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Hummer Winblad's and Softbank's Recent Investments

By Ann Winblad - Stanford
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Lecture Description

Hummer Winblad is focused on enterprise, says Winbland, and Softbank on the consumer segment.  Hummer Winblad's investments include: Voltage, the BASES contest winner in 2002, in security and reliability; Cenzic, in applications security space; two blade server companies, Scalent and Jareva; Knowmadic, in application integration; and Bridgestream, in provision and identity management.  Softbank's projects include: Planitax, MessageCast, Castbridge, AuctionDrop, Perpetual Entertainment, and Reactrix.

Course Index

  1. Introduction to Hummer Winblad and Mobius Venture Capital
  2. Drivers for Software Innovation
  3. How Consumer Markets and Enterprise Markets Drive the Software Industry
  4. 2004: Start of an Era of Optimism
  5. Trends in Seed and Series A Investing
  6. Hummer Winblad's and Softbank's Recent Investments
  7. VC Words of Wisdom for Entrepreneurs
  8. Keep Testing Your Core Assumptions
  9. Outsourcing Software Development to Asia
  10. Customers are Key
  11. The Economic Context in 2004
  12. The Java Standard (and Competing Technology Standards)
  13. The Threat of Linux to Microsoft
  14. Are Technologies Ahead of Their Time?