Girls In Tech

Calling all up and coming women entrepreneurs!:  It’s time for women with great ideas to ignite their company’s visibility and growth.

Vator.tv, a leading social network for entrepreneurs and innovators, and of news and information through VatorNews, has partnered with Girls in Tech, a social network enterprise focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of like-minded, professional, intelligent and influential women in technology.

Together, we are hosting our first-ever Amplify Business Pitch Competition – Awarding women-led start-ups, which will be held on November 18th in San Francisco.  With keynote speaker Esther Dyson, an active angel investor in our community, it will be an educational as well as inspirational event and a setting for like-minded budding business owners to learn from this maverick in the field.  (Read more about Esther and her rise to start-up expertise, here.)

We hope you will join us in making this the must-attend women’s start-up event of the season.  Bring your fresh ideas and entrepreneurial spirit to converge with the best of the best!

WHAT: Amplify Business Pitch Competition

WHEN: November 18, 2010 9AM to 5PM

WHERE: Microsoft Labs, San Francisco, CA

TO REGISTER: http://gitamplify.eventbrite.com/ — We look forward to seeing you there!

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It’s time for women with great ideas to ignite their company’s visibility and growth!

Vator.tv, a leading social network for entrepreneurs and innovators, and of news and information through VatorNews, has partnered with Girls in Tech, a social network enterprise focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of like-minded, professional, intelligent and influential women in technology.

Together, we are hosting our first-ever Amplify Business Pitch Competition – Awarding women-led startups, which will be held on November 18, 2010 in San Francisco.

To sign up for the business pitch competition, please click on the following link: Enter the AMPLIFY business pitch competition

To purchase a ticket to the event, please click on the following link: Purchase tickets

Our keynote speaker is Esther Dyson, an active angelinvestor in a variety of start-ups, for-profit and otherwise, around the world. She also operates as the Internet’s court jester, a person of no institutional importance who somehow manages to speak the truth and to be heard when and where it matters. She does business as EDventure, the reclaimed name of the company she owned for 20-odd years before selling it to CNET Networks in 2004.

Her primary activity is investing in start-ups and guiding many of them as a board member. Her board seats include 23andMe, Airship Ventures, Boxbe, Voxiva, Eventful, Evernote, IBS Group (Russia, advisory board), Meetup, Midentity (UK), NewspaperDirect, Yandex (Russia)…and WPP Group (not a start-up). Some of her other direct IT investments include Flickr and Del.icio.us (sold to Yahoo!), BrightMail (sold to Symantec), Orbitz (sold to Cendant), Medstory and Powerset (both sold to Microsoft), Plazes (sold to Nokia), Tacit (sold to Oracle), BlogAds, BrightHouse, ChoiceStream, Dopplr, Dotomi, Linkstorm, Mashery, Organized Wisdom, Ovusoft, PatientsLikeMe, Resilient,Technorati, ThingD, Vizu.com and Zedo. Indirectly, she is an investor in Amee.cc and Wesabe.

Tags: Adriana Gascoigne, AMPLIFY, Bambi Francisco, business pitch, competition, girls in tech, Vator.tv, women in tech
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Vator invites you to pitch Silicon Valley at Vator Splash May
When: May 13, 2010
Time: 4:30 pm to 12 midnight
Where: Cafe du Nord, San Francisco
Cost: $150 (Girls in Tech get a 20% discount using “Vatorgirls”)

Vator Splash II will be held on the evening of May 13, 2010 at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco and will showcase 10 up-and-coming startups across the high-tech industry, as well as Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, serial entrepreneur Gurbaksh Chahal (founder of ClickAgents, Blue Lithium and gWallet), Founders Fund VC Dave McClure, August Capital VC Howard Hartenbaum, Mayfield VC Raj Kappor and many more. Once again, Robert Scoble will be on hand to emcee the presentations. About 400 people, consisting of industry peers, investors and media are expected to attend.

Submit an early-stage company to pitch below:
http://vator.tv/competition/vator-splash

Reserve a discount ticket or pitch table (discount code: Vatorgirls):
http://vatorsplashmay.eventbrite.com/

Tags: girls in tech, May 13, pitch competition, Silicon Valley, Sponsor, Tech event, Vator.tv, VatorSplash
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