TechCrunch MeetUp 11 with IDG Ventures Boston

Details

Date: November 16, 2007
Time: 6 - 11 pm
Location: The Estate (Maps: Google / Microsoft / Yahoo)

Video Highlights

Special thank you to Chris Brogan for video highlights and editing and to Brightcove for use of their customized player.

Thank you MeetUp 11 Sponsors

Venue Co-Host:

IDG Ventures Boston is an early-stage venture capital firm that enables entrepreneurs to grow innovative, global companies. With $280 million under management, the firm is focused on investing in consumer, information and life sciences technology companies. IDGVB portfolio companies that will be represented at TechCrunch MeetUp Boston include Acinion, BzzAgent, go2 Media, GuildCafe, Infobright, Mall Networks, MOBIVOX, SimpleTuition, Transpera and VidSys. We are always looking for great entrepreneurs to work with. If you have an innovative idea, come see us at the party!

Partner and Product Launch Sponsors:

The market-leading Internet TV platform, Brightcove, is used by media businesses around the world to distribute and monetize direct-to-consumer, broadband video programming. Download a free white paper on launching your own ad-supported Internet video destination at http://www.brightcove.com/techcrunch. Join leading news and entertainment programmers already using Brightcove, including British Sky Broadcasting, CBS Corporation, Wall Street Journal, Fox Entertainment Group, MTV Networks, The New York Times Company, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, and Time, Inc.

Moola represents a new category in the multi-billion dollar casual gaming industry. By fusing together popular Web 2.0 trends such as social networking and social gaming, Moola has created a “Massively Multi-player Rewards Game” (MMRG) that is half loyalty program and half super-jackpot game show. Unlike traditional loyalty rewards programs where benefits are accumulated slowly and limited to what individuals collect, Moola players can build up their rewards accounts faster by working their way up the tournament and winning real money in head-to-head games with opponents. By earning rewards and winning games, members climb the “Moola Tower” for real cash prizes ranging from $10 to $10 million. Moola’s 175,000+ member community, self-described as ‘Moolagans,’ have (to-date) exchanged over $4 million in head-to-head game play. It is free to play. Request your invitation to Moola’s beta site. See highlights from Moola’s $5,000 Boston MeetUp contest here.

Mzinga provides workplace and customer community solutions that transform business processes to produce a more energized workforce, greater customer loyalty, and positive bottom line impact.

Mzinga is the Swahili word for “beehive,” the universal symbol of teamwork, perseverance, and collaboration. With 2.7 million registered users in 160 countries worldwide, Mzinga is the leader in helping companies leverage their most valuable asset – people – to achieve competitive advantage.

To learn more about how we can help you leverage the power of community to drive business performance, contact us at www.mzinga.com.

OurStage is the only purely democratic online competition where the fans decide who’s the best in emerging music, film and video. The OurStage mission is to help talented artists achieve critical exposure by solving the greatest challenge on the Internet today: sorting quality content from the sea of mediocrity online. OurStage provides a neutral, trusted, game-free platform, in which the true judgment of the fans drives the best content to the top. Through its wealth of partner programs, including Open Labs, Bonnaroo, Virgin Festival, Bumbershoot, Paste, CMJ, PLUG Awards, Daytrotter, Slamdance, Relix, Gen Art, Noise Pop, Videomaker, IFFBoston, and many others, OurStage offers worthy artists real opportunities to actually launch their careers.

Each month, 25 million people visit TripAdvisor.com to start their travel plans. Join our team of passionate, smart and savvy professionals who are pioneering the next generation of online travel guides. We’re a leader in Web 2.0 functionality, including the use of wiki technology to keep our travel reviews constantly updated. While we can’t offer free trips around the world, we’ll give you the opportunity to blaze new virtual trails every day. Please also visit: www.tripadvisor.com/jobs.

ZoomInfo: a business information search engine used to quickly find information about 3.5 million companies and 40 million business people. ZoomInfo has two enterprise subscription products: PowerSell, which is used by sales and marketing professionals to identify business opportunities, and PowerSearch, which is used by recruiters to locate talent and by anyone conducting in-depth research. More than 2,000 customers, including Yahoo!, Microsoft, Oracle, PepsiCo and 20% of the Fortune 500 use ZoomInfo’s patented search tools. ZoomInfo also allows people to conduct free company searches and find people by name on www.ZoomInfo.com. Currently, five million people conduct more than 14 million searches each month on ZoomInfo’s free site.

