Mashable NextUp NYC | Lessons from the Local Internet Startup Community April 28, 2009

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Lessons from the Local Internet Startup Community
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 | 6:00-10:00pm

The second Mashable NextUp NYC will bring together will bring together 4 successful local New York startups, Snooth, Behance, Savvy Auntie, and Aviary. The night will comprise of networking, a presentations session from the startups followed by a panel moderated by Mashable's Editor-in-Chief, Adam Ostrow.

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LOCATION:
92Y Tribeca
200 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10013

PRICING:
$20 in advance, $25 at door

FOOD AND DRINK:
Full bar and food menu available.

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SCHEDULE:
*6:00-7:15 = Open Networking
*7:15-8:15 = Opening Presentations
*8:15-8:45 = Closing Panel moderated by Adam Ostrow
*8:45-Bar Close = Open Networking

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OPENING PRESENTATIONS BY:




Snooth
http://www.snooth.com
Philip James, CEO and Mark Angelillo CTO of Snooth

Philip James and Mark Angelillo are the CEO and CTO of Snooth respectively. Snooth, with over 500,000 users a month, is the world's largest wine site - a cross between a social network and a price comparison search engine. The site features over 1 million wines with millions of review and allows users to compare prices and shop from over 10,000 stores in over 50 countries.




Savvy Auntie
http://www.savvyauntie.com
Avner Ronen, CEO and Co-Founder of Boxee

Savvy Auntie is the first multi-platform media company designed for PANKs - Professional Aunts No Kids - a term Melanie coined for the 50% of American women who are not moms and have been untapped and under-served until now. Targeting these influential women with discretionary income and time often spent on the children in their lives and on themselves, SavvyAuntie.com is the first online community for cool aunts, great aunts, godmothers and all women who love kids. Right out of the gate, SavvyAuntie.com attracted blue ribbon advertisers and sponsors, including Hasbro, Warner Brothers, Disney, Sephora and Dell. Melanie has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Business Week, Mashable, NBC, CBS, among many others, and is a regular panelist on Fox News.




Aviary
http://www.aviary.com
Michael Galpert, Co-Founder of Aviary

Aviary is a suite of powerful creative applications that you can use right in your web browser. We're on a mission to make creation accessible to artists of all genres, from graphic design to audio editing. Michael is one of the founders of Aviary, and is driven by a passion to help others do what they love and currently sits on the advisory board for Web 2.0 Expo New York, is a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Helps organize Barcamp New York and is actively involved with the NYC-based tech community group NextNY.




Behance
http://www.behance.com
Scott Belsky, Founder and CEO of Behance

Scott Belsky is the Founder/CEO of Behance, a company with a mission to organize the creative world. The Behance Network (behance.net) is the leading online platform for creative professionals to showcase their work. The < AHREF="http://actionmethod.com/">Action Method is a revolutionary online application for productivity and 'action management.'

CLOSING PANEL MODERATED BY:




Adam Ostrow, Editor-in-Chief of Mashable

Adam Ostrow joined Mashable in April 2007 and is Editor-in-Chief, responsible for day-to-day editorial coverage and direction. Previously, Adam worked at numerous startups, including co-founding one of the first hosted blogging communities, MindSay. Today, in addition to his responsibilities at Mashable, Adam is building ReadBurner, a news aggregator that analyzes what's being shared on social networks, in RSS readers, and with microblogging tools. Adam will be discussing how to navigate the blogosphere, both from the perspective of an editor and that of an entrepreneur, as well as the trends he sees driving the next generation of Web applications.