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Dan Miller Shares Thoughts on Venture Capital Firms

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  • Date Added : 9/12/2004
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Dan Miller

  • Principal, The Roda Group
  • male
  • Caucasian
  • 1956 (Age: 68 years old)
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Biography

Dan Miller is Managing Director of the Roda Group. He is the former president of Ask Jeeves, Inc., a Roda Group affiliate company. He is currently working with a number of Roda Group affiliated companies to assist them with their business development efforts.

At the end of 1994, Mr. Miller retired from his position as Executive Vice President of TCSI Corporation (Nasdaq: TCSI), a company he co-founded with his Roda Group partner, Roger Strauch. Mr. Miller retired from the Board of Directors of TCSI in June of 1997. TCSI is a leading provider of integrated software products and services for the global telecommunications industry.

Prior to TCSI, Mr. Miller was a systems engineer at Hughes Aircraft's Space and Communications Group where he was responsible for designing communications payloads for commercial communications satellites.

Dan Miller received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, with distinction, from Cornell University and his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He holds three patents in the areas of compression technology and wireless communications systems.

What do VCs like? They like ideas that are clear and compelling. Easy to understand. Easy to explain. We like ideas for services and products that can serve huge markets. Maybe existing 10, $20 billion market today and you are going to go after maybe...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).

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Video 1 of 18 Dan Miller Discusses Personal and Professional Background and Creation of Roda Group
  • Dan Miller - Lecture - The Roda Group
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  • Dan Miller
  • 3 min. 31 sec.
Video 2 of 18 Dan Miller Shares List of Companies in Roda's Portfolio
  • Dan Miller - Lecture - The Roda Group
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  • Dan Miller
  • 1 min. 31 sec.
Video 3 of 18 Dan Miller Discusses Background of Ask Jeeves
  • Dan Miller - Lecture - The Roda Group
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  • Dan Miller
  • 1 min. 41 sec.
Video 4 of 18 Dan Miller Discusses Early Days of Ask Jeeves
  • Dan Miller - Lecture - The Roda Group
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  • 1 min. 36 sec.
Video 5 of 18 Dan Miller States Ask Jeeves Grew Through Word of Mouth
  • Dan Miller - Lecture - The Roda Group
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  • 2 min. 10 sec.
Video 6 of 18 Dan Miller Discusses Sources of Revenue at Ask Jeeves
  • Dan Miller - Lecture - The Roda Group
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  • 3 min. 8 sec.
Video 7 of 18 Dan Miller Discusses Portfolio Company, SightSpeed, Which Handles Video Conferencing
  • Dan Miller - Lecture - The Roda Group
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  • 1 min. 39 sec.
Video 8 of 18 Dan Miller Discusses Technology Behind SightSpeed Video Conferencing
  • Dan Miller - Lecture - The Roda Group
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  • 2 min. 17 sec.
Video 9 of 18 Dan Miller Discusses Challenges in Building User Base for Video Conferencing
  • Dan Miller - Lecture - The Roda Group
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  • 1 min. 49 sec.
Video 10 of 18 Dan Miller Discusses Importance of Networking
  • Dan Miller - Lecture - The Roda Group
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  • 1 min. 46 sec.
Video 11 of 18 Dan Miller States Importance of Getting Work Experience Before Becoming Entrepreneur
  • Dan Miller - Lecture - The Roda Group
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  • 1 min. 40 sec.
Video 12 of 18 Dan Miller Discusses Challenges Facing SightSpeed
  • Dan Miller - Lecture - The Roda Group
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  • Dan Miller
  • 1 min. 7 sec.
Video 13 of 18 Dan Miller Shares Thoughts on Product Development
  • Dan Miller - Lecture - The Roda Group
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  • 2 min. 2 sec.
Video 14 of 18 Dan Miller Shares Thoughts on Marketing and Distribution
  • Dan Miller - Lecture - The Roda Group
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  • 3 min. 18 sec.
Video 15 of 18 Dan Miller States Many Entrepreneurs Fail When It Comes To Reaching The Consumer
  • Dan Miller - Lecture - The Roda Group
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  • 2 min. 3 sec.
Video 16 of 18 Dan Miller Shares Thoughts on Venture Capital Firms
  • Dan Miller - Lecture - The Roda Group
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  • Dan Miller
  • 4 min. 18 sec.
Video 17 of 18 Dan Miller Discusses Success Rate of Roda's Portfolio Companies
  • Dan Miller - Lecture - The Roda Group
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  • Dan Miller
  • 1 min. 32 sec.
Video 18 of 18 Dan Miller Discusses SightSpeed's Competitive Advantage
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