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Sponsors
Heroku is the leading Ruby platform as a service (PaaS) focused on ease of use, automation, and reliability. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Heroku is a passionate and active supporter of Ruby technologies and cloud architecture. Heroku was recently named to the “Dow Jones FASTech 50 Start-ups to Watch” list, recognized as a Gartner “Cool Vendor in Application Platforms as a Service” in April 2010, named to the Always OnDemand Top 100 Private Companies, and recognized as a “Best Products of 2009″ and “Best Platform of 2010″ by ReadWriteWeb. For more information, please visit http://heroku.com and http://blog.heroku.com or follow Heroku on Twitter at http://twitter.com/heroku. Heroku is a wholly owned subsidiary of salesforce.com.
Balsamiq is the maker of Mockups, the rapid wireframing tool that reproduces the experience of sketching so that teams can focus on what’s important. We’re a fast-growing, but small and personable company that competes on usability and customer service. We believe work should be fun, and that life is too short for bad software. http://www.balsamiq.com
ThoughtWorks, Inc. is a global IT consultancy providing Agile-based systems development, consulting, and transformation services to Global 1000 companies. It has pioneered many of the most advanced and successful Agile methods of software development and best practices used in the industry today. At its core, ThoughtWorks helps its clients maximize investment and performance across a portfolio of complex, business-critical applications, while reducing time and risk. Its products division, ThoughtWorks Studios, offers tools to manage the entire Agile development lifecycle through its Adaptive ALM solution™, comprised of Mingle®, Go® and Twist®. ThoughtWorks employs 1,500 professionals to serve clients from offices in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, the United Kingdom and the United States. http://www.thoughtworks.com
At Citrix, we’re investing in ideas – and the people who create them. Visit us at Citrix Startup Accelerator for up to $400k in investment. http://citrixstartupaccelerator.com
At TaskRabbit, we’re solving an age-old problem: there is never enough time in the day to get everything done. TaskRabbit is an online and mobile marketplace that helps people live smarter by allowing them to outsource their To-do’s and Tasks. If it’s on your list, TaskRabbit can help – everything from common tasks, like laundry, to skilled projects, like bike maintenance and web design. Simply name your price and we’ll connect you with our community of background-checked Runners. http://www.taskrabbit.com
Atlassian provides software development and collaboration tools to help teams conceive, plan, build and launch great products. More than 20,000 organizations of all sizes use Atlassian’s issue tracking, collaboration and software development tools to work smarter and deliver quality results on time. To find out more about products like JIRA or Confluence, please check out Atlassian’s website at http://www.atlassian.com/.
Unbounce is the leading D.I.Y. Landing Page Platform and makes it easy to create, publish and optimize highly targeted landing pages without having to rely on I.T. or web developers.
Whether you’re a startup entrepreneur or an established marketing team, Unbounce’s unique WYSIWYG page editor combined with built-in testing and reporting makes it simple to get results quickly.
Unbounce is used by over 1000 small to mid-size businesses doing search, social and email marketing and has been built to integrate with many complimentary services including, Wufoo, KissInsights, Mailchimp and Google Analytics.
Lean more at http://unbounce.com
Additional Sponsors
AppSumo.com helps lean startups find the best tools they need to start and grow there business. We negotiate great deals for you and try our best to help you kick ass. Check us out at http://AppSumo.com
Startup Weekend is a global network of passionate leaders and entrepreneurs on a mission to inspire, educate, and empower individuals, teams and communities. Come share ideas, form teams, and launch startups. http://startupweekend.org
Women 2.0 is committed to increasing the number of women entrepreneurs starting high growth ventures by providing the resources, network, and knowledge for the launch and growth of their company. Our vision is to be a catalyst for innovation, mobilizing a global community of women entrepreneurs seeking to advance the world through technology. Women 2.0 is headquartered in San Francisco.http://www.women2.org
Streaming Sponsor
Justin.tv is the easiest way to create live video and show anyone in the world what’s happening right now. Using only a laptop, you can share your event, class, party or thoughts, live, to anyone in over 250 countries while they chat in real-time with you and with other viewers. Justin.tv makes it fun, easy and fast to gather and engage with a live audience.
Live video can help you motivate a crowd to tell their friends what’s happening, follow you on Twitter, buy a product, donate to a cause or get up out of their chairs and take action. Justin.tv is built from the ground up to support any audience, whether it’s 5 people or 50,000. One new live video starts each second, and users watch more than 300 million videos every month. Headquartered in San Francisco, Justin.tv is funded by Alsop Louie Partners, Tim Draper and Y Combinator. http://www.justin.tv