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The next big idea: social TV

Reena A Jadhav — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:08:14 -0800

Reena Jadhav talks to Neal Hansch of Rustic Canyon about what ideas he's looking to invest in

Rustic Canyon is a classic early-stage investor, putting in as little as $50,000 into two guys and a napkin, and investing all the way up to $10 million rounds. Their sweet spot is Series A and B. Reena Jadhav sat down with Neal Hansch, a partner at Rustic Canyon Ventures, at Vator Splash L.A and got his thoughts on where he sees opportunities to ... [Read more]

How to get funded by Jed Katz of Javelin

Reena A Jadhav — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:15:00 -0800

Reena Jadhav interviews Jed Katz about what he likes to invest in

Javelin Venture Partners is a three-year-old early-stage venture firm based in San Francisco. Earlier this year, the company raised its second fund valued at $105 million. It invests anywhere between $200,000 to $2 million. Reena Jadhav sat down with Jed Katz, co-founder and partner, at Splash LA 2011. Jed's team focuses on a lot of different areas in which technology can ... [Read more]

How to pitch Brian Garrett of CrossCut Ventures

Reena A Jadhav — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:03:00 -0700

Southern LA seed-stage VC also shares thoughts on social commerce

Reena Jadhav Interveiws Brian Garrett, Managing Director of CrossCut Ventures, a seed-staged fund based in Souther California at Vator Splash LA.

The next billion dollar space - Part 4

Reena A Jadhav — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:23:00 -0700

Reena Jadhav interviews Tod Francis at Vator Splash

Reena Jadhav nterviewed Tod Francis of Shasta Ventures at Vator Splash. Tod’s enthusiasm is infectious as he shares his insights on the next billion dollar space. He's excited about Mobile computing, Mobile advertising, Mobile commerce and innovation in the Enterprise space. When asked about Groupon, he states we’re seeing the first wave of email driven commerce and he predicts the ... [Read more]

The next billion dollar idea: Part 3

Reena A Jadhav — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:30:00 -0700

Reena Jadhav interviews David Hornik of August Capital

Reena Jadhav spoke with David Hornik of August Capital at Vator Splash about his predictions and recommendations for entrepreneurs. While he believes a lot of the web is still to be done, he is focussed on the Payments space. As David says "it turns out there's a lot of money to be made in money." There are opportunities in how ... [Read more]

The next billion-dollar idea - Part 2 of 5

Reena A Jadhav — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:21:00 -0800

Reena Jadhav interviews Saad Khan of CMEA

Reena Jadhav interviewed Saad Khan of CMEA Ventures at Vator Splash on his thoughts on the next billion dollar space, his favorite startups and tips on pitching him. Saad starts off by sharing that he invests in the entrepreneur and not necessarily the idea. To quote him, "I invest almost exclusively in people – really smart people! Regardless of what ... [Read more]

The next billion-dollar Idea - Part 1 of 5

Reena A Jadhav — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:06:00 -0800

Reena Jadhav interviews Jay Jamison at Vator Splash 2011 San Francisco

Jay Jamison Venture Partner, BlueRun Ventures, stopped by for an interview with Reena Jadhav at Vator Splash and shared his insights and tips. He's clearly betting on mobile as the billion dollar space with several recent investments in mobile ventures such as Foodspotting. Deals, mobile, location, photo sharing are all paving the way for billion dollar opportunities. What he's looking for? Jay admires companies ... [Read more]

How to be prepared for your angel investor

Reena A Jadhav — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:15:00 -0700

Reena Jadhav speaks with Randy Williams, founder of Keiretsu Forum - a leading angel network

Reena Jadhav talks to Randy Williams, founder of Keiretsu Forum, about angel investing on her show, "Cashing Out: Exits and Valuations with Reena Jadhav." In this segment, Randy talks about what entrepreneurs need to have in place to attract angel funding. He also talks about how much the Keiretsu network invests in angel rounds and what percent of the company ... [Read more]

What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs make?

Reena A Jadhav — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:15:00 -0700

Levensohn Venture Partners VC Jeff Karras offers up tips and advice on getting funded

So you want to raise some venture funding? Before you do, keep in mind this one very big mistake entrepreneurs make: They try to raise money too early from venture capitalists. That's according to Jeff Karras, a VC at Levensohn Venture Partners (LVP), based in San Francisco. Before they go out to VCs, entrepreneurs should build a product, build ... [Read more]

VC tips on getting funded

Reena A Jadhav — Wed, 26 May 2010 17:38:00 -0700

Jed Katz, VC at Javelin Venture Partners, says the funding environment is improving

Reena Jadhav, CEO of nuAlerts, interviewed Jed Katz of Javelin Venture Partners at the Vator Splash event on tips for entrepreneurs looking to get funded. According to Jed the environment for funding is actually getting better. He recommends entrepreneurs looking for funding have a great plan, a solid team and start building momentum so others believe your business as well. How do you demonstrate ... [Read more]

Entrepreneur tips from the trenches

Reena A Jadhav — Sat, 22 May 2010 10:47:00 -0700

Tip #2 - The KISS principle

What principles will you adopt to design your solution and your business? I'm a big supporter of the KISS principle. "Keep it Simple, Stupid." Tip#2: KISS-Keep It Simple, Stupid Wikipedia offers memorable quotes for KISS at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle My favorite is from Antoine de Saint Exupéry's "It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is ... [Read more]

Top 10 tips from an entrepreneur

Reena A Jadhav — Tue, 04 May 2010 17:52:00 -0700

Series of tips from the trenches

I've been an entrepreneur since 1998. I've been a retired entrepreneur fighting my addiction to new ventures since 2008. You would think I have more than 10 tips to share with you! We'll start with 10 and see where it takes us. I am counting on you, the readers, to share your tips so we can build out a library of Tips ... [Read more]

IPO market looking less robust to this VC

Reena A Jadhav — Tue, 04 May 2010 07:18:00 -0700

Claremont Creek Ventures Randy Hawks on his outlook for exits in 2010

In the latest episode of "Cashing Out: Exits and Valuations with Reena Jadhav," Reena talks to Randy Hawks, a venture capitalist at Claremont Creek Ventures, a VC firm based in the East Bay with $3 million under management and focusing on clean tech, healthcare and security. (See previous interview with Claremont partner Nat Goldhaber.) In this segment, Randy says he's ... [Read more]

Liquidity events, is 2010 the year?

Reena A Jadhav — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:15:00 -0700

Keiretsu Forum's Randy Williams on his outlook for exits

Reena Jadhav talks to Randy Williams, founder of Keiretsu Forum, about the exit markets on her new show, "Cashing Out: Exits and Valuations with Reena Jadhav." In this segment, Randy talks about the activity at Keiretsu, what kind of exits he's seeing and the valuations of those exits. He also talks about his view on secondary markets as a ... [Read more]

ReTargeter on running a lean startup machine

Reena A Jadhav — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:29:00 -0800

Arjun Arora CEO ReTargeter talks to Reena Jadhav about how he keeps costs down

Reena Jadhav, CEO of nuAlerts, interviews Arjun Arora, CEO of ReTargeter on lessons learned while bootstrapping. ReTargeter is an online solution that allows you to show display ads to people who have just left your website. Their customers include celebrity sites such as Bill Cosby to ecommerce sites and more. Arjun raised a small round in May 2009 from family ... [Read more]