How to Get Free Tickets to the LAUNCH Festival on April 6-7

If you have never been to the Launch Festival, the world's largest startup event, you need to attend at least once. And if you have been before, you know that it is worth coming back to.

The latest festival will be held in San Francisco on April 6th and 7th at the Innovation Hangar & Palace of Fine Arts Theater in San Francisco.

Ten startups wil be features in each of various Summits, including:
AI
Cannabis
Drones
Education
Food
Health
Robotics
Smart Home
VR/AR

Free tickets are available to founders but only to the first 10,000 applicants, and they are almost at capacity. The tickets entitle you to all stages and the demo pit.

Last Day to Attend the Launch Festival in San Francisco

The Launch Festival at Fort Mason in San Francisco has been running for a couple days, and today is the last day. If you haven't attended yet, you really need to get over there. Many speakers and hundreds of exhibitors.

The Demo Pit opened at 8 am this morning and the theater doors open at 9:30 am. You really need to check out all the exhibitors.

An example is CafeX, which has a large robot arm inside a cylindrical kiosk that will pour and serve you coffee that you order through an app on your phone.

Then there is Bolt Motorbikes, which creates electric bikes that look like motorcycles but legally qualifies as bicycles.

Then there is Meadow, which is an online service that allows you to order medical marijuana through their website, and have it delivered to you.

Don't forget to stop by the Jungle Bar table and taste the cricket bar.

The exhibitors are very diverse in terms of industry, so you really don't want to miss seeing them. More info can be found at:

 Launch Festival 

Hey Startupers: Don't Forget to Attend the Launch Festival

The world's largest startup event will be held in San Francisco, California on March 2 through March 4. There will be 250 speeches on three stages, with 15,000 attendees. The LAUNCH Festival is designed to help founders of startups build, scale, and raise money.

Some of the more interesting companies that will be featured include:
Hyperloop
Opendoor - the company that will provide liquidity for real estate
Udacity - the free college class company
Carbon3D - Star Trek type replicator
Houzz - connects homeowners with designers and architects
FanDuel - daily fantasy sports
Planet Labs - over 100 satellites

Founders of the above companies, and many others, will be speaking at the conference.

You still have a chance to get tickets. You have four options:
Founder
Festival
Festival Plus
Super VIP

The LAUNCH Festival is being held at Fort Mason at 2 Marina Boulevard, in San Francisco. Last years' conference was extremely successful, and I highly recommend that you attend. More info can be found at the LAUNCH website.

Quick Review of the Launch Mobile, Wearables & IoT Conference Day 1

If you signed up for the Launch Mobile, Wearables & IoT Conference at the Herbst Theatre, in Fort Mason in San Francisco, and you didn't attend Day One, you need to attend tomorrow. The speakers were great and the exhibitors were awesome.  The diverse group of startups had many unique products and services.

Here are just a few of them.

Getonlow.com "Totally Silent Video Chat"

Chüi getchui.com

First Derm by iDoc24 FirstDerm.com HÜD Smart Mole Scanner

VimoFit Fitness Tracking Beyond Pedometers vimofit.com

Serenneti "Think Keurig for Food using Robotics" serenity.com

Don't forget to check out all these exhibitors, along with all the other exhibitors at the show.

Don't Forget to Attend the Launch Mobile, Wearables & IoT Conference Next Week

Make sure that you attend the LAUNCH Mobile, Wearables & IoT Conference on Thursday, October 15 and Friday, October 16, held at Fort Mason in San Francisco, California. The actual show starts at 9:30 am but the exhibition opens at 8:00 am.

The agenda for the event can be found here:

http://www.launchmw.com/agenda

If you have a mobile, wearable or IoT startup, you may still be able to get a table for free.

If you are a founder or developer of a startup, there are still tickets left. Go to the following link:

https://launchevents.typeform.com/to/teIHVi

However, if you are an investor, you can buy your ticket at the following link:

http://www.launchmw.com/tickets

More info about LAUNCH can be found here:

http://www.launch.co

See you there!

Checkout SMARTCAMP 2015 for Startups and Win $25,000

Have you heard of SMARTCAMP 2015? If not, you should check it out. You could win $25,000 plus acceptance into the 12-week, LAUNCH Incubator.

This is a startup competition taking place in 30 cities, with IBM and LAUNCH as the hosts. The cities include:

Auckland

Austin

Bangalore

Boston

Cairo

Casablanca

Chicago

Istanbul

Johannesburg

London

Los Angeles

Melbourne

Mexico City

Montevideo

Mumbai

Nairobi

New Delhi

New York

Raleigh

Sao Paulo

San Francisco

Silicon Valley

Singapore

Tokyo

Toronto

The finalists will get to meet top Silicon Valley investors in San Francisco at the SCALE Conference which will be held on October 13th and 14th. They will return to the LAUNCH festival held March 2nd through the 4th, next year.

Need an application? Go to the following link:

smartcamp2015.com

Two More Days for the Launch Festival

If you didn't make it to the Launch Festival today at Fort Mason in San Francisco, there are two more days left. If you have a startup, are an investor in startups, a journalist who writes about startups, or a coder for startups, you should attend.

