VentureCast
By David Hornik & Craig Syverson
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Podcast Description
Venture capitalist David Hornik, author of the popular VentureBlog, and Howard Hartenbaum, a partner with David at August Capital, take a random talk down Sand Hill Road with conversations, interviews and conference reports around the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial scene.
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VentureCast 051 | -- | 1/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 050 | -- | 11/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 049 | -- | 9/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 048 | -- | 8/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 047 | -- | 3/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 046 | -- | 1/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 045 | -- | 12/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 044 | -- | 12/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 043 | -- | 10/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 041 | -- | 5/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 040 | -- | 3/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 039 | -- | 2/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 038 | -- | 1/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 037 | -- | 12/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 036 | -- | 11/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 035 | -- | 9/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 034 | -- | 9/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 033 | -- | 8/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 032 | -- | 5/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 031 | Craig says farewell to being an irregular host and passes the burden to Howard Hartenbaum, another VC type who also works at August Capital. We catch up on the goings on of the past 15 months or so we've been idle. Remember, it's a free country, and a free podcast. | 5/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 030 | Post-holiday regroup, Macworld report, a shameless plug for Stanford, a report from Harvard, memory loss, and a talk about how to go into a VC pitch. ©2008 David Hornik & Craig Syverson | 1/31/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 029 | Bodies fly when you're off the saddle - we don't cover Facebook but I do get David to talk more about the deep inner workings of how VCs make decisions. And then there are Loic's 10 points on entrepreneurship. All good. ©2007 David Hornik & Craig Syverson | 12/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 028 | Time flies when you're back in the saddle - we cover things like blogworld, inside rounds, English Bulldogs, new media distribution, the usual venture and media geekerage... ©2007 David Hornik & Craig Syverson | 11/21/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 027 | Finally back in the swing of things after a busy summer and an unusual autumn. We talk about the inaugural installment of David's own anti-conference, The Lobby, as well as touching on Open Social, Microsoft, Leopard and the old school of new media. ©2007 David Hornik & Craig Syverson | 11/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 026 | Another field recording, harassing unsuspecting and innocent guests at the 2007 TechCruch party held at August Capital. Put this in a time capsule as a document of the Life and Times of the Web 2.0 era. ©2007 David Hornik & Craig Syverson | 8/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 025 | We go angel-spotting at University Cafe, but we scared them all away when the mics came out. We also talk about pesky PE firms, carried interest, iPhone love, Seagate, Done Right, the TechCruch party and Craig looking for a CEO and/or angel of his own. ©2007 David Hornik & Craig Syverson | 7/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 024 | Tomfoolery and cacophony from the First Annual Labor vs Capital Dodgeball Tournament held June 8, 2007. Maybe you had to be there. BTW, Labor took the trophy - now we've made 'em mad... ©2007 David Hornik & Craig Syverson | 6/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 023 | A fortnight of madness in acquisitions and announcements: Feedburner, LastFM, Mahalo, StumbleUpon, Bill & Steve, Facebook, George Lucas and a new device for David's Treo. First VentureCast edit in Soundtrack Pro 2.0 - very nice. ©2007 David Hornik & Craig Syverson | 6/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 022 | This installment covers the Microsoft Board of Directors, Conflicts of Interest, David's Basement Fantasy, Aggregate Knowledge, AppleTV, Advertising Mania and onlinetermsofservice.com. ©2007 David Hornik & Craig Syverson | 5/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 021 | A week late, in a rush, but we got the show out. We talked about Double-Click and NAB and Web 2.0 Expo, but best of all we had our first walk-in guest who joined us halfway through - Barak Berkowitz, CEO and Chairman of Six Apart. He was a good sport, despite David's crass manipulations. ©2007 David Hornik & Craig Syverson | 5/2/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 020 | The bright light of day sheds unfortunate clarity upon David as he realizes he should have invested in Feedburner. We also talk about happy things like one of his new investments, more (yawn) conferences, board seats, venture investing in San Jose, and a new twist to the inevitable bubble question. ©2007 David Hornik & Craig Syverson | 4/4/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 019 | So