Archive for November, 2007
November 14th, 2007 Comments(1)
In the past few months, I’ve begun a series of WebInno Dinner Groups – gatherings of a dozen or so entrepreneurs and managers focused on a specific topic who want to connect to discuss and share experiences within their domain. In contrast to the larger bimonthly large WebInno events, these are smaller and much more intimate sessions with an opportunity for in-depth discussion. The first three dinners were devoted to the topics “Widgets and Advertising,” the “Intersection of Mobile and the Web,” and “Virtual Items and Virtual Worlds.”
As I announced at WebInno 15, I am planning WebInno Dinner Group is going to be focused on the topic “The secrets of social network platform apps.” Between Facebook applications and the OpenSocial platform (which includes the likes of Google, MySpace, and Bebo), this area is rich with both excitement and uncertainty. I’d like to gather a group of people to discuss developing on these social network platforms. If this sounds like a gathering which you would want to participate, please reach out to me (david at webinnovatorsgroup dot com) sharing a bit of your relevant background and interest.
Depending on response and availability, I’ll then organize an evening for us to get together in upcoming weeks (potentially in December, but perhaps in January because of the busyness of the holiday season). Additionally, if you have a FB application live and running which you might be able to share with attendees, please let me know and we can discuss including it in the session. If there’s significant interest from the community, I may expand the event beyond a small group dinner.
November 14th, 2007 Comments(1)
I wanted to reach out to the Web Innovators Group community to see if anyone with graphic design skills might be interested in volunteering their time to help with some upcoming treatments for the Web Innovators Group logo. I am exploring introducing some additional features to the website and event programs, and would appreciate the help of someone with expertise in the area. If you are interested in potentially helping, please do reach out to me at david at webinnovatorsgroup dot com.
November 14th, 2007 Comments(0)
As I mentioned at WebInno15, we won’t be holding the next large Web Innovators Group meeting until 2008. I’ll post more information and details on the event in the new year, but I wanted to announce the WebInno date of Tuesday January 29th so people could mark it on their calendars. As usual, we’ll hold it at the Royal Sonesta in Cambridge, and will feature a number of self-/angel-funded startups demo to the crowd in main dish and side dish formats. If your early-stage startup is interested in presenting in either, please reach out to me at david at webinnovatorsgroup dot com.
If you plan on attending, please RSVP on our dedicated registration page so we can appropriately size the room and print name-tags.
November 14th, 2007 Comments(0)
Thanks to everyone who came out to our final Web Innovators Group meeting last week. I heard great feedback, especially about our three main dish presenters who really wow’ed the crowd that evening. In the blogosphere, Greg Peverill-Conti was “definitely impressed with what [main dish FlipKey] had to say” and “certainly some stuff in there that was.. cool” with iiProperty’s demo. Another main dish, Lemonade, won Barb Heffner’s heart. And side dish presenter and high school student, Steven Bao of Student Concourse, got a warm round of applause as the “favorite entrepreneur of the night” by many, including Scott Kirsner.
As I noted during the evening, this November event marked the two year anniversary of including demo’ing startups at the Web Innovators Group events. From small gatherings then in a Kendall Sq bar to last week’s filling of the Grand Ballroom in the Royal Sonesta, the group has certainly grown up over the past twenty-four months. A special thanks goes to all of the 85 presenting companies which have demo’ed (some of whose logos are included in the slide below), and a congratulations to the nine (that I know of) which have either received venture funding or been acquired in this timeframe.
I am looking forward to continuing in building this tradition of creating valuable networking events for attendees and showcasing promising companies in the coming year of 2008.
