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By Jennifer Cabala
I’m excited toannounce StartupDay 2010, the conference for pre-entrepreneurs. Lastyear’s conference was a tremendous success with an off-the-chartssatisfaction rate. 98.6% of attendees said they would recommend theevent to a friend or co-worker!
This year StartupDay will be Saturday,September 25th at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue (just 15 minutes fromdowntown Seattle). It will feature 15 talks by an all-star line up ofspeakers. StartupDay 2010 speakers are all entrepreneurs — these arepeople who don’t just talk, they do. The talks cover what you need toknow about building your tech startup, from picking an idea to beingacquired and everything in between.
To make the conference valuable toattendees from 2009 and to new attendees, we have a whole new line up ofspeakers. This year’s speakers include:
- Konstantin Guericke, Co-Founder and Advisor of LinkedIn
- Garry Tan, Co-Founder of Posterous
- Jeff Lawson, Co-Founder and CEO of Twilio
- Rashmi Sinha, Co-Founder and CEO of SlideShare
- Jan Mikosovsky, Co-Founder and VP of User Experience of Cozi
- Vivek Bhaskran, Founder and CEO of Survey Analytics
- Tony Wright, Founder of RescueTime
- Monica Harrington, Chief Marketing Officer at Intersect, ex-Picnik
- Keith Smith, Co-Founder and CEO of BigDoor Media
- Ben Elowitz, Founder and CEO of WetPaint, ex-BlueNile
- And more!
If you are atechnology person (developer, tester, program manager, general manager,architect, etc.) and you want to learn more about building a successful startup than this is the conference for you. It doesn’t matterif you are ready to found or join a startup now, or if you just want tolearn more so you can be better prepared once you decide to leave yourjob and become an entrepreneur.
Attendees can also sign up for the incrediblypopular advisory room. You will have the opportunity to sign up forprivate one-on–one meetings with people who can help your startup, fromattorneys to accountants to VCs and angel investors to entrepreneurs.Spots are limited, but this year the first 100 attendees to register forStartupDay 2010 will get priority sign-up for the Advisory Roomsessions.
