Prior to Permian, Peter was a General Manager at Microsoft, where over the course of six years he helped to start, manage and, later, invest in various consumer Internet businesses, including Sidewalk.com. Earlier in his career, Peter worked at Time Inc. in New York City. And one of his first jobs, while in college, was working for the "The MacNeil/Lehrer Report" in New York City.
Panelists for the Seattle Book Summit:
A round-up
Robbin Block of Blockbeta Marketing (blockbeta.com) has helped hundreds of small businesses make the most of digital marketing while keeping their feet firmly planted in traditional principles. She's the author of “Social Persuasion: Making Sense of Social Media for Small Business" and hosts "Minding Your Business" -- Reality Radio for Entrepreneurs.
Claire Hawkins helps businesses and artists build, manage, and leverage their intellectual property assets. She provides a full range of counseling, prosecution, portfolio management, enforcement, and dispute resolution services for trademark, copyright, domain name, publishing, licensing, and agreement matters.
Abigail Carter wrote The Alchemy of Loss: A Young Widow’s Transformation (HCI, 2008) as a form of catharsis after her husband’s death in the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. Her work has also appeared in SELF magazine, Reader’s Digest Canada,
MSN.com and MORE.com and she maintains a blog at www.abigailcarter.com. Abigail is also the co-Founder of Writer.ly, an online marketplace where writers can find the people they need to publish successfully. She can be found on Facebook and on Twitter(@abigailcarter) and on her blog, alchemyofloss.com.
Peter Atkins is the founder and managing director of Permian Partners, an investment fund focused primarily on Internet related companies. Peter is also the author of the Amazon bestselling Kindle book, Life Is Short And So Is This Book: Brief thoughts on making the most of your life.
Her practice has developed particular expertise in resolving trademark and domain name disputes and crafting cooperative agreements to protect, expand, and strengthen intellectual property rights. Claire has practiced intellectual property law since 2001.