Mashable NextUp NYC | Lessons from the Local Internet Startup Community

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Lessons from the Local Internet Startup Community
Tuesday, April 28th | 6:00-10:00pm

The second Mashable NextUp NYC will bring together will bring together 4 successful local New York startups: Snooth, Aviary, Savvy Auntie, and Behance. The night will comprise of networking, a presentations session from the startups followed by a panel moderated by Mashable’s Editor-in-Chief, Adam Ostrow.

6:00-7:15 = Open Networking
7:15-8:15 = Opening Presentations
8:15-8:45 = Closing Panel moderated by Adam Ostrow
8:45-Bar Close = Open Networking

SPONSORS

DUB
www.dubmenow.com
DUB gives you a simple, smart way to exchange contact information from your mobile phone. The contact data loads directly to your existing mobile address book and updates automatically whenever your contact changes their information (phone, email, address, etc.). Create your mobile business card at www.dubmenow.com.

Get ready for the event:
• Create a DUB ID (name, biz name, etc.) to connect instead of email or phone
• Group Exchange – create any group and exchange contact with everyone through one message
• Address book back-up – phone dies untimely death, DUB has all your contacts ready for the new phone
• Google Maps – DUB tracks where you exchanged contact info and plots it on Google Maps

Sun Startup Essentials
www.sun.com/emrkt/startupessentials/index.jsp?CID=927386
The Sun Startup Essentials program extends to startups all the benefits of our program; benefits designed to get startups sailing to success with the right IT infrastructure. These include introductions to interested investors; discounted servers, storage and desktops; open source software such as MySQL; discounted web hosting; and free technical support and advice from Sun engineers.

OPENING PRESENTATIONS BY

Snooth
Philip James and Mark Angelillo are the CEO and CTO of Snooth respectively. Snooth, with over 500,000 users a month, is the world’s largest wine site - a cross between a social network and a price comparison search engine. The site features over 1 million wines with millions of review and allows users to compare prices and shop from over 10,000 stores in over 50 countries.

Savvy Auntie
Savvy Auntie is the first multi-platform media company designed for PANKs - Professional Aunts No Kids - a term Melanie coined for the 50% of American women who are not moms and have been untapped and under-served until now. Targeting these influential women with discretionary income and time often spent on the children in their lives and on themselves, SavvyAuntie.com is the first online community for cool aunts, great aunts, godmothers and all women who love kids. Right out of the gate, SavvyAuntie.com attracted blue ribbon advertisers and sponsors, including Hasbro, Warner Brothers, Disney, Sephora and Dell. Melanie has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Business Week, Mashable, NBC, CBS, among many others, and is a regular panelist on Fox News.

Aviary
Aviary is a suite of powerful creative applications that you can use right in your web browser. We’re on a mission to make creation accessible to artists of all genres, from graphic design to audio editing. Michael is one of the founders of Aviary, and is driven by a passion to help others do what they love and currently sits on the advisory board for Web 2.0 Expo New York, is a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Helps organize Barcamp New York and is actively involved with the NYC-based tech community group NextNY.

Behance
Scott Belsky is the Founder/CEO of Behance, a company with a mission to organize the creative world. The Behance Network (behance.net) is the leading online platform for creative professionals to showcase their work. The Action Method is a revolutionary online application for productivity and “action management".

CLOSING PANEL MODERATED BY

Adam Ostrow, Editor-in-Chief of Mashable
Adam Ostrow joined Mashable in April 2007 and is Editor-in-Chief, responsible for day-to-day editorial coverage and direction. Previously, Adam worked at numerous startups, including co-founding one of the first hosted blogging communities, MindSay. Today, in addition to his responsibilities at Mashable, Adam is building ReadBurner, a news aggregator that analyzes what’s being shared on social networks, in RSS readers, and with microblogging tools. Adam will be discussing how to navigate the blogosphere, both from the perspective of an editor and that of an entrepreneur, as well as the trends he sees driving the next generation of Web applications.