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The Bootstrapper Summit (BSS) conferences are New York City's most intimate early stage events, bringing together the best, most exciting startups and the top investors.

BSS IV is coming April 1, 2010!

Please browse the upcoming event's agenda, activities, speakers and sponsors.

Startups ranging from Seed to Series B to private equity will be featured on BSS IV. 

Tracks will include Advertizing, Digital Media, Mobile, Seed Spotlight, and many others. Exciting startups that don't fit into one of these tracks will present on the Cool Startup & Special Situations Track. 

If your startup has a completed product or/and a management team with a serious track record please use the link below to sign up

Investors representing over $5B in capital are expected to attend BSS IV.

AllianceBernstein, DFJ Gotham, FirstMark Capital, Golden Seeds, GrandBanks Capital, Greenhill SAVP, Intel Capital, Metamorphic Ventures, New York  Angels, RRE Ventures and Tri State Ventures are among investors that attended our past events.

We welcome angel investors, venture funds as well as private equity & hedge funds. Please use the link below to register

Features include:

  • Keynotes, "Live Diligence" and Q&A from panels for most tracks
  • Private networking time
  • Awards & intimate Cocktail Hour
  • Much more!

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Keynote Speaker: Gary Vaynerchuck, Wine Library TV

Gary Vaynerchuk has captured attention with his pioneering, multi-faceted approach to personal branding and business. After primarily utilizing traditional advertising techniques to build his family’s local wine business into a national industry leader, Gary rapidly leveraged social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to promote Wine Library TV, his video blog about wine. As his viewership swelled to over 80,000 a day, doors opened to a book deal, several national TV appearances, and a flurry of speaking engagements around the world. Gary’s dual identity as both business guru and wine guy has made him the “Social Media Sommelier.” His impact on the wine world has been commemorated via his inclusion in the 2009 Decanter Power List, an index of the 50 most influential figures in the industry.

Recently, Gary was named #18 on Askmen.com’s Top 49 Most Influential Men of 2009.

In addition to the Web 2.0 keynote, Gary’s remarks on personal branding, social media, and business at FOWA, Strategic Profits, and South By Southwest occasioned praise from established web denizens including Kathy Sierra and earned the admiration of countless bloggers and aspiring entrepreneurs.

Gary’s landmark seven-figure book deal with Harper Studio was featured in The Wall Street Journal and he was recently profiled by The New York Times and Market Watch.

 

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Featured Speaker: Maureen Farrell, Forbes

Maureen is a staff writer for Forbes. She covers entrepreneurs, small business and innovation and hosts a weekly video series called BreakOut! featuring entrepreneurs with potentially game-changing businesses. Before joining Forbes in August 2006, Farrell worked as a writer for Mergermarket and Debtwire, both divisions of the Financial Times.  Farrell received a bachelor's degree from Duke University and a master's from the Columbia University's School of Journalism.

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Featured Speaker: Owen Davis, NYC Seed

Owen has worked in all aspects of the online world. He created one of the first 200 web sites on-line, and founded Thinking Media in the summer of 1995, an online marketing firm which pioneered client-side tracking of pages and advertisements, which has become the standard method for online measurement. He co-founded Sonata in 1999, a wireless company that provided location-based services and marketing to cell phones. Owen also co-founded, Petal Computing, a firm that developed software which allowed large numbers of commodity PCs to act like a single unit, useful in industries ranging from image rendering to pharmaceuticals. He was also an original member of the Board setting online advertising and media specifications and has served as Managing Director of the Wireless Advertising Association. Owen was named various times as one of the 100 Top Internet Executives in New York by The Silicon Alley Reporter. Owen currently runs NYC Seed, the first true seed fund in NYC in partnership with the City of New York.

Please browse our past events for information on agendas, activities, speakers and sponsors.

Watch the Bootstrapper Summit introduction by its founder, Richie Hecker:

Notes:
BSS is by application only and is only open to approved entrepreneurs and investors.
Program and speakers are subject to change without notice


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"The Bootstrapper Summit does an effective job of connecting entrepreneurs and investors. It's great to see interesting and innovative companies that are so essential to NYC and its Venture Community. I am glad to have been a participant and I recommend it as time well spent."

James D. Robinson III 

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