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Startup Grind 2015

February 9, 2015 - February 11, 2015

ANNOUNCED AGENDA AND CONTENT SCHEDULE

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Monday, February 9^th, 2015

5:00 pm Opening Night presented by Sourcebits

Registration Opens

6:00 – 7:30 pm Welcome + Opening Fireside Chat

6:10 – 6:20 pm Mikkel Svane, Zendesk

6:00 – 7:30 pm Opening Night Fireside Chat

Sam Altman, Y Combinator
Derek Andersen, Startup Grind

8:00 pm Opening Night concludes

Tuesday, February 10^th, 2015

7:30 am Registration Opens

8:00 – 9:00 am Breakfast

9:00 – 9:10 am Welcome by Startup Grind founder + CEO, Derek Andersen

9:10 – 10:30 am Mainstage Sessions: The Internet of Things

9:10 – 9:30 Where the Internet Of Things Is Headed

Matt Rogers, Nest
Mike Abbott, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers

9:35 – 9:50 The Power of Openness: How SmartThings Grew from Kickstarter to a Leading Platform

Alex Hawkinson, SmartThings

9:50 – 10:10 Watch Your Step, Giants Ahead

George Zachary, Charles River Ventures

Eric Migicovsky, Pebble

10:15 – 10:45 am Networking Break

10:20 – 10:40 am Workshop Q+A with Sequoia Capital’s Matt Miller

Matt Miller, Sequoia Capital

10:45 am – 12:00 pm Mainstage Sessions: The Online Marketplace

10:45 – 11:00 Starting Small to Go Global. Supply the Demand.

Patrick Llewellyn, 99Designs

11:00 – 11:20 The Future of the Mobile Marketplace

Melody McCloskey, StyleSeat
Aileen Lee, Cowboy Ventures

11:20 – 11:45 Scaling a Marketplace and Transforming an Industry: How Houzz Did It

Adi Tatarko, Houzz
David Sacks, Yammer

11:45 – 12:00 From Serious Injury to Serial Entrepreneur: How a Painful Recovery Inspired Startup Success

Ramona Pearson, Declara

10:45 – 11:05 am Workshop Three things you can do to guarantee your startup will Fail

Paul Ahlstrom, Alta Ventures

11:10 – 11:30 am Workshop

Frequency, Density, Pain, Friction

Manu Kumar, K9 Ventures

11:35 am – 12:00 pm Workshop The ABCs of D2C

Derek Banta, UPS

12:00 – 1:30 pm Lunch

12:20 – 12:45 pm Workshop Optimizing your AngelList fundraising: Syndicates and other SEO-like tricks to get the most from your fundraise

Gil Penchina, AngelList; Jim Scheinman, Maven Ventures

1:00 – 1:25 pm Workshop

Hyper-Growth Done Right – Lessons From the Man Who Scaled Engineering at Dropbox and Facebook

Aditya Agarwal, VP Engineering, Dropbox

1:30 – 3:00 pm Mainstage Sessions

1:30 – 1:40 Driving Innovation: Do It in Context

Scott Schreiman, Samepage

1:40 – 2:00 The 2015 Startup Health Bar: Where does my startup need to be in 2015? Whats happening? What’s important?

Halle Tecco, RockHealth
Elizabeth Gore, Dell; UN Foundation

2:00 – 2:25 A Fireside Chat with Stripe’s Co-founder + CEO, Patrick Collison

Patrick Collison, Stripe
Colleen Taylor, TechCrunch

2:25 – 2:45 The Emerging Face of Tech

Laura Weidman Powers, Code2040
Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., Thurgood Marshall College Fund

2:45 – 3:05 Are Fortune 500’s the New Seed Investors? Inside Big Tech Competitions

Daniel Fountenberry, Books that Grow
Danny Weissberg, VoiceItt
Tortsen Kolind, YouNoodle

1:45 – 2:05 pm Workshop Scale and Don’t Fail

David Goudreau, Pivotal Labs

2:20 – 2:40 pm Workshop The Path to Acquisition for Founders

Jason Nazar, DocStoc
Anu Tewary, Intuit

3:00 – 3:30 pm Networking Break

2:50 – 3:10 pm Workshop How can the Kauffman Foundation help you?

Alicia Robb, Kauffman Foundation

3:15 – 3:35 pm Workshop Building Community Around Your Brand

Josh Krammes, IBM SoftLayer

3:30 – 5:00 pm

3:30 – 3:40 Keys to Success for Great Entrepreneurs: Learn from the Best

Jeff Hoffman, ColorJar; Priceline

3:45 – 4:05 Let’s Talk About Instagram

Mike Krieger, Instagram
Jon Swartz, USA Today

4:05 – 4:30 The Future of Health

Bill Maris, Google Ventures

4:30 – 5:00 One-on-One with Biz Stone

Biz Stone, Twitter; Jelly
Josh Elman, Greylock Partners

6:00 – 8:00 pm Party

Wednesday, February 11^th, 2015

8:15 am Registration Opens

8:15 – 9:15 am Breakfast

9:15 – 10:30 am Mainstage Sessions: Funding & The Future of Investments

9:15 – 9:25 Derek Andersen Opens

9:25 – 9:35 Empowering the Entrepreneur: When Capital is Not Enough

Vanessa Colella, Citi Ventures

9:35 – 9:55 Mark Suster, Upfront VC

10:00 – 10:25 A Fireside Chat with Vinod Khosla

Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures
Derek Andersen, Startup Grind

10:25 – 10:55 am Networking Break

10:30 – 10:50 am Workshop Q&A (limited capacity)

Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures

10:55 am – 12:15 pm

10:55 – 11:20 Rise of the Rest of the Startup World

Steve Case, Revolution
Mary Grove, Google for Entrepreneurs

11:15 – 11:35 The Power of Crowdsourced Information and Feedback

Ryan Hoover, Product Hunt
Perri Gorman, Archively

11:35 – 11:55 The Sharing Economy Grows Up

Nate Blecharcyzk, Airbnb
Alfred Lin, Sequoia Capital

11:55 – 12:15 Founder’s Guide to Selling Your Company

Justin Kan, Twitch; Y Combinator
T.D. Lowe, Enovation Nation

12:15 – 1:30 pm Lunch

12:30 am – 1:00 pm Workshop Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Nir Eyal, Author

1:15 – 1:35 pm Workshop

1:35 – 2:00 pm Workshop

1:30 – 4:00 pm Mainstage Sessions: Social Impact

Using Your Product to Make a Social Impact

1:30 – 1:45 Leila Janah, Sama Group

1:45 – 2:15 The Story of charity: water

Scott Harrison, Charity: water

Mainstage Sessions: The Enterprise Startup Club

2:15 – 2:30 Ryan Smith, Qualtrics

2:30 – 2:50 You Asked, He Answers: Scott Cook Tackles Your Product/Market Fit Dilemmas

Scott Cook, Intuit

2:50 – 3:10 How Data is Changing the Enterprise

Dave Goldberg, Surveymonkey
Vanessa O’Connell, Wall Street Journal

3:35 – 4:00 pm Closing Keynote

3:15 – 3:45 The Man Behind the Pink Mustache: A conversation with Logan Green

Logan Green, Lyft
Derek Andersen, Startup Grind

4:00 pm Closing Remarks, Event concludes

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Details

Start:: February 9, 2015
End:: February 11, 2015
Website:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/startup-grind-2015-tickets-10528798921

Venue

: Fox Theater
: 2215 Broadway Street
Redwood City, CA 94063 United States + Google Map