This week we have Michael Montgomery, President of Montgomery & Co. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com. For detailed shownotes check out Mark Suster’s blog post www.bothsidesofthetable.com If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice). For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. Michael is a very accomplished corporate executive in his own right having run Sega Gameworks and helped IPO EuroDisney as well as having been on the founding team of DreamWorks SKG (where he helped them raise their first $900 million in equity). Shame they didn’t like his suggested name for the company: DreamWorks SKG-MM We discussed: 1. The Montgomery Conference: one of the top technology events of the annual calendar in the United States and held every March. The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already …
This week we have Rahul Sonnad, Founder and CEO of Geodelic (www.geodelic.com). For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com. Jason Calacanis hosts This Week in Startups 00:06:00 Ask Jason — Ken Kowal — eRoutingGuide (www.eRoutingGuide.com) — I am having trouble finding my target community (manufacturers), how do I find them? 00:19:30 Behind the Startup — is a new segment where we will follow Jason’s Angel investment in StorkBrokers (storkbrokers.com) and look into the initial process of investing, marketing, web design to launch. In this first segment we hear from Sterling Hawkins, StorkBrokers, Founder and Joey Tran of Fortis General Counsel (www.fortisgc.com), where they discuss the initial Angel Investment. Key issues for Jason: Key Issues for Sterling: 00:49:00 The Interview with Rahul Sonnad, Founder and CEO of Geodelic (@Geodelic)
This week we have Michael Montgomery, President of Montgomery & Co. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com. For detailed shownotes check out Mark Suster’s blog post www.bothsidesofthetable.com If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice). For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. Michael is a very accomplished corporate executive in his own right having run Sega Gameworks and helped IPO EuroDisney as well as having been on the founding team of DreamWorks SKG (where he helped them raise their first $900 million in equity). Shame they didn’t like his suggested name for the company: DreamWorks SKG-MM We discussed: 1. The Montgomery Conference: one of the top technology events of the annual calendar in the United States and held every March. The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already …
This week I want to focus on debt eradication and a calculation I did for a current retirement annuity. I will also touch an the accelerator principal in debt eradication to fast forward my payback plans for a credit card.
Market gains will continue at a slower pace as a 2010 recovery gets priced in, but not without upsets, says Threadneedle’s head of UK equities Leigh Harrison. For more finance and investment news visit www.citywire.co.uk. Harrison also argues that the large oil companies will struggle to keep pace with a market recovery. Plus what can we expect from the pub sector next week?
Neil Woodford slates the new Income and Growth sector, markets focus on the high street, and we ask for your help exposing where banks are treating customers unfairly. For more finance and investment video visit www.citywire.co.uk.