we're a bit behind, but a show was done as it must be. We cover Microsoft, TED, SXSW, Twitter, the NSF and other random things. ©2007 David Hornik & Craig Syverson | 3/23/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 018 | No show this week - schedule problems. But check out a great interview with David at podtech.net/marketingvoices, and Craig's participation in another regular audio podcast, This Week in Media, at pixelcorps.tv. ©2007 David Hornik & Craig Syverson | 3/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 017 | In this back-to-our-roots show, we atone for past frivolity by yarning on about the workings of private equity, hedge funds, buyouts, and valuations. A bonus micro-rant about DRM is also thrown in for good measure, in case you missed one before. For more detailed info on some of the production details, listen to Craig Syverson's audio blog re:grunt #005 - available on iTunes (search on re:grunt). ©2007 David Hornik & Craig Syverson | 2/21/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 016 | Another conference ambush where we take a cross-section of the DEMO eco-system - companies pitching their products, PR people pitching their companies, VC's pitching the pitch, Barry Bonds hitting said pitch, and so on. A long show, light on the editing, gentle to the ears - except for the loud background din. For more detailed info on some of the production details, listen to Craig Syverson's audio blog re:grunt #005 - available on iTunes (search on re:grunt). ©2007 David Hornik & Craig Syverson | 2/8/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 015 | Our first show with a live - and gracious - victim in the office, Jeff Clavier of SofttechVC. Discussions range from CES, MacWorld and many things Apple, the Julian Hornik music video, PodTech's BlogHaus, digg, Kevin Rose, Piczo, ego feeds and phone beef. | 1/23/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 014 | Through the brute force of his personality, David contrives to give a dramatic reading of the past week's online debate with VC Todd Dagres. Before you run away screaming, we also talk about Scale Venture Partners, open season for VCs, conferences (what else?) and the relationships that banks have with VC firms. And you thought the new year was gonna be dull... | 1/8/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 013 | A non-wrap-up of 2006 - we talk about Apple and music, France and bloggers, Peter Thiel and Facebook, private companies and private values, owning and subscribing, gaming the search industry, the harzards of creating a micro-transaction business, mints for robots, and fish for bears. | 12/31/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 012 | Slow news week, so we pontificate on the MetaCafe rumor, make up stuff about the Good Technology acquisition, talk about down rounds and who gets what, and David gets into a pro-Yahoo rant while wishing his ugly chair would break. We also cover Hanukkah decorations in Palo Alto and the bright future of podcasting (of course it's bright - whazzamatta you?) | 12/10/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 011 | A pre-food-coma conversation about various topics: Google at $500 a share, how voting rights are managed, peanut butter and One Bank bring corporate culture into the glaring light, and the shocking revelations of our separate but dark histories. | 11/26/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 010 | A special extra-length program featuring the victims we cornered one morning at this year's Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco. We start with a freeway discussion about Charles River Ventures new QuickStart program. In the lobby of the conference, we have conversations with the likes of Steve Gillmor, Jason Calacanis, Mark Stevens, Ariel Poler, Munjal Shah, Stan Chudnovsky, Mark Pincus, June Cohen and Chris Fralic. Thanks to everyone for playing along and giving us quality mic time. | 11/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 009 | In this week's program we talk a lot about podcasting, believe it or not, as well as the distinctions between angel funding and venture capital, the Odeo buyback, and Chris Anderson's ideas on the Economics of Abundance. | 10/30/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 008 | VentureCast is resurrected in a new format and a new co-host, Craig Syverson of gruntmedia. While I love podcasting, I found I was lacking the time to get the show out regularly. Craig called me and suggested that we start it up again and he would take care of the technical stuff - works for me. In this program, we have a conversation about Sevin Rosen's recent announcement, the future of venture capital, YouTube and other topics of the day. In future shows we'll interview guests, go to conferences, or simply have a conversation about what's happening in Silicon Valley that week. We plan to get a show out every couple weeks or so, whenever our schedules coincide. And, boy am I looking forward to a good BBQ. | 10/17/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 007 | In my last VentureCast, I started out by claiming that I was going to talk about two things: conferences and my Deal or No Deal blog post on VentureBlog. Well, it turned out that I rambled on for over a half hour talking about conferences, so I decided that my discussion of Deal or No Deal could wait. But that long wait has ended. In this episode of VentureCast, I go into a bit more detail on how I think about acquisition offers and startups in the context of what has become an acquisition economy (by virtue of the very limited number of