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AlwaysOn panel: Mobilizing your social network

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford 2008 Tech Startups Entrepreneurship

This panel, moderated by Adam Zawal of INmobile, examined whether social networks are merely features of existing applications and services, or are they a more fundamental element of the mobile ecosystem? The panelists were:

    John Faith, GM & VP for Mobile, MySpace
    Mauro del Rio, Chairman, Buongiomo
Babur Ozden, CEO, ZipClip
    Kamar Shah, Head of Marketing Services & Software, Nokia
    Shawn Conahan, CEO, Intercasting Corp

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AlwaysOn Kara Swisher AllThingsD panel Competing on the Edge Structure as Chaos

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Kara Swisher AllThingsD panel AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford Tech Startup Entrepreneurship

This panel, moderate by Kara Swisher from the Wall Street Journal / AllThingsD, discussed how very large companies like Google can avoid falling victim to "big company problems".

The panelists were:

Kathy Eisenhardt, Asherman Professor and co-Director STVP, Stanfor

Shona Brown, SVP Business Operations, Google

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Frank Quattrone of Qatalyst gives startups advice at AlwaysOn

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

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.

The startups were:

Teemu Huuhtanen, EVP Sulake. Sulake - a social networking and virtual world play.
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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AlwaysOn Tech Entrepreneurship Summit at Stanford opens

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

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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Entrepreneurial summit extraordinaire

Friday, July 18, 2008

Tony Perkins of Red Herring Magazine fame, is putting on a conference for startups and vc's like no other next week.

It's called "Summit at Stanford ". Google, Salesforce.com, Skype, YouTube, Blue Lithium and Quigo all presented in past years while they were still privately held startups.

We'll be there door-to-door next week, attending every session and always lurking in the hallways. We'll be reporting here on The Bell Letter Blog about particularly interesting startups, sectors, and trends from the conference.

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