The Island is live!

[Ivo Spigel]

Girls and boys - WE ARE LIVE with the conference Web:
www.startupislandconference.com !!!

I have several other requests for help :-)) so here goes:

1. We are counting (and promoting) on each of your startup programs /
accelerators as a program partner for the conference. This will be
updated on the conference web site very soon. If there are any of you
who do *not* wish to be listed / promoted in this way please let me know
ASAP

2. Each of your organizations will get one free ticket (!) to the
conference. We are hoping that more than one person from your programs
will join us :-)) but this is as far as we can afford to go with free
tickets. We will have a *special registration link* for the free tickets
for you in a few days. In the meantime, people from your networks /
organizations / communities should feel free to go ahead and register at
the web site. The first Early Bird window closes soon - on Monday!

3. LATER STAGE STARTUPS: Please help us identify and attract the best
startups which already have funding / customers / traction from your
network. We are in touch with Zemanta, Farmeron, ShoutEm, TransferWise
and a few others. We need *many* many more. You know as well as I do how
important it is for our communities to celebrate the successes of our
best projects and (yes) openly discuss some of the failures as well. Do
intros, reach out to the most interesting Bulgarian, Estonian, Russian,
Austrian etc. etc. companies that are already on their way to global
success.

4. Early stage teams: Pick some of the best young teams that are in your
programs or have recently graduated. Support them with a bit of funding
- if needed and appropriate - to join us.

5. Sponsors! - We are actively searching for sponsors as we have a
substantial budget to "complete". Any tech companies, VC's and others in
your network who would like to gain additional visibility at the
conference - make the connection!

6. We will prepare a press release in a day or two and then ask you to
push it to your media contacts.

That's it for today. Thanks very much in advance for your help on all
these issues. I will get back to some of you 1:1 to discuss in more
details. Now... get busy! :-))

Cheers,

Ivo