I'm serving as a member of the selection committee at an upcoming
Under the Radar conference focused on startups developing web applications for businesses. Organized by Dealmaker Media and taking place in March in Silicon Valley, 32 companies that launched within the past year and operating in one of the following categories will participate:
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Development Tools
- Mobile Apps
- On Demand / Web Services (Apps)
- Storage
- Productivity
- Publishing Tools
- Rich Internet Apps
- Search
- Social Networks
- Sync
If you would like to nominate a company to present at the conference and benefit from the attention of members of the press, investment and corporate communities, you can do that here before Thursday, December 20th.
Members of the selection committee include:
Richard MacManus | ReadWriteWeb
Anne Zelenka | WebWorkerDaily (a GigaOm site)
Pete Cashmore | Mashable
Robert Scoble | Scobleizer
Ismael Ghalimi | IT|Redux
Marshall Kirkpatrick | New Media Consultant
Josh Jaffe | Tech Confidential
Jon Burke | alarm:clock
Rafe Needleman | Webware
Leon Ho | Lifehack.org (a Stepcase site)
Bryce Roberts | O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures
Stowe Boyd | Message
Brian Solis | bub.blicio.us
This area of enterprise web applications, also referred to as Enterprise 2.0, is something that currently seems to be dominated by the slew of SaaS startups, Google's ambitions around Apps and Docs as well as by older privately held startups such as LinkedIn, Zoho and Socialtext. It will be exciting to see what services the newest companies are bringing to this market. -
Joshua Jaffe
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