New York Tech Meetup – September 8, 2010

The NY Tech Meetup has become the venue for presenting new start up ideas in NYC. Here is a distillation of a my learning moments at last nights event (September 8, 2010).

Apture – Simple elegant always wins

Apture may be the next generation of search. It allows webpage visitors to search on terms in the text [...]

What is the Future of Facebook?

To not be a blip in the history of techno-fads, it needs a clever approach to get beyond being primarily ad supported. It must engage a far higher level of consumer trust. [...]

What's the Big Idea?

It’s possible for everything to be buttoned up and look like you can’t fail — strong intellectual property, great ideas marketing ideas and an amazing team — and the idea is truly “too big to NOT fail.” But if it’s really a good long range vision, then there’s probably a way to engage the ideal corporate buyer to assure you hit your exit. [...]

Public Relations meets the Blog

PR is the most effective way to build mind share, marketing pull and general awareness. You must learn to craft the finer more focused little blog blasts and leverage them. Long copy still sells; you just have to build that long copy in discreet chunks and sew them together on the web. [...]

Standard Marketing Materials

The quality of these marketing assets has a direct correlation to how effective your marketing will be. [...]

Marketing Assets

Once you get all of these pieces in place you are ready to push on to creating a marketing program. [...]

Next Generation Web Video

The next generational advancement in web-video has to be the “remote control” or the way users interact with the video distribution to pick videos or sequences of videos. Logically this mean it has to be an advancement of a search and categorization – an area locked up by Google, the owner of YouTube. [...]

Web-TV Convergence, What is it?

Network TV is losing its hold on “video entertainment.” A radical market shift on TV means that there is an opportunity for the web to offer a different, hopefully superior product, for video entertainment. [...]

Do You Want or Need Venture Capital?

Not only is VC not for everyone, the odds are there are much better ways to get your business funded and profitable. [...]

What’s in a Blog

What I want to do is write a “how-to” guide for entrepreneurs. My goal is to I lay out some basics as reference information. I don’t really think my food choices are important to anyone who wants my consulting services — so for my blog, I’m writing a book about what I do. [...]