Mark Wayman
Entrepreneur
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John Furey
Enterpreneur
John Furey was born in the USA in 1960 and within a year his parents moved to Europe. He grew up in Lugano and then Geneva, Switzerland and received a traditional English education. During his travels in the 80‘s and 90‘s he became fascinated with human nature, what drives it and how it shapes our differences. His passion for observing and understanding human nature blossomed particularly during the five years he spent living on the African continent (‘81-’86) where he was confronted with the stark differences between European and native African thinking.
Will Cheung
Entrepreneur
Will Cheung is founder and architect of Duffel (http://duffelup.com), a visual trip planner, and leads a small team of designer and engineers who are passionate about travel. Before founding Duffel, Will worked as a project manager at Google and numerous start-ups in the bay area, including Attensity and Like.com.
Founders Space has partnered with US Market Access Center (a.k.a. US MAC). US MAC is a great resource for overseas startups that want to establish operations in the US. Located in Silicon Valley, US MAC helps technology and life science companies expand their market reach and enter the US market. They’ve helped numerous European, Asian, Canadian and South American companies set up a US presence and navigate the often confusing US landscape.
To find out more, visit US MAC.
If you’re looking to enter the US market, the US Market Access Center is a great place to start. The US Market Access Center (US MAC), formerly the International Business Incubator (IBI), is the leading trade gateway into the United States for international businesses.
Located in Silicon Valley, US MAC is a fantastic resource for technology and life science companies planning to expand their market reach and enter the US market. They’ve helped numerous European, Asian and South American companies establish a US presence and navigate the often confusing US landscape.
We highly recommend you talk to US MAC if you’re a foreign company thinking of setting up an office here.
Christian Perry, founder of SF Beta, is one of the most dynamic people we know. In a very short time, Christian has transformed SF Beta into a hub of founder activity. It is now San Francisco’s largest monthly startup mixer. Since launching in September, 2006, SF Beta has brought together thousands of people from hundreds of startups, creating innumerable connections along the way.
The irrepressible Christain Perry is someone every founder should meet. He has become a central figure in the Bay Area startup world, and now he’s expanding to Boston… so watch out East Coasters!
I highly recommend you go to these events. They’re a ton of fun, and provide great insight into up-and-coming startups.
Ask the VC is similar in concept to Founders Space, except that, instead of tapping into a broad network of advisors, the answers are provided by two individuals: Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson. Basically, you ask them questions, and they provide answers from a VC’s perspective. The thing that makes this site work is that they are two smart venture capitalists. Jason is not only a VC, but also a lawyer, so Ask the VC includes legal advice too. We see this as a good resource for founders.
Background on Brad & Jason:
Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson are the co-authors of AsktheVC. Brad and Jason have been working together since 2000 when Jason joined Mobius Venture Capital, a venture capital firm that Brad co-founded. They started writing together on Brad’s Feld Thoughts blog in 2005 with their Term Sheet series. After several other series about issues facing venture capital backed companies, Jason and Brad decided to start AsktheVC. Brad and Jason, along with three other partners have recently founded a new venture firm, the Foundry Group located in Boulder, Colorado.
FeldThoughts is a nice blog for founders. It lets you into the mind of Brad Feld, a thoughtful VC. Brad likes early stage tech companies, and his blog offers some good insights and helpful advice to entrepreneurs.
Brad’s Background:
Brad has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur for over 20 years. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch and operate software companies and later became a venture affiliate of the predecessor to Mobius Venture Capital.
I really get a kick out of Venture Hacks. They have attitude, and they give great advice to startups seeking venture funding.
Venture Hacks is the product of Nivi (bio) and Naval (bio), two self-proclaimed students of life, and their mission is to share the best startup advice they’ve got.
These guys are for real. They are very connected, and they have founded companies like Epinions; invested $20M in companies like Twitter; helped start companies backed by Sequoia, Benchmark, Kleiner Perkins, and Atlas; and advised many others.
We love what the New Leaders Council (NLC) is doing. The NLC trains young professional, progressive leaders to be political entrepreneurs. Through a combination of entrepreneurship, management, advocacy, and political management training, NLC churns out talented, committed progressive leaders yearly.
The mission of the NLC is to train and support the next generation of progressive political entrepreneurs – those who are leading industries, setting trends, and building institutions that support robust civic and political life in a global America.
NLC believes in recruiting emerging leaders from outside of the traditional power structures, engaging them on both local and national levels, and equipping them to be civic leaders – not only for elective office, but also in their communities and workplaces.
