At Mobile 2.0 Rudy reminded me that he’s helping to judge the Under the Radar conference again this year. And he encouraged me to come of course, cause I’ve been hiding under a rock for months and that’s unhealthy. He’s correct.
The event takes place November 12th at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View. Here’s the schedule for the day. I see Tim Chang from Norwest is judging again this year as well. I went to the mobile focused event in 2007 and had a great time. Some of Tim’s feedback was fantastic last year, I’m looking forward to seeing his take on the current crop this year.
Some interesting companies in the lineup too. Skout did the social network for us at Mobile 2.0 and it worked out really well. They created a custom network for us. Pull down the network selection box at the top of the Skout page and you’ll see a Mobile 2.0 option. I feel so special! I keep having issues with the Flash based main interface cause I use oddball platforms like Linux on a desktop and the N810. But the mobile interface has been working out great. I was using it from my E71 while wandering around. I’m curious to see how much of their pitch is tilted toward events vs general networking tools.
A bunch of other folks I would like to catch up with too. MoFuse is going to be there, so hopefully I’ll have a chance to meet David face-to-face. We’ve emailed back and forth in a bunch of contexts, but I don’t think we’ve ever been in the same place at the same time. Would be great to meet MG Siegler too. We did a virtual interview around the Mowser/DotMobi hookup, but I’ve never met him in the really real world either. And I’m planning to catch up with Gregory there too to make some plans for future Mobile Monday events out here.
Nice critical mass of folks, and always nice to go to an event I’m not running so that I can spend more time mingling. Things like this are the reason the Bay Area rocks so much.
Thanks Mike! we’ll see you there.
And, speaking of that critical mass, these are the companies that’ll be in attendance :) http://www.undertheradar.com
Accel Partners
AdMob
AKQA
Alltel
August Capital
Battery
Bessemer Venture Partners
Billshrink
Blue Run
bluenove
BlueRun Ventures
Brightstar Corporation
Business Week
California Technology Ventures
Canaan
CBS
CellFire
Claremont Creek Ventures
CNET/WebWare
Comcast Corporation
Comcast Interactive Capital
Detecon Inc.
DOCOMO Capital Inc.
Dow Jones/VentureWire
eBay
El Dorado Ventures
Enterprise Ireland
Ericsson
Exact Software
Fast Company
First Round
Fujitsu Laboratories of America Inc.
Gabriel
Google
GotVoice
Gunderson Dettmer
Handmark
Hook Mobile
HummerWinblad
iFund
Iotum Inc
Kleiner Perkins Caufied & Byers
m-trends.org
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
Mashable
Microsoft
Mobile Marketing Watch
MobileMonday
Mobivox Corporation
Montgomery & Co. LLC
Morgenthaler Ventures
Motorola
MWW Group
NAVTEQ
Neustar
New Enterprise Associates
New Leaf Enterprises
News.com/Webware
Nikkei Electronics
Nokia
Nokia Growth Partners
Nokia Research Center
North Bridge Venture Partners
Norwest Venture Partners
O’Reilly Media
Ontela
ORACLE
Palomar Ventures
PerfectCity
PhoneFusion
Phonevite
Pinger
Progression Partners
Qipit Inc.
Qualcomm
Qualcomm Ventures
R/GA
RRE Ventures
Rustic Canyon Partners
Saban Capital
San Francisco Chronicle
Scale Ventures
Shasta Ventures
Sierra Ventures
Silicon Valley Watcher
Social Media Networks
SoftTech VC
Storm Ventures
SVB Capital
T-Mobile USA
T-Mobile Venture Fund
Thomas Weisel Partners
VantagePoint VP
Vello
Venrock
VentureBeat
VerizonWireless
Walden Venture Capital
Walt Disney Company
Webware.com
Worldview Technology Partners
Xumii
Yahoo!
I would like to meet ya face-to-face as well. Unfortunately I’m not making the trip out there. Our CEO Annette is going out for the presentation.
Too much work on my end that needs to be done :)
I’ll be out there soon enough though, I’ll be sure to let you know.
Damn! Well, I’m sure we’ll have other chances. Best of luck with the event!