Wednesday, March 24, 2010
6:30PM -8:30PM
Mayfield Fund | 2800 Sand Hill Road, Suite 250, Menlo Park, CA (map)



Funding is back, a new cloud startup is launching every week, but is it what the buyers want - we've seen everything from Cloud infrastructure to platforms to apps to monitoring tools - what's left, where are the white spaces?

Before you slap the word cloud on your next startup innovation, hear from early adopter CIOs/CTOs and heads of IT about what problems they wish startups would solve and how you can get your startup on their radar.


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In this Strategy Series we'll discuss:
  • Where’s the demand? What are CTOs, CIOs and IT managers looking for?
  • Which layers in the stack are still available for new companies to emerge? Where is innovation needed?
  • Partnering with giants - how to partner and sell to enterprise IT executives.
  • Trusting Open Source - What are enterprises' views on startups based on open source code? What are the benefits and opportunities?

events are held in the evenings from 6:30 - 8:30pm. They feature interactive, roundtable discussions led by industry veterans and experts, designed to uncover trends and share best practices in growth strategies, venture capital funding, partnerships and alliances, M&A, and business development. Attendees can ask questions, share ideas, and learn from others' experiences. Approximately 35 attendees. 8 roundtables per year.