Steve Reale interviews Bill Hildebolt from ExpoTV on how to successfully raise money from and work with angel investors. In a free-flowing, two way discussion, they cover a wide variety of topics including how to identify and close angels, how to properly structure the investment for both short and long term success and even differences between angel investing on the east and west coast.

Bill Hildebolt
Bill Hildebolt is the President and Co-founder of Expo TV where he oversees Finance, Operations and Business Development. He helped design the company's landmark Videopinions^SM product and has been leading the company's push into content syndication. Prior to co-founding Expo in 2004, Bill spent over ten years in finance. Most recently, he was a Principal at General Atlantic Partners, a technology focused private equity firm in Greenwich, Connecticut. You can read very sporadically written blog posts from him at the Collision of Commerce and Media and Life As a Start-up.

Steve Reale
Steve Reale is a General Partner at Levensohn Venture Partners where he focuses on enterprise software, communications and semiconductor technologies. Steve also actively researches the clean-tech investment space.

Jeff Karras interviews Partha Srinivasa, who shares his evaluation framework and overall perspective on the risks and rewards of buying emerging technology products and services from resource constrained start-ups.

Partha Srinivasa
Partha is the Global Chief Architect (CTO) for Farmers Insurance Group, part of Zurich Financial Services. Partha is responsible for the overall strategy, architecture, and technology for Farmers' IT infrastructure.

Jeff Karras
Jeff Karras is a General Partner at Levensohn Venture Partners where he specializes in enterprise software, communications and wireless technologies, with particular interests in security, new internet media and business analytics.

Jeff Karras interviews CalPERS board member Priya Mathur and Astia CEO Jennifer McFarlane about opportunities for women entrepreneurs. They discuss the value of supporting women entrepreneurs and provide perspective on why this is good business and good for California as a whole. Jennifer and Priya also discuss the CalPERS California Initiative and Astia (formerly the Women's Technology Cluster), providing insight valuable to both Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs.

Priya Sara Mathur
Priya is serving her second term on the Board of Administration representing public agency members of CalPERS. Priya was elected to her first four-year term January 2003 and was the first woman elected to the Board in 40 years and its youngest member ever. She presently serves on the Benefits and Program Administration, and Investment committees, as well as on the Ad Hoc Board Governance Committee. She is also Vice Chair of the Health Benefits Committee and Chair of the Performance and Compensation and Policy Subcommittee of the Investment Committees.

Jennifer McFarlane
Jennifer, a former investment banker and corporate executive, joined Astia (formerly the Women's Technology Cluster) as CEO in 2004. With a mission to increase the number of successful women led companies in technology, life sciences and clean technology, Astia provides extensive advisory services, coaching, and access to business and capital networks through a dedicated mentor network of over 220 VC, CEO and industry leaders.

Jeff Karras
Jeff Karras is a General Partner at Levensohn Venture Partners where he specializes in enterprise software, communications and wireless technologies, with particular interests in security, new internet media and business analytics.

Kip Sheeline interviews Stanford Professor Ken Salisbury and doctoral student Eric Berger about the groundbreaking Personal Robotics platform they are developing at Stanford, in collaboration with Professor Andrew Ng of Stanford's Computer Science department and Keenan Wyrobek, a doctoral student in Mechanical Engineering. This platform will ultimately permit the 'human safe' use of robots for domestic and other non-factory applications. If you are interested in seeing videos of the first generation platform, please go to personalrobotics.stanford.edu/videos and, when prompted for a password, enter "LVP".

Dr. Ken Salisbury
Dr. Ken Salisbury teaches in the Departments of Computer Science and Surgery at Stanford University where his research focuses on human-centered robotics, cooperative haptics, surgical simulation, and robotic surgery. He is considered one of the top robotics experts in the world.

Eric Berger
Eric Berger is a doctoral student in Computer Science at Stanford University.

Kip Sheeline
Kip is a Managing Director at Levensohn Venture Partners where he focuses on the software and communications sectors. Kip's current board seats include Broadlogic, Capella, KnowNow and Rapt.

Pascal Levensohn has a conversation with Professor Avi Fiegenbaum about the Technion's curriculum for entrepreneurs, his new book on the origins and development of Israel's VC sector, and some of the process challenges faced by VC-backed company boards in Israel.

Avi Fiegenbaum
Avi Fiegenbaum, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, in the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, where he has taught since 1991. Prior to the Technion, he joined the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) as an Assistant Professor of corporate strategy. An experienced corporate director and early stage technology investor, his major research interests include global competitive strategy, technology startups, and the strategy of global diversified corporations.

Pascal Levensohn
Pascal Levensohn is the Founder and Managing Partner of Levensohn Venture Partners. He has written three major white papers on the subject of VC board governance best practices, which are freely available at www.levp.com/news. An avid blogger, Pascal posts about current events at www.pascalsview.com.

Pascal Levensohn interviews Professor Noam Wasserman of the Harvard Business School about his current research, which reveals concrete evidence confirming the existence of a "founder discount" in CEO cash compensation. They also discuss the concept of CEOs who act as altruistic stewards compared to non-founder CEOs who act as self-interested agents in venture-backed private technology companies.

Noam Wasserman
Noam is a blogger who writes the Founder Frustrations Blog (founderresearch.blogspot.com) and teaches the required Entrepreneurial Manager course at Harvard Business School, where he has been on the faculty since 2003.

Pascal Levensohn
Pascal Levensohn is the Founder and Managing Partner of Levensohn Venture Partners. He has written three major white papers on the subject of VC board governance best practices, which are freely available at www.levp.com/news. An avid blogger, Pascal posts about current events at www.pascalsview.com.

It's not enough to just have a good idea. In order to be successful, an entrepreneur must think through all aspects of their vision to determine if a real business can be developed. Having been involved with several successful companies and product launches, Neil will walk us through how to to grapple with "the flushing out" of a great idea.

Neil Day
Neil Day is COO and co-founder of MediaMaster, a stealth start-up located here in Silicon Valley targeting the digital music and video space.  Once Launched, MediaMaster will enable consumers to finally fulfill the promise of digital music.  Neil is a serial entrepreneur, having previously been involved with Velosel, WalMart.com, Homewarehouse.com, and 3DO and consulted to many others.

Steve Reale
Steve Reale is a Principal at Levensohn Venture Partners.  He is focused on enterprise infrastructure and select consumer facing opportunities.