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Startup Best Practice - when/why to build Marketing team?Thursday, April 21, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM (PT)San Francisco, CA |
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ERT(Entrepreneurs RoundTable) presents another fun tech startup evening.
Startup Best Practice - when/why to build Marketing team?
During the early stage, you, as the founder, focus on building a
technical team to deliver early product. Marketing is always an after
thought.
But when is a good time to start hiring your Marketing staff?
Akram
(Soovox), Jude (HeyZap) and Brian (Kidlandia) will share their stories
and experiences that lead them to succeed from early stage to Series A.
They will touch also on when is a good time to build the marketing team
and ...why it is important at what stage.
6:00 - 7:00pm, refreshment, networking
7:00 - 8:30, Akram, Jude and Brian will share their stories and best practices
8:30 - 9:00, You are the star! Tell us about yourself!
9:00 - 9:30 more shmoozing
::Akram
Benmbarek, CEO of Soovox - help Brands Connect With Online Influencers.
Soovox uses a tool/algorithm Social IQ to measure a user's ability to
sway others' opinions and actions. Akram's career included serving as VP at various financial institute such as Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, and UBS.
::Jude Gomila, founder/CEO,
HeyZap, a monetization and distribution platform for online casual games
offering an easy and trustworthy method by which to discover new games
that target the individual's specific interests. Born in UK and a graduate from
Cambridge, Jude previously founded Sugar Global, a digital photo frame
brand, and charity gaming site, Helpthirst.com. He is widely known and
respected within the global gaming industry
::Brian Backus,
founder/CEO, Kidlandia which lets parents and kids create maps of a
fantasy land, where the child is King or Queen of their own eponymous
fantasy kingdom. You can insert family members or friends names into the
map, so other areas of the land incorporate family members' names.
Brian began his career as an award-winning Producer for Disney Interactive. Kidlandia, a digital playground for families, is his third and favorite company. He holds an MBA and AB from Harvard, and an MFA from USC. He lives in San Francisco and Kidlandia, and has been creating imaginary maps and Kreechurs since he was four years old.
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When & Where
Pillsbury Law Firm
50 Fremont St., 6th Floor
San Francisco,
CA 94105-2228
Thursday, April 21, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM (PT)
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800 Birds (Startup Community)
Birds of a feather flock together.
Formerly known as the ERT (Entrepreneurs RoundTable), curator Shirley's fingers are getting tired typing the over-used word "entrepreneurs" and that people still can't remember the group's name. Therefore, the *800 Birds". http://www.facebook.com/groups/800Birds/
::: Membership criteria:::
Founder, Entrepreneur, Developers, Self-inflicted-slave-driver? you must play at least 3 out of the four leading title roles above. Honestly, if you are not, you'll get seriously bored by our meetings.
We have a lot of energy, abundant of passion and enthusiasm and this is a genuinely peer-to-peer sharing and learning community. Don't come in as a salesman just to pitch. If you do, you'll be disliked instantly.
The philosophy applies as follows.
We believe that entrepreneurs deserve more than just 30 seconds or 3 min. to tell their story of their ideas and the product out of their love of technologies, sleepless nights and showerless days!
Based in Silicon Valley, we meet every month gathering startup founders/geeks with more focus on social apps, to genuinely share ideas, technical expertise, business experiences, to vent on the platform guys for keep changing their policies, and of course to network.
Different from other tech events, at our events, each entrepreneur is given spot light, either as speaker to demo or as participant.
Our live demos are for the real internet products. Our speakers usually talk shop about the technologies of their products and share their entrepreneurial experiences - whether good or bad.
We welcome entrepreneurs and geeks to join, so long as you are genuinely willing to share your experiences and knowledge too.
Formerly ERT was originally started by only a handful of some really smarites Facebook application developers including John Fan, Flora Sun, Teck Chia, Waleed Waleed Abdulla, Dave Westwood, SueZanne Toh and frequented by founders such as Aihui Ong, Meng-you Yang, Yong Su Kim, Chris Cinelli, Robert Yau. The group started with only 3 -4 geeks eager to share and exchange technical tips and knowledge in the early days when Facebook first open up its APIs.
Shirley joined in late 2007 and have been a loyal member since. She started curating the monthly gathering since mid-2008.
Our events have become one of the top 5 Silicon Valley best events, due to its well delivered no-nonsense content, high quality speakers as well as participants that have made the deeper networking and bonding among its thousands of attendees.
800 Birds is a Silicon Valley phenomenon.