FountainBlue

FountainBlue creates and supports a dynamic membership-based community supporting clean energy, high tech and life science entrepreneurs and executives in Silicon Valley and beyond. Our membership fees are $30 USD for founding members and $40 USD for general members, payable each calendar year, and are prorated for sign-ups mid-year.

Membership benefits include: 

• Event Admission Benefits:
  
• Discounted admissions to FountainBlue events and complementary admissions to FountainBlue Online events.  
• Complementary admissions to a Silicon Valley event for non-local members traveling to Silicon Valley (up to two a year, must provide at least 14 days notice, and assuming that there are remaining seats)
• Content Benefits:
• Regular newsletter updates, including general information and notes from previous events.
• Facilitated conversations on topics of interest to the group. 
• Regular recommendations to attend Silicon Valley events of interest.
• Regular e-mails with follow-up notes from FountainBlue events.
• Community Benefits:
• Membership in all FountainBlue sub-groups based on industry or region, which includes facilitated interactive discussions with fellow members.
• Opportunities to actively participate in FountainBlue communities.
• Admission to FountainBlue LinkedIn group.
• Introductions to selected FountainBlue members.
Partner Benefits:
• Silicon Valley partner event listings of interest to different industry groups
• Discounted and complementary admissions to select partner events held in Silicon Valley.
Other benefits, to be determined.

We are pleased to invite you to join FountainBlue's online community on BigTent. Click the graphic above to join now, or visit us online if you're already a member https://www.bigtent.com/groups/fountainblue. Once you join the group, you are invited to join one of our sub-groups as well.

• Industry Groups:
• Clean Energy – Mary Ann Gustafson, Rod Hibner
• High Tech – Matt Perez, Kim Wise
• Life Science – Sherri Dohemann, Jasmine Shih 
• Corporate Leaders
• When She Speaks – Mariah Martin, Kristi Royse, Bobbie LaPorte 
• Executives – Bobbie LaPorte, Cathy Light
• Regional Groups:
• China – Jasmine Shih, Frances Su
• Europe – Christian Forthomme
• India – Meghna Mehta 
• Japan – Kimberly Wiefling
• Latin America – Matt Perez 
• Others to be created

• Submitting Silicon Valley event for inclusion in our weekly event recommendation e-mails.
• Consider becoming a moderator to assist in facilitating discussions around topics of interest to the community.
• Become an ambassador to promote FountainBlue events and community to others.
• Help ensure the ‘respect for all’ and the ‘tell, don’t sell policy’ within the community.
  
  

• Engage in interactive discussion on business-related topics of interest to your group. Reply to group or to individuals as appropriate.
• Practice a ‘tell, don’t sell policy’. Aggressive promotion will not be tolerated.
• Treat others with respect.

We request that our members report any violations of the above policies to FountainBlue’s volunteer chairs and moderators, and let us know if you would like to assist with moderating this community. Additional details on this policy are below. 

1. Please feel free to respond to inquiries about who you are and what you do, but don’t tell someone what you do or sell your services unless it is in an appropriate context.
2. Please feel free to update your personal pages on BigTent to better describe your services in case anyone is interested.
3. Please feel free to facilitate conversations in the subgroups around topics of interest to your organization or your business, and without heavily pushing your services.
4. Please feel free to request feedback from your fellow members about your business challenges.
5. Please let us know if someone from the community inappropriately or aggressively sells you services as a result of your posting. We commit to promptly responding to the issue you raise.
6. Please feel free to e-mail your milestones and successes to the group, as appropriate.
7. Please take conversations one-on-one where appropriate.
8. Please don’t send a message to the group about your services unless it is in the context of a question or conversation.
9. Please restrict forum discussions to business issues as this is a community for business professionals.  
10. If someone expresses no interest, respect their wishes, please do not push him/her to re-consider.

The intention of the policy is to help ensure that all people professionally communicate their services, where appropriate and if requested, while also respecting the right of others to do the same, and while treating everyone in the community with respect. By communicating these standards of conduct, we hope to create a quality trust-based community that would benefit everyone.

We welcome your participation and involvement as we build mutually rewarding communities on business topics of interest to decision-makers worldwide.