Events

2013 Research and Development Forum

The R&D Forum is targeted at resources involved with software development and product management. This includes technology managers, developers, architects, QA and product management, as well as those involved with network administration. As always, the forum is intended to be practical, interactive and thought-provoking. Our agenda includes outside experts along with individuals from across the portfolio sharing their insight on topics ranging from agile best practices to development productivity to cloud computing. As with our previous forums, there will be plenty of time for networking and discussion

05/08/2013

NYU Entrepreneurs Festival

The NYU Entrepreneurs Festival showcases and celebrates successful NYU entrepreneurs, shares stories of success (along with the challenges to overcome along the way), and connects the community to resources offered at NYU and in NYC. All keynotes and panelists are NYU student, faculty or alumni entrepreneurs. The event will feature a mixture of Keynotes, Panels, Roundtables, Workshops, a NYU Venture Showcase (feat. 30+ NYU startups) and a celebratory party (Friday evening). Hilary Gosher will be a roundtable discussion leader on the topic "The Next Step -Validating Your Concept or Idea".

Whether you're curious about entrepreneurship, have a startup, are alum, or a faculty member with cool research - the Festival is for you! NYU welcomes all members of the NYC entrepreneurship and innovation community as well.

700+ Attendees
30+ NYU startups on display
20+ NYU alumni entrepreneurs speakers
20+ Startup Roundtables
7 Founders Workshops
6 Entrepreneurs Panels
5 Keynotes

03/01/2013

Creating Value in a Shifting Landscape

19th Annual Columbia Business School PEVC Conference: Creating Value in a Shifting Landscape

This year’s conference will bring 800 professionals, alumni, and students to Alfred Lerner Hall for a day of candid discussion on the state of the industry. Our 2013 Conference theme ‘Creating Value in a Shifting Landscape’ will focus on the emerging challenges and opportunities facing the private equity and venture capital industries in the coming year. Panelists will discuss a breadth of topics including middle market operational investment, the wave of early stage investment, and the directive between General and Limited partners.

The goals of this conference are to educate, promote discussion, and provide a forum for interaction between academics, professionals, and students who are active in the private equity and venture capital communities. New York City is at the epicenter of these industries, and Columbia Business School is committed to being a leading mentor in developing the next generation of industry talent.

Insight's Deven Parekh will be participating in the panel for "Scaling Up, Getting Liquid: The Evolving Role of Late Stage VC & Growth Equity". Late Stage VC and Growth Equity is today’s hot market. VCs, entrepreneurs, and LPs are riding the wave of explosive growth in social media, cloud computing, mobile, and big data. Eye popping valuations for late stage and growth-stage companies have left many wondering: Are we in a bubble? The panelists explore the latest trends in late stage VC and growth equity investing.

02/15/2013

Raymond James 2013 Internet Outlook Symposium

Monday, January 14, 2013

Insight's Deven Parekh will be at this year's Raymond James Symposium focused on Internet outlook for 2013. The format of the event will consist of a series of panels and fireside chats with Internet thought leaders and emerging companies as well as an interactive discussion of key trends to watch for in 2013. Deven will be part of the discussion: "VC Outlook: Leading VCs share their vision of key themes and private companies to watch for in 2013".

01/14/2013

Building Long Term Equity Value in LATAM

Insight Venture Partners is proud to host our first Latin American conference in Sao Paulo for founders, entrepreneurs and executives from Insight's Latin American portfolio companies. Brazil and Latin America are an increasingly important part of the global economy and Insight believes our portfolios will make a significant contribution – we are here to help with resources, education, and knowledge.

With this goal we have prepared a mufti-faceted group of speakers to address the various challenges and benefits of doing business in Latin America. Over two days of events we hope you will meet interesting people, learn a lot and exchange ideas. Our Business Track focuses on best practices in building a company to be ready for international M&A or an IPO, including financial, tax and governance preparation. We focus on how to achieve profitable growth. Our Technology track focuses on the new capabilities for building high-performance software, internet and mobile applications that are scalable, secure and meet customer needs.

