New Ideas : ATCRave

What’s Hot – And What’s Not – for Funding

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:17:23 PST

It’s 2010 – do you know what your VCs are doing? What are they looking to fund and how are they looking to do it? What are they running away from? What types of deals excite them and how are they structured? I’ve seen ups and downs within different industries and VCs with different investing styles. We’ll discuss what we hear from VCs and Entrepreneurs going into 2010.

Bio:Mr. Wong has 28 years experience in technology and has raised over $130M from Venture Capital funds and corporate strategic partners. He is currently the Chairman of The Austin Technology Council and working as a Venture Advisor.
Mr. Wong was President and CEO of D2Audio Corporation (audio chips and systems) until it’s acquisition by Intersil Corp. Previously, he was CEO at Primarion Inc, (data communications and Power Management), which was acquired by Infineon.
He has also held roles as a Sr. Manager at TRW and as an engineer at Xerox.
He also serves on the Boards of the UC Davis ECE Department, The Austin Chamber of Commerce, and TeXchange.
Mr. Wong has a BSEE from UCLA an MSEE from USC.

Comments (0)What's the new new thing that VCs want to fund?

The Future of Green: Yin and Yang

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:40:00 PST

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How will the Future of Green impact consumers, companies and channels? And WIIFM? U.S. Green Business is leading to a higher rate of job growth, taking a bigger slice of the VC pie and has the potential impact of over $500B in the GDP over the next four years. This drive-thru topic will help you better understand some of the potential and the pitfalls of being green, buying green and going green.

Speaker: Ed Valdez
Title: Founder and Principal
Company: Ecotech Ventures

Bio: Ed Valdez is a serial entrepreneur with Fortune 100 executive expertise. He has over twenty years of international experience in the wireless/telecom and consumer electronics industries in leading high-performance sales, marketing and operations teams in the EMEA, Asia Pacific and Americas regions. Most recently, he served as President/COO of Parrot Inc., a U.S.-based start-up which he led to capture #1 market share in the Bluetooth cell phone accessories market. Valdez led Parrot’s business growth from $3M to $30M within three years in addition to contributing to a global IPO. He has served as Vice President of Solutions Marketing at Sun Microsystems and as Global Director of Marketing at Motorola he led the Go-to-Market initiative for the original top-selling RAZR phone which sold over 100M cell phones worldwide. Valdez has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.

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Web 3.0 -- drinking from the firehose and the relationship layer -- something meaningful and in-context

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:18:58 PST

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Google Wave and Web 3.0 both highlight the problem of the "Relationship Layer"....I don't have the will, capacity or bandwidth to continue to check and sort multiple email accounts, waves and socnets for inbound messages. More importantly, my communication priorities and preferences should NOT live at the mercy of the message originators' favorite tool. It's time for the social web to understand who's important to me, and to begin to route and prioritize my messages based on context and relationship strength, NOT based on the originating outbox.

Speaker: Dewey Gaedcke
Title: CEO
Company: Minggl

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Non-profits are dead, long live the social business!

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:06:42 PST

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What is a social business? An L3C? What are some examples of successful social businesses (online and offline)? The primary goal of a social business is to "do good" and, at the same time, make a profit which will be reinvested into the company to "do more good." In this talk, I will discuss some of the fundamentals of a social business, the new L3C business structure, and give a few examples of e-commerce and brick-and-mortar social businesses including Kiva, Greenling, Grameen Bank, Oliberte, she (sustainable health enterprises) and others.

Speaker: Matthew McCabe
Title: Owner
Company: GSD People

Bio: Matthew has over 12 years of diverse technical experience in the areas of software engineering, project management, business processes, and computer administration. In addition to leading GSD People, Matt develops and supports several applications that make up the Whole Foods Market purchasing system. Matthew has a B.S. degree in Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. degree in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. He also recently completed a M.S. degree in Computer Information Systems at St. Edward’s University.

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Everything You Know About Software Product Development is Wrong (Unless You Already Understand Flow).

