03.30.07
Venture information aggregation
Here is a nice web site that aggregates venture information together called Discoverion: http://www.discoverion.com
03.22.07
Platform 2.0: The Next Generation
I will speak at this event on March 27th about investing in platform 2.0 companies. Here is the link to register.
Agenda
8:30 – 9:00am Registration/Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 9:30am Keynote
Charles Fitzgerald, GM of Platform Strategy, Microsoft, Software + Service = The New Platform World
9:30 – 10:30am Application Platforms Ecosystem Panel
Moderator: Dave Nielsen, Director of Partner Programs, StrikeIron
Gordon Simpson, Chief Technologist Platform Ecosystem, SAP
Adam Gross, VP of Developer Marketing, Salesforce.com
Adam Sah, Architect Google Gadgets, Google
10:30 – 10:45am Break
10:45- 11:15am Demos
Jeff Nolan, CEO, Teqlo
11:15 – 11:45am Demos
Jeff Barr, Senior Web Services Evangelist, Amazon
11:45 – 1:00pm Lunch and “Speed Demos”
Connect with bleeding edge companies, see their demos during the lunch break
Foldier Inc., Widgetbox, Backbase
1:00 – 1:30pm Demos
Maciej Ceglowski, Software Engineer, Yahoo Pipes
1:30 – 2:00pm Demos
Rod Smith, VP of Internet Emerging Technology,IBM
2:00 – 2:15pm Break
2:15 – 3:15pm Demos
3:15 – 4:15pm Investment Trends Panel
Mitchell Kertzman, Partner, Hummer Winbald
Tom Cole, General Partner, Trinity Ventures
Gary Little, General Partner, Morganthaler Ventures
Ray Wu, New Business Ventures, Hewlett-Packard
4:15 — 4:45pm Keynote
Ian Murdock, Operating Platforms Officer, Sun Microsystems
03.06.07
High Tech Entrepreneurs’ Forum
I will be a panelist on FountainBlue’s High Tech Entrepreneurs’ Forum on the topic of Corporate Investments in High Tech Companies scheduled for Monday, March 12 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. at Plug and Play Tech Center, 440 N Wolfe Road in Sunnyvale. We will have Cliff Reeves, GM of MSFT’s .NET platform, and Lisa Lambert who manages Intel’s Enterprise Software Investment Group join me on the panel. If you are local and interested, stop by.