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BizTechDay 2009 - On October 22-23, come network with a community of over a thousand inspired entrepreneurs, angel investors and renowned business leaders. Expert speakers and business icons (from Google, Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Yelp, Virgin America, Elance, Constant Contact, Justin.TV, WordPress, CBS 5, and Comcast Business Class) will share their insights and experience and help your business get up to speed in this economic downturn.

BizTechDay is the most practical, hands-on and experiential conference for small business owners where you will learn specific strategies and online tools necessary to market and raise capital for your business.

Regular priced tickets are $595. Web 2.0 members will save $200 ($395) if they register at www.biztechday.com/register. Use the code: "Web2Meetup"

(Regular priced tickets are $595. Web 2.0 Meetup members will save $200 ($395) if they register at www.biztechday.com/register. Use the code: "")

Latest News: Craig Newmark (Founder of Craigslist.org), Tim Ferriss, author of 4-Hour Workweek, Kevin Rose (Founder of Digg.com) and also Michael Gerber, author of eMyth will all be there!

When: October 22 - October 23, 2009 (Thursday - Friday)

Where: Hyatt Regency - SFO (1333 Bayshore Highway, Burlingame)

Sign-Up: www.biztechday.com/register Use the code: "SFentrepreneur"

What: High-impact sessions, keynotes, small group roundtable and hand-on demos, learn all these and more:

Money Track:
How to Raise $100,000 to 3 Million. Meet Paypal Angel Investor and Founder of Keiretsu Forum
How to Raise $5000 – $100,000 for Your Business
How to Access Investment Capital and Make Federal Stimulus Program Work for You. Meet Experts from the Governor’s office
Building Partnerships with Fortune 500 Companies

Marketing / Selling Track:
Building a Strong Business Brand. Meet Experts from Google, Yelp, Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter
Securing Your Number One Spot on Google
Selling to the Baby Boomer and GenY Communities
Selling to Women & the LGBT Communities
How to Make the Media Love You – join Sue Kwon, Emmy Award Journalist with CBS 5
13 Things All Business Owners Must Know About a Compelling Business Website
How to Use Email Marketing Campaign to Build Your Database and Close Sales

Social Media Track:
How to Get Media, Celebrity or Blogger Attention for Your Business
Strategies of Building Your Online Community from Zero to Millions
Turning Visitors into Customers Using Viral Videos
How to Market Your Business on Facebook
How to Make Money on Twitter

Speakers:
Tim Ferriss - Author, 4-Hour Workweek
Kevin Rose - Co-Founder Revision3, Pownce and Digg
Porter Gale – VP Marketing at Virgin America
Michael Gerber – World’s No 1 Small Business Guru per Inc Magazine and the New York Times Best Selling Author of the E-Myth
Matt Mullenweg – Founder of WordPress
Kevin Hartz – Paypal Angel Investor
Fabio Rosati – CEO of Elance
Joel Comm – Creator of iFart iPhone App – Over 1 Million downloads
Gary Swart – CEO of oDesk
Mark O’Leary – Regional VP for Business Services for Comcast
Randy Williams, Founder of Keiretsu Forum. The World’s largest angel investor network – over $180m invested in 200 companies
Chris Larsen – Founder of Prosper.com
Michelle Broderick – Director of Marketing at Yelp
Alison Covarrubias – Founder & CEO of Hatch Network
Julie Castro Abrams – CEO of Women’s Initiative
Justin Kan – Founder of Justin.TV
Ramon Ray – Chief Editor of SmallBizTechnology.com
20 + more speakers!

Don't miss this great event. Sign-up today!

Regular priced tickets are $595. Web 2.0 members will save $200 ($395) if they register at www.biztechday.com/register. Use the code: "Web2Meetup"

Monday May 18th
6:30-9pm
Network for the first 30-45 minutes then have four speakers speaking for 10-15 minutes each with Q&A time after each speaker.

We will be meeting at Google for some networking, pizza and speakers. We will have a few speakers so you get a feel of the different monetization options out there. There will be plenty of time for questions so please bring yours.
- Michael, the CEO at Justin.tv, will speak on business models of Justin.tv, specifically monetization and advertising strategies at the company (http://www.justin.tv/)
- Ali, the COO of Peanut Labs, will discuss the monetization available for sites with incentivized traffic (www.peanutlabsmedia.com)
-We will have two other speakers as well, but I wanted to let you know what we have so far so everyone can plan. I will update when they are confirmed.

Thank you to Google for providing a space for us. Google thought that our members might be interested in this as well:
Join us at Google's largest developer gathering
May 27 - 28, 2009 Moscone Center, San Francisco
For more info: http://code.google.com/events/io/

For info on sessions: http://code.google.com/events/io/sessions.html

Free Event for all, registration appreciated, but drop in ok if seat available.

Description:

Monetizing Web 2.0: Viral for GOOD !

You have a great site, tons of visitors, now What?

AdSense? Subscription? Sponsorship? What Else is HOT?
Also is monetization only for profit, or could it be charitable as well?

Please come and hear our monthly web2.0 seminar/mixer on:
Monetizing Web 2.0: Viral for Good !

Audience members would leave with a better understanding on how to monetize their web traffic in a new approach.

We have presentation, also welcome demos !

When:

Wednesday, September 5 from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Address:

1100 Marsh Road, cafe

Menlo Park, CA 94025

VIP speakers include top web 2.0 visionaries;

Panel:
+Mr. Clement Huang, Co-Founder and CEO of CopaCast;
CopaCast is a fast growing internet startup that comes out w/ innovative
idea on help monetizing web2.0 sites without depending on
traditional ad-display strategy. Clement is an expert in internet scalable Data Center technology that helps support the rapid viral growth of the Web 2.0.

+Daya Baran, Founder and CEO of GRUUVE;
GRUUVE is a music search and recommendation engine, where Daya oversees product and market development. His area of specialty is internet audio organization and management. Daya has deep insights into emerging trends, issues, policy, and standards in audio technology and its use on the internet.

+TBDs: Visionary VCs on Web2.0 >

Also VIP guests:

Leaders from bay area influential VCs and hi-tech organizations, e.g. SCEA, SVCEF, CINA, HYSTA etc?

Moderator:
+Greg Crider, Marketing Executive of Oracle;
Greg takes the lead of "enterprise 2.0" for Oracle by bringing Web 2.0 collaboration software to help the large organizations. Monetization scheme sure would be different from this aspect. Greg Crider was vice president of Product Marketing at Viador Inc., the first publicly traded enterprise portal company.

Cost: free, registration below:
Ticket URL http://web.meetup.com/63/calendar/6277681/
Other ticket Information http://web.meetup.com/63/calendar/6277681/

Organization Description (joint sponsored by below hi-tech professional alliances)

SVCEF: Silicon Valley China Entrepreneur Forum, www.svcef.org
SCEA: Silicon Valley Chinese Engineers Association, www.scea.org
CINA: Chinese Information Network Association, www.cina.org
HYSTA: Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association, www.hysta.org
NUSEA: National University of Singapore Entrepreneurs Association, www.nusea.org
Event Contact
Info Tony Qin, tony_qin@hotmail.com
Venue 1100 Marsh Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025
Venue Address 1100 Marsh Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025 Menlo Park, CA, 94025
Contact Phone 408-221-8567
Venue Directions http://www.orrick.com/offices/silicon_valley/