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FountainBlue's High Tech Partners Click on the image on the left to see a list of upcoming events, and complete the form on the right to get on our free mailing list. If you'd like to become a partner, schedule a time to meet with us in person or over the phone and/or go to the resources area and request cross-promotion for your Silicon Valley clean energy, high tech or life science event.
FountainBlue's High Tech Program Advisory Board
The richness and relevance of our programs in a broad
range of topics is largely due to the volunteers who have designed programs,
recruited panelists, provided outreach, and so much more, for past and upcoming
events. As program advisory board members, they:
Assist in developing the
topics and themes for our programs, and nominate and recruit speakers;
Serve as ambassadors for
FountainBlue and the series and/or program before the event by spreading
the word, during the event in connecting people with each other, and
following the event to solicit feedback and help make program and process
improvements for the next event;
Work with partner
organizations in support of their programs and events;
Stimulate thinking and
conversation between events;
Make connections between
people between events; and
Generally assist in advancing
the sub-industry within and outside FountainBlue and the Silicon
Valley.
We would like to recognize and acknowledge members of our high
tech program advisory board and thank them for their contributions to the
community.
Barry Holroyd, Senior Architect, Heartwood Studios
Dennis Shiao, Director of
Product Marketing, INXPO; Blogger, It's All Virtual
For more
information about other program advisers, attend a FountainBlue event or visit
the partner section of our web site under the clean energy, virtual worlds or life
science tabs. To find our more about becoming a program adviser yourself,
attend a FountainBlue event, become a member, and request a meeting to discuss
how you would like to help.
FountainBlue is fortunate to partner with speakers,
sponsors, volunteers, co-marketing partners, and others as we work together to
support high tech entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley
and beyond. Below is a list of opportunities to work with us.
Become involved:
Attend one of our events and/or join
the community. You will meet people who may be able to
help you, and may have experienced exactly the kinds of challenges you're
undergoing. Plus you'll have opportunities to assist other quality people
in the network. Visit our community section for more information.
Become part of the program:
If
you are an investor or an successful serial entrepreneur or
intrapreneur, participate on one
of our upcoming entrepreneurs' forumsas a speaker. Share your
wisdom. Build your network. Send us an e-mail volunteering to participate
in one of our upcoming events.
Get Support:
If
you are undergoing challenging
business obstacles, bring your challenges to an upcoming
event and connect with people who are going through similar challenges,
and others who can advise you on how to overcome the obstacles, or connect
you with those who can help you. It's likely that someone would be willing
to lend an ear, lend a hand, or share some advice.
Spread the Word:
If you have attended an event
and felt your time was well spent, spread the word to quality people in
your network and be an
ambassador. Together we are stronger.
If
you found value in the content from our previous programs, forward the notes to
others in your network who would also benefit from the information, with
proper acknowledgment to FountainBlue and the respective
speakers. Knowledge is power!
Partner with Us:
If
you are involved with another organization in the valley serving clean
energy entrepreneurs and executives, we welcome you to become a cross-marketing partner. See
below for a current list of partners and directions on how to become a
cross-marketing partner.
After
you have been a cross-marketing partner, let us know if you would like to
partner more closely with us to jointly
produce events, or to have us participate in an advisory board, steering committee or SIG.
See below for a list of organizations with whom we closely partner.
If
you are interested in reporting on clean energy trends,
request a press pass to one of our upcoming clean energy events.
We welcome other ideas for
partnerships.
Cross Marketing Partners
At FountainBlue, we believe that reciprocal promotion
between quality partners serving a common audience will benefit everyone. We
therefore are happy to promote face-to-face, Silicon
Valley based events from our cross marketing partners, and also
invite their members to pay discounted partner rates to attend our own events.
To submit your event to our community, you may e-mail us the
complete and final event details in text format (no attachments) to
events@FountainBlue.biz with the information format below by noon on Thursdays,
at least one week before your event, or complete the form at http://fountainblue.biz/resources/svevents.html. (Please note that some weeks in the summer or during the
holidays, we will not be sending event recommendations to our membership.)
