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Inessa Obenhuber, Angel Investors & Business Expert

Inessa Obenhuber is an active Angel Investor and International investment capital professional. She is a Partner of Seraph Group, a growing global investment angel boutique fund. She also co-founded Kiventures, a company that assists U.S. and Russian companies with establishing operations and outsourcing of technology development of products in emerging markets.

Inessa Obenhuber has personally shepherded several promising ventures into the next phases of development, including PC Magazine in Russian language, AlwaysOnVacation, CFT and other startup companies, she invested in more than 23 of them. Noted for her technology inventions as well, Ms. Obenhuber has contributed to four U.S. patents over the course of her career.

Inessa Obenhuber maintains involvement with a wide range of philanthropic organizations, including USC Cinematic school (Ambassador for the Media Institute for Social Change), Charity: water, Amnesty International. Ms. Obenhuber earned a Bachelor of Arts from Moscow State University of Printing Arts.

How do Women Entrepreneurs fit into Incubator & Accelerator Programs?

by Inessa Obenhuber, Angel Investor & Business Expert

-In your experience, do enough women get involved in early-stage companies, such as applying for incubator or accelerator programs? Read More...

Howard Hartenbaum of August Capital Gives Advice on Funding Your Startup

Howard Hartenbaum from August Capital discusses different types of funding sources, different types of investors and how to approach them, what VCs look for in companies, and his experiences from being an IT investor and entrepreneur.

Howard Hartenbaum joined August Capital in 2008. Prior to joining, he served as a General Partner at Draper Richards LP where he was the founding investor in Skype and a former member of the board of directors where his achievement resulted in his joining the Forbes Midas List of top venture capitalists. Read More...

Why do VCs Invest in Startups and How Do You Get Funded?

Why do VCs invest in startups? How do you get funding for your company, startup, technology, or idea? Why would a VC invest in your startup when you have nothing but an idea?

See Your World in a Totally Different Lightt

by Steve Hoffman

Lightt is one of those rare applications that changes how you look at the world and your friends.

Instead of just browsing tweets and Facebook posts, you actually get to see the people around you in motion. It’s a totally new experience… a blending of photography and video, yet beyond both. What you see with Lightt are frenetic bursts of images interwoven into streams, each of which tells a piece of a story about the lives of your friends. Read More...

Common Startup Marketing Mistakes

Karen Milde, CEO and Co-Founder, Reframe Marketing Inc.

It’s not uncommon for me to see Founders wearing multiple hats, particularly the sales and marketing hat. A typical situation they would tell me is that they just burned through a 6 figure marketing budget and need help with fixing their marketing, but now have limited access to funds.

What surprises me is when they tell me they burned through their funds via a bunch of online marketing campaigns and justified the amount spent by saying they needed to stay ahead of the competition and to acquire more customers. I find that Founders sometimes get so caught up with the idea that the more they spend the more customers they will gain that they lose sight of what marketing is all about and that is when marketing mistakes happen.

Some common mistakes I have come across in my experience working with startups: Read More...

Seven Reasons Why You Should Launch Your Startup in Singapore

by Pardeep Boparai, founder of Janus Corporate Solutions

Pro-business policies and a strategic location have made Singapore a favored destination in Asia for global corporations. Its swank Marina Bay financial district is home to some of the largest global brands in technology to finance – it houses Google’s Southeast Asian headquarters, as well as the sprawling trading floors of companies Barclays Capital and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Over the last 5 years, Singapore has also created a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem that has lured some of the most prominent global entrepreneurs and venture capitalists to the island. They include legendary US investor Jim Rogers, who decided to move his family to Singapore in 2007, Facebook cofounder Eduardo Saverin, who relocated to the country in 2009 and has already invested in several local startups such as Anideo, and the Golden Gate Ventures (GGV) incubator fund which aims to build a partnership between Silicon Valley and Asia. According to serial entrepreneur Derek Sivers who recently relocated to Singapore from the US, “…(Singapore) feels like a small town in a big city, with the advantages of both. It’s a great place to set up a business, which is important to me.” Read More...

Adam Levin, Crosslink Capital

Adam Levin joined Crosslink in 2012 and evaluates investment opportunities in Consumer Internet and E-Commerce. Prior to joining Crosslink, Adam was part of Meebo Inc.’s business development team primarily growing product adoption among premium media companies as well as large game and video sites.

Adam began his career at Goldman, Sachs & Co. as an Analyst in Investment Banking focused on Industrials and Business Services. He received his BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA, Management, from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

LAUNCH 2012: Panel: The Changing Face of Venture Capital

This panel includes a lively discussion on the changing face of venture capital. The panelists include Jeff Clavier of SoftTech VC, Tim Connors of PivotNorth Capital, and Pete Sonsini of NEA. The panel is moderated by Sally Kay of Cooley LLP.