Internet Week New York Archive

As part of Internet Week NY, the VC Bootcamp is presenting a live discussion for entrepreneurs seeking advice on venture capital and angel financing. Presenters will discuss a broad range of topics regarding the venture capital fundraising process, such as strategies to secure an initial meeting with an investor, how to best present your idea, financing strategies and alternatives, overview and timing of the process, identifying and negotiating key business and legal points of the deal, and how to position the company for a successful liquidity event.

Tonight’s presenters include:

• Selim Day, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
• Adam Dinow, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
• David Rose, New York Angels

You can watch the live video below or on Livestream.
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Here are some photos from the expo hall at the Internet Week NYC headquarters.

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This week brings the third annual InternetWeek to NYC. There are a wide variety of events across the city. Many are already sold out – you can find a full list on the IWNY site.  Check Gary’s Guide for a comprehensive list of events in your city. Here are a few events that still have open seats.

Dave Winer will moderate a panel - Sources Go Direct – about news and journalism on Wednesday afternoon. Panelists include Rachel Sterne from GroundReport, Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures and Nick Denton from Gawker Media. It’s free and there will be time to mingle after the panel.

Monday evening entrepreneurs will come together to learn how to start a venture and how to find a cofounder. Speakers include Howard Morgan from First Round Capital, Jeff Stewart from Mimeo and Stephen Messer from Linkshare.

Mobile Monday should be hot this month with the Apple WWDC and all the talk about a new iPhone. Another Monday evening event.

Tuesday evening showcases a variety of media personalities at The Future of Media 2010.

Tuesday afternoon Brooklyn-based Drop.io will host a talk at the IWNY headquarters about business models and cloud services.

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NYC will host the third annual Internet Week next week. There about 150 events across the city in a wide variety of content types and parties.

If you are a developer, one event worth registering for is the Chrome Extensions Hackathon. The event will be held at the Google offices in NYC on June 10th. If you are interested in building extensions for Chrome, this is the place to be. The last Google Hackathon in NYC was centered around maps and I found it to be extremely useful as you get to speak with Google developers one-on-one for help and advice. Google Developer Programs Engineer Arne Roomann-Kurrik will be flying in from the valley to lead the event.

Register here for the event (it’s free) – make sure to register soon as space is limited.

I’ve received the following notice from a few people – looks like the NY State Senate will be unveiling a new website and some other online initiatives tomorrow. I plan to attend and will grab whatever information I can. Here’s the full announcement:

Imagine a State where you could find out what your government is up to  with just one click of the mouse.

What if that State were New York That is the goal of the new New York Senate’s website http://NYSenate.gov.

Though we live in the 21st century, most government bodies remain  stuck in the technological dark ages. No longer. Under the leadership  and vision of Majority Leader Malcolm Smith, your New York Senate is  undertaking a series of reforms that will shift the way New York State  government operates. Rules reform was the first step and the goal of 
these reforms is to return government to the people of New York.

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Last month during NYC"s first Internet Week, Federated Media held their Conversational Marketing Summit. I was scheduled to cover the event but after Dave McClure offered me a speaking opportunity at the same time at Graphing Social Patterns, I had to pass on CMS. Luckily the Federated Media team has posted videos of the entire event and if you are into social media, internet marketing or the "conversation" – the videos are well worth watching. The audio is perfect for an iPod walk or for a train ride.

The videos aren’t embed friendly which is interesting because that’s limiting the conversation. Wouldn’t Federated Media want viewers to spread the videos and thereby share the conversation? John, do the smart thing and make the videos embeddable!

Anyway, there’s 16 hours of free videos from a group of industry experts – get your watch on!

Tonight Mashable held an expo which was really more like a party that had a few companies demo their goods. I liked the setup which had the demos along the outside wall which allowed for a pinch more movement throughout the club. It was great to meet even more CN readers, thanks ya’all! CafeMom wins the award for the best giveaway of 2008 – I won’t tell you what it is now, you will need to wait until I use it in an upcoming video. I will give you one hint… it has a magnet. Here are some photos with my captions (view all photos):

Pete is excited to touch the Magnify.net mascot (w/Steve Rosenbaum of Magnify.net)

Sanford Dickert (pictured in middle) learns that the 3G iPhone will be available next week

Joanne from Rocketboom asks this man which is the better blog: Mashable or CenterNetworks? You know what his answer was!

Brett Petersel of Mashable and his sister (unknown name)

Brian Solis of Future Works PR

Nicole Jordan of RubiconProject wasn’t smiling – I handed her a CN sticker and instantly she started to smile!

Michael Chin of KickApps

Sarah Austin of Pop17 and Andrew Baron of Rocketboom pimp Victor’s Cafe

Alana Taylor pulls a Calacanis and some unknown man makes Mahalo looking hand motion

Leora Zellman shows off what a $30/arse placement would look like

WellcomeMat man gets all the ladies (and no, that’s not iJustine)

Dani Horowitz of DaniWeb smiles with glee after learning she was the 1,000,000 visitor to CN today and won this cool sticker!

I bought Mashable Editor Adam Ostrow a few beers and then he was willing to pimp CN