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- What’s Startonomics? It’s a one-day workshop designed by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs on how to create simple, actionable metrics; and how to use them to make better product and marketing decisions for long-term growth and startup success. You cannot miss the all-star lineup at the event set to begin February 6th @ 9am. I will be there covering the event all day, be sure to come and say hello if you are attending. Grab the last few tickets available here. Here is a taste of who is set to come:
Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media
A serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, Richard co-founded Demand
Media in May 2006 to become the leading distributed social media company.
Richard built, operated and sold numerous Internet media companies with a
combined value of over $1.3 billion. He served as CEO of Intermix Media,
Inc., and Chairman of Myspace.com, during which time the public market
capitalization grew from $70 million to over $650 million, until acquired by
News Corporation. Richard previously founded then sold iMALL, one of the
first Internet companies to recognize the power of user-generated content,
to Excite@Home for $565 million. Richard is a Southern California native,
with a BA from UCLA and JD from USC Law School.
- 1:30 – 2:00 - Afternoon Keynote Address (Keynote)
David O. Sacks – Yammer
David O. Sacks is the Founder and CEO of Yammer, Inc., a communications tool
for enterprises. Yammer.com launched at the TechCrunch 50 conference in
September 2008 and won Best In Show. Yammer was originally developed at
Geni, Inc., a startup founded by David in June 2006. Geni.com is creating a
family tree of the whole world, enabling millions of family members to
connect, share, and preserve their lives. Previously, David was the COO of
PayPal, helping to lead the company to a successful IPO and $1.5 billion
sale to eBay. He also produced the movie “Thank You For Smoking” for which
he was nominated for a Golden Globe.
- 9:00 – 9:30 - Morning Keynote Address (Keynote)
Peter Pham – BillShrink
Peter is CEO of BillShrink. He was previously VP Business Development & employee #5 at Photobucket.com, and was responsible for customer acquisition, strategic partnerships, and corporate development. Photobucket was acquired in 2007 by Fox Interactive Media, a division of News Corporation. When Peter left in 2008, Photobucket had grown to over 61M users making it the #1 photo sharing site and the 38th most visited site in the US. Prior to Photobucket, he was involved in multiple enterprise startups in areas such as mid-range server computing, software as a service, solid state storage, and mobilization of enterprise software. Peter has held multiple roles including sales, marketing, reseller channel development, product, and strategy. He holds a BS in Biological Sciences with a minor in Business Management from UC Irvine.
- 3:30 – 4:00 - Pitching & Packaging for Partnerships: How to Land Amazing Deals & Tell If They’re Working (Speaker)
Frank Addante – Rubicon Project
Frank Addante, a serial entrepreneur, has a successful entrepreneurial track record. The Rubicon Project is Frank’s 6th company. Before the age of 30, Frank started 5 companies, resulting in 1 IPO, 2 acquisitions, 1 failure (we call that one “a learning experience”) and his last venture, StrongMail Systems. Addante lead StrongMail from inception, to an initial cash-flow positive business, to becoming the market leader in less than 4 years, raising over $30 million in venture capital.
- 4:30 – 5:00 - The A-Team: The Dynamics of Olympic Startups (Speaker)
Neil Patel – ACS
Neil Patel is the co-founder of 3 Internet companies: ACS, Crazy Egg, and KISSmetrics. Through these 3 companies he has helped large corporations such as AOL, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard and Viacom make more money from the web. By the age of 21 not only was Neil named a top 100 blogger by Technorati, but he was also one of the top influencers on the web according to the Wall Street Journal.
- 12:00 – 12:30 - Finding Users: The Metrics of SEO for Customer Acquisition (Speaker)
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should not take the place of first hand interaction when it comes to parents protecting their kids.
Yahoo Cuts Cord To It’s Live Streaming Baby – Yahoo Live Shuts Down
by glu on December 3, 2008
Dramatis Personae:
Yahoo – Long time interweb giant and parent of Yahoo Live
Interweb Chorus – bloggers, diggers, twitheads, comment whores
ACT I – February 2008
“Check it out interweb people. Yahoo Live! is just like ustream.tv, justin.tv, and all those other awesome live video streaming sites” – Yahoo
“meh” – Interweb Chorus
ACT II – Between Then And Now
“Don’t forget to check out Yahoo Live. It’s gonna be our best kid ever” - Yahoo
“meh” - Interweb Chorus
ACT III – December 3rd, 2008
“Has it been nine months already?” - Interweb Chorus
“Yup” – Yahoo
“You must be so proud of your baby” – Interweb Chorus
“Actually gonna kill it today. Adoption wasn’t really an option and we’re pretty tired as it is. So yah…” – Yahoo
“Welp…see ya later” – Interweb Chorus
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