Update from a WiMAX event in Santa Clara Dec 11

WiMAX Broadband Converging Emerging Fixed and Mobile Revenue Opportunities

I attended a MIT/Standford Venture Lab (VLAB) & SVASE event at the Intel auditorium on Dec. 11.

Opening remarks held by Sriram Viswannathan, GM of WiMAX Program Office at Intel

Moderator: Berge Ayvazian, Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee Group

Panelists:

Rama Shukla, VP Mobility Group & Director, WiMAX Program Office, Intel

Rehan Jalil, President and CEO, WiChorus (Content and Network Services)

P.Kelley Dunne, CEO, Digital Bridge Communications (WiMAX rural service provider)

Sandesh Patnam, Partner and CFO, Bay Partners (Venture Capital)

Tom Gruba, Sr Director Marketing, Motorola, MOTOwi4, WiMAX

Intel gave an overview of their plans and release of the new 2008 laptop platform heavily promoting WiMAX in addition to WiFi (Centrino). 2nd half of 2008 is target for hardware release including PC/miniPC cards. All major laptop vendors have signed on for this new platform.

WiChorus discussed their opinions for the need to think about mobile broadband internet access gateways with possibility for deep packet inspection and optimization of content.

Digital Bridge, presented their success in cost efficient deployments in USA for WiMAX services and ease of installation and use for customers. Digital Bridge has used Alvarion equipment for their deployments.

Bay Partners presented their interest in monitoring this technology area.

Motorola outlined their commitment to WiMAX in addition to other possible competing technologies such as 3G LTE (Long Term Evolution) for WCDMA and CDMA2000. Tom also debunked the speculation around Clearwire and Sprint breakup of JV. Motorola has deployed WiMAX in more than a dozen countries around the world. Tom expressed his opinions about that business cases for each service provider will determine what technology that will be used. This can be anything from availability of spectrum for WiMAX (2.5 GHz or 3.5GHz) or lack of spectrum in which case a 3G LTE solution may be better.

In any case, the overall comments were all positive on WiMAX business opportunities and that WiFi/WiMAX services combined will be here for a long time in parallel with 3G wireless evolution.

Berge from the Yankee Group reminded everybody to check the WiMAX Forum activities for upcoming events and conferences.

regards,

/Thomas

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Meet me at Mobile Entrepreneur Day in Mountain View

Mobile Entrepreneur Day - November 14, 2007
"Leveling the Playing Field: Accelerating Growth Through Partnerships"
9am-2pm, Wed 11/14/07 at the Microsoft Conference center, Mountain View, CA.

See the following url for details and registration. This is a FREE event but you have to register.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=6950409401

Please feel free to contact me for an appointment to meet at this event or before/after the event.

best regards,
/Thomas
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Best regards,
/Thomas

Crowd Sourcing - New model for building a business online

I attended an MITCNC (MIT Club of Northern California, see http://www.mitcnc.org/) event 10/9/2007 in Palo Alto, called "Crowd Sourcing". This event was moderated by Brian O' Malley, Senior Associate, Battery Ventures.

The presenters were;

Devin Poolman, COO, 8020 Publishing, http://www.8020publishing.com/
Scott Brave, CTO and Founder, Baynote, http://www.baynote.com/
Jim Fowler, CEO and Founder, Jigsaw, http://www.jigsaw.com/
Thor Muller, CEO and Founder, Satisfaction, http://www.getsatisfaction.com/

An interesting observation about these companies, they all build their business model on rapid expansion by sourcing information and conversations from the community, the "crowd" instead of trying to build the base themselves.

8020 Publishing is a hybrid media publisher who creates printed magazines by getting content from the community and conversations or voting about what should go into the magazine. Their first magazine is the JPG a picture gallery based magazine.

Baynote uses community and conversations to build search engine relevance for customers/enterprises. Instead of just getting a list of search results, you get a relevance factor sorted list of results with links to associated documents. Scott also presented interesting statistics about people's attention span. Traditional search engine hits, no 1, 100% of people pay attention to, this drops quickly down to 9.5% for hit number 10 meaning people give up there after.

Jigsaw is a business card exchange program where users can trade business cards or subscribe to the service and search/acquire business cards. Jim Fowler made comparisons to pay services such as Hoover where Hoover has to build the database. Jigsaw lets the user community build the database and provides "a carrot and a stick" model where users get challenged if they put in incorrect information in the database. Jigsaw has quickly gone from nothing to more than 6M business cards. Jigsaw as a service is used a lot by sales and recruiting people. Jim also pointed out the importance of personally contacting your early users to get traction in the community, this is very important to get enough traction to grow. I use the service myself and can highly recommend it. Join by clicking here.

Satisfaction is a community and conversations based system for customer service and how to quickly get a customer satisfied. Thor pointed out the importance of providing relevance based on instructions from the community and people who are already using a product instead of depending on each individual companies produced manuals or directions from their websites.

Please feel free to contact me for your thoughts and comments.

/Thomas

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The GoingGreen 100 Winners Posted

Check out the GoingGreen 100 Winners from the Sep 6 event at KPMG in Mountain View. A lot of interesting companies. Here's the list of the 100 companies.

Automotive & Transportation
AC Propulsion
CleanAir Logix
Myers Motors
Mygistics
Phoenix Motorcars
PML
Tesla Motors
Think Global
ZENN Motor Company


Biofuel & Agriculture
Altra Biofuels
Amyris Biotechnologies
Chemrec
Cilion
ClearFuels Technology
E3 Biofuels
Gevo
Greenfuel Technologies
Imperium Renewables
LS9
Mascoma
Mendel Biotechnology
RangeFuels
Solazyme
Targeted Growth


Energy Management & Efficiency
Blade Network Technologies
H2Gen Innovations
Silver Spring Networks
SmartSynch
Verdiem

Energy Storage
A123 Systems
Bloom Energy
Cobasys
Deeya Energy
EEStor
GridPoint **OVERALL WINNER**
Jadoo Power
Lilliputian Systems
ZPower

Nanotech & Materials
Artificial Muscle
d.light design
EoPlex Technologies
FiberTech Polymers
Hycrete
Nanoexa
Nanostellar
Serious Materials
Space-X

Clean Energy (not solar or biofuel)
Airtricitiy
CoalTek
General Compression
Great Point Energy
Nordic Windpower
Orion Energy
Powerspan
Verdant Power


Solar
Ausra
Better Energy Systems
BrightSource Energy
Daystar Technologies
Energy Innovations
HelioVolt
Innovalight
Konarka Technologies
Miasolé
Nanosolar
Silicon Valley Solar
Solaicx
SolarCity
Solaria
Solexant
SolFocus
Stion
Stirling Energy Systems


Waste Management
Earthanol
EnerTech Environmental
Intechra
iReuse
LanzaTech
MBA Polymers
TechTurn
Ze-Gen


Water
AbTech Industries
Aqua Sciences
Aquarius Technologies
Atlantium Technologies
Bio-Pure Technology
Derceto
EnviroTower
GeoPure Water Technologies
IDE Technologies
Industrial Plug and Play
Microvi Biotech
MIOX Corporation
NanoH2O
Novazone
P2W Pollution To Water
PAX Water Technologies
Poseidon Resources
Seven Seas Water
Superall Products


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/Thomas

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