Here in New York, there’s no shortage of networking opportunities for entrepreneurs. The “city that never sleeps” is teeming with conferences, happy-hour meet-ups and business-plan competitions for start-ups.
Some people go to conferences for the networking, others go for the keynote session and still others, apparently, go for the dancing. Not this year.
One of the highlights of the annual Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose, Calif., has been Google’s party, known as “Google Dance,” at its Mountain View headquarters. The search giant canceled it this year, however, citing cost-cutting efforts.
The Q1 earnings period could be a tough one for networking equipment companies; estimates for the likes of Cisco and Juniper in particular have continued to edge lower. William Blair analyst Jason Ader this morning weighed in with updates on those two stocks and a couple of others following a late March survey with 36 VARs in the U.S. and the U.K. Ader joined the chorus of estimate cutters; but he sees improvement on the horizon.
The rumor mill has been swirling for months now that Cisco Systems, the giant maker of networking hardware, is going to start selling computers, too. The big reveal is almost here: Cisco on Monday plans to tell the world what it has been working on in secret for the last two years.
There are two places most of today’s laid-off executives are heading: to job-search sites to see what other opportunities are out there and to networking sites in hopes they can reconnect with–and milk leads from–former colleagues and business contacts. One site, LinkedIn, offers both of those things in one place.
Where everyone else sees economic gloom and doom, Reid Hoffman sees opportunity. As the freshly minted CEO of LinkedIn (and its founder), he is shepherding a moneymaking tech company in battered Silicon Valley. And he anticipates more growth next year. That is no small achievement.
Nortel Networks, the once multibillion dollar telecom vendor now trading as a micro cap, may be considering offers of as much as $1 billion for its product portfolio of gear that lets phone companies string Ethernet networking to homes and businesses.
This week’s column carries what in the news business is called a dateline, signifying physical presence. Physical presence? Isn’t this the digital era, when we’re all happy to be cocooned in our own online worlds, no longer requiring human interactions?
I usually go to at least one networking event a week … to speak, moderate a panel, or simply schmooze and troll for story ideas. Inevitably, I meet a few people at each gathering who are unemployed, and have decided to start networking because they need a new job. Could anything be tougher than making new professional connections while being known, first and foremost, as someone who is desperate for his next gig?
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