Development and technology is about continuous improvement. The forum provides an environment oriented to promoting ideas and practices to help build best of breed R&D organizations and Enterprise class solutions. The forum is intended to be practical, interactive and thought provoking.

Along with speakers from Insight and our portfolio companies, we have invited some of the industry’s top experts to share their ideas.

Please register today. We look forward to seeing you in October!

10/25/2012

Webinar: "Designing for high concurrency, availability and security in the cloud"

Webinar: "Designing for High Concurrency, Availability and Security in the Cloud"

This webinar is open to any CTO, VP Engineering, VP Architecture and anyone interesting in learning more about cloud-based solutions.

Yinal Ozkan, a senior architect from Amazon Web Services will be joining us to discuss designing for high concurrency, availability and security in the cloud. There will also be time to have some of cloud related questions answered.

Tuesday, October 23^rd, 1-2:15pm ET.

Speaker Bio:

An expert in the field of enterprise architecture and shared services, Mr. Ozkan (CISM, CISA, and CISSP) specializes in the design of strategic security systems and cloud architecture for financial services companies and government institutions. His experience with various large scale enterprise projects has helped him build a strong foundation of specialized knowledge in risk management, information security management systems, financial systems, utility computing and complex internet scale solutions. Prior to joining AWS, Mr. Ozkan consulted for several Fortune 100 companies. He is the co-author of the book "Advanced Check Point Configuration," published by Sybex Publication

Please RSVP below if you would like to join us for the event.

10/23/2012

Webinar: Social Virality: "8 Tips for Social Business"

Webinar (Final Date TBD)

In this webinar, Nadia Nascimento (VP Strategy at Hootsuite) will discuss 8 tips for social businesses, building on HootSuite's expertise in social media management:

Evaluate
Organize
Listen & Learn
Engage to Build Community
Collaborate
Secure
Measure ROI
Amplify Success

10/02/2012

Webinar: Customer Centricity and Lifetime Value

Webinar (Final Date TBD)

Wharton Professor Peter Fader will present the concept of "Customer-Centricity" as an alternative to the product-centric model of many of today's most highly-regarded companies (e.g., Apple, Nordstrom, Starbucks). He argues that the product-centric model is broken, and reveals how companies can become customer-centric by targeting their most valuable customers.

Professor Fader will present practical, Microsoft Excel-based tools to project Customer Lifetime Value, based on extensive past research in probablistic models for customer behavior. Webinar attendees will walk away from this session able to begin their own CLV calculations, which will help them target their highest-value customers.

10/01/2012

2012 Revenue Generation Conference

Sentry Conference Center, New York, NY

The Revenue Generation Conference is an opportunity for revenue generation leaders across the portfolio to exchange ideas with domain experts and network with peers. This includes senior sales leaders, sales operation managers, marketing leaders, lead generation managers, and anyone responsible for your company's revenue generation efforts.

As always, the conference is intended to be practical, interactive and thought-provoking. Our agenda will include talks from outside experts along with your peers across the portfolio. They will be sharing their insights on topics ranging from solution selling, sales compensation, use of Salesforce.com and quota setting, to new forms of lead generation, PR, and use of social media. We'll also leave plenty of time for networking and discussion.

Additional Resources

Conference Agenda

07/16/2012

2012 Annual Limited Partners' Meeting

Sentry Conference Center, New York, NY

Fund performance update to Insight's Limited Partners.

Insight's managing directors will present an overview of the performance of all current Funds, active portfolio companies and their future growth prospects.

Insight Onsite will provide an update on the collaborate strategy and operations expertise provided to portfolio companies throughout the year.

Attendees will have the opportunity to listen to two portfolio company CEOs speak about their businesses.

05/24/2012

R&D / Technology Book Club: Service Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails

By Paul Dix

Ruby on Rails deployments are growing, and Rails is increasingly being adopted in larger environments. Today, Rails developers and architects need better ways to interface with legacy systems, move into the cloud, and scale to handle higher volumes and greater complexity.

In Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails, Paul Dix introduces a powerful, services-based design approach geared toward overcoming all these challenges. Using Dix’s techniques as a basis for discussion, Steve Rabin, Insight Onsite's lead technology expert and CTO, discusses how companies can leverage the full benefits of both Ruby and Rails, while overcoming the difficulties of working with larger codebases and teams. Key concepts will be discussed, including are explained with detailed Ruby code built using open source libraries such as ActiveRecord, Sinatra, Nokogiri, and Typhoeus. The book concludes with coverage of security, scaling, messaging, and interfacing with third-party services.

Invitees: Technology teams across Insight's portfolio companies, as well as any tech execs or dev guys interested in learning more about Ruby and Rails.

05/09/2012

2012 Annual R&D Forum

Sentry Conference Center, New York, NY

The R&D Forum is targeted at resources involved with software development and product management. This includes technology managers, developers, architects, QA and product management, as well as those involved with network administration. As always, the forum is intended to be practical, interactive and thought-provoking.

Our agenda includes outside experts along with individuals from across the portfolio sharing their insight on topics ranging from agile best practices to development productivity to cloud computing. As with our previous forums, there will be plenty of time for networking and discussion.

Additional Resources

Download R&D Forum Agenda

05/07/2012

Webinar: "Unlocking the Value of Customer Data"

How To Increase Retention, Drive Lifetime Revenue and Make Better Business Decisions

Recurring revenue, SaaS and E-commerce companies produce tons of data – analyzing and understanding it can be a huge challenge. This interactive webinar is designed for marketing executives, CFOs and senior operating executives who are interested in understanding the decision-making value of some of their big data.

Data should yield useful business insights and provide digestible and practical ideas for improving marketing effectiveness.

Robert Moore, CEO and founder of RJMetrics, will lead this webinar and discuss real examples of company data to illustrate:

Which data should be tracked and understood
The types of decisions than can be made with customer data
How to use customer data to improve online marketing ROI

Additional Resources

Download Presentation

04/13/2012

Webinar: "Getting Great People, Building Great Teams"

By Jim Collins, author of Good to Great

It is a well-known fact that people are hired for skills and experience but leave or underperform because they do not fit into their roles or environment. This interactive workshop is designed for senior executives, business founders, and hiring managers who need to build high performance teams but are frustrated that their current or past hiring practices have not resulted in the hiring of superstars. Very few managers and executives have been shown the keys to effective hiring.

"Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people into the right seats"

In this webinar, led by Lori Dernavich, an experienced employee performance advisor to management teams, the following topics were covered:

Cost of a Bad Hire – What does it really cost you?
Critical Hiring Mistakes
Developing a Profile
Behavioral Interviewing
Interviewing Practices
Rigorous vs. Ruthless Workforce Management

The podcast and presentation for the webinar are available for download below:

Additional Resources

Webinar Video (password: Insight2012) Webinar Slides (password: Insight2012)

03/09/2012

R&D / Technology Book Club: The Design of Designs, by Fred Brooks

Webinar

Fred Brooks discussed his book, The Design of Designs.

02/08/2012

R&D / Technology Book Club: The Economics of Software Quality, by Capers Jones and Olivier Bonsignour

Sentry Conference Center, New York, NY

Capers Jones discussed his book, The Economics of Software Quality, at today's book club. He presented real world and compelling arguments for implementing a software quality program. The talk included prioritizing what to test, methods to use, and key metrics to include in a quality dashboard.

Additional Resources

Watch Webinar Recording

10/18/2011

2011 C-Suite Summit

Sentry Conference Center, New York, NY

This Summit is an opportunity for the CEOs, CFOs, COOs & Presidents of Insight's portfolio companies to discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with leading high-growth technology and internet companies, to meet and network with each other, and hear from Insight and other experts about the most current trends and market outlook.

08/03/2011

Webinar: "How to Recruit Top Talent in Sales / Inside Sales / Lead Generation"

Webinar

Insight Onsite has partnered with leading industry experts to bring you a series of webinars on important topics for growing businesses. Frank Belzer from Kurlan Associates co-hosted this webinar with us.

