venture Capital

ff Venture Capital

Good morning, All,

First off, our next Breakfast with an Investor will be Wednesday, December 17th and our guest investor will be the one and only David Teten.

A partner with ff Venture Capital, which has made over 200 investments in over 70 companies across the US, Canada, UK, and Israel since 1999. He is also Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York, the second-largest angel network in New York and cofounder of the Venture Capital Access Program, which helps women and minority entrepreneurs raise venture capital from members of the HBS Alumni Angels network. He is a Mentor with Founder Institute in New York and Singapore, Dreamit Ventures, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, Lean Startup Machine, and Startup Leadership Program. More on him on his Linkedin profile. Read More...

BuzzFeed reported that Emil Michael, a senior vice president at Uber, suggested

BuzzFeed reported that Emil Michael, a senior vice president at Uber, suggested

Good morning, All,

First, a big thank you to Pedro Torres Picón, our guest investor at last week's Breakfast with an Investor, and our thanks to all of you who attended. Actually, we want to extend a huge thanks to all of the investors who graciously gave their time to speak and all of whom, we'd like to add, stayed will past the 10.00 am end time to speak to each and every person who attended, individually. You all are awesome and thank you!!! Details on our December beakfast coming next week. Stay tuned!

Poor Uber founder Travis Kalanick. From all indications, he is a true visionary of tech, having managed to do what cities tried to do for years and failed (carpooling, for example, but was that a fail, or a fall back to traditional economics/maximum profit for minimum service?). But Kalanick lives in a winner-takes-all world, and from his behavior for quite some time now, is the apotheosis of a tech founder gone wrong, or at least, amok. Read More...

Breakfast with an Pedro Torres Picon

Breakfast with an Pedro Torres Picon

Good morning, All,

Our next Breakfast with an Investor will be on November 20th (that's next week) and our guest investor will be Pedro Torres Picon, founder of Quotidian Ventures.

Pedro Torres Picón came to the US from Venezuela and founded Quotidian Ventures, a seed stage fund. His passion lies in “helping founders create technology products that modernize large industries in which they have deep domain expertise.” Read More...

Elon Musk: ‘With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.

Elon Musk: ‘With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.

Good morning, All,

Our next Breakfast with an Investor will be on November 20th and our guest investor will be Pedro Torres Picon, founder of Quotidian Ventures.

Pedro Torres Picón came to the US from Venezuela and founded Quotidian Ventures, a seed stage fund. His passion lies in “helping founders create technology products that modernize large industries in which they have deep domain expertise.” Read More...

discussion/presentation about Millenials

discussion/presentation about Millenials

Good morning, All,

First, our thanks to all of you who attended last week's Breakfast with an Angel, and a very big thank you to Jason Klein, our guest investor who stayed around till noon to speak with everyone.

Our next Breakfast with an Investor will be on November 20th and our guest investor will be Pedro Torres Picon, founder of Quotidian Ventures. More about him on the eventbrite page, and he is a very active early stage investor – and always has a great story to tell. Register here. Read More...

Breakfast with an Angel

Breakfast with an Angel

Good morning, All,

our October Breakfast with an Angel is tomorrow morning, Wednesday, October 15th, and our guest investor is Jason Klein. We keep the group small, so everyone will have a chance to talk to Jason, 1-on-1 and always worth the price of admission and remember: our guest investors are always well-connected – and are always happy to make introductions for people who make it a point to show up.

Jason Klein has a background in media, consulting, and healthcare. He is founder and CEO of On Grid Ventures, an advisory and investment firm specializing in digital media and marketing. He is also Chairman of the Harvard Business School Alumni Angels (the second largest angel group in NY, with more than $4 million invested across 25 companies), and a member of the New York Angels, the largest angel group in NY. Register here, and hope to see you there! Read More...