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The Opportunities to Create New, Billion-Dollar Media and Internet Brands in Mobile
Mobile innovation continues at a rapid pace globally, with startups and incumbent media and telecommunications companies creating new services across content, communication, commerce, and community applications. Hoping to create mobile parallels for successes like Google, Hotmail, eBay, MySpace, and others, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs aggressively are pursuing new investments, both in line with and around carriers' business models. Further, media and Internet firms and wireless carriers are active in new brand creation, through, for example, made-for-mobile content production and self-branded service launches, respectively.
However, questions remain about whether the mobile industry actually will witness new billion-dollar consumer properties. Is mobile as a domain distinct enough from other domains? Will the user experience be facile enough for mass service adoption? Is the mobile ecosystem fluid enough to generate large scale businesses? In this session, Internet pioneers, mobile entrepreneurs, wireless carriers, and media incumbents will discuss the prospects, applications, and challenges for new mobile brand creation in media and the Internet.
| Rajeev Chand |
Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst, Wireless |
Rutberg & Company |
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| Sumit Agarwal |
Senior Product Manager |
Google |
| Justin Siegel |
Co-Founder and CEO |
Mocospace |
| Bill Stone |
CEO |
Handango |
| Peters Suh |
President |
Vodafone Ventures |
| Geoff Yang |
Founding Partner |
Redpoint Ventures |
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