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The Roach Post has a single goal: to provide the best news and resources for entrepreneurs and startups on venture capital, angel investors, business plans, and everything else your company needs to succeed. Led by Eric Roach, The Roach Post originates, aggregates, analyzes, and reports on top news stories with a focus on providing an “operators perspective” – by and for those who make things happen.

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Team & Contributors

Eric V. Roach (@veroach)

Eric started with a dream to transform personal finance and empower individuals to take control of their own financial lives. In 1994, he founded Lombard Brokerage, which pioneered online stock trading and invented many of the technologies used in banking, brokerage and insurance industries today.

In 1997 Eric sold Lombard to Morgan Stanley and was asked by CEO Phil Purcell to serve on their Management Committee at their world headquarters in New York, where he worked in marketing, e-commerce and internal acquisitions.

In early 2000, Eric was recruited by John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins (KPCB), and Ram Shriram of Sherpalo Ventures to be the CEO of Elance, a services marketplace on the web. At the end of 2001, Eric left Elance to form Roach Capital Partners.

Cameron W. Brain (@cameronbrain)

Cameron is currently the CEO at Open Box Technologies, Inc., which he founded in 2004. Open Box is the developer and provider of SesameVault, a SaaS platform for businesses to store, manage, and publish video to the web and mobile devices.

Prior to Open Box Cameron founded Bicycle Parts Direct, Inc.: the first online mountain bike retail store to import high-quality, machine manufactured frames and components to the U.S. Cameron sold Bicycle Parts Direct, Inc. to his business partner prior to entering college.

Cameron is currently on a leave of absence from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he was pursuing undergraduate degrees in Economics and Electronic Arts.

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  • Jill Packham

    Impressive Website…have bookmarked it on my favorites. Passed along the article on the US Economy Coming Around to some of my clients. I am a fan of circulating and focusing on the good news!

    P.S. What does the V stand for in your name?

  • Jill Packham

    Impressive Website…have bookmarked it on my favorites. Passed along the article on the US Economy Coming Around to some of my clients. I am a fan of circulating and focusing on the good news!

    P.S. What does the V stand for in your name?

  • http://www.roachcp.com/ eroach

    Thanks Jill,

    V stands for Vincent. Site should be changing as we are making lots of UI (user interface0 changes this week.

  • http://www.roachcp.com eroach

    Thanks Jill,

    V stands for Vincent. Site should be changing as we are making lots of UI (user interface0 changes this week.

  • J. Mick Epperson

    Eric,
    Looks good! We are interested in a continuing interface. Your Scottrade ad – is it an endorsement or just a good deal?
    Mick

  • J. Mick Epperson

    Eric,
    Looks good! We are interested in a continuing interface. Your Scottrade ad – is it an endorsement or just a good deal?
    Mick

  • http://www.roachcp.com/ eroach

    Thanks, the ad is placed via Google Adwords. As to Scottrade, I did serve on a board once with Riney, the CEO, and found him to be an honorable man.

    Company just keeps plowing along and I understand has over 400 offices now.

    With all discounters, please make sure to check more than just the commission rates, such as margin rates, price paid on cash balances, if they pay you on shorts. That often is where the sneaky charges lie. Good luck and please do come back.

  • http://www.roachcp.com eroach

    Thanks, the ad is placed via Google Adwords. As to Scottrade, I did serve on a board once with Riney, the CEO, and found him to be an honorable man.

    Company just keeps plowing along and I understand has over 400 offices now.

    With all discounters, please make sure to check more than just the commission rates, such as margin rates, price paid on cash balances, if they pay you on shorts. That often is where the sneaky charges lie. Good luck and please do come back.

  • http://www.rawdesignr.com/ Robbie Abed

    Really great blog posts, honestly. I almost never comment on blog posts, but these were really good.

    I am working on a few ideas now (one to grow my web business, and one is an online startup), and these posts are accurate and informative. I have a hard time finding blogs where I actually *learn* something. I’m so sick of the know your customer, release often & early type of posts. Keep up the good work.

  • http://www.rawdesignr.com Robbie Abed

    Really great blog posts, honestly. I almost never comment on blog posts, but these were really good.

    I am working on a few ideas now (one to grow my web business, and one is an online startup), and these posts are accurate and informative. I have a hard time finding blogs where I actually *learn* something. I’m so sick of the know your customer, release often & early type of posts. Keep up the good work.

  • http://www.roachcp.com/ Eric

    Robbie, First thanks for the great comments. We have always believed that the value of the articles are just a starting point. We have plans for future introductions that are sure to take our learning to the next level. For right now, commenting on posts is a way for us to all develop two, three way conversations that we can all learn from… so, keep up the good post and make sure to register.

    You also hit on a point of differentiation that we hope to drive home in every post and comment we make. That being that we have been there in the trenches, we know what building a business is really like and we know how hard it was / is to find real answers. Our goal in ever post is to take an “operators perspective” on everything we do. Thanks again for the encouragement, it drives us to do better.

    Lastly, we see “The Roach Post” as a team effort. Welcome to the team!

