Rich Seidner

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President, Silicon Valley Virtual (1994-present) My consulting and research services provide real value to my clients, because it helps them gain important new insights into markets and technologies, save money, and engage new revenue opportunities by leveraging existing assets: Managing editor (of the website and the quarterly print magazine), event program director, and technology researcher/writer for (Red Herring founder) Tony Perkins ’ new venture, the AlwaysOn-Network , profiling privately held technology companies. As program director for the event, I planned and secured all of the conference keynote speakers and panelists, including FCC Chairman Michael Powell, Qualcomm President Paul Jacobs, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and many others. By all measures (sponsorship revenue, attendee survey) the AO2006 Innovation Summit was a huge success. Currently consulting to (Macromedia's founder) Marc Canter's Broadband Mechanics . Performed strategic product planning research for Microsoft ’s WindowsMedia group on wireless and consumer media. Helped Microsoft understand the economics of broadcast signal distribution and identified new opportunities for Windows Media in wireless and consumer market segments. Microsoft loved the strategic analysis, and has incorporated my research conclusions into their product strategies. The value of the research is it's out-of-the-box analysis that illuminates the market challenges, even for a company as smart as Microsoft. Showed Oracle how to significantly improve the ROI of their streaming media initiatives, by showing which of their streaming media efforts worked economically, which didn't, and why. Authored a technology profile of Akamai Technologies for Tier-1 Research.

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