Revenue Bootcamp Conference: Because generating revenue is the best way to fund your business!

July 10, 2009 8:30am - 5:00pm Microsoft Building 1 1065 La Avenida Street Mountain View, CA 94043

Garage Technology Ventures presents Revenue Bootcamp, a conference for entrepreneurs to energize their strategies for generating revenue.

The conference covers maximizing traffic, generating leads, online advertising, non-traditional monetization strategies, and raising capital. Attendees will hear from industry experts and from entrepreneurs in the trenches, including Chris Anderson, author of Free: The Future of a Radical Price, Charlene Li, author of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies, Mike Moritz of Sequoia Capital, and Garage’s own Guy Kawasaki.

This is a conference that will pay off!



AGENDA

Breakfast and Registration 8:30am - 9:00am

Panel Will Anyone Pay for Anything? 9:00am - 9:45am

This panel examines the mentality of people when it comes to, God forbid, paying for anything. What will they pay for? How much? When? Or does everyone believe that everything should be free at this point? Noelle Chun - Internet aggregator, Editor, Writer Anastasia Goodstein - Founder and Editor-In-Chief, Ypulse Erika Schmale - Volunteer, Habitat for Humanity Guy Kawasaki - Moderator. Garage Technology Ventures

Panel How to Create a Traffic Jam by Really Trying 9:45am - 10:45am

This panel answers questions like: How can you increase traffic to your site? What are the best SEO and SEM techniques? How do you avoid wasting money on ineffective strategies? Anita Cohen-Williams - Founder & CEO, MySearchGuru Sagar Kamdar - Product Manager of Webmaster Central, Google Dion Lim - President & COO, Simply Hired Neil Patel - Quick Sprout blogger Tim Westergren - Chief Strategy Officer, Pandora Charlene Li - Moderator. Founder, Altimeter Group

Break 10:45am - 11:00am

Keynote Chris Anderson Editor in Chief, Wired magazine Author of Free: The Future of a Radical Price 11:00am - 12:00pm

Lunch 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Panel Is the Advertising Model Dead? 1:30pm - 2:30pm

This panel answers questions like: Can you build a real business around advertising revenues? What does it take to optimize ad revenue? Are new ad techniques energizing? Samir Arora - Chairman and CEO, Glam Media Neil Chase - Vice President for Author Services, Federated Media Tom Chavez - GM, Publisher Business Group, Microsoft Tim Kendall - Director of Monetization, Facebook David Kopp - Senior Director, N. American Ads, Yahoo! Bill Reichert - Moderator. Garage Technology Ventures

Panel Beyond CPM, Innovative Models for Generating Revenues 2:30pm - 3:30pm

What is the best model for your company? Explore the possibilities of using affiliate, freemium, digital goods, and other models. Will Harvey - Co-Founder and Chairman, IMVU Scott Hintz - Co-Founder, TripIt Alice Lankester - Former VP Marketing, Photobucket.com Kerri Pollard - GM, Commission Junction Jeremy Schoemaker - Founder, ShoeMoney Media Group Joyce Chung - Moderator. Garage Technology Ventures

Break 3:30pm - 3:45pm

Fireside Chat Guy Kawasaki with Mike Moritz and Paul Graham 3:45pm - 4:45pm

Join Guy Kawasaki as he chats with Mike Moritz of Sequoia Capital and Paul Graham of Y Combinator about the current fundraising atmosphere and the future of innovation.

Admission: $495 Special Pricing for Entrepreneurs: $295



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