Trishan Arul

Arul and Associates

Trishan provides accounting and finance support for startups and small companies. Arul & Associates handles startups’ accounting and administrative needs so that they can focus on serving customers and developing the company’s core business/technology. Services include CFO level consulting, payroll processing, and bookkeeping to enable startups to outsource the accounting function. Clients receive the knowledge and experience of seasoned executives at a lower cost than an entry-level employee.

Katherine Barr

Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures

www.mdv.com

Katherine Barr is a Partner at Mohr Davidow, and focuses primarily on the digital media, consumer Internet, and mobile sectors. Some of the companies she works with include: Ticketfly, Root Music, PunchTab, Massive Health, Visible Measures, and Wordnik. She is also an advisor to Samasource, is a founding member of the Organizing Committee for C100, an advisor to 500Startups and i/o ventures, and a founding sponsor of Startup2Startup.

Gagan Biyani

President and Co-Founder, Udemy

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Gagan Biyani is a Silicon-Valley born and raised tech enthusiast and is Co-Founder and President of Udemy, a website that enables anyone to teach and learn online. At Udemy, he runs operations, business development, public relations, marketing and investor relations. Since its launch in May 2010, over 1,000 instructors have built courses on Udemy. Udemy raised $1 million in funding from investors such as Keith Rabois (investor in YouTube, LinkedIn), Dave McClure (investor in Mint), Rick Thompson (investor in Playdom) and Jeremy Stoppelman (CEO of Yelp).

Ethan Bloch

CEO & Co-founder, Flowtown

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Ethan Bloch is the CEO and Co-Founder of Flowtown where he built the company to 26,000 businesses, near-profitability and a team of 8 in less than 11 months only to be faced with the decision to shutdown the company or start from scratch on an entirely new product. He and his team choose the later and have since been working on the new version of Flowtown which allows businesses to easily give gifts to their fans, followers and customers.

Cathy Brooks

Evangelist & Rabblerouser, DoaT

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What began for Cathy as a career telling other people’s stories has evolved into a journey of helping others to tell their own stories for themselves. A “classically trained” Journalist, Cathy’s passion for communications began with her first job ripping wire copy and has evolved to encompass nearly every platform and aspect of media. After engaging as an activist for LGBT equal rights, Cathy began to explore the influence of personal stories in people’s professional lives. Through her San Francisco based consulting firm, Cathy now helps companies and individuals navigate new technologies with the purpose of leveraging these platforms to tell stories. Through workshops and consulting services, Cathy walks clients through the story-telling process and towards the deep engagement that comes from authentic communication. Every week Cathy brings these discussions to life on TheConversation, a live talk show on which industry leaders and average folks share their experiences and stories. The program, for which Cathy is Executive Producer and Host, puts technology in human terms, and lets the audience interact via text chat and phone.

Solana Crawford

Founder & CEO, DaT

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Clients come back to DaT for one main reason: Solana Crawford. Her unparalleled energy is coupled with over 15 years of experience. Whether Solana is conceptualizing a new brand, updating a UX and UI, revamping a website, or acting in front of a camera, she brings her positive energy and immense talent to the table. She manages an awesome team that delivers amazing results. Solana transplanted from Buenos Aires, Argentina to San Francisco, CA in 2000, and founded DaT in 2005. She holds a B.S. degree in Graphic Design from the University of Buenos Aires.

John Devanney

Principal, Moment

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John Devanney is a principal at Moment, a digital product design firm in New York City. At Moment, John and the team collaborate with some of the best companies in the world including ESPN, American Express, and Tiffany & Co. designing digital products that people will use everyday to make their lives easier, more productive, and even a little more fun.

