User:Sj/EmVent

The Emerging Ventures conference in Boston is being held October 11 & 12, 2005, at the Boston Ritz. I'll attend as much of it as I can; Tuesday is easier for me than Wednesday. If there are particular sessions you'd like to see covered, or speakers you'd like me to interview, leave a note on my talk page. You are welcome to add story ideas and suggestions below. Sj 01:15, 5 October 2005 (UTC) Panelists | Speakers | Young companies | Detailed company schedule

Basic plans

 * Talk to Sagan @ Akamai -- a local mover. What does he see as the future of distributing/caching information?
 * Interview Tony Lee, who has made a career out of gathering and spanning large bodies of information (about real estate, politics, and jobs/careers). Ask about making businesses out of free-content databases and classification systems; compare the current eHow with its predecessors.
 * the publisher of The Wall Street Journal Online Vertical Network, which includes CareerJournal.com, OpinionJournal.com, StartupJournal.com, RealEstateJournal.com, CollegeJournal.com, CareerJournalEurope.com and CareerJournalAsia.com. Mr. Lee also oversees “Political Diary,” a paid email newsletter about politics. He sits on the board of CareerCast, a software firm that develops scalable web-based job-board solutions for the Internet's leading media companies, and is a board member of the Newspaper Association of America’s New Media Federation. Previously Mr. Lee co-authored “The Jobs Rated Almanac” (2002, Barricade), and “Career Choice, Change and Challenge” (2000, JIST Pub.). Earlier Mr. Lee was editor-in-chief of the "National Business Employment Weekly" and of "Managing Your Career", both published by Dow Jones & Co.
 * Update: not free during the conf, can do an interview some other time; perhaps the following week, or via email?


 * Large, slow story:
 * Startups in '06 : Where to find good global information about young technologies, startups, markets, vendors and investors. Contrast: VCs looking for startup info, startups looking for other info.  Ask individuals where they personally look.


 * Snapshot piece:
 * on the smorgasbord of startups and companies on display - a sentence about each of the 50 'hand-picked' young companies strutting their stuff; a few choice photos; a sense of what it's like to be there.