Raising Capital for Your New Media Business
Friday, Nov. 9, 2007: 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM, S221
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I am working on a number of projects. I consult with a few companies on business development and marketing strategies. I am a founder of edgeio. And TechCrunch, my hobby, tends to take up a lot of time as well. I spent a few years as a corporate attorney at O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini, working exclusively with technology companies.... I left [the] law firm life to join a hot startup and run sales and business development. The startup, RealNames, filed to go public but didn’t make it out before the bubble burst.... I left that startup as it was going through the IPO process and co-founded a company called Achex. We raised nearly $20 million after the bubble burst, and sold the company to First Data Corp about a year later for $32 million. After Achex, I’ve worked in an operational role at a Carlyle backed startup in London, founded and ran two companies in Canada (Zip.ca and Pool.com), was COO to a Kleiner backed company called Razorgator, and consulted to other companies, including SnapNames and Verisign.
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Brad Feld is a Managing Director at Foundry Group and Mobius Venture Capital. Prior to Mobius, Brad founded Feld Technologies, which was sold to AmeriData Technologies in 1993, where he became Chief Technology Officer. Brad currently serves on the boards of a number of private companies, including ePartnes, Gold Systems, Judy's Book, NewsGator, Rally Software, and StillSecure.
Dan Rua is a Managing Partner at Inflexion Partners, including recent new media investments such as PayPerPost and Databanq Media. Prior to Inflexion, Dan was a Partner at DFJ's east coast affiliate fund, leading seed investments such as InphoMatch/Mobile365 (acquired by Sybase), AuctionRover (acquired by Overture/Yahoo) and Napster (acquired by the P2P masses). Dan's venture capital blog, Florida Venture Blog, covers funding, technology, and social media -- with an emphasis on building companies outside the BS (Boston, Silicon Valley).
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