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The SiliconValley NewTech December Meetup

Dec 2008 2
Tue 7:00 PM
Location
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Estimated attendance
 145  people attended.
4.50 4.5019

Who organized?
Vincent Lauria

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Come check out the Silicon Valley New Technology Meetup to see demos of hot new web2.0 technologies and mingle with fellow entrepreneurs and investors.

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On deck:
* stockmood.com - A TechCrunch 50 finalist - Having trouble making up & down of the market news each morning? Stocknews uses machine learning to help predict the actual impact of news on a companies stock price and alert you. [Bill Hunt]
* fixya.com - With over 1 million products in its database, Fixya helps ya find manuals, get tech support, and troubleshoot your product - providing a service that many manufactures left out. [Yumio Saneyoshi]
* shoppingnotes.com - A holiday treat - ShoppingNotes lets you bookmark your favorite holiday gifts now and get notified when the price drops. [Meng-You Yang]
* rateitall.com - RateItAll has presented their 5-star online rating engine for 'everything' at a previous NewTech meetup. And this week, Lawrence is launching something 'radical' and will give the group a sneak preview. [Lawrence Coburn]

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* Location & pizza provided by:
DLA Piper

The first hour of the meetup will be demos (actual demos, no power point slides ;) The 2nd hour is for networking and taking to the presenters.

Tell all your friends about this event, just point them to NewTechMeetup.org.

Where: Google Map of the Location.

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Talk about this Meetup

  • Auri B.
    Posted Dec 3, 2008 5:28 PM
    Auri B.
    As always, it's great to see innovative ideas & technology - esp. when they are targeted at well-defined user needs that are not being served adequately by existing options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Making your product highly usable, better than your competitors, and easily understood/ appreciated by your target audience (whether in a room or online) i.e. the product mgmt aspects - are equally vital for success & I wish all our presenters/other startups the best w/ that as well!

Who attended?

  • 145 attendees
    • “ My first meeting and thought it was interesting. A bit on the warm side, but it sounds like it was one of the larger groups that have shown up. I'll definitely attend again in the future. ”
    • “ Vincent kept everything right on schedule, there was free pizza and drinks, the facility was very nice and the presentations were all interesting. There was time for questions and also time to chat afterward. ”
    • “ Room got hot. I really like the idea of including a seminar at each meetup. I think 15min would be a good length. ”
    • “ Presenters were all good and thought prevoking. Some very cool ideas (Stockmood). Another encouraging evening, looking forward to my 15 minutes ;) ”
    • Deb
      “ Excellent event. Vinnie really should be commended for running great meetups. He brings in interesting companies and keeps to a tight timeline. ”
    • “ As always, Vincent runs a well organized and exciting event and the December meeting was no exception. There was a good variety of companies presenting, and all were highly relevant and interesting. I especially liked Stockmood's approach to measuring stock sentiment and using the crowd to tune the AI model. Looking forward to the next one. ”
    • “ Interesting mix of demos and presentations. ”
    • “ Gets my triple-I rating - Information, Inspiration, Interaction! ”
    • “ Great content from the presenters... would be helpful if the presenters would repeat the questions so those in the back could hear them and how their answers relate ”
    • “ It was first time to visit Meetup. There were nice people, excited communications. I want to go next time. ”
    • “ I've been to a couple and this one left me feeling was better than usual for some reason. It's tough to network amongst all the chairs and maybe the early birds (or late folks after the presentations) could be scheduled to network in the lobby. I like the idea of educational seminars. ”
    • “ The four presentations were interesting. It is hard to network with that group when you are new. I like the idea of addin a segment of useful, interesting presentation. ”
    • “ Presenters had some good ideas, but I was disappointed by the level of UI design. Yes they were early stage firms, but other than stockmood.com, they were simplistic designs that could have been rendered in straight HTML. Far better tools are available today and I would have expected them to be used. ”
    • “ Interesting companies, some trouble getting demos to start ”
Organized by
Vincent Lauria
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Asst. Organizers:
Brian Solis

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