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.
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Startup Trek covers the 2009 AlwaysOn Venture Capital Summit at Stanford with Tony Perkins
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…
Entrepreneurial summit extraordinaire: The Summit at Stanford, put on by Always On
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.
Churchill Club Annual "Top Tech Trends" Debate Wed May 14
Around 700 attended the Churchill Club’s annual debate for 2008, centered around where Tech Trends are going.
Here is an excellent summation, summing up the ground covered in the discussion, written by Eric Savitz of Barron’s and here are the panelist’s slides
Speakers:
- Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
- Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures
- Josh Kopelman, Managing Partner, First Round Capital