Community Conversation: BizDev2.0
BizDev2.0 the meme: Link
- Technology is clearly changing the way businesses work together.
- Is this a revolution or an experiment? Will we progress beyond mashups to a world where everything on the web has an input and an output and all commercial use is easily metered?
What does this mean for how startups should be run? Is "open" better? How much is it worth to partner with "closed"? Can anything ever be exclusive?
How are mash-ups affecting us currently? Is using the technology from a handful of major sites – Google, YouTube, Yahoo! – opening up new ideas or are they creating us into a mono-idea status…Ie Google-land.
Google’s motto is “Do No Evil.” Are they keeping to this motto or are they going down the MSN trap of dominating the web — ie stifling new products and companies?
What is the value of start-up or major company that is entire built on mash-up technologies and APIs? Does using other companies’ technologies limit their value?
A key area in building a start-up website is getting interconnected with other websites in the web. Does this make us susceptible to becoming just an over-looked side-step in a user’s journey online or do we become an integral part of the experience?
What about mobile? Should technology and content be exclusive to one mobile carrier? How does this affect the user? What happens to technology or content that wants to be across all carriers? Is this possible or advisable?
Who benefits more in a completely open world? The big guys or the small guys? Are widgets feeding MySpace or feeding off of it?
How do you instill loyalty in the era of search? If users are coming to your site for a particular piece of information, how do you lock them in rather than pushing them back out to the search engine the next time they're looking for similar information?
When/Where?
November 15, 2006 6PM-8PM
Columbia University
Warren Hall, Room 209
Warren Hall is on Amsterdam, between 115th and 116th streets, on the east side of the street.
Confirmed Speakers
Fred Wilson, VC - Union Square Ventures
Catherine Levene, SVP Product Strategy and GM Content Network, TheFind.com, Former VP, Product, Business Development and Strategy, NYT Digital
Chris Fralic, First Round Capital
Niki Scevak, CEO, Homethinking
Tina Sharkey, SVP Instant Messaging & Social Media, AOL
Zia Daniell Wigder, VP and Research Director, JupiterResearch & Founder and Director, 12 Hours of Dialogue
Robin Chan, Associate Director, Entertainment Programming, Verizon Wireless
What is a Community Conversation?
nextNY Community Conversations are a chance for the up and coming members of the NYC digital media and technology communities to share ideas on a particular topic. We invite accomplished local members of the NYC area tech community to be conversation leaders--not to speak on panels but to be looked to as the catalysts for our event. An MC will ask questions to the 6-8 conversation leaders interspersed throughout the audience and encourage feedback and further query from the audience.
Discussion Outline
Volunteers
- We need a few people who can volunteer to make sure the conversation is blogged and some photos are taken...
Name |
Role |
Ed Costello |
blog,photography |
[Notes from Biz Dev 2.0 (15 Nov 2006)] |
Dan Koifman |
blog, podcast |
Rich Hecker |
Videoblog/bootstrapper.com |
RSVP
1. Charlie O'Donnell
2. Marti Grimminck
3. Darren Herman
4. Eric Stephens
5. Rishi Khanna
6. Ed Costello
7. Ken Rossi
8. Shreyas Pandit
9. Naveen Selvadurai
10. David Chen
11. John Hui
12. Keshava Dasarathy
13. Dan Kaplan
14. Neal Gorevic
15. Eric Yoon
16. Gustaf Alstromer
17. Scott Matthews (Was: ***free slot***tobias will be at me.dium
18. Jon Zerden
19. Karen Xie
20. Brian Litvack
21. Toufique Harun
22. Jonah Keegan
23. Avinash Karnani
24. Andrew Bein
25. Zack Gordon
26. Sean Ammirati
27. Mark Crofton
28. Ryan O'Donnell
29. Rishabh Misra
30. Mark Rothbaum
31. Laurent Kretz
32. hsing wei
33. noel hidalgo
34. Caroline McCarthy
35. Vin Bhat
36. Christian Busch
37. Alex Cap
38. Pon Loc
39. Robert Tsai
40. Tom McNamara
41. Ernstjan Albers
42. Ken Berger
43. Evan Bartlett
44. David Rusenko +2
45. Felix Shnir
46. Sam Falah
47. Cheng Song
48. Lee Semel
49. Scott Kendall Socialight
50. Ben Bloom
51. FREE SLOT
52. Dan Koifman
53. Dan Melinger
54. Christopher Charlier
55. Lam Nguyen
56. "Kim Adolph" :http://www.equantamedia.com
57. Danny Moon
58. Tom Traugott
59. Dan Kantor
60. Andrew Parker
61. Justin Smithline
62. Dan Putt
63. Jonathan Grebinar
64. Hiren Patel
65. Haj Akhi
66. Matthew Williams
67. Nathan Folkman
68. Todd Levy
69. Paolo De Dios
70. David A. Evans
72. Christopher Tse
73. BillSeitz
74. Michael Galpert
75. Bill Bocra
76. Clay Fisher
77. Peter Chun
78. Gayle Maltz Meyer
79. Sanford Dickert
80. Mike Oliver
81. Steve Eisenberg
82. Dave Famolari
83. Anthony Lobosco
84. Ron Yurman
CLOSED - Thanks for your interest! Everyone on the waitlist got in.