Now you can! First, we should probably be more specific. When we say angel, we mean angel investor. Formspring is lucky to be connected with some of the Valley’s most accomplished and interesting angel investors. We should add ‘awesome’ to that list because they’ve also decided to give some time to answer questions about entrepreneurship and innovation here on Formspring.
Here’s how it works: our schedule is below, with links to each of our angel’s Formspring profiles. You can ask a question at any time, and each angel will begin answering at their time slot. So, mark your calendars and get your questions ready for these guys starting tomorrow – they’re excited to hear from you.
Travis Kalanick - Formspring profile
Wednesday, Sept 29 – 12pm PT
Kalanick’s most recent company Red Swoosh, was sold to Akamai Technologies in 2007. Prior companies include Scour, the world’s first p2p search engine. Now he is busy with his investments in Blippy, Expensify, Formspring, Kareo, and Unvarnished, among others.
Josh Felser (Freestyle Capital) – Formspring profile
Thursday, Sept 30 – 12pm PT
Felser founded and sold two successful Internet businesses (Spinner and Grouper/Crackle) for a combined $400mm and is now making early stage investments through Freestyle Capital. Recent investments have included Get Satisfaction, CoTweet, SimpleGeo and others.
David Lee (SV Angel) – Formspring profile
Thursday, Sept 30 – 3pm PT
Lee worked at Google & led business development for StumbleUpon before he joined SV Angel. Since then he has invested in Square, Simple Geo, Chomp, and others.
Mike Maples (Floodgate) – Formspring profile
Friday, Oct 1 – 12pm PT
Maples was named as one of “8 Rising VC Stars” by Fortune Magazine and has invested in many companies, including Twitter, Digg, Gowalla and YuMe. Before beginning investing, Maples’ co-founded Motive, Inc., the world’s leading broadband software company in 1997, and saw it from raw start-up through sales of more than $75 million.
Steve Anderson (Baseline) – Formspring profile
Friday, Oct 1 – 3pm PT
Anderson began his career working with a diverse set of companies including eBay, Microsoft, Kleiner Perkins and Starbucks. Since starting Baseline, he has invested in long list of companies including CoTweet, Aardvark, Twitter, Hunch, StumbleUpon, and many others.
