Hearst Archive

Tonight the nextNY group held a business development session named, "The Business Development Discipline: Practitioners’ Roundtable". About 50 people attended the session where a variety of business development topics were discussed. Most of the discussion was around business development for "major" startups and large companies.

The evening’s speakers included:

• Chris Phenner – VP of Business Development, Thumbplay (left side of camera)
• Dan Rosenberg – VP of Business Development, Rave Wireless (right side of camera)
• Matt Milner – VP of Social Media, Hearst Corporation (right side of camera)

I was able to tape the first hour of the discussion and part one (30 minutes) is below. The other half of the discussion will be posted on Tuesday morning.

Earlier this year, the nextNY group held a workshop on hiring for startups. If you plan to do any hiring for your startup, the videos are a must watch.

Hearst digital out of the U.K. has announced that they have hired Pluck to power their social networking portals on a variety of Hearst digital properties. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Hearst digital claims to reach  four million women every month — one third of all women online in the UK.

The initial set of Web sites that Pluck will power include:

• www.handbag.com
• www.netdoctor.co.uk
• www.getlippy.com
• www.allaboutyou.com
• www.cosmopolitan.co.uk
• www.prima.co.uk
• www.goodhousekeeping.co.uk
• www.countryliving.co.uk

Other players in this space include NY-based KickApps and Magnify.net along with Valley-based Ning. With the huge number of magazine Web sites that Hearst maintains in the U.S. will Pluck soon power those as well?