Web Business Models: “What’s Next?”
The Englishman Fine Art Gallery - - 425 Peachtree Hills Ave NE - Gallery Twenty Eight -
Atlanta, GA 30305 - - (404) 869-3469 - - - - 6:30 Hors D'Oeuvres served during networking - -
Program begins at 7:30pm
This event is postponed until further notice - Due to circumstances beyond our control Web 2.0 is Driving a New Revolution for All Stakeholders:
Business models used to be simple: What do you sell to whom, and for how much? Then along came the dot com boom, and for a while, the concept of a "business model" seemed difficult to define. The bust ushered in a return to normalcy…at least on the surface. But the Internet revolution continued to bubble away, far away from the public eye. In the past few years, Web 2.0 has brought a new revolution: Companies that create value without a traditional business model. YouTube, Skype, MySpace, Photobucket…all sprang up and succeeded without traditional business models. Yet today’s Internet startups seem to hearken back to the last boom, with traction and AdSense substituted for eyeballs and DoubleClick. Is there a there there? We’ve all heard the buzzwords: blogging, RSS, social networking. But how should we think about this next generation of business models? Today’s innovation is about openness, user(s) decision making, authenticity and collaboration. Interactivity, connecting individuals around the globe, social software, usability, and community networking are fast becoming the new business model criteria. Tim O'Reilly reports that the core competencies of web-based (Web 2.0) companies are: - Services, not package software, with cost-effective scalability
- Control over unique, hard-to-recreate data sources that get richer as more people use them
- Trusting users as co-developers
- Harnessing collective intelligence
- Leveraging the long tail through customer self-service
- Software above the level of a single device
- Lightweight user interfaces, development models, AND business models
How do these core competencies drive the new business models emerging? Please join the HBSTech Alumni organization, based in Silicon Valley as we discuss the vision of web business models with an experienced, well-positioned speaker panel. See speaker names and bio's below: When: Tuesday, October 23rd. [6:30 Networiking - - Program begins at 7:30] Atlanta, GA 30305 (404) 869-3469
Related Articles What is Web 2.0? by Tim O'Reily Spekaers: § John Linss, CEO at CoreSpeed
§ Michael Sha, Co-Founder, Wikinvest
§ Nikki Santora, Founder and CEO, Kinnction.com
§ Mark Van Laeke, President and Founder, CI Radar
Moderator: Karae Lisle, President of HBSTech
Event Producer: Elizabeth Deschenes, Sales and Business Development, Price Waterhouse Coopers
Speaker Bio's
John Linss, CEO at CoreSpeed
John is currently CEO at CoreSpeed, an Atlanta-based provider of a branded online community and enterprise social media platform, which incorporates Web 2.0 social media tools to provide collaboration and communications around traditional customer, prospect, employee, and supply chain and partner touch-points. As a serial entrepreneur, John has extensive experience in a variety of business and technology arenas. His professional career has focused on establishing, growing, or turning around innovative business ventures for companies like FirstReef, Giben America, BravePoint, and ClearNova. John has also served as an adjunct professor in the Emory University Goizueta School of Business teaching business and technology. His formal education includes a Bachelor of Science major in Economics and a minor in Interpersonal Communications at the University of Georgia. Michael Sha, Co-Founder, Wikinvest
Wikinvest is meant to be a research portal where anyone can contribute information on company profiles, investment concepts, or chart analysis. The site is a competitor with financial profiles and news listed on Yahoo and Google Finance, as well as Wikia’s investment portal and company profiles on the mother of all wikis, Wikipedia. Wikinvest has closed a $2.5 million series A led by DCM and including angels. Wikinvest is just as the name suggests a wiki for investors. Prior to creating Wikinvest, Mike was an advisor and consultant to many internet and mobile startups and held key positions at Amazon.com where he launched and ran the Amazon Visa Card business, headed up product development in the Global Payments team, led a technology team focused on building new strategic partnerships and initiatives, and built sophisticated fraud detection models. Mike received a Bachelor of Arts in Applied Math and a Maters of Science in Computer Science, both from Harvard University. Nikki Santora, Founder and CEO, Kinnction.com
After leaving Microsoft Nikki founded Kinnection, Inc., which provides a safe place for families to share memories, stay connected, and preserve family history. It is a great place for families because households are at the center of our experience. Every household in the extended family has its own space and every family member is encouraged to contribute in their own way. Nikki has ten years of experience at Microsoft designing and delivering large-scale, consumer software. During her career, she managed teams working on several highly successful communication and social networking services including MSN Messenger, MSN Spaces, Outlook Express, and NetMeeting. She began her career as an instructional Designer as Microsoft. Nikki has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Masters of Science degree in Instructional Systems Design from Florida State University. Mark Van Laeke, President and Founder, CI Radar
Mark founded CI Radar in 2004 and has more than two decades of experience in founding, building and managing technology companies. Mark's background includes nine years of consulting experience with Accenture followed by the founding of two highly successful technology companies. The first, VCG, Mark started in the spare bedroom of his house in 1994 and he later grew it to attain the leading position within their industry. The most recent, CI Radar, is shaking up the technology industry with its innovative capabilities in providing competitor and market intelligence, recently being awarded the "Most Innovative New Service" award from CompTIA. Mark received his Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management with a concentration in Computer Science from Clemson University. Moderator: Karae Lisle, President of HBSTech
Karae Lisle, is the founder and a Principal at Wellbourne International, a boutique consulting firm offering sales and revenue generation strategy consulting services to help clients increase revenue growth and improve sales effectiveness. At Wellbourne, Karae provides strategic consulting for emerging growth and mature technology companies, offering proven sales and revenue-generation strategy consulting to help clients increase revenue growth and improve sales effectiveness. Clients such as Photobucket, Kodak, PayPal Mobile, Microsoft, eBay, Silicon Valley Bank and a variety of start-ups have broadly praised Karae’s "sixth sense" for closing deals, her customized approach to advising, her "raw instinctual business savvy" and her unique combination of "sales acumen … with strong analytical skills." At Oracle, Karae managed and implemented a CRM program, "Oracle 1to1", establishing and managing a global virtual team. Oracle 1to1 helped transform this leading software firm from a technology provider into an essential business solutions partner. Working in partnership with Peppers & Rogers, Karae delivered this innovative program to more than 1,000 Oracle employees and produced a variety of client briefing, seminar and workshop events for Oracle’s Global 2000 executives around the world. Karae began her career in the early 1980s at Unisys in mainframe sales. After Unisys, Karae was continually recruited to work at a host of fast-growing technology startups where she developed highly successful targeted and focused sales strategies in a variety of Sales, Marketing and Business Development roles, covering a breadth of technologies: PC’s midrange hardware, software tools and professional services. Several startups went public, and one was acquired during Karae’s leadership of driving revenue growth and customer acquisition. As General Manager, her sales team increased revenues 300% during her tenure at Zefer, a Web-design services firm. Karae holds a MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BS in Management Information Systems from Florida State University. Ms Lisle is on the Board of Advisors for the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives, is the President of HBSTech Alumni, is a Fund Development volunteer at the Computer History Museum, and is a Board of Director at the non-profit, Center for Employment Training. Ms. Lisle is an adjunct professor in the MBA program at the University of San Francisco. |
