It’s August 2009 and in the last 12 months, Lou Bock‘s portfolio has had some impressive success. He talks about how Zogenix, Horizon Therapeutics, Somaxon, Prestwick Pharmaceuticals and Orexigen have all done well. The Scale Venture Partners Managing Director has [See the full post…]

Managing Director of Scale Venture Partners, Mark Brooks tells listeners what types of deals he likes most. He also describes his analytical investment process and what tips he has for entrepreneurs who believe they have an investment for SVP.

Capital efficiency and regulatory hurdles are the two main challenges for investing in healthcare today. Scale Venture Partners Managing Director, Lou Bock shares these insights as well as discussing what is most important to him in an investment today.

Reflecting on his life in venture capital, Managing Director, Jim Jones shares his thoughts on the best areas for investment today. At Scale Venture Partners, he sees three key trends as most intriguing: the cost of data in the enterprise, [See the full post…]

Scale Venture Partners Managing Director, Sharon Wienbar gives listeners her perspective on life of a venture capitalist and what her interests are in investing. She is most excited about crowdsourcing, vertical content and business software-as-a-service. Despite the current recessionary environment, [See the full post…]

Jim Jones is a managing director at Scale Venture Partners, a venture capital firm which invests in emerging tech and healthcare companies. Jim’s focus is on semiconductors and consumer electronics, so we met with him last week at CES to [See the full post…]

Ray Kurzweil is an inventor and futurist. He’s founded nine companies, which work on everything from speech recognition to artificial intelligence. He just came out with his new book called the Singularity is Near. This audio podcast is sponsored by [See the full post…]

At the BlogOn confernence I sat down with Steve Gillmor of the Gillmor Gang. Steve was also the cofounder of AttentionTrust.org. This audio podcast is sponsored by Barracuda Networks.

At BlogOn I sat down with Bill Flitter cofounder of Pheedo. Pheedo has a cutting edge blog advertising network solution. Bill and I talk about the state of blogging and advertising. This audio podcast is sponsored by Barracuda Networks.

At BlogOn I sat down with Vassil Mladjov cofounder of Blogtronix. Blogtronix has a cutting edge enterprise blog platform that supports rich media and blogging. Vassil and I talk about the direction of enterprise blogging. This audio podcast is sponsored [See the full post…]

At BlogOn I sat down with Cathy Brooks VP at Porter Novelli about blogging and PR. Cathy hosted a panel on “pitching social media”. This audio podcast is sponsored by Barracuda Networks.

At BlogOn I sat down with McDonald’s senior exec to talk about their Blogging strategy. This is a great example of corporate marketers using the blogosphere to influence consumers and more importantly create a conversation and build a community. This [See the full post…]

Dean Drako, as President and CEO of Barracuda Networks, is responsible for Barracuda’s overall strategic direction. Dean talks about what’s happening with email spam and spyware in the marketplace from a technology, and government perspective.

Segment 2 with retired Microsoft early employee and executive project manager Scott Berkun on the Art of Project Management his new book published by O’Reilly talks with me about the Art of Project management for startups and growing companies. This [See the full post…]

Bessemer Ventures Rob Chandra General Partner talks about venture capital, Silicon Valley, and startups. Rob and I talk about the mood of Venture, trends that they are tracking, and the recent entrepreneurial activity. Bessemer is the oldest venture capital firm [See the full post…]

Glenbrook Networks Julia Komissarchik CoFounder & VP Products talks about vertical search and the Long Tail. Glenbrook is a young startup with very strong expertise in vertical search and they are a classic long tail company. This audio podcast is [See the full post…]

Daniel Primack and I talk while I was on my vacation (in Boston) last month in August. Although us podcasting insiders knew Adam Curry was being financed by KP, it was Dan who was first to report on the PodShow [See the full post…]

I had a chance to sit down with Reid Hoffman an early employee at PayPal and the cofounder of LinkedIn to talk about the future of web 2.0 and social networking as the basis for the new Internet. Reid is [See the full post…]

At BlogHer Halley Suitt and Kaliya Hamlin have a casual chat about blogs and BlogHer. This is a nice random conversation on digital identiy and digital rights. This audio podcast is sponsored by Barracuda Networks.

At BlogHer Mena Trott and I sat down and talked about BlogHer and woman in technology. Mena is of course very excited about her work as cofounder of SixApart. The BlogHer conference was great event of woman joining together to [See the full post…]

I sat down with Chris Shipley and Mike Sigal of Guidewire Group to talk about the upcoming Demo Conference – DemoFall, entrepreneurs, and startups. If your a venture capitalist, senior business and/or corporate development executive and you haven’t been to [See the full post…]

DemoFall 2005: Interview with Dean Drako, CEO, Barracuda Networks. This audio podcast is sponsored by Barracuda Networks.

Daniel Primack and I talk about Venture Capital. Who’s hot and who’s investing in what. Daniel has a popular column on venture capital for Thomson called Private Equity (PE) Week. This audio podcast is sponsored by Barracuda Networks.

Scott and I talk about nanotechnology and the mission of the Foresight NanoTech Institute. This audio podcast is sponsored by Barracuda Networks.