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What’s The Real Deal With AngelList? Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners.

What’s The Real Deal With AngelList?

Read more about Suster at Bothsidesofthetable There’s lots of discussion out there about a new and much-loved service called AngelList that connects entrepreneurs to angel investors. I was reluctant to write about AngelList because the debate on pros / cons is pretty nuanced. But with some heat flying I felt it worthwhile to give anybody on the sidelines a better understanding of the issues. » Angel Investor Tip: How to cold-email me (or anyone else) - Thomas Korte. AngelPad (angelpad) on Plancast.

AngelPad. Disrupt LIVE Webcast, Day One (TCTV) Standby in 3 – 2 – 1: We are now live from San Francisco with TechCrunch Disrupt.

Disrupt LIVE Webcast, Day One (TCTV)

If you can’t make the conference in person, you can still watch all the great panels, fireside chats, product launches, and the Startup Battlefield, plus a few surprises on TechCrunch TV. We’ll be webcasting the entire 3-day event and showing you all the action on the main stage. The guest list reads like a who’s who in Silicon Valley and the world of entrepreneurs.

Plus, during the breaks we’ll have special backstage interviews and take you on a walking tour of Startup Alley. TechCrunch Disrupt will not get taken over by AngelGate according to Michael Arrington. Tech specs: We’ll have 7 cameras feeding into 2 Tricasters, live webcasting via Ustream, on demand video archives via Ooyala and tweet-able transcripts from SpeakerText. If you’re here, then enjoy the show. Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels [Email] So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar… Yesterday I was tipped off about a “secret meeting” between a group of “Super Angels” being held at Bin 38, a restaurant and bar in San Francisco.

So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar…

“Do not come, you will not be welcome,” I was told. So I did what any self respecting blogger would do – I drove over to Bin 38, parked my car and walked in. in the back of the restaurant in a private room was a long oval table. Sitting around the table, Godfather style, were ten or so of the highest profile angel investors in Silicon Valley. These investors, known as “super angels” because they have mostly moved on to launch small venture funds of their own, are all friends of mine. I certainly didn’t think anything was amiss and I expected a friendly hello and an invitation to sit down for a drink or two before being shooed off while they talked about whatever they thought should be kept off record.

Me: Hey! I’ve never seen a more guilty looking group of people. So what’s wrong with this? Jason Calacanis. “Jason McCabe Calacanis was CEO and co-founder of Weblogs, Inc., a network of widely read blogs including Engadget – ranked # 1 by Technorati, Joystiq, Autoblog, and Blogging Baby.

Jason Calacanis

Founded in January 2004, Weblogs, Inc. became a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL in November of 2005. Calacanis maintained editorial supervision over Weblogs, Inc. as a senior vice president of AOL. David Tisch. Ram Shriram. Mitch Kapor. Mitchell David Kapor is the founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer application" often credited with making the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980s.

Mitch Kapor

He is known as an entrepreneur, investor, social activist, and philanthropist. Kapor has been the Chair of the Mozilla Foundation since its inception in 2003. He founded the Mitchell Kapor Foundation to support his philanthropic interests in environmental health. Xavier Niel. Jeremie Berrebi. Marc Simoncini. Jacques-Antoine Granjon. Timothy Ferriss. Joshua Schachter. Kevin Rose. Kevin Rose - blogg. Vinod Khosla. Vinod Khosla was a co-founder of Daisy Systems and founding Chief Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems, where he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC processors.

Vinod Khosla

Sun was funded by longtime friend and board member John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In 1986 Vinod joined Kleiner Perkins, where he was and continues to be a general partner of KPCB funds through KP X. Through the years there, with other partners, he took on Intel’s monopoly with Nexgen/AMD (the only microprocessor to have significant success against Intel, sold to AMD for 28 percent of AMD), incubated the idea and business plan for Juniper to take on Cisco’s dominance of the router market, formulated the very early advertising-based search strategy for Excite, and transformed the moribund telecommunications business and its archaic SONET implementations with Cerent (sold to Cisco for $7.4B).

Recent Milestones Investments Videos Sources. Chris Sacca. David G. Cohen. David G.

David G. Cohen

Cohen is the Founder, Managing Partner and CEO of TechStars, a mentorship-driven seed stage investment firm. He has founded four companies, including Pinpoint Technologies (Broomfield, CO, public safety software, acquired by ZOLL Medical Corporation in 1999), iContact.com (Boulder, CO, mobile social networking, defunct), earFeeder.com (Boulder, CO, acquired by SonicSwap) and TechStars. He is also an active angel investor nationally managing about $70M in funding. David blogs at DavidGCohen.com. Recent Milestones. Marc Andreessen. Early life and education[edit] Andreessen was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and raised in New Lisbon, Wisconsin,[10] the son of Patricia and Lowell Andreessen, who worked for a seed company.[11] In December 1993,[10] he received his bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Marc Andreessen

As an undergraduate, he interned one summer at IBM in Austin, Texas, United States. He also worked at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, where he became familiar with Tim Berners-Lee's open standards for the World Wide Web. Andreessen and a full-time salaried co-worker Eric Bina worked on creating a user-friendly browser with integrated graphics that would work on a wide range of computers. The resulting code was the Mosaic Web browser. Netscape[edit] After his graduation from the university in 1993, Andreessen moved to California to work at Enterprise Integration Technologies. Peter Thiel. Peter Andreas Thiel (born October 11, 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager.

Peter Thiel

Esther Dyson. Master of 500 Hats. Esther Dyson. Esther Dyson (born 14 July 1951) is a former journalist and Wall Street technology analyst who is a leading angel investor, philanthropist, and commentator focused on breakthrough efficacy in healthcare, government transparency, digital technology, biotechnology, and space.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] She recently founded HICCup, which just launched its Way to Wellville contest of five places, five years, five metrics.

Esther Dyson

Hiccup.co blog . Dyson is currently focusing her career on production of health and continues to invest in health and technology startups.[8] On 7 October 2008, Space Adventures announced that Dyson had paid to train as a back-up spaceflight participant for Charles Simonyi's trip to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz TMA-14 mission which took place in 2009.[9] Life[edit] Publications and business ventures[edit]

Reid Hoffman. Reid Garrett Hoffman[2] (born August 5, 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author. Hoffman is best known as the co-founder of LinkedIn, a social network used primarily for business connections and job searching. Early life and career[edit] Hoffman says that in college he formed a conviction that he wanted to try to influence the state of the world on a large scale.[6] He saw academia as an opportunity to make an "impact", but later realized that an entrepreneurial career would provide him with a larger platform. "When I graduated from Stanford my plan was to become a professor and public intellectual. That is not about quoting Kant.

Ron Conway. Ron Conway is an American angel investor, often described as one of the "super angels".[1] Conway is recognized as a strong networker[2] and is based in Silicon Valley. Early career[edit] Ron Conway: “Any Time is a Good Time to Start a Company” If Silicon Valley has an angel, it’s Ron Conway, the legendary early stage investor who has backed many of the greatest Internet start-ups including Google and Facebook. Last week at the Social Currency Crunchup at Stanford University, I had the good fortune to sit down with Conway for a few minutes to talk about technology, entrepreneurs, investors and the next big thing in the Valley. SV Angel. Cdixon.org – chris dixon's blog.