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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 |
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 AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford Tech Startup Entrepreneurship M&A panel This panel, moderated by Victor Boyajian, National Chair, Technology, Sonnenschein, examined the prospects for Tech M&A and IPO over the next two years.
The panelists were:
Lise Buyer, Principal, Class V Group
Paul Deninger, Vice Chairman, Jefferies & Co
Drew Guevara, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
Jamie Montgomery, CEO, Montgomery & Co
Boyajian: What do you think of the markets today? There was not a single tech IPO last quarter.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 |
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 AlwaysOn SaaS panel Summit at Stanford Tech Startup Entrepreneurship This panel, moderate by Paul Kwan of Morgan Stanley, examined the health and vitality of software as a service as a business model.
The panelists were:
Lyle Fong, CEO, Lithium
Lisa Lambert, Managing Director, Software & Solutions Group, Intel Capital
Steve Papermaster, CEO, nGenera
Tien Tzuo, CEO, Zuora
Maynard Webb, CEO, LiveOps (formerly eBay)
Lambert: "Security is still a big issue with SaaS. We needed a SalesForce.com to show the way but we're not there yet."
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 |
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 Alwyas On Summit at Stanford 2008 Tech Startups Entrepreneurship Frank Quattrone (silicon valley's popular and well regarded, top tech investment banker by broad consensus) moderated a panel of three startups, with a promise to give each of them his much sought-after advice.
Quattrone recently co-founded a new tech M&A investment advisory firm Qatalyst.
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Teemu Huuhtanen, EVP Sulake. Sulake - a social networking and virtual world play.
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Lance Tokuda, CEO RockYou - a social networking site with 90M unique users.
- Phillip Alvelda, CEO MobiTV - a mobile content broadcasting company.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 |
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 Always On Summit at Stanford 2008 Tech Startups Entrepreneurship This discussion panel was moderated by Ted Want, a partner from Fenwick and West. Participating were:
Jeff Hirsch, Pres and CEO of Revenue Science; a behavioral targeting specialists working with online advertisers.
David Kidder, CEO of Clickable, which simplifies AdSense-style ad placement for online advertisers.
Jason Glickman, CEO or Tremor Media, one of the leading ad networks and pioneers in video-insert ads (their technology is called QDO).
Jayent Kadambi, CEO of YuMe; Broadband Video Ad Network for publishers; CPM-driven.
Amiad Solomon, CEO of Peer39, a semantic advertising firm. They deliver ad placements are based upon the meaning of the content pages in their content network.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 |
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 Always On Startup Summit at Stanford on Tech Entrepreneurship 2008 Tony Perkins opened the 2008 Summit at Stanford 6pm 7/22/08 with remarks about the economy, politics, and entrepreneurial environment. KPMG presented their analysis of the AlwaysOn top 250 Companies, including information on tech M&A over the past few years.
Jack Dorsey from Twitter showed up to accept the award as selection as the #1 startup out of the AO 250. He shared some more details about the Berkeley Journalism student who was freed from a jail in Egypt by the Twitter community. There was a lot of twittering going on throughout the conference, as attendees posted to Twitter; and exchanged notes while watching the conference live webcast feed.
Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital is conducting a panel on "Big Media's Comeback" featuring Albert Cheng EVP Digital Networks at ABC-Disney, John Edwards CEO of Move Networks, Thomas Lesinksi President of Paramount Digital Entertainment, Michael Montgomery President of Montgomery & Co, and Todd Teresi SVP Yahoo!. Tom Lesinksi is explaining how Hollywood's 50-year old business model, being very lucrative, are difficult to disrupt.
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
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This new SharePoint Magazine made it's online debut this morning. The first issue includes an article just written by Steve, "Microsoft SharePoint from the iPhone: First Impressions".
The article details how we've discovered that SharePoint workgroup productivity sites can be accessed from both 1st geneartion (2.5G) and 2nd generation (3G) iPhones, to accelerate the work of Startup teams.
 3G iPhone SharePoint challenge screen
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