By guest author Irina Patterson and Mridula Velagapudi Irina: What are your relationships with mentors? Do they get any stake in those companies or do they just want to help? Paul: They just want to help. One, it is exciting for them. Two, it gives them lots of visibility and, yes, it is really useful
By guest author Irina Patterson and Mridula Velagapudi Irina: What are the core benefits to entrepreneurs that you bring to the table? Paul: My three partners have all started businesses that you know, and in total there are hundreds of millions of users. We started companies that did quite well, and [with i/o Ventures], we
By guest author Irina Patterson and Mridula Velagapudi I am talking to Paul Bragiel, managing partner of i/o Ventures, which is a three-month accelerator program for technology entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. The partners of i/o Ventures come from companies like MySpace and BitTorrent, and their mentors are from Yelp, Digg, Mint, Mochi Media, and OpenDNS.