4. Welcome to SCALEit!
We are very excited to have you on board our SCALEit event, and cannot
wait to introduce you all to our 7 startups participants and their great ideas.
At the startup scene in Denmark, many good ideas see daylight every year.
But unlike American startups way to few make it big. With SCALEit, that will
change. We have picked and invited 7 of the most promising Danish tech
startups to Silicon Valley to teach them, how to overcome the hurdles and
grow big. The week will expose them to the ecosystem of the Valley and
help fine-tune their ideas, pitch, business plans and future ambitions.
We are very proud to present the Danish SCALEit startups to such a strong
line up of investors, advisors, lawyers, successful Danish entrepreneurs and
tech-giants. Thank you all for taking your time to be part of SCALEit.
Enclosed you will find the full program for the week including addresses and
contact info.
We look forward to SCALing it with you!
Kind regards,
Lene, Søren and Lars
Team SCALEit
Innovation Center Denmark
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5. PROGRAM FOR SCALEit
Monday, June 4th
Blackbox Mansion
Departur from Blackbox and Cardinal 19 Selby Lane
hotel Atherton, CA 94027
8.30 AM /
Blackbox: 8.30 AM Cardinal Hotel
Cardinal: 8.40 AM 235 Hamilton Avenue,
Palo Alto, CA
WilmerHale
Breakfast, meet and greet.
9 AM 950 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, CA
Introduction to SCALEit IGNITE – the WilmerHale
9.30 AM
Program by Lene and Søren
10 Mistakes and Pitch Workshop by
10.00 AM – Bill Joos, Founder, Managing director WilmerHale
1.30 AM of Go To Market Consulting – Lunch
during session
2 PM WilmerHale
Getting here and doing business in
–
SV. Back office, legal and visa
4.30 PM
Cooley LLP
6 PM Launch SV Reception 3175 Hanover street
Palo Alto, CA
Transport to Cardinal and Blackbox Approx. 15 min
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6. Tuesday, June 5th
Blackbox Mansion
19 Selby Lane
Departure from Blackbox and hotel Atherton, CA 94027
7.30 AM
Blackbox: 7.30 AM /
Cardinal: 7.40 AM Cardinal Hotel
235 Hamilton Avenue,
Palo Alto, CA
Microsoft Campus
Microsoft Building 1,
Launch SV. Registration and
8.00 AM 1065 La Avenida St,
breakfast
Mountain View,
CA 94043
8.30 AM Launch SV: Program
Microsoft Campus
5.15 PM Departure Launch SV Approx. 30 min
Chill out, Gather energy, fine-tuning
Palo Alto
pitches etc.
Wednesday, June 6th
Blackbox Mansion
Departure from Blackbox and hotel
8.15 AM
Blackbox: 8.15 AM /
Cardinal: 8.30 AM Cardinal Hotel
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7. 9 AM
Pitch session with Shomit Ghose, Onset Venture
–
Partner at Onset Ventures
10.30 AM 2490 Sand Hill Road,
Menlo Park, CA 94025
10.30 AM Transportation Approx. 20 min
11 AM DLA Piper
The role of lawyers in Silicon Valley by
– 2000 University
Brad Gersich, partner with DLA Piper
12 AM East Palo Alto, CA
12 PM
– Lunch DLA Piper
12.30 PM
1 PM Session with Silicon Valley Bank Silicon Valley Bank
– Carrie Walsh, MD, Entrepreneur 2400 Hanover Street
2 PM services Palo Alto, CA 94304
Transportation to San Francisco Approx. 1 hour
Zendesk
3 PM
Danes in the Valley, Mikkel Svane,
– 989 Market Street
Zendesk
4 PM
San Francisco, CA
Walk to Younoodle HQ Approx. 25 minutes
Younoodle
Younoodle. Building great teams in 101 South Park Street,
5 PM
Silicon Valley, Torsten Kolind San Francisco
Younoodle
Stambord. Network with danes living
6 PM
in the Bay area
Transportation to Palo Alto Approx. 1 hour
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8. Thursday, June 7th
Blackbox Mansion
19 Selby Lane
Departure from Blackbox and hotel Atherton, CA 94027
8.30 AM
Blackbox: 8.30 AM /
Cardinal: 8.40 AM Cardinal Hotel
235 Hamilton Avenue,
Palo Alto, CA
9 AM Innovation Center DK
Sales workshop with Michelle
– Denmark, 200 Page Mill
Messina
11 AM Road, Palo Alto
11.30 AM
Lunch with Juha Christensen,
– Innovation Center DK
Progression Partners
1 PM
Singularity University
NASA
1.30 PM
– Singularity University, Aaron Frank Building 20 S. Akron
2.15 PM Rd. MS 20-1, Moffett
Field, CA 94035
Transportation Approx. 20 min
2.45 PM 440 N. Wolfe Rd,
– Plug & Play Expo
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
5 PM
Transportation Approx. 30 minutes
Blackbox Mansion
Network and pitch event at
6.30 PM 19 Selby Lane
Blackbox
Atherton, CA 94027
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9. Friday, June 8th
Blackbox Mansion
19 Selby Lane
Departure from Blackbox and hotel Atherton, CA 94027
9.45 AM
Blackbox: 9.45 AM /
Cardinal: 9.55 AM Cardinal Hotel
235 Hamilton Avenue,
Palo Alto, CA
Google
10.30 AM
– Company visit: Google 1600 Amphitheatre
Parkway, Mountain View,
12.30 PM
CA 94043
Transportation to San Francisco.
