Azalea Ventures - www.southwestventure.com
Dallas/Fort Worth Area
- Current
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- GP at Azalea Ventures
- Past
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- Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO at Bluestreak Network, Inc.
- Co-Founder and CEO at LifeCast.com
- Co-Founder and President at Source Media
- Co-Founder at IT Network
- Co-Founder and CEO at Interactive Channel
- Chairman at Cableshare, Inc.
- Education
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- Southern Methodist University - Cox School of Business
- The University of Texas at Austin
- Tulane University
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John Reed’s Summary
General Partner of the Azalea Fund, which is investing in wind energy projects with proven partners; actively reviewing Texas-based technology opportunities. www.southwestventure.com will give you an idea of what I am pursuing.
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John Reed’s Specialties:
Package and build growth opportunities / companies so that they attract capital and deploy it well.
John Reed’s Experience
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GP
Azalea Ventures
(Partnership; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
December 2006 — Present (1 year 11 months)
General Partner of the Azalea Fund, which is investing in wind energy projects with proven partners; actively reviewing Texas-based technology opportunities. www.southwestventure.com will give you an idea of what I am pursuing.
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Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO
Bluestreak Network, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2002 — December 2006 (5 years)
Bluestreak Network is the developer of the MachBlue(tm) Platform, which dramatically improves TV navigation for mobile, IPTV, Cable, and Satellite.
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Co-Founder and CEO
LifeCast.com
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)
June 1999 — August 2000 (1 year 3 months)
Developer of the "Gated Portal" concept for high end private online communites. Aggregated over 1000 private country and yacht clubs into a targeted luxury advertising market.
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Co-Founder and President
Source Media
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; NASDAQ: SRCM; Online Media industry)
January 1996 — June 1999 (3 years 6 months)
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Co-Founder
IT Network
(Online Media industry)
1988 — 1999 (11 years)
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Co-Founder and CEO
Interactive Channel
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
January 1993 — September 1996 (3 years 9 months)
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Chairman
Cableshare, Inc.
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
September 1991 — December 1993 (2 years 4 months)
Developers of VirtualModem
John Reed’s Education
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Southern Methodist University - Cox School of Business
MBA, Finance / Accounting, 1979 — 1980
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The University of Texas at Austin
BBA, Marketing, 1977 — 1979
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Tulane University
Physics 1975 — 1977
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Young Presidents' Organization (YPO)
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