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Stanford’s MediaX and Accel Partners have organized this 16th Symposium which brings together the Stanford research community, high-technology business leaders, and entrepreneurs who are collectively driving developments in this rapidly changing arena.
October 27th, 2010 — Arrillaga Alumni Center at Stanford University
On October 27th, 2010 Accel Partners and Stanford University MediaX will be hosting The Delta Conference: The 16th Stanford Accel Symposium on the constant change in Digital Media and Technology.
We hope that you will join us for what is sure to be a robust and engaging discussion focusing on the changing nature of media, technology and investing. What sets apart the recent technology champions who have been able to bear through this tumultuous climate? How have some market leaders evolved to remain competitive at the top, while other members of the old guard struggle to keep up?
Relevant discussion topics will include:
- Rise of Social as the new platform
- The revolution in “Open Mobile”
- How big data is transforming IT
- Digital Media: The incumbents vs. The disrupters
The proceeds of the event benefit Stanford University and Stanford Media X. Attendance is quite limited as the venue is intimate, so we recommend you register soon. We look forward to seeing you there!
Confirmed Speakers To Date (others to be announced):
* Paul Jacobs, Chairman and CEO, Qualcomm
* Kevin Mayer, EVP Corporate Strategy, Business Development and Technology Group, The Walt Disney Group
* Qi Lu, President, Microsoft Online Services Division
* Mike Schroepfer, Vice President of Engineering, Facebook
* Ravi Dhariwal, CEO, Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd
* Dr. Andreas Weigend, PhD, Former Chief Scientist, Amazon.com and Lecturer, Stanford University
* Andrew Mason, CEO, Groupon
* Omar Hamoui, CEO, AdMob
* David Flynn, President and CEO, Fusion-io
* Jeff Hammerbacher, Chief Scientist and VP of Products, Cloudera
* Tim Cadogan, CEO, OpenX
* Drew Houston, Drew Houston, Dropbox
* Ilja Lars, Founder and CEO, GetJar
* Jim Bankoff, Chairman and CEO, SB Nation
* Others to be announced
Published August 24th, 2010 by admin in Archive, Entrepreneurship, Events, VC | Post a Comment »
If you haven’t registered to attend Mobilize yet, make sure you claim your spot before August 28 to save $100 on the regular rate of $595.
Mobilize 2010, GigaOM’s mobile web conference, is now accepting LaunchPad nominations for mobile web startups. LaunchPad is where we parade our selection of the 10 best mobile startups or major product launches to the assembled legion of VCs, angel investors, tech journalists and other conference attendees. But in order for us to find you, we need you to enter!
If you think your startup has the right stuff, dust off that executive summary and start filling out the entry form. The closing date for entries is August 25, 2010 at 11:59 PDT, and the winners will be announced on September 1, 2010. Read the rules here.
If you haven’t registered to attend Mobilize yet, make sure you claim your spot before August 28 to save $100 on the regular rate of $595. Read the rest of this entry »
Published August 23rd, 2010 by davidsmith in Archive, Entrepreneurship, Telecom/Mobil, VC | Post a Comment »
DATE: September 23-24,2010 in San Diego (apply now)
WHAT RIM IS LOOKING FOR: RIM is interested in applications with no hardware components, no accessories or the need for additions to the device to make their product work in the following areas:
- Multimedia (editing, streaming, conferencing, social network interfaces, augmented reality)
- Sports (personal fitness, interactive content, health & wellness, medical)
- Lifestyle (social networking, location-based services, food & dining, recreation)
- Productivity (voice translation, remote storage/access interfaces, email/messaging enhancements, travel, language translation)
- Ecommerce (mobile wallet, banking, point-of-sale solutions)
THE RIM TEAM ATTENDING: The managing team of the Blackberry App World initiative
- Alex McCallum, Director, Consumer Alliances
- Andrew Vardon, Senior Business Development Manager Enterprise
- Brian Zubert, Team Lead – Developer Relations
- Pete Watson, Senior Business Development Manager
Research In Motion (RIM) is the designer and manufacturer of the award-winning BlackBerry(r) smartphone, used by millions of people around the world. The company also creates solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market, including the software that allows the BlackBerry smartphone to provide mobile access to email, applications, media and the Internet.