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:52:45 PST

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Flow-based product development forms the underpinnings of contemporary software development methods like Scrum and Agile, and can enliven traditional methods like waterfall. Understanding the basics of flow will show you why Scrum, Agile, RUP, and custom processes and management work when they work. Armed with a grasp of the principles, you can continue to leverage your existing process without putting your organization through the tumult of full-blown, quadruple development process bypass surgery, while benefiting from the continuous improvement that is the heart of Lean Development and Kanban.

Speaker: Scott Bellware
Title: Founder
Company: Ampersand GT

Scott is a software product designer, developer, manager, and agile coach living in Austin, TX. Scott speaks at software industry conferences and teaches agile development practices and software production methodologies in workshops in the US, Canada, and Europe. He is the founder of the Lean Software Austin and AgileATX communities of software practitioners, and is the organizer of the Monospace, ALT.NET Open Space, and Continuous Improvement conferences in Austin. Scott served as the content chairman for the agile development track at the DevTeach conferences, as well as the chairman of the INETA Speaker Committee. He is a recipient of Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional award.

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Your product marketing sucks; Honore', Britney and Robert can help.

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:50:50 PST

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How lessons learned from Balzac's Paris, Britney Spears, and Robert Mondavi can monetize your product offering.

Comments (0)Wild Card, integrated product marketing, entrepreneurship, go-to market, messaging, positioning, cultural inclusion

Web 3.0 will be autonomous.

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:41:17 PST

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Web 1.0 was the web of readable data. Web 2.0 was defined as User Content Driven. I propose that Web 3.0 will be marked by automatic content. Mobile has been driving content out to people on demand, wherever they are, but that loop hasn't been closed yet. We are surrounded by (and carry) connected sensors more and more today, but that data hasn't really been made use of yet. By becoming aware of, and making use of that data - Web 3.0 will become location aware, context sensitive, and drive behavior automation like never before.

Speaker: Phil Wheat
Title: Self Organized Chaos
Company: Microsoft

Bio: Phil has been programming since "Open Source" meant getting your program printed in the back of Compute! magazine and suspects that some of his old COBOL and Assembly code is still in production somewhere. But despite the grey hair and legacy code, the march of software moves forward to the next world of interactivity and those few remaining moments of software slaves before the world changes yet again. Phil's current projects include Augmented Reality, Smart Environments, Knowledge Management, and his own personal Memex device!

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Google Wave: Introduction and Predictions about this Game Changing Product, Platform, and Protocol.

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:45:22 PST

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Google Wave combines chat/IM, email, video, audio and VOIP telephony through your browser. It leverages Google's other products into a one-stop shop for your web communication needs. It will reconfigure how we say, store, and share stuff on line with real time edits, bots, gadgets and a wicked smart search engine. Come learn what communicating with waves is like now and explore great things to come.

Speaker: Kevin Leahy
Title: Founder
Company: Knowledge Advocate, LLC

Bio: Leahy is a lawyer and consultant. He speaks to national and state audiences about social media, cloud computing, and collaborative environments. He co-founded Austin's Google Wave Meet Up and is an early adopter of Google Wave. He holds an appointment at UT Austin School of Law, practices litigation with Brown McCarroll, LLC, and is the founder of the question-based consulting company, Knowledge Advocate, LLC.

Comments (0)How will Google Wave change the way we communicate?, google wave collaboration communication

Augmented Reality: Getting Beyond the Hype

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:46:40 PST

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Interest in augmented reality is being driven by the convergence of handheld smartphones, faster cellular networks, and cloud computing. This meshing of digital information with real-world images is all set to take off. But a few hurdles remain. In this presentation you'll get the basic history of the industry, the issues it's facing, and a look at some of the people and projects working to make augmented reality a reality.

Speaker: whurley
Title: evil genius
Company: whurleyvision

Bio: Hurley (known in technology circles as "whurley") is the founder of whurleyvision, an augmented reality consultancy focusing on the conception, design, engineering, implementation, and promotion of various augmented reality projects. A frequent public speaker, he was named a Master Inventor by IBM and in 2008 was named one of the "Top Leaders in Open-Source Business" by LinuxWorld magazine.

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