Archive for November, 2005

December’s Meetup: Demo Night 2

Monday, November 14th, 2005

Calling all Mobile Startups! - we’re going to have another Mobile Demo Night again for Mobile Monday’s December 5th meetup. July’s demo night at AOL was an awesome success, and easily one of the funnest gatherings we had all year, so we want to try to do it again as a bi-annual event. If you’re a mobile startup, or if you’re a big company and have a new mobile product, we’d love to have you come give us a demo.

So If you’d like to show off your mobile product live on the official MoMo Elmo in front of a couple hundred mobile enthusiasts, business people, marketers and investors, please drop Mike (miker at bitsplitter dot net )or I a note and we’ll get you on the schedule.

Thanks!

-Russ

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Lineup for the November Meeting

Monday, November 7th, 2005

Hey folks, here’s the lineup for the Funding and Investment event tonight:

Colin Wiel (Keiretsu Forum) - Colin Wiel is the President of the San Francisco Chapter of the Keiretsu Forum. Colin is an active Angel investor, having made Angel investments in more than ten companies in the past five years. Colin often remains actively involved in the companies in which he invests, and he currently serves on the advisory boards of four companies. Colin is also an Entrepreneur, having started a 35-person software engineering firm which he ran from its inception in 1998 through to its acquisition in 2001. Over his career, Colin has made a wide variety of technical contributions such as co-architecting a genomics database to host the fruit fly genome; designing and developing a fuzzy logic based antiskid system for commercial aircraft for Boeing (two US patents issued); co-architecting the Java infrastructure for Charles Schwabs online trading website (the largest dollar volume e-commerce website in the world); and developing and teaching the Java Servlet and JSP curriculum for UC Berkeley Extension. Colin holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley.Colin has founded several community organizations including special interest groups of the Software Development Forum and the IEEE. Ken Matusow (Keiretsu Forum) - Ken is a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur, mentor, and angel investor. He is currently working with a number of wireless related startups, taking on an active, operational role in two of them: BroadbandCentral - a company that provides support services to the wireless and broadband markets; and Teomap - a service company that delivers multi-person, shared maps to mobile devices. In between technology startups and consulting contracts Ken often takes off to explore the developing world, often for months at a time. Ken also works as a volunteer to assist technology companies in remote parts of the globe. Working with groups such as USAID, Geek Corps and the International Executive Service Corp, he has assisted and advised technology companies in Mongolia, Bulgaria, South Africa, southeast Asia, and west Africa. Ken holds an M.S. in General Systems Theory from SUNY-Binghamton and a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin. Vineet Buch (BlueRun Ventures) - Vineet focuses on Consumer Internet and Mobile Services, Enterprise Software, including Open Source, and on BlueRun Ventures’ investments in India. Vineet joined BlueRun Ventures in 2005. Immediately before that, he co-founded a stealth-mode Consumer Internet company funded by BlueRun, Prior to that, he was a Director with Product Management and Software Development responsibilities in Oracle Server Technologies, the organization that develops the Oracle Database and Application Server. Before Oracle, Vineet was co-founder and CTO of Karient, a provider of systems management software. Vineet started Karient after serving as Senior Director of Engineering at Corio, a leading Application Service Provider since acquired by IBM. Before joining Corio, Vineet was a Practice Manager in Oracle Consulting, running a consulting practice focused on Enterprise System Architecture. Vineet is responsible for BlueRun’s investments in Ojos (www.riya.com) and two other companies in which BlueRun’s investment has not been disclosed yet. Martin Frid-Nielsen (CEO of SoonR) - Martin brings extensive start-up and larger company experience to SoonR. He spent 3 years in various executive positions at enterprise software provider Merant including VP of Development, and was actively
involved in selling the company to Serena for about $400 million in 2004. Prior to joining Merant through an acquisition, Martin was at NetObjects for over six years, where he was the VP of R&D since founding and through its IPO in 1999, he was instrumental in defining and creating the company’s leading web-authoring product NetObjects Fusion. He was also a principal of Hilltop Software Technologies, a provider of pre-internet communication applications and consulting services. Prior to that, Martin spent ten years at Borland International in senior engineering
and program management positions. Products included Sidekick 1.0 & 2.0, the company’s hit personal
information organizer that created a new market category, Personal Information Management. Martin is a named inventor on four (4) U.S. Patents related to data synchronization and web authoring technologies. David Fradin (President and CEO of MauiGames) - Mr. Fradin began his career as a product manager with Hewlett Packard Corporation and then Product and Business Unit Manager with Apple Computer. Subsequently, he worked as Vice President of Docugraphix and President of DVP Technologies and President of Digital Enterprises Corporation, a leading computer and web based training developer with game themes. Since 2002 he has been President and CEO of MauiGames Corporation. He is a life long gamer and holds a BS degree in engineering from The University of Michigan.

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