Approx. 1 hour
Lunch to go
Panel discussion with Danish
Tradeshift Inc
entrepreneur in Silicon Valley; Next
1.30 PM steps towards Silicon Valley with the (500 Third Street
Danish companies Jeppe Rindom - Suite 210
–
Tradeshift, Kasper Hulthin - Podio, San Francisco, CA 94107
3 PM Rune Sørensen - Appharbor
3 PM Wrap up and drinks Tradeshift Inc
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11. Bios and briefing on visits and meetings during SCALEit
Monday June 4th
Innovation Center Denmark
Innovation Center Denmark is a tangible result of Denmark's globalization
strategy with the objective to turn Denmark into a leading knowledge-
based economy by 2015. This ambitious objective calls for innovative new
approaches to position Denmark in the global value chain. For that reason,
we are creating innovative hubs in global hot spots, Silicon Valley being one
of them. Innovation Center Denmark connects researchers, companies and
ideas between Denmark and the US in high-tech areas; CleanTech,
Information & Communications Tech and Life Sciences.
Bill Joos
Founder, managing director
bill@gotomarketconsulting.com
Go To Market Consulting
www.gotomarketconsulting.com
Bill Joos is the founder and managing director of Go To Market Consulting,
a consulting firm dedicated to accelerating sales and market development.
Bill served as Vice President of Entrepreneur Development at Garage
Technology Ventures since its founding in 1997.
He has held sales and marketing positions with a variety of companies,
including IBM and Apple Computer. Bill is perhaps best known as a "Pitch
Doctor" and has assisted hundreds of entrepreneurs with refining and
focusing their positioning and presentations. Bill earned a B.S. from
Jamestown College and pursued graduate studies at Pepperdine University
Carmen Casado, Owner Casado Law
Carmen Casado has been practicing U.S. immigration law
since 2004, and handles all types of immigration matters.
She routinely represents early-stage technology companies
in their immigration needs for founders and staff, and she
has assisted numerous world renowned athletes, artists,
researchers, and scientists to obtain immigration status
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12. based on their extraordinary abilities. She also litigates removal
(deportation) matters before the Executive Office for Immigration Review.
Carmen graduated from California Western School of Law magna cum
laude, where she served as an associate editor of the CWSL International
Law Journal, and a member of the Jessup International Moot Court Team.
She was a founding partner of Jones Casado, LLP in New York, New York.
Carmen is admitted to practice law in California and New York State. She is
a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, California
Lawyers for the Arts, and a sponsoring member of California-Spain
Chamber of Commerce. She is bilingual in English and Spanish.
Tom Pai, Principal at Ravixgroup
MBA. Tom serves as a consulting CFO with Ravix Group. He has
over 20 years of financial and operations experience in
technology, media, and consumer products companies ranging in
size from start-up to Fortune 100 global enterprises.
Tom's expertise includes strategic and operational planning,
venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring
and Chapter 11 reorganization.
Prior to joining Ravix, Tom was the CFO and COO for several venture
backed companies in online media, publishing and high technology. He was
also the co-founder and principal in DART Partners, an investment firm
specializing in underperforming mid-sized companies, and was a senior
associate with Bank of America's venture capital group. Tom has an M.B.A.
from Carnegie Mellon University and a degree in Computer Engineering
from University of California, Santa Barbara.
Tuesday, June 7th
Launch Silicon Valley
Join Steve Blank, Vinod Khosla, NVCA Chair Ray
Rothrock, Futurist Paul Saffo, Super Angel Jeff
Clavier, NEA Partner Pete Sonsini & over 20 more panelist and guest
speakers, plus 30 startups launching their products at Launch: Silicon
Valley, June 5, at Microsoft in Mountain View.
• Join us at SVForum's Launch: Silicon Valley 2012 on June 5, when
we have a great roster of panels & Guest Speakers in addition to 30
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13. specially selected startups launching their products in front of an
audience of VCs, Angels, Industry Executives, Bloggers, Press &
Television! A few 25% discount registrations are still available! Use
Discount Code launchSV25 to get yours before they sell out!
(includes registration for the exclusive Pre-Event Party the evening
of June 4 in Palo Alto)
• Steve Blank – on how to get your startup up & running quickly &
improve your chances of success. The first 50 people who register
for Launch: Silicon Valley 2012 will receive a free copy of his new
book “The Startup Owner’s Manual” which he has offered to sign at
the event!
• Vinod Khosla –will be interviewed by Eric Savitz, SF bureau chief of
Forbes Magazine, on the future of cleantech and his investing
philosophy.
• Ray Rothrock – incoming Chair of the National Venture Capital
Association, interviewed by the Mercury News’s Chris O’Brien, on
the JOBS act and the IPO-OnRamp.
• Paul Saffo – Futurist, and Managing Diretor of Discern Analytics, on
the new Entrepreneurial Landscape of the Creator Economy.
• The Changing Face of Venture Capital – Jeff Clavier, who has grown
from angel, to Super-Angel, now VC fund manager; Tim Connor,
who was GP at a large fund, & who left to start his own smaller
fund; Pete Sonsini of NEA, one of the largest funds in Silicon Valley,
with over $11B in committed capital
Where are they now?– the founders of Launch: Silicon Valley alumni
Smaato, