Schedule

Upcoming Events

WEEK 13

User Testing on the Cheap

• Cindy Alvarez

Past Events

WEEK 12

Lessons from Y Combinator

• Paul Graham & Jessica Livingston
  

WEEK 11

Great legal advice on bootstrapped budget

• Mitch Zuklie, Orrick

Effective Public Speaking

• Olatunde Sobomehin & Nick Oza (Stanford University)

Raising Capital: Closing the Deal

• Joe Beniato
  

WEEK 10

Facebook Programs: Developer Garages and  Verification

• Julia Lam, Monica Walsh (Facebook)

WEEK 9

Negotiation Hacks for Early Stage Startups

• Stan Christensen, Arbor Advisors/Stanford University

Facebook Best Practices and Policy

• Melissa Luu-Van, Brian Sutourious (Facebook)

WEEK 8

Creating Marketing and PR Buzz for Early-Stage Startups

• Jeremiah Owyang, Brian Solis, Jeremy Toeman, Clara Shih

Leveraging PR and Product Development to Create a Global Phenomenon

• Tim Ferris, author of The 4-Hour Workweek
  

WEEK 7

Work Sucks- Games are Great

• Byron Reeves, Stanford University
  

Monetization & Payments

• Anu Shukla (Offerpal), Mark Rose (Sparechange), Yee Lee, GroupCard

Intellectual Property for Early Stage Startups

• Glenn Von Tersch, TIPS Group

Building Your Brand on Facebook

• Chris Pan, Facebook
  

Google in the Early Days

• Aydin Senkut, Felicis Ventures

WEEK 6

Best Practices in Early Stage Product Management

• Dan Olsen, YourVersion

VCs and How They Can Help You

• Ravi Belani (DFJ), Mark Sugarman (MHS), Saar Gur (CRV), Brian Ascher (Venrock)

Tuning Your User Experience

• Hiten Shah, KISSMetrics

Early Stage Legal and IP Issues

• Andy Stack

Early Stage Hiring Hacks

• Dan Arkin, JobScore

Instrumenting Your Application with Kontagent

• Jeff Tseng, Fredric Newberg, Lih Chen (Kontagent)

WEEK 5

Increase Productivity with Breathing

• Ben Henretig

Apps of the Day

• DropPlay, Networked Blogs, Photos I Like, RentMineOnline

How to Buy a Domain

• Krutal Desai, KISSMetrics

Why Startups Fail

• Sean Ellis, 12in6

Rapid Prototyping

• Rob Fan & Brett Keintz

SEO REV

• Hiten Shah

How to Evaluate & use funding

• Josh Kopelman

Increasing Distribution with Facebook News Feed & Stream

• Ari Steinberg, Peter Deng & Naitik Shah (Facebook)

WEEK 4

Think like a psychologist: What drives human behavior

• BJ Fogg (Stanford University)

PR REV Q&A

• TechCrunch, Venture Beat, InsideFacebook

Orange Labs Press Delegation

• Telecom TV, IT Pro, Telegraph, Future Intelligence, Know Your Mobile, Challenges, CB News, Figaro

How to Make Business Models Work

• Dan Ackerman-Greenberg (Sharethrough), Jia Shen (RockYou), Linus Liang (Embrace)

MySQL Scalability

• Peter Zaitsev (Percona)

Connect Q&A

• Justin Bishop (Facebook)

WEEK 3

Startup Metrics for Pirates: AARRR!!!

• Dave McClure (Founders Fund)

Facebook Connect Show and Tell

• MyChurch.org, RunThere, Networked Blogs

User Experience & Research

• Elissa Darnell & Dorelle Rabinowitz (eBay)

Potential of Connect

• Zhen Fang (Facebook), Mark Kinsey (Facebook), Jamie Wu (Lala)

WEEK 2

Brainstorming

• Enrique Allen (fbFund)

The Lean Startup

• Eric Ries (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers)

What Appeals to Early Stage VC

• Brad Feld (Foundry Group)

Building Great Experiences Using Facebook Platform & Connect

• Josh Elman (Facebook), Sebastien de Halleux (Playfish),
  Keith Rabois (Slide), David King (Little Green Patch) Jia Shen (RockYou)

WEEK 1

How to Pitch a VC

• Dave McClure (Founders Fund)

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