Venture Summit Silicon Valley 2011

Challenge Your Golf Game at this California Resort, Steeped in Natural Beauty.

Join AlwaysOn & KPMG and some of the most powerful players in Silicon Valley at our first annual "Power Player West" Golf Tournament on the first day of Venture Summit Silicon Valley in beautiful Half Moon Bay.

Date: Monday, December 12th

Place: The Ocean Golf Course at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay. on the firstday of Venture Summit Silicon Valley

Tee off time: 11:00 am—Box lunches will be provided in Golf Carts—Receiption and awards follows immediately after tournament.

Important Note: Players will be restricted to honored "Power Players" and 36 guests who are paid Venture Summit Silicon Valley attendees.

You may reserve your ticket to both Venture Summit Silicon Valley and the Power Player Golf Tournament here.

If you already have your VSSV ticket and just want to sign-up for the golf tournament, please click here.

Treat yourself to one of the most distinctive, exhilarating and challenging golf experiences, and dare to follow in the footsteps of legends. This captivating golf resort – set atop a scenic Northern California bluff, overlooking the Pacific Ocean – offers two championship courses for diversified play. The natural terrain of the California coast provides the perfect backdrop for a breathtaking game of golf.

Questions or register by phone?

Contact AO Concierge: John Schwartz at 310.721.9451 or by e-mail at john@aonetwork.com.

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Fenwick & West analyzes the terms of venture financings for companies headquartered in Silicon Valley that reported raising money in the in 2011, and Barry Kramer who spearheads this report will unveil his findings.

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In 2011, the venture capital industry was disrupted by over-funding in both the Angel and Late-Stage venture investment rounds. With private company formations gearing up to an all-time high, this seasoned panel of venture investors will discuss and debate the competitive landscape for Venture Capital investing in 2012.

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Eric Kuhn is Hollywood's hottest young talent agent focusing on the next generation of stars leveraging social media to break-out of the pack. Eric will show us why the right social networking strategy is more important and more powerful than a Super Bowl ad.

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The web and music industry are now in full socialization mode. The final frontier is online video and TV, and this session will define where opportunities are in this unchartered space.

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The mobile & PC-based gaming industry is booming; last year alone (2010) it made an estimated $800 million. People are buying games and applications on every available device including iOS devices, smartphones, tablet PCs and more. This session will uncover the top trends in this lucrative emerging market.

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In retrospect, eBay became the most valuable Internet company in the 1990s because it was a social network and commerce site before we even know what that meant. Now a whole new generation of startup social commerce and marketing brands are gearing up to be the Next Big Thing.

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Bill Cleary worked for Steve Jobs at Apple in the early days, and continued his work for Apple and NeXT as a partner at CKS Partners, the leading interactive marketing and advertising agency in the 1990s. Bill will present his views on what was the magic behind Steve Jobs' marketing and product development that help him build the number one consumer brand of its generation.

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The AlwaysOn editors have chosen five top early-stage private companies that have received enough capital to prove the concept behind their new services offerings. These companies will be making their pitches to raise their next round of capital and create new partnerships to take their companies to the next stage of growth.

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When Steve Job's visited then Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, he saw 3 amazing new innovations: The graphical user interface, object oriented software and Ethernet, all core technologies that were exploited by other companies. Dr. Hoover will tell the inside story on why PARC has been spun out of Xerox and how they are staying on the cutting edge.

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The Super Angel investors continue to turn the whole traditional venture capital model upside down. Many would argue that the early stage market is over-funded and represents a new bubble. This leading group of Angels will dissect the myths from reality.

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Accel Partners has invested heavily in social media (including as lead investor in Facebook), and has been one of the most prominent U.S. VC brands in China. The illustrious Joe Schoendorf went to China 18 times in 2011 and will shares his stories and give his outlook for 2012.

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The emergence of secondary market alternatives continued to disrupt the IPO & M&A business in 2011. This session will debate what the best liquidity strategies are for technology companies and forecast what to look for in 2012.

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Now that the alwayson-on generation is joining the corporate ranks, workers are now demanding that all enterprise applications and services are accessible on the web and even that they look-and-feel more like the consumer social media sites they grew up with.

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Satjiv is one of a small group of Silicon Valley marketing pioneers including Steve Jobs who leveraged the titans of entertainment, fashion, sports and art to help drive the mass adoption of of new technologies, personal computers and other consumer devices. He will share insights of how the magic is made and how to make it happen.

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The evolution to the cloud computing is creating a plethora of new startup opportunities. This session details how cloud companies which offer scale, mobility and collaboration tools could represent the biggest growth prospects in next next several years.

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Innovation-driven startups have always had to scale quickly to survive. In today's networked world, entrepreneurs need to move even faster, and the right kind of corporate partners can make all the difference.

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In June of 2011, the monthly time spent on social networks surpassed that of traditional web portals. Facebook is now the largest seller of display advertising. What does this all mean to the Media Establishment?