Fred Bamber - Tech VC Becomes an Angel

<p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #e67e23;">Join Sal's Investment Syndicate:</span> <span style= "font-size: 14pt;"><a href= "https://www.angelinvestboston.com/our-syndicates">Click Here</a></span></strong></p> <p>As a venture capitalist Fred Bamber helped build such successful companies as Interleaf, Q1 Labs and Volt Server. Now working as an angel investor Fred is invested such exciting companies as SQZ Biotech, Pixability, ViralGains and Streamroot (exited). In his self-effacing and modest way, Fred reveals deep wisdom gained from 75 investments in his career as a VC. </p> <p>Topics include:</p> <ul id="yui_3_17_2_1_1600120860998_263"> <li>Fred Bamber Finds His Career Path</li> <li> Avoiding the Military Draft Led Him to Work for His First Startup</li> <li>Fred Bamber & Friend Found a Venture Fund – Consulting vs. Venture Capital</li> <li>IPOs Then & Now</li> <li>Investment in Interleaf Makes His First Fund a Success!</li> <li>Two Ways of Connecting in the World of Venture Capital – Via Success & Via Failure</li> <li>Several Losing Investments in Companies Seeking to Exploit the Piezoelectric Effect</li> <li>Themes In Angel Investing – Investing in Brand New Fields i.e. White Spaces</li> <li> ‘…Oracle has a huge go-to-market cost, and engineering is a tiny bit of it.’</li> <li> Technology Causing Convergence of Consumer & Enterprise Businesses</li> <li>Startups with Jeff Weiss - The Perils of Being Early – Early Augmented Reality (AR)</li> <li>Rich Lane & Reflection Technology – Augmented Reality-like – Projecting Text into the Eye</li> <li>Progress of Technology Is Painful – “Thread Across The Ocean” by John Steele Gordon</li> <li>Michael Lewis & Drama in Business – Paul English & “A Truck Full of Money”</li> <li>Paul English Finds His Inner Entrepreneur after Interleaf</li> <li>Robert P. Smith & “Riches Among the Ruins” – Not Made for Working In Large Companies</li> <li>VCs Should Be Humble</li> <li>Fred Bamber Talks About His Investment in Volt Server</li> <li>Uber & Washington, D.C. Cabs</li>