This week we had a visit from Kevin Fong one of the managing directors at Mayfield Fund, a venture capital firm with more than 2.7 billion dollars under management and previous investments in companies like Compaq, Genentech, Snapfish and Sandisk. In this presentation, Kevin talks about how User Generated Content (UGC) is changing traditional business models and why Silicon Valley is no longer the center of the technology world. Also, find out who makes more money: YouTube, Facebook or MySpace and why TiVo has not been the success that everyone expected.
An electric car faster than a Porche, a Ferrari or a Corvette? Impossible? No. Tesla Motors is producing an electric car that does 0-60 miles in less than 4 seconds and has enough power to drive for 250 miles with a single charge. But there’s a catch to it – the price is $100,000 – one of their customers is, Arnold Schwarzenegger current Governor of California. You will be hearing a presentation by Martin Eberhard, the CEO of Tesla Motors and a visionary with the goal of creating the greatest American car company.
- The PTC conference itself
- New trends in convergence and how its definition has shifted
- Problems facing VoIP companies and in particular Vonage, who’s IPO was a disaster last year
- Internet penetration in the Asia-Pacific region
- The recent cable crisis in Taiwan
This week we had a visit from Kevin Fong one of the managing directors at Mayfield Fund, a venture capital firm with more than 2.7 billion dollars under management and previous investments in companies like Compaq, Genentech, Snapfish and Sandisk. In this presentation, Kevin talks about how User Generated Content (UGC) is changing traditional business models and why Silicon Valley is no longer the center of the technology world. Also, find out who makes more money: YouTube, Facebook or MySpace and why TiVo has not been the success that everyone expected.
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