Event
Topic:
Sponsoring Group:
Date and Time:
Location:
Cost:
Discount Code for FountainBlue Members:
Registration:
Our current cross-marketing partners are profiled below. Note
also that we are requesting cross-marketing partners to actively distribute
FountainBlue life science event information, offering the partner rates,
available at http://www.sventrepreneurs.com
for our high tech and executive events. In addition, we are happy to provide one
complementary pass for each cross-marketing partner for our events, commit to
active promotion of our cross-marketing partners' events, and respectfully
request the same. E-mail us at events@FountainBlue.biz if you would also like to become a cross-marketing partner.
Founded
in 1979, Asia America MultiTechnology Association is one of Silicon Valley's
oldest, largest and most established non-profit organization dedicated to
building a high-tech community that shares a passion for business in Asia and
the Pacific Rim.
Our Mission
To create a networking and service
organization that delivers unique programs to professionals interested in
Asia and the Pacific Rim
To foster business growth,
entrepreneurship and capital investment in technology enterprises across
Silicon Valley and Asia
To identify and promote new
emerging markets, successful technologies, and high potential ventures and
entrepreneurs
AmBAR is a non-profit business association of entrepreneurs, venture
capitalists, engineers, lawyers and other professionals with
headquarters in Silicon Valley. Started as an organization of
expatriates from Russia, Ukraine and other CIS countries that are
involved in technology businesses in the United States, AmBAR has grown
into a large network in which innovators and entrepreneurs of all
origins can exchange ideas and business contacts. The association was
launched in 2002 by a group of business professionals and entrepreneurs,
representing leading Silicon Valley companies: Sun Microsystems, Intel
Capital, and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. The AmBAR membership base today
includes more than 2000 business professionals.
Founded in 1999, ASP is the only not-for-profit professional association
dedicated to advancing thought and practice in strategy development and
deployment for business, non-profit and government organizations. ASP provides
opportunities to explore cutting-edge strategic planning principles and practices
that enhance organizational success and advance members' and organizations'
knowledge, capability, capacity for innovation, and professionalism.
Our diverse membership reflects a broad range of industries. Members
include:
Organizational Leaders: business, government and non-profit leaders
responsible for strategy design and execution, from CEO through those leading a
division, department, or team that has a critical strategy component;
Strategy Practitioners/Consultants: internal and external
practitioners/consultants who provide content and process expertise for setting
and implementing strategic direction; and
Academics: professors, authors and students who create and transfer
new knowledge to enhance the effectiveness of strategy and further the
profession.
At the center of entrepreneurship at Stanford, BASES is one of the largest student entrepreneurship groups in the world.
We are dedicated to empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and beyond.
BayBrazil fosters communication and entrepreneurship among
professionals who work with or wish to develop connections with Brazil,
the fastest growing economy in the Western world.
Our mission is to build a community of professionals, entrepreneurs,
investors, students and scholars across a wide range of sectors
including high tech, green tech, renewable energy, culture, finance, and
education and to connect that community with forward-thinking business,
government and education leaders in Brazil.
Linda Holroyd, FoundersSpace Trusted Advisor
As a serial entrepreneur
who has worked with dozens of start-ups and larger technology and life science
organizations across the valley, Linda Holroyd
is a trusted adviser to founders who are members of FoundersSpace.
FoundersSpace welcomes
other veteran entrepreneurs, angels, VCs, attorneys, CFOs, investment bankers,
and other top professionals with valuable experience and knowledge to share to
also join as advisers, thereby providing assistance to tens of thousands of
founders now and into the future.
Founders Space brings
together founders, angels, VCs, attorneys, CFOs and other experts to answer the
questions all founders have. Our mission is to connect founders with advisors
and help startups get what they need to make it to the next level.
Whenever an advisor answers a question for one founder, the answer is shared
with the entire community and preserved in our database. This way the
advisor is actually providing assistance to tens of thousands of founders now
and into the future.
Founders benefit by
tapping into a select group of angels, VCs, CFOs, attorneys and other top Silicon Valley influencers. And our advisors
benefit by forming relationships with our founders. Our goal is to
provide a simple, yet powerful, way to access information and each other. For
more information and to register, visit http://www.foundersspace.com.
