Paul Jacobs began his talk by expressing great optimism about the health and robustness of the US cellphone business
He pointed out that US cell phone users consume four times the cell phone minutes of European users.
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Bill Gurley, online video panel pontificate at AlwaysOn 2009
Bill Gurley shared his insights on new trends in the emerging online video market and how it may impact conventional distribution of content
Gurley then invited his panel out “OnDemand Video has arrived, who profits?”:
- Adam Cahan, CEO, Auditude
- Mike Glickenhaus, CEO, VMIX
- Shishir Mehrotra, Director Product Management, YouTube Monetization (Google)
- Kathy Fields, Partner Goodwin Proctor
Bill Campbell, Chairman of Intuit – a Fireside chat at AlwaysOn
<h2>At the AlwaysOn conference opening evening sessions, Michael Moe, Co-founder and CEO of NeXtAdvisors, interviewed Bill Campbell, one of silicon valley’s most respected startup advisors</h2>
Startup Trek covers the 2009 AlwaysOn Venture Capital Summit at Stanford with Tony Perkins
Startup Trek will be at the Stanford Alumni Center next Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday this week for our second annual coverage of Tony Perkins’ Always On Venture Capital “Summit at Stanford” with Tony Perkins. The conference features many promising tech startups, along with panel sessions and debates about key trends impacting venture capital funded startups, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs across the tech spectrum.
AlwaysOn panel examines innovation within large vs small companies
This panel session was moderated by Elizabeth Tinkham, Global Lead Consultant at Accenture with the topic being:
How is the innovation process different in large versus small companies?
The panelists were:
- Polly Sumner, President Salesforce.com
- Marissa Mayer, VP Search, Google
- Rashmi Sinha, CEO Slideshare
- Jasmine Kim, COO ImageSpan
Will SaaS disappear in the Cloud?
SaaS lost in the Cloud Computing
Michael Barker, Managing Director of Revolution Partners, headed up this panel at AlwaysOn examining the distinctions between SaaS, cloud computing, on-demand, and grid computing in order to clarify the differences and review their relative merits. The panelists were:
Vance Checkett, COO, Mozy, EMC Russ Daniels, VP & CTO Cloud Services, HP Drew Clark, Director of Strategy, IBM Venture Capital Group Polly Sumner, President, Platforms & Alliances, Salesforce.com Rich Zippel, VP Technology, Chief Technologist Office, Sun Microsystems
Zippel: some IT services are best delivered off some form of homogeneous infrastructure… every few years we see a different name for it and it takes a different form…
Location Based Services – Who will make the most money?
This panel, moderated by Rajeev Chang, Managing Director at Rutberg & Co, National Chair, Technology, Sonnenschein, examined the prospects for Tech M&A and IPO over the next two years.
The panelists were Sumit Agarwal, Senior Product Manager, Mobile, Google Mark Collins, VP Consumer Data, AT&T Wireless Cormac Conroy, VP of Engineering, QCT Modem Technology, QUALCOMM Bob Iannucci, CTO, Nokia Peter-Frans Pauwels, CTO, TomTom
Moderator (Chang): What is the biggest location based service?
Frank Quattrone of Qatalyst gives startups M&A advice
Frank Quattrone moderated a panel featuring three startups
With the premise being he would give each of them his sought-after merger and acquisition 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.
A Thousand Little Googles – Bridging the Eyeball Gap
This AlwaysOn 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.
Tech startup companies pitch LBS, MultiTouch, video, other promising technologies
Goldspot Media: Replacement as technology for broadcast television on mobile – maps to targeted demographics of subscribers on mobile phones.
inTouch: mobile ‘iBrowse’ platform brings quality browsing experience, content to 2G mobile phones.
iBeatYou: using star power to build a fun, interactive video social networking site.