Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum - December
Saturday December 10, 2005 - 8:00AM
Baxter Hall - Caltech
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OPPORTUNITIES FOR INNOVATORS: Venturing in Online Search, Advertising & Sales
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Saturday,
December 10, 2005
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In 2005 acquisitions of online companies involved with sales, search and allied technologies have been striking: IAC/Interactive bought Ask Jeeves; Scripps paid $560 million (cash) for ShopZilla; E-Bay swallowed Shopping.com; Yahoo! bought tiny Konfabulator; AOL grabbed Weblogs; and Rupert Murdoch is on the prowl with billions of dollars. All this activity testifies to entrepreneurial opportunities for ventures that improve technology, and enhance e-commerce success: the big guys are hungry for innovation to help them compete with each other. Moreover, with its renewed vigor e-com has diversified, as both online companies that grew in situ and traditional media giants are snapping up even the smallest of enterprises.
In this context - today's keynote speaker, entrepreneurs and panelists will share their perspectives on future trends and opportunities in online advertising and sales, search, blogs and other e-phenomena, as well as what makes a company a likely target for acquisition. |
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Farhad Mohit, Co-founder and Chief Strategist, ShopZilla (now a Scripps Company) |
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Barney Pell, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Mayfield Venture Capital |
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David Hughes, CEO, The Search Agency (former Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, United Online) Craig Ogg, Co-founder, ThisNext (former Vice President of Research & Development, Stamps.com)
Joel Toledano, Director of Business Development--Search, Yahoo! |
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Michael M. Krieger, Willenken, Wilson, Loh & Stris LLP
Richard C. Hsu, Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP |
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Date:
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Saturday morning, December 10, 2005
Registration and Continental Breakfast:
8:00 a.m. at Baxter Hall, Caltech
Program: 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall, Caltech
Networking: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon at Baxter Hall, Caltech
Cost: $40.00 ($10.00 for students with full time student ID's; free to Caltech faculty and students) |
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