Hacker Dojo is a community center in Mountain View which is about 1/3rd
coworking space, 1/3rd events venue, and 1/3rd a big social living
room. In the spirit of DevHouse,
we're creating a physical community space for hackers and thinkers on
the Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area. This is a location for
events, lectures, parties, BarCamps, DevHouses, LAN parties, hackathons,
knitting circles, tinkering, brainstorming, coworking, etc. While
Hacker Dojo is technically a "members only" private club, we welcome
visitors to many of our lectures and classes, and invite people to use
the space on a drop-in basis as well. It is not a residential space.
The Dojo is a community space first and foremost - this means that the
focus of the layout and activities is to lend itself to be a useful
place to throw classes, host parties, brainstorm, and hang out.
HPAlumni is an informal
independent volunteer network of former HP
employees -
and current HP employees who are in the
process of leaving. The informal network has rapidly grown to more than
21,000 people.
This network is operated by
former HP employees. It is not endorsed or supported by the Hewlett‑Packard Company.
You are eligible to join if you were formerly a regular, direct employee of HP -
or have a defined HP termination date.
The Intel Alumni Network was founded in 2007 by a group of alumni
volunteers to help former Intel employees network and stay connected.
IAN's
mission is to enable professional networking and development, and to
reconnect friends both online and via social activities and events.
We are not formally associated with Intel Corporation, but encourage collaborative ties with Intel and its current employees.
The MIT Club of Northern California is run entirely by volunteer MIT
alumni. The club organizes hundreds of events every year, serving
approximately 8300 alumni in the Northern California area. Each year,
the club publishes three newsletters;
club members are also notified of upcoming events through a weekly
email announcement. Since the Club does not receive funding from MIT,
it is funded primarily from event fees, alumni donations and corporate
sponsorships. Organization is led by a leadership team of over 20 alumni officers with a distinguished board of directors overseeing club operations.
OPEN is a voluntary, not-for-profit, inclusive organization, focused
primarily on the promotion of entrepreneurship and business leadership
in the Pakistani-American community. OPEN Silicon Valley community is
several thousand-strong, and includes corporate professionals,
entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and banking professionals, social
leaders, academics and students.
OPEN Silicon Valley promotes entrepreneurship through regular mentorship and networking initiatives. Given the valley's leadership in technology and entrepreneurship,
OPEN Silicon Valley has championed significant global initiatives,
including supporting entrepreneurship and the technology sector in
Pakistan.
With seven colleges and 134 degree programs, San Jose State University
is an exceptional place for hands-on learning, professional development
and personal growth.
Silicon Valley Fundraising (SVF) provides entrepreneurs and growth companies with the critical knowhow, tools, and investor introductions to attract Silicon Valley investment and move their businesses to the next level.
The Silicon
Valley Product Management Association (SVPMA) is an organization
that was founded to address the needs of Product Managers, Product
Marketing Managers and other professionals working within the Product
Management field. The goal of
SVPMA is to provide a forum for education, networking and community
amongst those who work in product management. That includes, but
is not limited to Product Managers, Product Marketing Managers,
Marketing Managers, Directors of Product Management, and VPs of
Product Management.
We meet every
month with speakers, panels or presentations that focus on day-to-day
issues, career development, emerging trends or any other issues
that strike our fancy.
SVPMA is a grass-roots
organization, which means members of our group are responsible for
planning events, communicating with other members, staffing events,
fundraising and finding space to hold our meetings.
Linda Holroyd, VLAB Emerging Business Forum Adviser
Linda has volunteered for the VLAB Emerging Business Forum team since 2008, helping with the launch of this program series. Linda remains involved in support of executive committee marketing, program, and other needs as an adviser and supporter and partner.
The
MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB) is the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the
MIT Enterprise Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the
growth and success of high-tech entrepreneurial ventures by connecting ideas,
technology and people. We provide a forum for San Francisco
and Silicon Valley's leading entrepreneurs,
industry experts, venture capitalists, private investors and technologists to
exchange insights about how to effectively grow high-tech ventures amidst
dynamic market risks and challenges. In a world where markets change at
breakneck speed, knowledge is a critical source of competitive advantage. Our
forums provide an excellent opportunity to network and learn about pivotal business
issues, emerging industries and the latest technologies. http://www.vlab.org