EVENT HOST: http://www.wsgr.com/WSGR/Index.aspx
12235 El Camino Real, San Diego, CA 92130
Application Submission Deadline September 7, 2010 http://www.commnexus.org/programs/event_20100621.php
QUESTIONS? Contact Olga Teplitsky at mailto: oteplitsky%20@commnexus.org
Published August 20th, 2010 by admin in Archive, Entrepreneurship, Telecom/Mobil, VC | Post a Comment »
John Hartnett, founder of the Irish Technology Leadership Group, has left his Silicon Valley job as CEO of G24 to work full time at the Irish Innovation Center in downtown San Jose, Irish Central.com reported yesterday.
The report goes on to say, “Hartnett has left G24 to help grow the $100 million venture fund attached to the center which targets investments in Irish companies. Read the rest of this entry »
Published August 20th, 2010 by admin in Archive, VC | Post a Comment »
Apply HERE for the October 6, 2010 Innovation@Work Program at Pitney Bowes!
Applications Deadline: Monday, August 30, 2010.
The Connecticut Technology Council (CTC) is delighted to announce the seventh program in the “Innovation@Work” series – a program designed to facilitate collaboration opportunities between the state’s leading technology companies and selected medium and smaller sized technology firms.
This program offers companies the opportunity to meet the largest and most dynamic advanced technology companies in the state. Please read these application guidelines below carefully, as we are currently looking for companies to be part of the event and to spend the day with the leaders from the technology and innovation departments of Pitney Bowes in Stamford.
Below is a broad list of emerging technologies, products and business models for which Pitney Bowes is looking for partners to help develop, implement and deliver. Please review the following list. To be selected for this Innovation@Work, you must have a technology, concept, product or idea relevant to Pitney Bowes within the following eight areas:
- Customer Communication Management (CCM) including technology, process, product and business models for customer acquisition, relations and retention.
- Secure Transaction Systems (secure capture, processing and communication of information related to business transactions) in various vertical markets (financial, government, retail, health care)
- Smart meters
- Life cycle management of secure physical and digital documents from creation to disposal
- Technology for self-service systems (e.g. kiosks)
- IT systems and technology for shipment and freight optimization and outsourced transportation management
- Location intelligence (geo-coding technology and applications)
- Internet of Things (including ID management and effective methods of presentation and capturing information using physical media for computer to computer communications)
Published August 19th, 2010 by Brian Glynn in Archive, Entrepreneurship, Software/Services, Telecom/Mobil, VC | Post a Comment »
September 21, 2010, San Francisco, CA
Microsoft Conference Center, San Francisco
Entrepreneurs : Apply to Present – Deadline Aug, 25, 2010 to submit application
Join us at MobiTechFest West to meet promising innovators and leading investors from the mobile and wireless ecosystem at our annual venture conference on Sep 21, 2010 at the Microsoft Conference Center in San Francisco, CA If you are an entrepreneur seeking capital, this is your best opportunity to meet and pitch to the most active mobile focused angels and VCs in under one roof in one-day. Don’t miss out on this. Click here to learn more on how to apply to present.
This exclusive conference will also provide the opportunity to:
- Meet promising innovators and their innovations and forge strategic partnerships
- Network with 30+ leading mobile industry focused active investors
- Network with 200+ key deal makers in the mobile and investment community
- Make powerful connections with 20+ wireless carrier executives
- Hear success stories and learn best practices to advance your business Read the rest of this entry »
Published August 18th, 2010 by davidsmith in Archive, Entrepreneurship, Telecom/Mobil, VC | Post a Comment »
Apply Today
Deadline | August 15, 2010 Sunday
When and where?
- BizTechDay Seattle on September 18th
- BizTechDay New York on September 24th
- BizTechDay San Francisco on October 23rd
Imagine 1,500 influential entrepreneurs and business leaders in Seattle, New York and San Francisco gathered together to watch and be wowed by your demo.
Are you a passionate entrepreneur? Do you love helping other entrepreneurs? Does your technology product serve the entrepreneur community?
If you answered yes to questions above, then you should apply and demo at BizTechDay.
We are looking for you! We want passionate entrepreneurs who can’t wait to demo and show off your products and meet the entrepreneur community. Read the rest of this entry »
Published August 9th, 2010 by admin in Archive, Entrepreneurship, VC | Post a Comment »
On Tuesday, August 3rd, ten companies elected by over 14,500 registered CEO. Members of TheFunded.com presented to over 300 investors, founders, and members of the press in Silicon Valley.