IPOs that have been launched in the last handful of years). If you're interested in hearing more about Deal or No Deal, this VentureCast is for you! | 4/3/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 006 | As Q1 of 2006 draws to a close, I am getting reacquainted with my office. I spent the better part of January, February and March running around from conference to conference. As Stowe Boyde from Conferenza reported earlier in the year, my conference calendar for Q1 was jam packed. When the dust settled, I ended up attending a conference about every other week: CES, The Entertainment Gathering, DEMO, TED, O'Reilly's Etech Conference, and PCForum . What did I learn? Who did I meet? Where did I go? These questions and more are answered on the latest edition of VentureCast. | 3/30/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 005 | After the MySpace acquisition and exciting numbers coming out of the likes of the FaceBook, there has been a lot of renewed interest in social networks. I have spoken with a number of reporters recently about social networks and how the venture community views them. Here's a podcast I recorded with my thoughts on the resurgence of excitement around social networks -- an excitement I share. | 12/2/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 004 | As a long time supporter of Creative Commons, I was thrilled to get an invitation to the Creative Commons reception last week celebrating Jimmy Wales' joining the board of Creative Commons International. It was only after a couple years of teaching copyright law to business school students that I fully appreciated the power of what they are doing over at Creative Commons. Since the media lobbyists appear to have a solid hold on Capital Hill, thus making copyright reform pretty unlikely, Creative Commons empowers content creators to very simply make their own content freely available for use by others (in such ways as the content owners see fit). Thus, for example, I am able to make all of the content on VentureBlog available to be copied so long as I am appropriately credited as the source by easily adopting a Creative Commons License. On the way up to the Creative Commons party I recorded the preamble to this, my most recent VentureCast. I then caught up with a number of interesting folks -- people like Joi Ito, JD Lasica, Mitch Kapor -- and asked them why they supported Creative Commons. I got a number of interesting answers, some of which I have included in this installment of VentureCast. Give it a listen and see if you find the zealots at the Creative Commons party convincing. I certainly did. | 11/6/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 003 | This Thursday I took part in the first installment of VentureWeek, a new podcast about technology and venture capital. The show is hosted by Eric Olson who writes about the venture world at The Wanna Be Venture Capitalist. The cast of characters on hand for Venture Week were myself, Dick Costolo, Brad Feld, JB Holston, Dave Sifry and David Cowan. The discussion of the maiden VentureWeek show was around Web 2.0, so needless to say, there was some discussion of my recent Bubble 2.0 VentureBlog post. In that discussion I joked that there has been so much back and forth about Bubble 2.0 that I would have to write a response to my own post -- the ultimate in the blogging echo-chamber effect. But rather than write a response, I decided to record a podcast in response. So here it is. I hope you enjoy it. | 10/29/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 002 | While at the Web 2.0 Conference, I asked a number of entrepreneurs what they thought "Web 2.0" was. While I didn't get a whole lot of substantive answers, I did get a bunch of fun ones. Listen to what Caterina Fake, Toni Schneider, Ross Mayfield, Stewart Butterfield, Joshua Schachter, Anil Dash, James Joaquin, Evan Williams, and many more had to say. | 10/11/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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VentureCast 001 | After participating in numerous podcasts and talking with lots of entrepreneurs about podcasting, it became clear that I should try podcasting myself. In this inaugural episode of VentureCast, I basically talk about podcasting ("There's a whole lot of blogging about blogging, and so there's probably going to be a whole lot of podcasting about podcasting too."). Hopefully my next podcast will be somewhat more substantive but you've got to start somewhere. Here it is. Hope you enjoy it. | 9/27/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Entertaining and lucid conversation about tech venture capital
The new format for Venturecast - a conversation between Craig Syverson of Gruntmedia, and David Hornik of August Captial - makes for great listening. I downloaded it to hear David's comments about the YouTube acquisition by Google, and thought I would just skip to that segment, but found myself listening to the whole program. It is entertaining, well-produced, and most importantly, very informative about high tech venture capital. I actually sat in my car for a few minutes after I reached my destination to hear the end of the show. *That* hasn't happened since I ran out of gas listening to "Pattern Recognition" on the way home from LA. All in all, a great show.
informative and entertaining
i like the mix of technology current events, insight into the mechanics of venture capital and a sprinkling of good humor.
Like their style
Nice ballance between random chat, real info and insight to their business.
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