IBDNetworks Relaunches as Dealmaker Media

by Brian Solis on February 26, 2007

by Brian Solis

It was one of those nights again…SF Win, SF Big, SFBeta and the Insider launch party for Dealmaker Media.


Adriana Gascoigne

Ferrin Schriner and Giselle Umland of Dealmaker Media

I admire the team at IBDNetwork (Debbie Landa, Alison Murdock, Christen O’Brien, Shay Nowick, Giselle Umland, and Ferrin Schriner) and the events that they produce. So, I felt an obligation to support their relaunch as Dealmaker Media.


Debbie Landa, the ultimate “Dealmaker”


Steve Larsen, CEO of Krugle

Held at the very chic Varnish Art Gallery and Wine Bar in San Francisco, Dealmaker’s launch was indeed bub.blicio.us.

Dealmaker Media produces conferences, roundtables, blogs, and research that connect CEOs, technology executives, investors, and press together with first-hand information about private companies, emerging markets and trends, and strategies for growth.


Debbie Landa and Alison Murdock

The event was overflowing with influencers at every level, CEOs, VCs, bloggers, reporters, and biz dev execs. Conversations spanned from technology, Web 2.0, as well as the ever popular exploration as to whether or not we’re in a bubble and if so, when will it pop.


Stowe Boyd


Peter Pham of Photobucket


David Fleck of Bittorrent, Christen O’Brien and Cody Willard, thestreet.com


Julia French

Those in attendance – and those I was able to hold dialog for a meaningful bit of time included Jeremy Toeman of Livedigitally, Gabe Rivera of Techmeme, Stowe Boyd, Adriana Gascoigne, Dan Farber of CNET, Steve Larsen of Krugle, Jason Hoffman of Joyent, Joanne Wan of GigaOm, Annette Kildunne of Invest Northern Ireland, Jing Liu of Mino and Lisa Padilla, vlogger.


Joanne Wan of GigaOm


Jason Hoffman of Joyent

Congratulations to the Dealmaker Media team. The event was well received and it definitely consumed most of my evening, only leaving room for one more event that night – which turned out to be SFBeta.

Looking forward to their next event, Under The Radar: Why Office 2.0 Matters.

For more pictures from the event, jump to the flickr stream.

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