Twitter Inc. is all the rage this year, but what's next? To search for the next big hit on the Internet, we went to Shake Shack II, the hottest party on the New York tech scene where we chatted with venture capitalists, angel investors and entrepreneurs.
The most popular answer to who will score the next home run was Foursquare Labs Inc., a New York mobile social networking startup whose $1.35 million first-round financing earlier this month was the most competitive in recent memory. Watch the video above or download it on iTunes. (See below the video for more of The Deal's coverage of Shake Shack II.) - Mary Kathleen Flynn
Special thanks to the following for participating in The Deal's What's the next Twitter? video poll: Divya Gugnani (Behind the Burner), Jason Schwartz (Angelsoft), Adam Schwartz (Group SJR), Avner Ronen (Boxee), Bijan Sabet (Spark Capital), Alan Patricof (Greycroft Partners), Roger Ehrenberg (angel investor), Sita Vasan (Intel Capital), Chantelle Karl (Yelp), Mark Josephson (Outside.in), Jim Louderback (Revision3), Reece Pacheco (Overtime Media) and Drew Lipsher (Greycroft Partners). Thanks, too, to Charlie O'Donnell (Path101.com), nextNY and Shake Shack.
Credits for The Deal's video go to: Tom Groppe (executive producer), Maria Woehr (producer, camera crew), Mary Kathleen Flynn (correspondent), Vipal Monga (director, camera crew, editor), George White (camera crew, editor), Neil Buchalter (photo editor) and Brennen Wysong (copy editor).
For more of The Deal's coverage of Shake Shack II, see:
Betaworks co-founder John Borthwick tells The Deal the next big Internet development is the Web of Things.
Path101.com co-founder Charlie O'Donnell explains why he founded the nextNY group for up-and-comers in the tech and new-media fields and why he hosted the Shake Shack II party.
Yelp is the next big thing?
Umm... Thanks, PR girl.