SVOD Winter'13

About the Event

SVOD (www.svod.org) is a boutique conference for cool startups, successful entrepreneurs, angel investors and top venture capitalists from all over the world, held in the heart of the warm and sunny Silicon Valley – the center of it all!! At SVOD you have a unique opportunity to meet and network with movers and shakers of the Silicon Valley industry in a friendly environment. As always, we’ll have an eclectic mix of the most creative, forward-thinking, and insightful industry speakers and over 60 investor judges from top angel and VC funds for SVOD startup DEMO (with the ratio of 2-to-1 entrepreneur-to-investor). Come celebrate winter with SVOD: pitch your company, evaluate your peers, attend our new programs, play a bunch of exciting business games with prizes at the end, and attend a special FREE TOUR for startup founders. From founders to CEOs, from industry legends to brand young entrepreneurs, SVOD brings together the people who are shaping our lives today and influencing our future. Don’t miss your chance. Register for SVOD TODAY: http://svod2013w.eventbrite.com/ SVOD Winter’13 DETAILS Startup DEMO: Apply to become one of the 25 cool pre-selected companies, receive training and present in front of the audience of angels and venture capitalists (total of 60+ with the ratio of 2-to-1 entrepreneur-to-investor). The coach will help polish your story, define your strategies, discuss financial goals, and other important issues for the presentation. The winner of SVOD DEMO is awarded with Microsoft BizSpark Plus offer, which is up to $60,000 in Windows Azure usage. More details here: http://www.microsoft.com/BizSpark/Plus/Default.aspx Business Model Canvas Evaluation for the DEMO startups where each attendee gets an opportunity to be “in the shoes of an investor, evaluating a company”. Compare your approach with the approach of the best Silicon Valley angels and venture capitalists and win your prize at the end! Don’t miss the opportunity to participate in this and other exciting business games at SVOD, compete, and win your prize! SVOD Winter’13 Speakers: Meet successful start-up founders and learn from them how to raise funding, work with angels and VCs, and launch a product! Learn about the latest developments in your industry. Hear them talk about what’s important in building your business in the Valley, how to deal with “hard nuts”, come up with pivots and new “fighting” business strategies. Santa’s “Pay-It-Forward Program” provides a tool for successful startups to cover the fees for the qualifying pre-funding young startups to participate in the SVOD Demo. INVESTORS WORKSHOP “BEHIND CLOSED DOORS” SVOD VIP Workshop for Early Stage Investors intends to dive into the best practices and rules of engagement in the Silicon Valley, provide opportunities to build partnerships, as well as DEMO seed/Series A stage US startups. Please see details of the program HERE: http://www.svod.org/workshop