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I really need to find an original way of talking about the conferences I attend

Howdy! First, to all of you really anxious to follow me around (but don't feel obliged, really) twitter (here) is where my “creativity” expresses itself these days. In short bursts of 140 characters max - which I found amazingly annoying but now really appreciate.

May has been crazy busy at work, lots of good developments in the portfolio, and lots of thoughts put in the scaling of my own business. And of course a bunch of conferences. And June is going to look pretty much the same.

First, I am writing this from SFO on my way to Amsterdam, where the Next Web conference is taking place this Friday. A great line-up of keynote speakers, and the super nice organizers, has led me to accept to fly to Europe for a couple of days (ouch). I'll write my preso in the plane on “Investing Around The Globe and the New Connectedness”.

Then, I will speak at SuperNova 2007, the conference put together by Kevin Werbach that takes place on June 20/22 in San Francisco. I will be on the investors panel and might disclose a new investment I have made there and then.

Finally, I will attend another DealMaker Media Under the Radar event, this one on Entertainment and Media (Disclosure: I suggested a few names of companies in the category and was asked to sit on the selection committee of the event). It will take place on June 28th at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View.

More when I get to Amsterdam, the plane has pulled back from the gate and the flight attendant is not happy that I tell her that I have to publish this. See you on the other side :-).

Another week, another bunch of conferences and events

You might think that I am spending all my time speaking at, or attending, conferences and there are some weeks where that feels very true. This week is one of those, with a few back to back events that are worth mentioning.

Monday 5/7 is the day of Startup Camp II, at the Westin San Francisco Market Street. I will hang out there for the day, and will probably lead/participate to a startup financing session, but there will be a lot of very interesting discussions.
Update: I just posted the slides that I used in the session this morning. Thanks to all involved for your participation and your many questions.
Update II: a few people complained that they could not really make sense of the slides (like the empty slides on Growth and Exit). This might indeed be the case since their sole purpose is to synthesize the points I covered in my talk.

Tuesday 5/8 sees the start of Software 2007 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara CA), a conference focused on the enterprise software market that will last for 2 days. As already mentioned, Ismael Ghalimi and I will lead the Enterprise 2.0 theme, made up of four panels.

Finally, I want to give a big shout to David Beach, the new co-chair of the SDForum Search SIG. He has put together a very interesting event for Tuesday Night over at Google on People Search. Very interesting topic that has seen a bunch of activity over the past couple of years, and it is just the beginning. Companies participating are Wink, ZoomInfo and Spock - Mike Arrington will be mc'ing. You can still attend that event by registering on site just before the session.

I will also swing by Stirr's Founder Mixer 2.5 on Wednesday. Another shout to Sanford Barr for starting this event that has become a must attend in the Bay Area for startup entrepreneurs, established companies and financiers.

Do come and chat if you are attending any of these events.

Tags: startupcamp2, searchsig, software2007