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Almost Famous: Sprout's Matthew McNeely

in News on December 4, 2009 at 6:17 pm PT

A feature wherein All Things Digital looks at up-and-coming and innovative start-ups you should know about. This week: We paid a virtual visit to Matthew McNeely, VP of Engineering for Sprout, the build-it-yourself Flash tool that lets anyone create customized Web site widgets. We talked corn, porn and James Dean too.
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Meet the VC: Hummer Winblad's Mitchell Kertzman

in News on April 3, 2008 at 4:49 am PT

We have been remiss in posting our meet-the-VCs-of-Silicon-Valley-if-you-dare video feature, what with all the Yahoo goings-on to keep track of. But we are back with another riveting episode, with guest star Mitchell Kertzman of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. A longtime tech exec, Kertzman is one of the funniest players in the tech sector, and was [...]

Kara Visits Under the Radar!

in News on March 21, 2008 at 12:43 am PT

Yesterday, I was a judge on a three-person panel at the Under the Radar: The Business of Web Apps conference, held at Microsoft’s (MSFT) Mountain View, Calif., campus in Silicon Valley. The event, sponsored by Dealmaker Media, was a very good version of many such conferences held often around the region, where start-ups come to [...]