David Matthews, co-founder of VentureSpur and Managing Partner of Trailblazer Capital, has recently completed a brief interview with VentureSpur as part of their mentor interview series. Recently we interviewed David Matthews, VentureSpur Co-Founder, Mentor and Managing Partner at Trailblazer Capital. Read on for David’s take on mentorship and
Here’s the entrepreneurial interview that VentureSpur did with Bill Paiva. Bill is probably the most senior venture capital investor based in Oklahoma, and he’s a partner in one of the nation’s most storied and accomplished VC firms, Sevin Rosen Funds. It really is an extraordinary opportunity
We’ve announced our first Pitch Day at VentureSpur. See the details below. A Pitch Day, or Demo Day, as it is called at some accelerators, is the culmination of a class program. It is the day on which the startup teams introduce their venture to the
Here is LaunchOklahoma’s interview with Mike Moradi, the principal in Century Venture Partners and a serial biotech entrepreneur. Mike is a very giving mentor, happy to share his time, experience and wisdom with other entrepreneurs. Looking forward to having him around. He’s one of the more
VentureSpur co-founder, Gabe Bass, has done an interesting entrepreneurial interview. Gabe is the Managing Partner of Bass Law in Oklahoma City and El Reno. Gabe has some interesting things to say about mentoring and what he’s looking for in companies. Check it out below: Recently we had
The official announcement of my appointment as Managing Director of VentureSpur has been announced on the VentureSpur website, as well as in a press release (PDF) with all the details. Full text of the press release follows: New Oklahoma City Venture Accelerator Appoints Managing Director New director brings
I had the pleasure and honor of participating in Junior Achievement’s “JA in a Day” event as a member of The Entrepreneur’s Organization of Oklahoma. For this event, members of The Entrepreneur’s Organization of Oklahoma volunteered to go into an underpriviledged school and teach an
I recently joined the Board of Directors of my local state chapter of an international non-profit called the Entrepreneur’s Organization, or EO.
At the beginning of March 2011, the company that I run full-time, R7 Solutions, launched our new Web 2.0 mapping and workflow service: GeoIntelis.com! Here is the announcement blog post on the GeoIntelis.com website. Since then, we’ve announced a slew of new data packages for
Last month, Gale, a division of Cengage Learning, bought Questia Media, the company I co-founded in 1998. But why did they buy it? This article from Information Today seems to analyze it pretty well: Gale Reaches for More End Users With Questia Acquisition A salient