500 Startups Accelerator
http://500startups.com/accelerator

Twitter team will join us from SF to talk about Twitter platform/API, iOS integration, and best practices for Twitter as a customer acquisition tool.

Private to 500 Startups

Private to 500 Startups

Demo Day will feature presentations from the 500 Startups Summer accelerator batch. The event is primarily for accredited investors and is already sold out, however we will be webcasting / livestreaming at http://www.livestream.com/500startups
(more details below)

Our 2nd Demo Day session is today, Wednesday, August 17th, from 6-9pm. Check our...

Everything that coders know about patent law is wrong. Learn why patent strategy can and should be a part of building your startup.

1. What are the real reasons that startups file patent applications? (hint: it is not to "protect your competitive advantage")
2. When can you file a patent application? (hint: filing after you raise Series...

Everything you need to know about term sheets and valuations/compensation.

Justin is the founder and managing partner of 137 Ventures, an investment firm focused on private technology companies. Previously, he worked at Founders Fund, an early-stage venture capital firm, where he was responsible for all aspects of the investment process and led...

Akash Garg co-founded hi5.com and was the company's original technical visionary and CTO. Akash developed the core product concepts and underlying technology that has helped to fuel the rapid growth of the service. To build one of the most-trafficked sites in the world, Akash guided the early design and implementation of a highly scalable,...

Christine Herron is a Director with Intel Capital. She is also a Venture Advisor at 500 Startups and an advisor to SSE Labs. Previously, Christine was a Principal with First Round Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm, where she worked with companies such as BillFloat, Double Verify, Get Satisfaction, Mint, and Xobni. As a Director at...

Fireside chat + Q&A.

About Leah:
In the fall of 2008, while trying to figure out how to juggle dinner out with her husband, Kevin, and buying dog food for her 100-pound yellow labrador retriever, Kobe, Leah’s flash of inspiration resulted in her registering the RunMyErrand.com domain name from her iPhone, and mapping the entire business...

This will consist of quick talks on HTML5, App Engine/cloud, new Commerce tools, Android, OAuth, maybe Google TV, etc. Then the rest will be in a 'speed geeking' format where you can chat 1:1 w/ developer advocates/engineers and PMs from those areas. More 1:1 interaction + time for Q&A (vs. lecture/presentation).


Private to 500...

Private to 500 Startups

Learn how Flowtown created a blog that receives over 100K unique visitors per month and allowed them to rank for strategic keywords and signup more than 25,000 business owners within 11 months.

Some of the topics Dan will be covering include:
- Choosing keywords that convert
- Hiring and paying writers
- Promotion & content distribution
- Blog...

Private to 500 Startups.

Private to 500 Startups.

Private to 500 Startups.

Mark will talk about his top 3 tips/words of wisdom for the 500 Accelerator S11 batch. Also ample time for Q&A.

Private to 500 Startups.

The Product Design Guild was founded in San Francisco and has been in operation since September, 2010. We currently hold meetings once every two weeks, alternating between San Francisco and the South Bay with about 40 designers in attendance.

Private to 500 Startups

We’re in the middle of a series on core issues for startups. This time we’ll cover interaction design. We’ve invited the lead designers responsible for Facebook, Mint and Posterous to give us their point of view on designing great products, hiring great designers (and figuring out if they are any good), the value of A/B testing and what...

We'll be broadcasting two identical sessions:
Morning: ~10:00am-12pm Presentations

Afternoon: ~5:00pm-7:00pm Presentations