Introduction to Hummer Winblad and Mobius Venture Capital

Lecture Description

Ann Winblad, co-founding Partner of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, introduces herself and venture capitalist Heidi Roizen, who was not able to be there.  She says that now is a very exciting time for entrepreneurship because there are lots of holes to fill in the software market and in the business landscape.  She explains the founding and progress of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Mobius Venture Capital.

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?