  • http://www.roachcp.com Eric

    Robbie, First thanks for the great comments. We have always believed that the value of the articles are just a starting point. We have plans for future introductions that are sure to take our learning to the next level. For right now, commenting on posts is a way for us to all develop two, three way conversations that we can all learn from… so, keep up the good post and make sure to register.

    You also hit on a point of differentiation that we hope to drive home in every post and comment we make. That being that we have been there in the trenches, we know what building a business is really like and we know how hard it was / is to find real answers. Our goal in ever post is to take an “operators perspective” on everything we do. Thanks again for the encouragement, it drives us to do better.

    Lastly, we see “The Roach Post” as a team effort. Welcome to the team!

  • Nisheeth

    Thanks Eric and Cameron! I enjoyed reading your articles. Very useful especially sample executive summary.

    I am doing an early stage startup and looking for guidelines on legal agreement among partners. It would be great if you can share sample legal agreements covering: equity, minimum time partner & employees have to serve before they walk away with equity in case relationship go soar, non compete, and other things that are important.

  • Nisheeth

    Thanks Eric and Cameron! I enjoyed reading your articles. Very useful especially sample executive summary.

    I am doing an early stage startup and looking for guidelines on legal agreement among partners. It would be great if you can share sample legal agreements covering: equity, minimum time partner & employees have to serve before they walk away with equity in case relationship go soar, non compete, and other things that are important.

  • http://www.roachcp.com/ Eric

    You must be reading our minds, because we are headed right down that path. Keep coming back, because that is squarely on our editorial calendar. Thanks for contributing, and welcome.

  • http://www.roachcp.com Eric

    You must be reading our minds, because we are headed right down that path. Keep coming back, because that is squarely on our editorial calendar. Thanks for contributing, and welcome.

  • http://www.artisancreative.com/ Lin Holmberg

    Hello All,

    I am excited to have discovered your blog and will subscribe. I am a great resource for those powerpoint artists who know how to create an executive-level pitchbook presentation and I’m wondering if anyone can give me some advice as to how to get the word out to those who could benefit.

    Thanks,
    Linh@artisancreative.com
    415-407-1515

  • http://www.artisancreative.com Lin Holmberg

    Hello All,

    I am excited to have discovered your blog and will subscribe. I am a great resource for those powerpoint artists who know how to create an executive-level pitchbook presentation and I’m wondering if anyone can give me some advice as to how to get the word out to those who could benefit.

    Thanks,
    Linh@artisancreative.com
    415-407-1515

  • Chirag Pancholi

    Great blog Eric and Cameron– succinct and relevant blog. Thank you for giving back to the community…

  • Chirag Pancholi

    Great blog Eric and Cameron– succinct and relevant blog. Thank you for giving back to the community…

  • http://roachblog.com/ Cameron

    Chirag – Thank you; succinctness and relevance are what we’re going for. We’ve got a whole lot more planned for the future. Look forward to receiving your feedback on future posts.

  • http://roachblog.com Cameron

    Chirag – Thank you; succinctness and relevance are what we’re going for. We’ve got a whole lot more planned for the future. Look forward to receiving your feedback on future posts.

  • http://rockiger.com/ Marco

    Just want to say: Thank You.

    Regards,
    Marco

  • http://rockiger.com Marco

    Just want to say: Thank You.

    Regards,
    Marco

  • http://roachblog.com/ Cameron

    Thanks, Marco! Much more to come.

  • http://roachblog.com Cameron

    Thanks, Marco! Much more to come.

  • alexbard

    Guys – I just wanted to say that this is an OUTSTANDING blog….great work…I put this up there with Mark Suster's blog…

  • http://roachpost.com/ Eric

    Thanks Alex. We are pushing hard. Anything you can do to spread the word is appreciated. Welcome.

  • alexbard

    Will tweet it out and spread the word…

  • Leslie D

    Linh – I run the team at http://www.salescircles.org. I do know quite a few early start-up founders here in the valley. Feel free to fill me on on your expertise and see if I can help.

    Leslie D.

  • Leslie D

    Great post indeed. Glad to know someone out there cares about entreprenuers as much as Cameron an Eric. A big thank you !

    Leslie D.
    Co-Founder
    SalesCircles.org

  • http://roachpost.com/ Eric

    Thanks Leslie,

    It's good to have you on board. Please do help us spread the word.

    Eric

  • Marketingmantom

    My name is Tomasz Matuszewski I would like to contact Eric V. Roach. Can I get a phone number or an email please. This is something that Mr. Roach will find very interesting and might want to team up on this system that I developed. It took me 1 1.2 years to develop and I have everything ready also I showed profit as well as all the needed business tools. Please if I can somehow contact you I would really appreciate it. My direct CELL number is 860-324-4158 I live in Connecticut. Please consider calling me or at the least providing me some form of contact information please.

  • Tmeirz2

    JUST an FYI —–You might want to check your posts… the last one looks like it's from some kind of pornographic site – obviously not the intent nor audience of your very well-written blog.

  • http://roachpost.com/ Cameron Brain

    Thanks for the heads up! Looks like the person took advantage of a
    Disqus loophole: you can't moderate reactions. :-) Anyhow, removed it by
    turning off reactions. Thanks again!

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