Chris DeWolfe

CEO, MindJolt

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Internet entrepreneur Chris DeWolfe may be best known as co-founder and former CEO of MySpace, the social network that redefined the concept of socializing around shared interests. Under DeWolfe`s leadership, MySpace grew exponentially: Launched in 2003, MySpace attracted an average of 300,000 new members each day, and when he left the company in 2009 it had more than 125 million monthly active users from 29 countries around the globe. In 2010, DeWolfe staked his claim in the rapidly growing social and mobile games market. With backing from Austin Ventures, DeWolfe purchased Mindjolt, a game developer, publisher and platform that leverages its presence across mobile platforms, highly trafficked websites, and leading social networks. MindJolt brings people everywhere together through great games. With over 30 million mobile installs, more than 70 million installs on social platforms, and reaching over 25 million unique users a month on the web, MindJolt is one of the largest game developers and publishers. MindJolt's roster of some of the most popular iPhone games includes two #1 hits and 6 Top 10 hits.

Roger Dickey

Founder, Product X

Roger Dickey is a serial entrepreneur & angel investor. Roger's first company, started in Austin in 2006, was an “Airbnb for tutoring.” His foray into the game industry began in 2007 when he started a company that developed Facebook apps. They moved quickly, building 19 apps, with the most popular driving over 10M daily pageviews. Within 8 months, his startup was bought by Zynga, where Roger went on to found Mafia Wars, which reached 45.5M users by 2010. While at Zynga, he also founded FishVille along with 5 other titles in his 3 years with the company. In his final role, Roger served as an international product team advisor helping the company grow their games in India, Japan, and China. Since leaving Zynga, he has started a new company in San Francisco. Alongside his work at Zynga, Roger began angel investing and advising startups in June 2010. His investments include Facebook, Addepar, DotCloud, E La Carte, Internmatch, HiGear, Ecomom, Speakertext, Wanderfly, and more.

Kay Filler

CPA, Perisho Tombor Ramirez & Brown PC

www.perisho.com

Kay Filler has been an audit partner at Perisho Tombor Ramirez Filler & Brown PC since 1997. Prior to joining Perisho, Kay served for three years as CFO of one of the largest privately-held companies in Silicon Valley. Before that she was a senior audit manager for eight years in the San Jose office of Deloitte where she was involved in auditing and consulting with private companies and SEC Registrants as well as public stock offerings, and mergers and acquisitions. Kay has served a three-year term as a member of a committee of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), as well as several terms as Co-Chair of the Accounting Principles and Auditing Standards Committee of the San Jose/Silicon Valley Chapter of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants. In addition, she performs technical reviews of several leading financial reporting reference books distributed by a well-known professional literature publisher. Kay graduated from the University of the Pacific with a B.S. in Business Administration (Accounting Concentration).

Liz Gannes

Senior Editor, AllThingsD

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Liz Gannes has been a Silicon Valley-based business technology reporter since 2004, where she started her career as a reporter at Red Herring. She was the second employee at the technology blog network GigaOM, where she covered the rise of the social Web.

Adriana Gardella

Business Journalist & Blogger, NYTimes' She Owns It

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Adriana Gardella blogs on women and entrepreneurship for NYT.com. She has been an editor for Fortune Small Business, a contributing editor for Success magazine, and a columnist covering management and career issues for CBS Interactive. She began her career as a lawyer.

Peter Gardner

Managing Partner, Wavepoint Ventures, LLC

www.wavepointventures.com

Peter has spent 17 years as a venture capital investor. Before his venture career he was a project leader at Weston Solutions, an environmental engineering company, and held lab positions at Genetics Institute and Brookhaven National Laboratory. He has recently advised PATH.org on the use of venture capital in the commercialization of medical technologies. He is also an active contributor to the Center for Science, Technology and Society at Santa Clara University and is a judge for The Tech Awards in the economic development category.

Joe Gebbia

Co-Founder and CPO,Airbnb

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Joe defines the Airbnb experience. He is dedicated to creating an inspiring and effortless user experience through sharp, intuitive design, and crafts the product roadmap to make it so. Joe values products that simplify life and have a positive impact on the environment, and ensures that the company adheres to these tenets. Prior to Airbnb, Joe was employed by Chronicle Books, co-founded Ecolect, a green design website, and developed several consumer products, including CritBuns, a product recently featured in the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial. An alumni of the Rhode Island School of Design, Joe earned dual degrees in Graphic Design and Industrial Design. He also founded the school's basketball team and led as student body president.

