YOOSE has not been part of the Mobile 2.0 event in the valley this year, but one of the conference organizers Rudy de Wale from m-trends.org has written a good summary of the event.

The leading questions are: How viable is mobile advertising in an economic slowdown? How will the current economy impact businesses that derive revenues from mobile advertising? Can mobile advertising count on VC funding?

If you are interested about the answers, please continue reading here.

This summer INSEAD organized for the first time the Global Entrepreneurship Forum. Built around the Business Venture Competition (congratulations to the winning teams), the MBA school gathered quite a high quality group of entrepreneurs, VCs and other relevant people for the two day event. My personal highlight was the panel discussion “How to raise capital without giving away your company” (Anat Bar-Gera - WiMax Africa, Maximilian Niederhofer - Atlas Ventures, Olivier Schuepbach - Wellington Partners, Moderator: Reshma Sohoni - SeedCamp).