Nitron Advisors CEO Speaks at TiECON East
Boston, Massachusetts—June 19, 2006—TiE, the Global Network for Entrepreneurs, invited David Teten, CEO, Nitron Advisors, to speak at TiECON East in Boston, MA, from June 15 to June 17. Mr. Teten participates on two panels “Trends in Investment Research and Due Diligence” and “Trends in Online Networks and Social Software.”
With over 1,200 expected attendees, TiECON East will be the largest Global Innovation conference on the East Coast. The members of the sponsoring organization TiE receive roughly 5 percent of the venture capital investment in the United States.
Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the UN, was the keynote speaker of the conference.
Key speakers at the conference included:
- Howard Anderson, Founder Battery Ventures and The Yankee Group
- Nikesh Arora, VP & GM Europe, Google
- Clayton M. Christensen, Professor, Harvard Business School, Author, The Innovator's Dilemma
- Rajat Gupta, Senior Partner Worldwide, McKinsey & Co
- Ray Kurzweil, Author & Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence
- Venkat Ramaswamy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
- Paul Sagan, CEO, Akamai
- Mohanbir Sawhney, Professor, Kellogg School of Management
- Howard H. Stevenson, Professor, Harvard Business School
- Hatim Tyabji, Executive Chairman, Bytemobile, Inc.
While speaking on the topic “Trends in Investment Research and Due Diligence,” David Teten, CEO, Nitron Advisors, gave an overview of his company’s business model and discussed points to measure the ROI of research.
Speakers present at the panel included Graham Field, MD, AQ Research (Moderator); Susan Oh, Director & Senior Analyst, Merrill Lynch; Dave Furneaux, Founder & Managing General Partner, Kodiak Venture Partners; Gregory Locraft, VP, MFS Investment Management; and David Teten, CEO, Nitron Advisors.
For a more detailed transcript of the discussion of this panel, visit http://snipurl.com/1r9vc.
While speaking at the panel discussing on the topic “Trends in Online Networks and Social Software,” the speakers noted that social networking affects public visibility with people spending more time on the Internet than on broadcast TV. The experts also spoke about the relationship between social networking and the recruitment process of a company. They also noted that younger people post their information and images in the social networking sites without sometimes realizing the consequences of such postings or how this information would be used. Speaking at the panel, Mr. Teten identified that the TiECON East provides an excellent platform for social networking and also agreed that online networks acts as an “add” rather than replacement to face-to-face networking. Various blog sites help people create and post their identity on the Internet. Websites, such as Ziggs and LinkedIn, provide blog search engines with profiles of people that can be created and posted for free. Experts also agreed that online social networking allows quick, informal interactions and also that online networks are going mobile. Mr. Teten concluded the session saying that “The future is here, it is just not evenly distributed.”
Speakers present at the panel included Angela Biever, Managing Director, Consumer Internet sector, Intel Capital; Tim DeMello, Chairman & CEO, Ziggs Inc.; Torsten Jacobi, CEO & Director, Creative Weblogging Ltd.; John Younger, CEO and Founder, Accolo; and David Teten, CEO, Nitron Advisors.
For a more detailed transcript of the discussion of this panel, visit http://snipurl.com/1r9vh.
For more information, contact the TiE-Boston office at (781) 272-3875 or visit www.tieconeast.com.
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