The Startup Bus Itinerary
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 10:50AM For those following from afar I wanted to give you some insight into the schedule we are keeping on the bus. It's jam packed of awesome.
- A pre-launch party on the night of the 8th will occur. Currently it's looking like at Atlassian's spacey SF offices.
- The bus will leave early morning the 9th. It will drive to Cupertino to get a personal coaching session with the CTO of Hewlett Packard, who is famous for his innovation training
- The bus will drive to LA (MySpace offices) to a party where you will be forced to pitch your startups for the first time. That means the drive to LA will focus on getting into teams and shortisting your ideas
- The bus going to arrive at Phoenix and have lunch at a local entrepreneurs meetup the next day
- A journalist will join us at this part of the trip to document what we are doing
- We will arrive in Austin around the late afternoon of the 11th, where you will get free massages at AustinDEEP and in another room get personal coaching from someone with a strong commercial background. You will then later that night at a cocktail party pitch your ideas to local Austin entrepreneurs and investors, which will give you practice for your first launch to the world about what you are doing.
- Bluebite will sponsor a campaign on the 12th and we are going to be strategic where we place it. Currently, I am thinking of placing it at the registration booths - meaning potentially all 10,000 people that attend SxSWi will get content we push on their mobile phones, which includes promotional videos from all your start-ups (one of the activities for the BD members of a team) as well as generate awareness about the SxSW party we're hosting.
- A party hosted by Venturehacks.com - the entrepreneur's bible - will occur either at a top floor condo next to the conference on the 12th or 13th; or potentially a 450 person venue as a classy bar on the 14th which will have a $4,000 bar tab. At this party, you will need to pitch your startups to a group of people. I can't promise who will attend but people I aim to get are: the Twitter co-founders (who Naval Ravikant knows personally), the people behind Techmeme (Gabe Rivera and Megan McCarthy who has said she wants to help out), and some tier1 blogs. I can't force people to attend, but it gives you an idea of the crowd I am trying to muster.
- The startup with the winning idea, will get personal coaching from Naval Ravikant and Nivi of venturehacks, to help your idea become "investment grade" - meaning, you will then get introduced to 75 of Silicon Valley's super angels as part of their startuplist initiative:http://venturehacks.com/startuplist. You will also have the option to take investment from one of the sponsors.
This has been an amazing trip thus far and we are only on day two. Don't forget you can follow the bus here.
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