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Online Commerce
and Collaboration Opp's -
Search, Community and Markets
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Is Web 2.0 real or merely a prelude to Dotbomb 2.0? Happily, today's e-scape differs radically from the past. Hyped IPOs are replaced by acquisitions ranging from Pricegrabber and Bizrate to MySpace and YouTube. Amazon, eBay and Google are deeply entrenched. Most notably, unlike the '90's attempt to push technology and content, now the market -- in large measure consumers -- is pulling with extraordinary strength. Device makers hurry out features to ride and enhance trends which content purveyors seek to recognize and monetize. Even the enterprise CIO is yielding, forced by the employees to grapple with the likes of wikis, blogs, RSS feeds and podcasts. Meanwhile, "big guys" like eBay and Amazon encourage 3rd party developers to build on their empires. Against this background, today's program seeks to get up close and personal, eliciting and probing the perspective of our panelists, successful entrepreneurs who not only are building funded ventures in the current space, but also have deep experience with prior ventures. To aid in delineating where we are and are going, our speakers as well as the audience will have the opportunity to play gadfly-commentators.
Please join us on March 17th and find out, first hand, from industry experts, entrepreneurs and venture capital firms where online commerce is really headed.
Commentators
Kevin Jacques
Partner
Palomar Ventures
Louise Wannier
CEO
www.myshape.com
Entrepreneur Panelists
Craig Ogg
Co-founder/CTO
www.thisnext.com
Siva Kumar
CEO
www.thefind.com
Touraj Parang
Founder
www.jaxtr.com
Joel Toledano
Founder/CEO
www.krillion.com
Producers/Moderators
Richard C. Hsu
Partner
Townsend & Townsend & Crew LLP
Michael Krieger, Ph.D
Willenken Wilson Loh & Lieb, LLP
Date
Saturday morning, March 17, 2007
Location
Registration and Continental Breakfast: 8:00 a.m. at Baxter Hall, Caltech
Program: 9:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall
Networking: 11:15 a.m. - 12:00 noon at Baxter Hall, Caltech
Cost
Early Registration - $40 (before Monday, March 12th)
Late Registration and at the door: $50; ($10 for students
with full-time student ID; free to Caltech students)
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