First REGARD Venture Solutions Advisory Board Meeting

Today REGARD Venture Solutions held our first meeting of our new Advisory Board in our Santa Monica offices.

In attendance were ...

• John Morris - GKM Ventures & Tech Coast Angels
• William Quigley - Clearstone Ventures
• Kevin Jacques - Palomar Ventures
• Richard Wolpert - Mail Room Fund
• Rick Smith - Cross-Cut Ventures (unable to attend due to schedule conflict)

The group listened to presentations from 3 REGARD portfolio companies...

• Phonesheet.com - Jan Zands, CEO
• Cenoplex - Greg Welch, CEO & Stephen Meade, Founder
• KooDooZ - Lee Fox, Chief Innovation Officer

The group engaged in a lively discussion with each company regarding every aspect from business model to market size and competition. Each was also challenged on funding and go-to-market strategies.

The second half of the meeting was dedicated to 3 prospective companies that REGARD is considering for our Software Incubator Program.

• Raaves - Craig Wood, Founder & CEO
• PlayWerks - Shirin Salemnia, Founder
• ReferQuest - Camille Landau, CEO

The presentations and subsequent questions ran a bit long, so the group did not have a chance to circle back for discussion privately without the entrepreneurs in the room. In the coming week, we will attempt to do so.

In other REGARD news, the LIVESTRONG app for BlackBerry (which REGARD developed for Demand Media) has been a very popular download on the BlackBerry App World and remains a "Featured BlackBerry App"

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/appworld/featured.jsp

Best Regards,
-Steve

REGARD Venture Solutions News

Besides our new logo...There have been many significant developments at REGARD Venture Solutions since the inception of this blog. We have brought on 4 portfolio companies and have been diligently working to build an ecosystem of entrepreneurs and investors in and around the Santa Monica community.

This week we secured two stellar addition to the REGARD Advisory Board; John Morris of GKM Ventures & Founder of the Tech Coast Angels LA Chapter and Kevin Jacques of Palomar Ventures. The advisory board is being shaped to streamline the process of getting companies that REGARD brings out of the incubator on the "Fast-Track" to funding.

We see this as a very symbiotic relationship as the investors will be able to provide REGARD guidance as to the type of companies they will invest in. REGARD will hone the selection process accordingly. The benefit to the VC and Angels is exposure to early stage companies and some risk mitigation of the seed stage financing.

TechZulu Interview with Steve Beauregard

Steve Beauregard, managing partner of REGARD Venture Solutions, speaks with Vak Sambath of TechZulu describing the new offering from the Santa Monica, CA based software incubator.

REGARD's newly remodeled offices are a 2 block walk from the world famous Santa Monica 3rd Street Promenade and 5 blocks from the Santa Monica Pier.