I was at the event. It was a great mix of people, lots of angels if a bit light on VC’s. I got to meet a lot of VC’s who were there and some of the angels.
Here are my notes
David Smith | SVP (Telecoms/Wireless)| Enterprise Ireland | Silicon Valley Office
Moderated by Adeo Ressi
Adeo is a great mc – full of wit, few notes and very engaging.
http://foundershowcase.com
#foundershowcase
Jason Calacanis
Very witty, irreverent, biting even at times.
Focus on your product
- it is the only thing you can totally control
- Build a brilliant product
Never pay to meet an angel or pay to present – this is a scam so Jason launched the open angel forum
How to meet angels
- email them what you did, build a prototype and send them a URL, no business plans, no PowerPoint’s
- write about your industry – build a personal brand online
- FOAF – Friend of a friend
How to pitch Angels
- Create scarcity
- talk quickly about what you have done not going to do
- Raise just what you need, have a definite amount to ask for
- Raise just what you need from the person who you most want to have involved
- Talk to investor’s references
- Raise a small round ($50K to $1.5 m)
- Go for a low valuation
- Close as soon as you can
- Be persistent, but respectful, humble and classy
- If they say no ask for feedback
- then go and some early “wins under your belt”
- selling too early makes you rich, selling too late makes you poor
- persistence is the key for an entrepreneur
VC’s
- Most VC’s do not add any value – go to www.thefunded.com for ratings
- Do you want to be a samurai (entrepreneur) or pick rice (employee)?
- All money is good money, that’s why its money
- Most VC’s will misbehave, most VC’s don’t want to win
- Don’t let the VC’s push you around, demand an answer in a fixed time, respect yourself
Pitches
- entrepreneurs have to differentiate and show your defensible position fast in your 3 minutes
- show your product / demo – this is essential as it shows you can execute and it is not just an idea
Published August 4th, 2010 by davidsmith in Archive, Entrepreneurship, VC | Post a Comment »
Today, during the Social Currency CrunchUp, angel investor Ron Conway had some interesting data to share for the first time. Conway says that his company, SV Angel, has recently done an audit on the over 500 companies they’ve invested in over the past 12 years. And he was surprised with the results.
Conway expected it would show that about one-third of companies fail, one-third get investors their money back, and one-third bring a 2x to Google-x return (Conway invested in Google early on). But that’s not the case. Conway noticed that during the Internet Bubble in 1997 to 2001 — the failure rate (startups that go out of business and the investors get nothing) was a staggering 77 percent. “It was catastrophic,” he said.
But things improved. The failure rate in recent years — since 2002 — has dropped to about 40 percent, Conway says. He makes sure to note that that’s just his portfolio — which they’re picky about. They only invest in about one of every 40 companies they see.
Conway notes that he was able to make it through the Bubble years because of a very few smart investments in Google, PayPal, and others that also took place at that time. “We were lucky, others weren’t,” he notes.
He also notes that entrepreneurs have a 66 percent chance of being successful on a startup if it’s their second one. But that’s also partially because they’re often doing a second startup if they were successful the first time around.
All that said, Conway notes that his data shows that regardless of the time period — Bubble or Boom — the rate of very successful outcomes has stayed roughly the same. With that in mind, “anytime is a good time to start a company,” he concludes.
Conway says there is a misconception that “every 10 years we get a Google.” “That’s not true,” Conway says. He notes that AskJeeves came, then six years later, Google came. But then six years after that was Facebook. And now the big companies are coming faster. After Facebook, it was only four years until Twitter came around. Then it was two years later that Foursquare, Zynga, and others have come along. “Great companies are being created at a much greater rate,” Conway says.
Published August 3rd, 2010 by davidsmith in Archive, Entrepreneurship, News Press, VC | Post a Comment »
Join us On August 17th at Best Place at the Historic Pabst Brewery at 5:30pm to kick off Irish week in Wisconsin for an informal business networking reception. Learn more about business and investment opportunities with Irish companies and a look at Ireland as a great place to do business for U.S. companies looking to locate operations in Europe. Most of all we’ll “chat over a few pints” in the best of Irish traditions.
Published July 23rd, 2010 by johnmcintyre in Archive, Events, VC | Post a Comment »
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