With close to 2,000 entrepreneurs, the Startup Conference is one of the largest conferences in Silicon Valley for starting your startup, learning how to pitch VCs, find co-founders, launch your product to the press and more.
The conference was featured on CNET, the San Jose Mercury News, Forbes, VentureBeat, The Register, etc.
Join Us Again May 30, 2013!
Refund policy: We’ll refund any ticket up to 1 week before the event, no questions asked.
Launch Your Startup!
If you want to launch or promote your startup during the conference, grab a Demo Pit table.
Speakers
We’ll announce the 2013 speakers early April. Previous speakers include Phil Libin (Evernote), Naval Ravikant (AngelList), Guy Kawasaki, Jeff Clavier (SoftTechVC), Justin Kan (Exec) and many more. You can watch videos of previous years here.
2012
The Startup Conference & Village took place May 2, 2012 in downtown Mountain View, CA. It’s one of the largest events in Silicon Valley for entrepreneurs with 1,700 entrepreneurs registered.
* * * LIVE: Thank you all for coming. Check out this great video from CNET about the conference and village * * *
The Startup Village
Join us between 10:30am and 3:15pm on Castro St, downtown Mountain View, and browse the aisles of the Startup Village. Yes, it’s outdoors and free! But we ask that you register below.
The Startup Conference
The Startup Conference 2012 will take place on May 2nd, 2012 downtown Mountain View, at the Center for the Performing Arts (600 seats theater). Check out the full conference program and grab one of the last tickets.
500 Startups / Founding Partner. Dave's ominous past includes work at Founders Fund, Facebook fBFund, PayPal, Mint.com, and SimplyHired.
Danae Ringelmann co-founded IndieGoGo - an online crowdfunding platform for ideas - to democratize fundraising. Fast Company Magazine recently named Danae one of the Top 50 Most Influential Women in Technology.
Mr. Kaplan is widely known in the computer industry as a serial entrepreneur, executive, technical innovator, and author. He is currently CEO of Winster.com, a social game company. He wrote a best-selling book entitled "Startup--A Silicon Valley Adventure".
Thomas is the Founder and Managing Partner of AngelPad, a startup mentorship program he launched in 2010 with a team of fellow ex-Googlers. Since then, AngelPad has helped to launch some 37 companies, 31 of which have raised over $25 million in additional funding.
In addition to founding about.me & sphere, Tony Conrad is a member of the True Ventures founding team. He serves on the Board of Automattic (WordPress), appssavvy, 20x200, gdgt, CatchFree, StockTwits, KISSmetrics.
Justin Kan is the founder and CEO of Exec, a platform for outsourcing your jobs or errands in real time. Prior to founding Exec, Justin founded Justin.tv, one of the world's largest live video sites. Justin is also part-time partner at Y Combinator.
Anthony Ha is a writer at TechCrunch, where he covers media, advertising, and startups. Previously, he was a staff technology writer at Adweek, worked as a senior editor at the tech blog VentureBeat.
Steven is CEO of Outright, an on-line and mobile accounting application that organizes small business finances all in one place. This is his third venture-funded CEO role, rounded out by a decade of learning and leading at Intuit.
Heidi Roizen is a Venture Partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson. She has spent her life immersed in the Silicon Valley ecosystem – as an entrepreneur, corporate executive, venture capitalist, educator and member of the boards of directors of private and public companies, trade associations and nonprofit institutions.
Joyce Chung is a Managing Director at Garage Technology Ventures, a seed and early stage fund focused on emerging technologies. Prior to Garage, she was a founding partner of Cardinal Venture Capital, a $125 million early stage venture fund.