Evan Hamilton

Community Management, UserVoice

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Evan Hamilton has never experienced a world without online communities, and delights in being part of them, understanding them, and helping them grow. He's organized game developers in high school, developed a global community celebrating International Beer Day, met a diverse set of browser users at Flock, and currently is Community Manager at UserVoice. He has failed at all of these endeavors and succeeded at some as well. When not building communities or celebrating beer, Evan likes to ride his bicycle and sing rock'n'roll in his band, Monsters are not Myths (not at the same time, usually).

Travis Kalanick

Co-Founder & CEO, Uber

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Travis Kalanick is a successful entrepreneur in the areas of consumer internet, transportation, and enterprise content delivery. His most recent company, Uber, an on-demand black car service, seeks to be “Everyone’s Private Driver” by bringing disruptive technology and business innovation to urban transportation challenges. Prior to Uber, Travis founded Red Swoosh, an enterprise content delivery company that he sold to Akamai Technologies in 2007. Prior companies include Scour, the world's first p2p search engine where Kalanick also attained the dubious distinction of having been sued for $250 billion. In addition, Kalanick has been an active angel investor in, and advising, kick-ass startups founded by truly awesome entrepreneurs. You can connect with Travis on Twitter, read his blog, or ask him anything on

Vinod Khosla

Founder, Khosla Ventures

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Vinod Khosla is an entrepreneur, investor, failure expert and technology fan. He is the founder of Khosla Ventures, focused on impactful clean technology and information technology investments. Mr. Khosla has a few decades of first hand failure experience across several sectors as a founder, incubator, investor, and advisor: from his first soy milk startup in the 70’s to several high profile venture investments throughout the 90’s and 2000’s. Mr. Khosla was also a co-founder of Daisy systems and founding CEO of Sun Microsystems where he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC processors. One of Mr. Khosla’s greatest passions is being a mentor to entrepreneurs, assisting entrepreneurs and helping them build technology based businesses. He is also passionate about Social Entrepreneurship. Vinod holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from IIT, New Delhi, a Master's in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Anna Patterson

Android Director of Engineering, Google

Anna Patterson is Director of Engineering in Android at Google. She was President and Founder of a search engine Cuil. Her focus is on scaling architecture, tackling one of the major problems in search-the exponential growth of the Internet. Anna was the architect of Google's large search index, TeraGoogle, that launched in early 2006. While at Google, Anna also was the technical lead of one of the two Web ranking groups, Director of GoogleBase, and managed one of the core piece of Google's ad-matching technology. She joined Google in 2004 after designing, writing and selling Recall-the largest search engine in existence at the time at 12 billion pages. Anna has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and was a Research Scientist at Stanford University.

Han Pham

Design Swinger

www.designswinger.com

Reason loves emotion. Strategy gives life to creativity. As a experience strategist and researcher, Han thrives at the crossroads of culture, business and design where curiosity is king. Her work has been been featured on the radio, in the AIGA Design Library in New York and in publications such as Marie Claire, Hyphen magazine, Nguoi Viet News and Nha Magazine.

Luis Ramirez

CPA, Perisho Tombor Ramirez & Brown PC

www.perisho.com

Luis Ramirez has been a corporate and international tax partner with Perisho Tombor Ramirez Filler & Brown PC since 1993. Luis specializes in serving the tax and business planning needs of closely held companies, partnerships and their shareholder/partners. Luis has multi-industry experience in manufacturing, service, real estate, technology, wholesale and retail. Luis was a manager for Deloitte where he specialized in providing tax services to many of their largest and most prestigious closely-held companies and to premier Silicon Valley high- technology clients in merger and acquisition consulting, initial public stock offerings, stock- based compensation and international tax planning. Luis graduated with honors from Chapman College in Orange, California. Luis is a baseball fan, wake board enthusiast and enjoys spending time with family and friends. Luis is active in local community organizations.

Hiten Shah

CEO, KISSmetrics

www.KISSmetrics.com

Hiten started on the Internet by founding a Internet marketing consultancy, ACS. He then went on to create Crazy Egg, an analytics tool that visualizes the user experience on a website. Now with KISSmetrics he is building a data driven solution to help online businesses make better business decisions. Hiten is passionate about helping other entrepreneurs and startup people.

