We just got some new video from this year's Venture Summit East. Participants share why they attended VSE, what their thoughts were on the economic outlook, and how VCs are starting to work with start-ups in new ways. Special thanks to Schwartz Communication for this well- produced video. We're looking forward to Venture Summit Silicon VAlley VSSV in december:

AuthorsGlobe, an award-winning MIT venture, connects thought-leading authors with a global community by hosting live virtual master classes in partnership with professional organizations (trade, industry, and alumni), subscription-based magazines, and Web communities and bloggers. AuthorsGlobe is playing in the high-growth online education market at the forefront of publishing, online education, e-commerce, and digital media with a very unique metric-driven and customer centric model.

NearVerse is a venture-backed, wireless IP networking company, improving the quality of mobile Internet experiences by unifying short-range wireless and carrier networks into an optimized system. NearVerse's technology platform accelerates mobile Internet speeds, demonstrating data transfer and content delivery rates that are five to ten times faster than those of 3G networks.

CardStar's goal is to mobilize customer loyalty by connecting consumers and merchants through mobile rewards and memberships. CardStar is the ideal platform for mobile loyalty programs-the convenience for consumers increases membership use and rewards cards, and merchants strengthen customer loyalty with benefits like targeted offers and information. CardStar's SyncScan technology produces 1D barcodes that unlock the mobile coupon world by providing consumers with the right offer, at the right time, on the right device.

FitnessKeeper, the company behind RunKeeper, provides a mobile fitness platform that leverages the location technology in smartphones to help runners and other fitness enthusiasts better track, measure, and improve their fitness. FitnessKeeper's flagship iPhone application has been downloaded millions of times and was named by TIME Magazine as one of the top 10 iPhone applications of 2009. The company recently launched on Android and has several additional smartphone and non-smartphone devices planned.

OPEN Sports was founded in 2007 by veterans of leading sports, Internet, and new media companies. It aims to deliver a social-powered sports experience unmatched in the industry, with a combination of user-empowered content, betting-enabled fantasy sports games and contests, and the sports industry's first game platform with open APIs. OPEN Sports has developed innovative fantasy sports products to be unveiled this NFL season on FOXSports.com and OPENSports.com.

PeerIndex helps people maximize the professional and social capital they have built online and helps companies identify and reach these opinion formers. The PeerIndex platform provides topic-based authority rankings based on people's activities online. Launching its database in the summer of 2010, PeerIndex identifies and ranks experts in business and finance based on their digital footprints.

The first impression you get when attending Venture Summit East at Harvard Business School is a sense of Harvard's history, the beauty of its campus, and the accomplishments of its students, past, present, and future. While this was the third annual Venture Summit East, it was the first held at Harvard Business School. I surely hope there will be more to come, as I believe the kind of interactions Tony Perkins and his team encourage needs such an august venue. There is a great question to be addressed, and Harvard Business School and the Route 128 area have the resources to resolve it.

Aprigo lets mid-market IT pros to tame their organizations' data deluge with a unique, low-cost SaaS offering that provides complete visibility and control of the security and costs of unstructured business data. Aprigo's NINJA is a SaaS solution that provides a unified data dashboard for unstructured data both on-premise and in the cloud. Only Aprigo lets businesses prevent data breaches, pass compliance audits, benchmark their data environments, and save on storage costs within five minutes.

The northeast has been an American hub for innovation for the past hundred years. The venture capital industry itself was born right here, with George Doriot's founding of American Research Development Corporation (ARDC) in 1946. In the mid-1950s and '60s, George and his colleagues put venture capital on the map alongside a company in which they invested called Digital Equipment Corporation. Their original $70,000 would be worth more than 500 times that investment when Digital went public in 1968. In many ways, Digital was the Google of its day.