Google's Enterprise division brings Google technology and innovation to businesses and organizations of all sizes -- from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Google Apps is a powerful and free messaging and collaboration suite that includes Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk and Google Docs & Spreadsheets. With Google Apps, startups can simply turn-on email, calendaring, and collaborative documents for all employees. Plus, Google Apps scales as the business grows. In addition, the Google Mini puts corporate information at the fingertips of employees, and Google's business geospatial tools enables organizations to visualize their data on a 2-D map or a 3-D globe.
JLA Ventures invests more than just capital. Like you, we are committed entrepreneurs working hard to transform brilliant ideas into successful, technology-based businesses. Founded in 1996, JLA Ventures leverages its principals' extensive operational, financial, and technological expertise to provide portfolio companies with the necessary tools to become industry leaders. We partner with highly motivated and talented people to bring world-class, innovative products to rapidly growing markets.
Joyent provides teams with collaboration software, data backup services and on-demand computing solutions with our Connector and Accelerator products. Connector is our simple, but powerful, Web-based software that provides small teams with email, calendars, contacts, bookmarks, secure backups, and Web hosting. Accelerators are next-generation virtual computers that grow and multiply (or shrink and consolidate) depending on the real world demands faced by your Web application. The ease with which Joyent solutions scale to meet increased demand allows startups and developers to focus on growing their business instead of watching over their servers.
Microsoft Corporation is a computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. At Microsoft, we know that our success depends on yours. We provide the platform on which you build innovative solutions, giving customer’s choice and solving real business needs. Our role at Microsoft is to help you get the most from Microsoft's programs and resources. For more information, visit
microsoftstartupzone.com.
NaviSite is a leading provider of hosted managed services including application, operating system, database, and infrastructure management. NaviSite and Sun Microsystems have partnered to offer startup companies the ability to easily develop and deploy their software applications to an on-demand environment hosted and completely supported by NaviSite on Sun's platform of products. With more than 950 customers in 14 data centers, and offices in the US, UK and India, NaviSite is the partner of choice for companies seeking an experienced, flexible, industry-leading partner to outsource their enterprise application and related IT services to. For more information, please visit
www.navisite.com.
Salesforce.com is empowering entrepreneurs to create the next generation of on-demand business applications and companies. Using the Apex Platform and AppExchange marketplace, you can create, deploy and market innovative business applications entirely over the Internet to salesforce.com's global customer base. Join 300+ salesforce.com partners already on the AppExchange and take your company from concept to cash on the world's leading on-demand platform!
Sapotek is a leader in the development of open source web services and applications that are both comprehensive and affordable. We empower consumers and developers alike by offering customizable, scalable and intuitive Rich Internet Applications that enhance the web experience. Our most celebrated product, Desktoptwo (also available in Spanish as Computadora.de), is a free web-based desktop that mimics the look, feel and functionality of a local computer and is being enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of users from around the world.
SCORE "Counselors to America's Small Business" is a nonprofit association dedicated to entrepreneur education and the formation, growth and success of small business nationwide. SCORE is a resource partner with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). Our counselors' skills include: accounting, consulting, distribution, financial planning, franchising, human resources, marketing, operations, publishing, retail sales, strategic planning, sales, technology and nonprofit management, and doing business with the government. The Bay Area is served by five chapters of SCORE including
Silicon Valley SCORE chapter 405 which covers Silicon Valley and Santa Clara County. The other four are
San Francisco SCORE,
North Coast SCORE,
East Bay SCORE, and
Santa Cruz SCORE.
SDForum has been instrumental in setting the high tech industry agenda for more than 22 years. As a non-profit dedicated to educating and creating relationships within the technology community, SDForum provides the latest insights on emerging technology trends and best business practices through events, specialized services and resources. The SDForum reaches 12,000 software professionals annually, through more than 20 programs a month that promote emerging technologies and business practices. Long-standing relationships in Silicon Valley include software companies such as HP, IBM, Microsoft, SAP and Sun Microsystems. In addition, SDForum has support from the City of San Jose, and sponsorship from over 30 venture capital firms, financial institutions, multinational enterprises, international trade organizations and service providers. For more information, visit
http://www.sdforum.org.
SoftTech VC is lead by Jeff Clavier, who 3 years ago decided to focus on helping entrepreneurs develop innovative ideas in the Consumer Internet space. Having invested or been involved in 20 companies in the space, now dubbed Web 2.0, Jeff continues to research new projects and entrepreneurs to get involved in – recently making his first investment in the gaming market.
Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo!'s mission is to connect people to their passions, their communities, and the world's knowledge. To ensure this, Yahoo! offers a broad and deep array of products and services to create unique and differentiated user experiences and consumer insights by leveraging connections, data, and user participation.
ZDNET (
www.zdnet.com) is the online destination for professionals seeking to solve business technology problems and find new opportunities. The site provides a broad range of business technology coverage, by experts across industries. Features include daily news, blogs, white papers, Webcasts, editorial analysis, peer feedback, and ongoing research.
