Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner: Tony Perkins, AlwaysOn - Tim Draper, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

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Three Silicon Valley dealmakers - Tony Perkins, CEO of AlwaysOn; Tim Draper, Founder and Managing Director of Draper, Fisher Jurvetson; and Michael Moe, Founding Partner of ThinkEquity - discuss the evolutions in online media, the power of partnerships, and other next-generation opportunities for the global marketplace.

Tony Perkins Biography

Tony Perkins is a Venture Partner with DFJ Frontier. He is the creator and former editor-in-chief of Red Herring magazine and the CEO of AlwaysOn, an interactive online network for technology insiders. Perkins co-authored The Internet Bubble: Inside the Overvalued World of High-Tech Stocks (HarperBusiness, 1999), a book that foretold the dot-com bust. The Internet Bubble became an international bestseller; a sequel was published in 2001. As a result of his prolific editorial output, he is consistently ranked as one of the top ten technology business journalists by Adweek's Technology Marketing magazine.

Perkins served on President George W. Bush's Information Technology Advisory Council and he was the founding chairman of the Churchill Club in Palo Alto, California, for which he received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

He has been a member of the World Economic Forum's Media Leaders group since 1996. Perkins was also founder and CEO of ...

AlwaysOn

Tim Draper Biography

Timothy C. Draper is the Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He was instrumental in bringing viral marketing to web-based e-mail to geometrically spread the successes of Hotmail and YahooMail, and the practice has been adopted as a standard marketing technique by countless businesses and organizations. Draper launched the DFJ Global Network, an international network of early-stage venture capital funds with offices in over 30 cities around the globe. He also serves on the boards of Skype, SocialText, Project Y, MailFrontier and Chroma Graphics. He was an original investor in Parametric Technology (PMTC), Tumbleweed Communications (TMWD), Overture.com (OVER), Digidesign (AVID), Preview Travel (TVLY), Four11 (YHOO), Combinet (CSCO), and Redgate (AOL). He also founded or co-founded Wasatch Ventures (Salt Lake City), Zone Ventures (LA), Draper Atlantic (Reston), Draper Triangle (Pittsburg), Timberline Ventures (Portland), Polaris Fund (Anchorage), Draper Fish...

Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Michael Moe Biography

Michael Moe is a founding partner of ThinkEquity and author of Finding the Next Starbucks. He was formerly Director of Global Growth Stock Research and a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch in 1998, Moe was Senior Managing Director and Director of Growth Stock Strategy at Montgomery Securities. Moe has been named to Institutional Investor's All American research team and he has been awarded "Best on the Street" by the Wall Street Journal. He has also testified in front of the U.S. Congress on the subjects of education technology, the new economy, and initial public offerings, and he has appeared before the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee. He is a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts, a member of the San Francisco Analyst Society, he sits on the Board of Directors for the National Football Foundation & College Football Hall of Fame, and he is a past advisor for the Center for Innovation. ...

ThinkEquity

Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Lecture

2009-02-25

1h 10min 51sec

ID: 2112

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