Sarah Vallette

Heffernan Insurance Brokers

www.heffins.com

Sarah specializes in working with startups to address their unique insurance needs including Technology, Media, Privacy, and Cyber liability issues. Heffernan Insurance Brokers, formed in 1988, is one of the largest independent insurance brokerage firms in the United States. Heffernan provides comprehensive insurance and financial services products to a wide range of businesses and individuals.

Adil Wali

CEO, Kemists

Adil Wali naps a lot. He gets bored easily and likes to have fun, so he starts companies. He's never had a 'real job.' He's been a founder or investor in a bunch of stuff that's failed. The stuff that hasn't: ClearGears, ModCloth, Crowd Interactive, Kemists.

David Weekly

Founder, Chairman & CPO, PBworks

www.PBworks.com

Stanford Computer Science graduate and President Scholar, David Weekly has been programming since five and has coded for MIT Lincoln Labs, Harvard's Gabrielse Antimatter Physics Group, Stanford Graphics, atWeb, Legato, and There.com; in college, he was a finalist in the ACM International Programming Competition. He is the founder of PBworks (once PBwiki), which is a hosted collaboration service used by over four million people a month; David built the team to a cash-even basis and has raised ~$8m led by Mohr-Davidow Ventures. David co-founded SuperHappyDevHouse, a Bay Area event that regularly brings together hundreds of programmers to learn and build - the event has since been replicated worldwide, with DevHouses across not just the US, but Mexico, New Zealand, the UK, Switzerland, Singapore, and elsewhere. David is the Founding Director of Hacker Dojo, a two-year-old Mountain View hackerspace with over 250 members, making it one of the largest such facilities in the world. David is on the technical advisory board of nearly a dozen startups and is an award-winning mentor for The Founder Institute, The Thiel Foundation's 20 Under 20 Program, Women 2.0 Labs, and i/o ventures.

Dan Wheeler

Buchalter Nemer

www.buchalter.com

Dan is a law firm partner whose team advises entrepreneurs, start-ups and mature companies on a business' core needs, including corporate structuring, equity and debt financing, employment, licensing and intellectual property. He ensures that the legal advice is tailored to each client's unique business plan and budget. His clients appreciate his responsiveness and creativity. Dan understands that startups have complex needs and limited budgets and works with them to intelligently set legal priorities.

Stephany Wilkes

Product Manager, Catch

Stephany Wilkes is currently a Product Manager at Catch, a small start-up that in no way inspired this presentation. She holds a Ph.D. from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, IL and volunteers at the Crucible in Oakland, CA.

Brian Wong

CEO & Founder, Kiip

Brian Wong is the founder of kiip (pronounced "keep"), a mobile rewards network, backed by True Ventures. Kiip has raised over $4.4 million in funding to date and is redefining the advertising industry through a "moments"-based value model, versus the traditional attention based screen estate model. Very recently, Kiip was listed by Forbes as one of the "4 Hot Online Ad Companies to Put on Your Watch List", and was also named to the Dow Jones' FasTech50 List. Brian was also recently listed to AdAge's Creativity Top 50. Techcrunch and the Wall Street Journal called Brian the "youngest person to ever receive funding by a venture capital firm". He was recently lauded in Mashable as one of "The Top 5 Young Entrepreneurs to Watch", and the Vancouver Sun called him "a budding internet visionary". He was also recently a recipient of the Top 20 Under 20 awards in all of Canada. Before starting kiip, Brian was responsible for key publisher and tech partnerships at the social news website Digg.com. He also launched the Digg Android mobile app, adding to the company's rising mobile presence.

Elizabeth Yin

CEO & Co-founder, LaunchBit

www.launchbit.com

Elizabeth is the CEO of LaunchBit, an ad network for email. She previously was a marketing manager at Google, and prior to becoming a marketer, she wrote code for startups during the dot com era. Elizabeth frequently speaks at conferences including Web 2.0, Women 2.0 events, and at universities including Stanford, MIT, Yale, and Babson. She holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and an MBA from MIT Sloan.