You can get a lot more info and sign up at the Launch website: http://www.launchfestival.com

Check out the agenda for tomorrow:

TUESDAY MARCH 3RD

Registration Opens: 7:30am 

Morning Session: 9:30am-12:00pm

• Accelerators: The Next Generation
  • Halle Tecco, RockHealth
  • Clara Brenner, Tumml
  • Brady Forrest, Highway1
• Fireside Chat with Andrew Mason, Detour
• The Future of Health with Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder, Social+Capital Partnership
  • Dhananja Jayalath, Athos
  • Jon Schull, e-NABLE
  • Esther Rodriguez-Villegas, AcuPebble
• The Future of Policing
  • Chris Kapiloff & Foster Goodrich, School Guard Glass
  • Jim Schaff, Yardarm Technologies
  • Greg Sullivan, Security Devices Int'l
• Fireside Chat with Roelof Botha, Sequoia Capital

Lunch + LAUNCH Job Fair: 12:00pm-2:00pm 

Afternoon Session: 2:00pm-5:30pm

• Fireside Chat with Peter Thiel, The Founders Fund
• Roelant Prins, Adyen - "Go Global, Be Local" -- Partner Presentation
• Fireside Chat with Gary Vaynerchuck, VaynerMedia
• 15 Brand New Startups Launch on Stage!

8th Annual LAUNCH Festival for Startups

Don't miss the upcoming 8th annual LAUNCH Festival at Fort Mason in San Francisco, California. The event will take place on March 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. Here are the details.

1. The Agenda
http://www.launchfestival.com/agenda

2. The Product Hunt AMA Stage
http://www.launchfestival.com/ama

3. The Speakers
http://www.launchfestival.com/speakers

4. The Parties & Dinners
http://www.launchfestival.com/parties 

See you there.

How to Launch your Startup at the LAUNCH Festival 2015

Are you involved in a startup and looking for investors? What better way to do so than presenting your company at the upcoming LAUNCH Festival 2015, which will be held in San Francisco March 2 through 4.

Launch is looking for 50 companies to appear on stage. The deadline to apply is 2/1/15 and you will ned to provide a screencast demo of you using your product as part of the application.

There are three categories. 1.0 is for companies that have had no publicity whatsoever. 2.0 is for companies that have already launched but have a significantly now product of feature. The Crowdfunding category is for companies that will have an active Kickstarter or Indiegogo campaign running during the festival.

For more information, go HERE.

Launch Your Startup in Less Than 100 Days

If you have a startup or are planning on creating a startup, you need to attend the LAUNCH Startup Festival 2015, to be held March 2 through March 4, from 8:00 am to 6:30 pm, at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, California.

For more information on the event, you can go here, including the Launch Ticker and Events.

Also, check out the current video in This Week in Startups.

Launch Festival for Startups March 2 - 4, 2015 in San Francisco

Have you started a startup? Do you want to invest in a startup? Do you want to learn more about starting your own startup? Then you should sign up now for the Launch Festival in San Francisco, which will be held from March 2 through March 4, 2015.

The keynote speaker will be Jeff Weiner, the CEO of LinkedIn. Previous speakers have included Marissa Mayer, Peter Thiel, Sheryl Sandberg, and Mark Zuckerberg.

There are a few competitions:

 LAUNCH 1.0 - This competition is for completely new companies who haven't had press or public demos, and whose services are currently in closed alpha or beta. Early Bird Deadline to apply is 12/12/14.

LAUNCH 2.0 - This competition is for existing companies that are launching new products or significantly new features of an existing product. Early Bird Deadline to apply is 12/12/14.

LAUNCH Hackathon - This competition is for the best LAUNCH Hackathon project.

For tickets to the Launch Festival, go to the following link:

Launch Festival Tickets

Launch Scale Conference for Startups October 23 & 24 in San Francisco

The Launch Scale Conference is designed for entrepreneurs that want to scale their startups. It will be held in San Francisco, California on October 23 and 24. The presentations will be from startups that have scaled and companies that provide tools that help startups scale.

Presenters that have been lined up so far include:

1. Steve Huffman, Co-Founder - reddit & Hipmunk
2. Marco Zappacosta, CEO - Thumbtack will explain how thumbtack got 70,000 paying customers without a salesforce, and raised $50M.
3. Andrew Johns, Head of Growth & Revenue - Wealthfront will talk about how they attracted $1B in assets under management with a tiny marketing budget.
4. Patrick Cheeseman, Head of Customer Experience - HotelTonight will discuss how to use support to drive product innovation.
5. Ryan Mannion, CTO - POLITICO will discuss how to grow from 0 to 100 Million monthly pageviews.
6. Christopher DePatria, VP of Revenue - SignPost will explain how he grew their sales team from 5 to 100 in 2 years, and signed up 93k SMB customers.
7. Aaron Magness, VP of Marketing - Betabrand will tell us how they use crowd-funded emails to never have unwanted inventory again.
8. Craig Zingerline, Sr. Director of Product - Red Tricycle will tell us how they grew to 750,000 emails without spending a dollar.
9. Arjun Naskar, Growth Manager - Homejoy will discuss how to expand into 31 markets in 2 years.

For more information, go HERE.

A Great Venue for Startups: the Launch Festival

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week, February 24, 25, and 26th, hundreds of startups are exhibiting at the Launch Festival in San Francisco at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse. The festival is where startups launch their business and raise money, and accredited investors look for potential venture capital investments.

There are numerous interesting and amazing startups that are exhibiting, including such companies as Virtuix Omni, which combines exercise with immersive gaming.

Then there is Pawly, which makes a dog toy that has a built-in microphone and speaker so you can talk to your pet wherever you are, take videos of your pet, and can even dispense treats. The company won the 2913 Global Startup Battle powered by Google.

The last day of the festival is Wednesday, February 26. More information about the event can be found at launch.co