Turning The Page On A Startup – with Jose daVeiga
Jose daVeiga did this interview as a way of turning the page on his startup, KlickSports, a mobile game that fans could play while watching live sports. In this interview we covered how things went sideways after roughly 10 years from the birth of an idea, filing of a patent, deciding to build a business, getting traction, raising capital, and its final ramp down.
He and his co-founder, Kent Jordan, raised $1.3 million from angel investors in their bid to make live sports more interactive for fans. I invited him to talk about what he learned from the experience.
Jose daVeiga is the co-founder of KlickSports, a mobile sports game that fans could play while watching a live game. His first entrepreneurial experiences include founding a successful 3D modeling and animation company and a congress and seminar company in Portugal while still in college. In California he first worked on the largest online car sales website CarsDirect.com and immediately after joined the early team at Strategic Data Corp; a company that built one of the first display ad servers and later was sold to FOX/Myspace. He later started and managed a design and technology services company, Convolution, for six years with customers such as UCLA and the Tribune. Jose has authored patents and has also taught Architectural Design at Cal Poly Pomona and SciArc in Los Angeles. He holds two masters and a PhD from UCLA in Architecture specializing in Computation.
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