Ultra Light Startups Boston Panel on Crowdsourcing Business

On May 5th, I'll be hosting the first meeting for the Boston chapter of Ultra Light Startups, a group of entrepreneurs and like-mind individuals who meet monthly to discuss trends, ideas, and models that help startups launch quicker and cheaper. The event will bring together a panel consisting of founders who've started some of today's most disruptive crowdsourced startups, an open source expert, and a venture capitalist to discuss crowdsourcing business.

This meetup is in collaboration with the BU Executive MBA progra. Here is some event info:

Where: Boston University
Address: TBD
When: May 5th, 2009
Time: 6:30PM - 9:00PM

Companies:

Local Motors is working on a unique manufacturing system that will design, manufacture, and bring to market innovative, safer, more functional, lightweight, efficient cars through a revolutionary, local assembly and retail experience. They're able to get to a stage in production that usually costs a company like General Motors hundreds of millions of dollars for under $100k.

uTest crowdsources on demand software, application, and quality assurance testing through an international community of professional software engineers.

Acquia provides commercial support for open source Drupal, a leading web Content Management System.

Venture Capitalist: TBD

Panelists:

Doron Reuveni, Co-Founder of uTest [Crowdsourced Software/Application Testing]

Jay Rogers, Co-Founder of Local Motors [Crowdsourced Car Design]

Jay Batson, Co-Founder of Acquia [Open Source Drupal]

Venture Capitalist: TBD

I interviewed Doron earlier about his thoughts on crowdsourcing and how the model will shape the future of business. We'll be discussing many of these ideas and how crowdsourcing can help startups and businesses save money, operate ultra light operations, get products to market quicker, utilize the wisdom of the crowd, decentralize intelligence, overall benefits of crowdsourced models, and how crowdsourcing continues to be a disruptive business model. Our post on Local Motors shows how crowdsourcing can save millions of dollars in the auto manufacturing industry.

Room is limited, so please use the following link to RSVP.

Registration: http://ultralightstartupscrowdsourcing.eventbrite.com/