John Reed

Current

• GP at Azalea Ventures

Past

• 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.

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Education

• Southern Methodist University - Cox School of Business
• The University of Texas at Austin
• Tulane University

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Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company

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.

-JR

John Reed’s Specialties:

Package and build growth opportunities / companies so that they attract capital and deploy it well.

John Reed’s Experience

• GP

  Azalea Ventures

  (Partnership; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  December 2006 — Present (2 years 8 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.

• 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.
  
  www.bluestreaktech.com

• 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.

• Co-Founder and President

  Source Media

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; NASDAQ: SRCM; Online Media industry)

  January 1996 — June 1999 (3 years 6 months)

• Co-Founder

  IT Network

  (Online Media industry)

  1988 — 1999 (11 years)

• Co-Founder and CEO

  Interactive Channel

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

  January 1993 — September 1996 (3 years 9 months)

• 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

• Southern Methodist University - Cox School of Business

  MBA , Finance / Accounting , 1979 — 1980

• The University of Texas at Austin

  BBA , Marketing , 1977 — 1979

• Tulane University

  Physics 1975 — 1977

Additional Information

John Reed’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company

John Reed’s Contact Settings

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