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The second Mashable NextUp NYC is almost here! The next event in the series is titled Lessons from the Local Internet Startup Community, and focuses on lessons learned by 4 New York-based web startups: Snooth, Behance, Savvy Auntie and Aviary.

The evening event takes place on Tuesday, April 28, 2009, at 92Y Tribeca, 92nd Street Y’s arts and entertainment venue. We’ll have networking, a presentations session from the startups and a panel moderated by Mashable’s Editor-in-Chief, Adam Ostrow.

If you’d like to come, you can buy a ticket here. You might also like to add the event to your Facebook Events.

Details

Tickets: There are only 300 public tickets available per event. Tickets are on sale now through 92YTribeca. No further tickets will be released once these sell out.

Location: 92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10013

Pricing: $20 in advance, $25 at door. NOTE: all revenue from ticket sales goes directly to 92YTribeca, a non-profit organization.

Food and drink: Full bar and food menu available

Socialize: Facebook , Meetup , Upcoming

Schedule

6:00 – 7:15 = Open Networking
7:15 – 8:15 = Opening Presentations
8:15 – 8:45 = Closing Panel
8:45 – Bar Close = Open Networking

Thanks to our Sponsors

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Get ready for the event:

• Create a DUB ID (name, biz name, etc.) to connect instead of email or phone

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Sun Startup Essentials

“The Sun Startup Essentials program extends to startups all the benefits of our program; benefits designed to get startups sailing to success with the right IT infrastructure. These include introductions to interested investors; discounted servers, storage and desktops; open source software such as MySQL; discounted web hosting; and free technical support and advice from Sun engineers.”

Opening Presentations by:

Philip James, CEO and Mark Angelillo CTO of Snooth

“Philip James and Mark Angelillo are the CEO and CTO of Snooth respectively. Snooth, with over 500,000 users per month, is the world’s largest wine site - a cross between a social network and a price comparison search engine. The site features over 1 million wines with millions of reviews and allows users to compare prices and shop from over 10,000 stores in over 50 countries.”

Melanie Notkin, Founder and CEO, Savvy Auntie

“Savvy Auntie is the first multi-platform media company designed for PANKs - Professional Aunts No Kids - a term Melanie coined for the 50% of American women who are not moms and have been untapped and under-served until now. Targeting these influential women with discretionary income and time often spent on the children in their lives and on themselves, SavvyAuntie.com is the first online community for cool aunts, great aunts, godmothers and all women who love kids. Right out of the gate, SavvyAuntie.com attracted blue ribbon advertisers and sponsors, including Hasbro, Warner Brothers, Disney, Sephora and Dell. Melanie has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Business Week, Mashable, NBC, CBS, among many others, and is a regular panelist on Fox News.”

Michael Galpert, Co-Founder of Aviary

“Aviary is a suite of powerful creative applications that you can use right in your web browser. We’re on a mission to make creation accessible to artists of all genres, from graphic design to audio editing. Michael is one of the founders of Aviary, and is driven by a passion to help others do what they love. He currently sits on the advisory board for Web 2.0 Expo New York and is a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. He helps organize Barcamp New York and is actively involved with the NYC-based tech community group NextNY.”

Scott Belsky, Founder and CEO of Behance

“Scott Belsky is the Founder/CEO of Behance, a company with a mission to organize the creative world. The Behance Network is the leading online platform for creative professionals to showcase their work. The Action Method is a revolutionary online application for productivity and action management.”

Closing Panel moderated by:

Adam Ostrow, Editor-in-Chief of Mashable

Adam Ostrow joined Mashable in April 2007 and is Editor-in-Chief, responsible for day-to-day editorial coverage and direction. Previously, Adam worked at numerous startups, including co-founding one of the first hosted blogging communities, MindSay. Today, in addition to his responsibilities at Mashable, Adam is building ReadBurner, a news aggregator that analyzes what’s being shared on social networks, in RSS readers, and with microblogging tools. Adam will be discussing how to navigate the blogosphere, both from the perspective of an editor and that of an entrepreneur, as well as the trends he sees driving the next generation of Web applications.