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Silicon Valley Angel Investing and Incubation 2.0 (Hong Kong Cyberport Venture Capital Forum)

Below are slides from my talk today at the Hong Kong Cyberport Venture Capital Forum conference.  I'll be speaking about angel investing & incubator programs in Silicon Valley, and my experiences managing the FF Angel seed investing program ($2M US, 2009) and fbFund REV incubator program ($850K US, 2009).

Startup 2.0: From Silicon Valley to Hong Kong

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Startup Metrics 4 Pirates (Startonomics Hawaii, Nov09)

here is the latest Startup Metrics for Pirates (Hawaii) preso, from my talk at Rethink Hawaii / Startonomics Hawaii this morning.  Note: similar to recent presos at SeedCamp & FoWA, so no amazing innovations here.  Just your normal crazy kidnap ransom fonts as usual.  Move along folks, move along...

Startup Metrics for Pirates (Startonomics Hawaii Nov 2009)

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Virtual Goods in Asia -> US Gold Rush Begins (Benjamin Joffe, Plus8Star @ Virtual Goods Summit 2009)

Only got to stop in briefly on Thursday afternoon at the always-amazing Virtual Goods Summit by ubermensch Charles Hudson & David Sachs, however i noticed my buddy Benjamin Joffe from Plus8Star did an amazing presentation on the state of virtual goods in Asia, and its impact / explosion in the US:

Virtual Goods in Asia

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Startup Metrics That Matter (FoWA London, Oct 2009)

Video from my Startup Metrics for Pirates / Kill a Feature talk @ FOWA London:

Start-up Metrics that Matter by Dave McClure from Carsonified on Vimeo.

Startup 2.0 talk at Canada National Angel Summit conf

Slides from my keynote tonight at the 2009 Canada National Angel Summit conf:

Startup 2.0: A Silicon Valley Story

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RethinkHawaii.com (Nov 1-5): Come Get Your Geek On.

Sometimes we all need a little time to Think. Time to get in touch with our Inner Geek.

Time to get in touch with Water, Land, & things Blue-Green.

Time to meet friends across the Pacific in the Middle.

It's time to...

RethinkHawaii.com

Come join us Nov 1-5 in Oahu for tech, green, clean, and mean social media... register now using code REDPILL, and save over $600 off the normal conference fee.

RethinkHawaii will feature a conference of mini-conferences around:

• Startups & Startonomics
• Sustainability & Clean, Green Tech
• Social Media & Business
• East Meets West (Internet Asia)
• Hawaii Unconference

Check out who's coming... including Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay and the Omidyar Network.

hope you can be there with us, to think about what's coming next :)

LAST CHANCE for GeeksOnaPlane DC/Europe 2009: Countdown in 7 days...

COUNTDOWN to GEEKS On a PLANE in 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

We're getting everything ready for the upcoming GeeksOnaPlane.com trip to Europe, which begins with a kickoff event in Washington, DC next Friday, 9/18.  For you folks making last-minute decisions, better hurry up!  You can register for the tour here if you'd like to join the main tour group.

Note: although some of our events will be available to the public at each local city & venue, many of our meetings are by invitation / priority for those who register with the core travel group (including the DC event at the White House with the Digital Media team & State Dept Innovation team, and also for SeedCamp Week in London).  If you live in one of the tour local cities (DC, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Paris) you can also register for individual events on the GoaP website (individual event registration will be available shortly, after we finalize reservations for the core travel group).

An overview of the entire tour is below:
(and yes, we're still interested in more sponsors!)

GeeksOnaPlane DC/EU 2009

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Securitizing Happiness: Hacking Human Suffering thru Financial Engineering (TEDxShanghai, June 2009)

Below are slides from my talk on "Securitizing Happiness" at TEDxShanghai later today.  This presentation is a slight update to the original talk i gave back in March 2008 at the O'Reilly Collective Intelligence FOO Camp, held at Google HQ in Mountain View:

Securitizing Happiness: Solving the World's Problems by Making Trillion-Dollar Markets for Individuals, Small Business, & Natural Resources

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Note: many of these concepts are still fairly raw, and since i'm not really a financial engineering expert they could certainly use further refinement... so your feedback and comments are appreciated.  That said, i'm optimistic the basic ideas here are viable, worthwhile and can have substantial economic impact on society in the future.

US Platforms & Social Networking (Startonomics Tokyo, June 2009)

Here is presentation from the panel i'll be giving on US Platforms & Social Networking this afternoon at Startonomics Tokyo conference in Japan.  This is part of the GeeksOnaPlane East Asia tour.

Overview of US Platforms & Social Networking (Startonomics Tokyo, June 2009)

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The 2009 TechFellow Awards: The Envelope, Please...

2009 TechFellow Awards
Photos by davemc500hats

Thanks to everyone who helped us pull together the first inaugural TechFellow Awards (2009)... according to a few who remembered the evening, it was a raging success :)

I'd like to congratulate all of our 22 TechFellow winners, as well as thank our nominating committee, and TechCrunch and many many others for helping us produce the event.

If you'd like to see more, you can find my photos of the 2009 TechFellow Awards (photos) and also the 2009 TechFellow Awards (uStream webcast).

(one other note: we are all saddened by the recent passing of Rajeev Motwani, and our condolences to his wife Asha and family... thanks to Ron Conway for providing a thoughtful tribute to his dear friend at the beginning of the award presentations)