Communications Sponsor:

PerkettPR, Inc. provides results-based communications solutions for emerging Web 2.0 companies and established technology leaders. With an innovative virtual business model, their all-senior team delivers creative and effective PR campaigns for a selective client roster that spans the globe - including private, entrepreneurial companies as well as global, public enterprises. PerkettPR has been nationally recognized for exceptional client results, business leadership and innovative human resources initiatives - working smarter for today’s results-driven businesses. For more info: www.perkettpr.com or www.perkettprsuasion.com.

Product Sponsors:

Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment (CME) is intelligently connecting gamers on a massive scale with its innovative Social Networks at Play™ (SNAP) games. CME is building a portfolio of online games that capitalize on established and emerging business models including retail box sales, monthly subscriptions, micro-transactions and in-game advertising. CME currently has four studios working on a variety of games including the AAA massively multiplayer online game, Stargate Worlds™.

CoreBlox is all about enabling people to easily locate and exchange information. Whether you’re a business looking to support your partners and customers, or a Facebook user looking to find new friends or share your kids’ lives, we offer simple ways to enhance your online interactions. Check out our SaaS customer support portal which emphasizes self-service and automates channel services management plus our latest CoreBlox Labs graduates, Locate Friends and I Have Kids applications for Facebook, at www.coreblox.com.

NowHound.com is the Internet’s first live-media search, and is launching out of stealth mode during the TechCrunch Boston Meetup. With NowHound, find What’s on Now, and What’s on Next.

Power Play Development Corporation is the parent company of Poker Creations, a gaming software development company and National League of Poker, the Internet’s leading poker-centric social media portal. The Company was founded in 2004 to target the US-legal online poker market. PPDC offers free to play online gaming solutions to US-based users with the chance to win cash and prizes.

MyPunchbowl is a new website for event and party planning. With unique features such as: “Pick a Date”, “Save the Date”, “Party Checklist” and more, MyPunchbowl offers a modern and easy user interface and tools for every phase of party planning. Sign up for a free account at: http://www.mypunchbowl.com.

SnapYap is an exciting new suite of live video communications tools, the first of which is launching during the TechCrunch Boston Meetup. The SnapYap Caller allows anyone with an internet connection to make live video calls and instantly send video messages without any software downloads. Check out SnapYap’s video wall of the MeetUp. Bloggers: post to the wall and link to your coverage of the event.

Wine Library TV seeks to break down the barriers, stereotypes, and misperceptions that otherwise prevent people from exploring and enjoying the exciting and rewarding world of wine. Gary Vaynerchuk, the star of Wine Library TV, is Director of Operations at Wine Library in Springfield, NJ. Wine Library TV airs 5 days a week (unless Gary’s precious Jets are playing), with new episodes appearing between 4:00 and 6:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. In each episode, Gary tastes wines on the fly-it is unrehearsed, unscripted, and off-the-cuff. As Gary likes to say, he shoots from the hip, but always from the heart. Most of all, WLTV strives to be fun, which is just what we feel wine should be.

Event Sponsors:

Prism VentureWorks (Westwood, MA, Santa Monica, CA) is a venture capital firm built by experienced entrepreneurs in technology and life sciences. With approximately $1.25 billion in capital under management across five funds, Prism’s primary goal is to deliver superior value to its investors. Its partners have served as the founders, CEOs and senior executives of numerous venture-backed companies enabling Prism to identify and work closely with companies with the potential to be market leaders

Equal parts incubator and American Idol, You Be the VC is a competition to find the best new entrepreneurs in the U.S. New company ideas are submitted and judged by business leaders, then selected by voters on the You Be the VC site, which also serves as an online community for people interested in building new companies.

Eventbrite is the best way to publish, promote and sell-out your next event. Their service provides integrated organizational services to ensure your event is a success.

We’d like to also thank Memo Media for making us and our sponsors shine in the digital signage displayed at the meetup; and, Gary Vaynerchuk at Wine Library TV for supplying our delicious wine for the evening.

Michael, Erick, Heather, and Jeanne look forward to seeing you there.