At the inaugural (Charles River Ventures) CRV Entrepreneur Idol, presented at Stanford Graduate School of Business, George Zachary of CRV presents to Stanford MBA students about today’s state of early stage venture capital, the rise of consumer Internet businesses, and [See the full post…]

“We want people to understand how we hear things. In these days of media fragmentation, email and voicemail, people mostly pay attention to the first 30 seconds of what they hear.” That’s what George Zachary of CRV says about the [See the full post…]

Watch the three winning pitches of the first ever CRV Entrepreneur Idol (coming to a grad school near you soon). Judges George, Bill Tai and Susan Wu of CRV, as well as Silicon Valley famed blogger and journalist, Matt Marshall [See the full post…]

Kevin Burton, founder of TailRank, gives us a demo of his memetracker which shows what the hottest conversations are in the blogosphere. Click here for transcript.

Kevin Burton is a talented developer who has worked on a variety of startups already including Rojo, and now TailRank which he started to be able to see what bloggers were talking about. Here I sit down with him for [See the full post…]

What will it take for CLECs (competitive local exchange carriers) to thrive in the coming decade? What business strategies are they adopting and do new technologies offer opportunities to compete – or destroy their ability to differentiate? And what regulatory [See the full post…]

Experience CES Las Vegas 2007 with PodTech.net at the Bellagio as we provide video and podcast coverage of keynotes, panel discussions, interviews and new gadget reviews. Investigate in-depth conversations with top industry executives and product managers covering new product unveilings [See the full post…]

Rohit Agarwal is the founder and CEO of techTribe Networks, a software company pioneering the use of social networking for innovation through ideas, networking and mentorship. techTribe’s goal is to enable Indian technology professionals in software and services to connect [See the full post…]

How do you get a big file from your computer to someone else’s computer? Pando Networks has a peer-to-peer way to do just that. Yaron Samid, Pando Networks’ founder, gives me a tour. Click here for transcript.

Apple is once again in Greenpeace’s cross-hairs — the environmental watchdog’s Green Electronics Guide put Apple at the bottom of the heap, while Nokia sits on top. Along those lines, a quick look at a conversation that’s bound to gain [See the full post…]

We go on a junket. Heck, it’s the only time we’ve been invited to go on a Lear Jet and on a tour of Washington Wineries and we take you along thanks to Greenpoint Technologies and Blog Business Summit’s “Grapes [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 6, 2006 (PodTech News) — MySpace.com has plans to move further into the wireless space. That — plus plans to move into China — may bolster the value of the site that News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch [See the full post…]

Forrester analyst and vice president Lisa Pierce told a group of Qwest customers that the great unknown — whether IT decisions today will fit with technologies of tomorrow — is a fact of life. While the fear of making mistakes [See the full post…]

I spend almost an hour with Ross Mayfield, founder of SocialText, which is the first Wiki company. Ross is an interesting guy who’s been at the center of a bunch of trends, including Web 2.0, blogging, social media, and boom [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 5, 2006 (PodTech News) — Search competition may be heating up with Ask.com’s revamped services. Other search firms have pumped some ad revenue into the newspaper industry. How are newspapers reacting? They may be starting to look [See the full post…]

Vipin Jain, CEO of Retrevo, gives us a tour around Retrevo’s consumer electronics gadget portal. Click here for transcript.

Mash-ups, micro-apps, real time collaboration – there’s a revolution going on in how knowledge workers maximize flexibility and productivity. This series of podcasts turns to IT and business leaders to discuss the latest trends in on-demand business. In this first [See the full post…]

Lots of provocative thoughts from a search engine guru in this conversation with Bob Heyman, also a well known speaker on Internet marketing and the chief search officer at Mediasmith. He’s also credited with pioneering the agency side of search [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 2, 2006 (PodTech News) — “Clean, flat sheets of bronze.” That’s one way to describe one of your modern PC’s progenitors. Researchers at Hewlett-Packard are in the news this week for the interest they’ve taken in the [See the full post…]

The PRSA Silicon Valley chapter of PRSA (Public Relations Society of America) announces a Tech Media Influencer event, “Media Predictions 2007.” Listen to the all-star media panel that met in the heart of Silicon Valley on December 1, 2006, looked [See the full post…]

A Symantec backup/disaster recovery solution at LifeGift Organ Donation Center is so cost-efficient and effective that its specifications are being shared with 97 other organizations. Samuel Holtzman III, President and CEO, LifeGift Organ Donation Center, Charley Ballmer, Solutions Architect, CompuCom. [See the full post…]

Heidi Roizen is a Silicon Valley veteran who spent her time building companies during the software and PC boom. PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier spoke with her about how and when to raise venture capital funding. She says that [See the full post…]

This is a different kind of show for the ScobleShow, one where we talk about an issue that we should think about — in this case whether companies who are scanning books and other information from the world’s libraries and [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 1, 2006 (PodTech News) — At long last, Microsoft has launched its Vista operating system for businesses. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called it the biggest launch in the company’s history. It could have been even bigger, though [See the full post…]

A professional-turned-entrepreneur, Deep Kalra promoted India’s most successful online travel company, MakeMyTrip in April 2000. MMT is a comprehensive travel services provider for leisure travel to, from and within India. Over the past 5 years, MMT has grown rapidly to [See the full post…]