CEOs, VPs of Sales and VPs of HR all struggle when it comes to filling their ranks with "A" players, Top Performers and Over Achievers. Many can't quite understand why they can have so much success in hiring elsewhere in their organization - operations, technical and administrative people and yet still be so behind the curve when it comes to sales. This is especially frustrating to cutting-edge technology companies who have a unique and exciting product that needs to get to the market quickly.

In this webinar, we covered some of the most common mistakes and introduced the unique STAR methodology for hiring and maintaining only A players.

06/10/2011

R&D / Technology Book Club: The Innovator's Dilemma

This was the first in a series of R&D / Technology book club meetings. Technology engineering teams across the portfolio discussed the principals outlined in the book The Innovator's Dilemma, by Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School.

05/05/2011

2011 Annual R&D Forum

Sentry Conference Center, New York, NY

The R&D Forum is targeted at resources involved with software development and product management. This includes technology managers, developers, architects, QA and product management, as well as those involved with network administration. As always, the forum is intended to be practical, interactive and thought provoking.

Our agenda includes outside experts along with individuals from across the portfolio sharing their insight on topics ranging from agile best practices to development productivity to cloud computing. As with our previous forums, there is plenty of time for networking and discussion.

05/03/2011

2011 Annual Limited Partners' Meeting

Sentry Conference Center, New York, NY

Fund performance update to Insight's Limited Partners.

Insight's managing directors provided an overview of the performance of the current Funds, active portfolio companies and their future growth prospects.

Insight Onsite gave an update on the collaborate strategy and operations expertise that had been provided to portfolio companies throughout the prior year.

CEOs from two portfolio companies: Shutterstock, Inc., and OverDrive Inc., spoke about their markets, value proposition to customers and strategies for growth. Henry Blodgett, editor and CEO of The Business Insider, was the luncheon speaker, sharing interesting technology-market insights.

04/07/2011

2011 Annual Insight Marketing Systems Survey

Each year, Insight Onsite surveys marketing departments at all of our companies and compiles a list of best-in-class marketing systems used across the Insight portfolio. The Survey spans the globe, and gives portfolio companies the opportunity to share experiences and suggestions with each other when growing their own marketing capabilities.

The survey covers preferred marketing systems and vendors across: SEO & SEM, Campaign Management & Lead Gen, Content Creation, Website Hosting and Design, and MarCom.

03/25/2011

Insight Stories

2013 Research and Development Forum

NYU Entrepreneurs Festival

Creating Value in a Shifting Landscape

19th Annual Columbia Business School PEVC Conference: Creating Value in a Shifting Landscape

Raymond James 2013 Internet Outlook Symposium

Monday, January 14, 2013

Building Long Term Equity Value in LATAM

Building Long Term Equity Value in LATAM

Webinar: "Designing for high concurrency, availability and security in the cloud"

Webinar: "Designing for High Concurrency, Availability and Security in the Cloud"

Webinar: Social Virality: "8 Tips for Social Business"

Webinar (Final Date TBD)

Webinar: Customer Centricity and Lifetime Value

Webinar (Final Date TBD)

2012 Revenue Generation Conference

Sentry Conference Center, New York, NY

Additional Resources

2012 Annual Limited Partners' Meeting

Sentry Conference Center, New York, NY

R&D / Technology Book Club: Service Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails

By Paul Dix

2012 Annual R&D Forum

Sentry Conference Center, New York, NY

Additional Resources

Webinar: "Unlocking the Value of Customer Data"

How To Increase Retention, Drive Lifetime Revenue and Make Better Business Decisions

Additional Resources

Webinar: "Getting Great People, Building Great Teams"

By Jim Collins, author of Good to Great

"Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people into the right seats"

Additional Resources

R&D / Technology Book Club: The Design of Designs, by Fred Brooks

R&D / Technology Book Club: The Economics of Software Quality, by Capers Jones and Olivier Bonsignour

Sentry Conference Center, New York, NY

Additional Resources

2011 C-Suite Summit

Webinar: "How to Recruit Top Talent in Sales / Inside Sales / Lead Generation"

R&D / Technology Book Club: The Innovator's Dilemma

2011 Annual R&D Forum

2011 Annual Limited Partners' Meeting

Sentry Conference Center, New York, NY

2011 Annual Insight Marketing Systems Survey