Back to MarketingVoices by popular demand, venture capitalist Sharon Wienbar of Scale Venture Partners, tells Jennifer Jones what is hot and not hot in venture investing for social media today. She also tells why Facebook is gaining incredible momentum and what other social media trends are affecting ...

Mayfield Fund’s Navin Chaddha is a serial entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. Recently, Navin’s name was included in the prestigious Forbes Midas List top 100 dealmakers in 2007.

I caught up with Navin at the Pan IIT Global Conference to find out how he transitioned from being a successful serial ...

It’s no secret in the valley that venture capitalist Roger McNamee is a rocker at heart. By day, he does deals from his Elevation Partners office on Sand Hill Road. But in his spare time, he writes songs and plays guitar for Moonalice (his “old” band was called ...

Tony Perkins is the head honcho of AlwaysOn which, among other things, runs an annual conference for high-tech companies, venture capitalists and other tech insiders. Larry Magid caught up with him between sessions as the annual AlwaysOn Stanford Summit was getting underway.

Roger McNamee, is Founding Partner of Elevation Partners and a business partner of U2 rock star, Bono.   Around Silicon Valley, McNamee is known as an insightful dealmaker and the consummate power player, but after hours he plays in a rock band called Moon Alice.  His band plays upwards of ...

Proto.in is a bi-annual event in India that showcases technology start-up companies and innovative products.

Organised by The Knowledge Foundation, a national network of entrepreneurs and technology enthusiasts, the second edition will see participation from 23 startup companies carefully chosen from a list of 120 nominations. Each startup will get ...

Politics will lead the way in new marketing techniques, according to Peter Leyden, director of the New Politics Institute. Leyden, who used to be the editor for WIRED Magazine, is now with a think tank for politics funded by prominent venture capitalists. The use of social media will help ...

The valley venture capitalists thought they brought their A-game in this historic 1st Annual Labor vs. Capital Dodgeball Tournament. But the tournament ended up being hard-fought, as the laborers from Google, Ustream, jaxtr, BitTorrent and elsewhere showed up ready to do battle.

U.S. Ambassador to Sweden Michael Wood, has identified green collaborations between Sweden and the United States as his One Big Thing. In Sweden he has filtered out 30 mind-blowing alternative energy projects that he recently presented to a round table of top venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. Afterward, he ...

Brad Feld and David Cohen go into detail about their summer project, TechStars, which is bringing 10 startup companies to Boulder, Colo., for an intensive 3-month period of education and mentorship from over 30 of the best entrepreneurial minds in Colorado. Each company gets up to $15,000.00 in seed ...

Well-known blogger, marketer and venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki, gives tips on how to write a great blog and discusses how he became ranked as blogger number 24 on Technorati. Speaking from his home in California, he meets with Marketing Voices’s Jennifer Jones and notes that he spends ...

Silicon Valley is buzzing, but not just because of software and hardware investments. The new boom is in green energy technologies. James Horn is an investment manager for Noventi, one of the many Venture Capitalist firms excited about the energy field. The boom is fantastic news for new energy technology ...

Bill Tai, general partner with Charles River Ventures, is an avid kiteboarder. He talks about the excitement and dangers of the sport and how the sport has evolved from windsurfing. He talks about leaping off the waves skimming across the water and the complete sense of freedom he feels when ...

Shanda Bahles, general partner at El Dorado Ventures, talks about the hot areas she sees in venture capitalist investing today, and where we are in the VC funding cycle. This is the second in a series of podcasts with Bahles.

On the ground at the Clean Tech Venture Network Conference in San Francisco, venture capitalists, green business leaders and entrepreneurs — among other influential voices — discuss the technological, economic, social and political forces driving and influencing the clean tech sector. Is a “Perfect Storm” brewing?

The United Nations is embarking on something new: a partnership with the private sector to address some of the developing world’s most vexing issues in areas such as education, health care, economic development and government. Craig Barret, the chairman of Intel, has been appointed to chair the UN initiative called the Global Alliance for ICT and Development. GAID meets with Silicon Valley leaders for the first time at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., for a series of panels and discussions about the ways IT solutions can help the U.N.’s efforts. PodTech’s Jason Lopez spoke with Sarbuland Khan, executive coordinator for GAID.

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Guy Kawasaki, blogger, author of 8 books, venture capitalist and former Apple marketing executive, believes CMOs today should “just quit” if they are working with CEOs who don’t get social media. Talking from his home in Silicon Valley, Guy explains what is important about social media, how he ...

Info Edge (India) was the first Indian Internet company to go public on the Indian stock exchange in November 2006. It owns internet properties Naukri, 99 acres and Jeevansathi.

CEO and co-founder Sanjeev Bikhchandani was a featured speaker at the recently concluded first TiE India entrepreneurial conference ...

In the fourth installment of “The Lost Google Tapes,” Google Co-Founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page speak with reporter John F. Ince about the search engine they created. Here, Brin discusses the role played by venture capitalists and Google board members John Doerr and Michael Moritz in the development of ...