Startup Business Development - Hacking The Strategic Partnership Conference

An evening of BD Hacks on Feb. 20th

STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Speakers

Marie Suh

Director, Strategic Partnerships

Spotify

Min Wei

Platform Partnerships

Automattic (WordPress.com)

Matthew Thomson

EVP of Business

FitStar (ex-Klout)

Ash Jhaveri

Business Development

Facebook

Julie Vaughn

Head of Business Development

MessageMe

Ron Hirson

VP of Product Management

DocuSign

Foundersuite = productivity tools for entrepreneurs

Nathan Beckord

Event Producer / Moderator

CEO, Foundersuite

Jason Costa

Developer Relations

Jose Morales

VP Corporate Development

Atlassian

To Be Discussed

Topics for the evening include:

+BD 101: How to build strategic partnerships as a startup (without getting crushed)

+David and Goliath: How to get (and keep) the attention of large companies when you're small

+Who ya gonna call? Finding decision makers, building champions, and lubricating the process

+BD 2.0: How to use APIs and developer platforms to drive BD in the brave new world

+BD Hacks: Gaining leverage, avoiding pitfalls, creating win-wins.

...plus all the burning questions you come with. Don't be shy.

Organizers and Sponsors

Show these guys some love.

Foundersuite

Tools to get startup sh*t done

San Francisco

Foundersuite makes productivity software for entrepreneurs, including apps for raising capital, ideation, investor relations, media outreach, competitive tracking, and much more. www.foundersuite.com

Atlassian

Software that helps teams track, collaborate, code and ship products.

San Francisco, Amsterdam, Sydney, Chiyoda-ka

Atlassian products help innovators everywhere plan, build and launch great software. More than 30,000 large and small organizations use Atlassian’s issue tracking, collaboration and software-development products to work smarter and deliver quality results on time.

Bizzabo

Business discovery app for events

Tel Aviv, New York

Bizzabo helps professionals discover new business opportunities at meet-ups and conferences and enables event organizers and sponsors to engage more effectively with their attendees.

HandsOn.tv

The Silicon Valley Mindset

Redwood City

HandsOn.TV is a Web TV channel focused on entrepreneurship, technology and innovation that broadcasts the best business practices from Silicon Valley to the world. Our goal is to inform, educate and inspire.

Vilynx

Driving higher click-through for video

Menlo Park

Vilynx increases your click-through by leveraging a video sneak peak technology. With a simplified video navigation solution, viewers instantly get to the content they want to watch.

BootstrapLabs

Global accelerator for global entrepreneurs

San Francisco

BootstrapLabs is a Silicon Valley based Technology Startup Accelerator tailored for foreign startups to connect and relocate permanently to Silicon Valley.

Details, Details

Date: February 20, 2014

5:00 PM: Doors Open

5:00 - 6:00: Networking + Food + Beer

6:00 - 6:30: Keynote Speaker (Ron Hirson)

6:30 - 7:00: Fireside Chat (Jose Morales)

7:00 - 8:30: BD Expert Panel

8:30-onward: Networking + More Beer

Location:

Atlassian, 1098 Harrison Street, San Francisco

Twitter Hashtag:

#StartupBD

Buy Tickets Now:

https://startupbd3.eventbrite.com

Videos from Startup BD #3

Held February 20, 2014 at Atlassian. It was awesome!

Videos from Startup BD #2

Held December 12, 2013 at Pivotal Labs HQ. It was awesome!

Videos from Startup BD #1

Held October 10, 2013 at New Relic HQ. It was awesome.

Here's a great teaser video from our friends at HandsOn.tv

HUGE THANKS to our Keynoter: Rob Bailey of DataSift.

HUGE THANKS to our speakers: Cooper Marcus, New Relic; Jamie Perlman, Box; Mike Ghaffary, Yelp; Ryan Aytay, Salesforce; Claire Lee, Microsoft Ventures.

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