I love it when Michael Arrington takes off the here’s the tech of the day hat, takes the gloves off and talks about the real issues (more, more!), like he did that today with his post Twitter and The Revenue Dilemma. I wrote about potential business models for Twitter about a year ago, it generated [...]
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TECH cocktail CONFERENCE Chicago – Creating Change For The Future
Wow! That was tiring, I stepped on the L at 7:30AM and didn’t get home until 1:30AM the next morning! 18 hours of pure madness! Most people noticed the great speeches by Gary Vee from Wine Library TV and Dick Costolo (aka ask the wizard) and others. But what I really appreciated was the other [...]
TC08 Chicago – Ask The Wizard Live – Dick Costolo Talks Entrepreneurship
Dick Costolo gave a really raw, heartfelt talk about Feedburner, venture capital fund raising and venture capital. I won’t dwell on it here, but even though I’ve never worked directly on anything with Dick, we’ve had an amazing exchange of ideas and conversation over the years. Someday I hope I can take that relationship to [...]
Tom Churchwell Venture Capital Speech at University of Chicago GSB
The following are high level notes of Tom Churchwell’s speech discussing venture capital at The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (Chicago GSB). This talk took place in Chicago on January 22, 2008. I’m posting it today in celebration of this week’s Midwest Venture Summit. Typical Fund Structure – Management Fee 2.5% of committed [...]
Venture Capital Speed Dating – Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford University
As part of Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford University, they are holding a Venture Capital Speed Dating event and mixer. This event looks like so much fun, I wish we had casual events like this here in Chicago, especially since Stanford encourages lifetime social interaction with the community and properly sees it’s role as larger than [...]
Have We Entered The Era of The Functional Web?
The New York Times has an article on how the potential sale of Yahoo! to Microsoft could be bad for minnows, i.e. small Silicon Valley companies looking to be acquired. I think this is a short sighted viewpoint. In the late 1990′s dot.com era, the web was slanted too much towards wall street involvement that [...]
How to Be a Startup Marketing Warrior By Josh Kopelman
Josh Kopelman writes some extremely effective and highly useful blog posts. This one happens to be about what startup marketing really means. I’m planning a series of venture capital interviews in the near future, I’d be flattered if Josh was one of the participants in that series.
Who is David Dalka - Twitter: @dalka
David Dalka is a digital business strategy professional experienced in realigning organizations to capture customer demand while improving margins. David is a business keynote speaker providing customized business strategy services and corporate executive retreats. David has been cited in the following business publications
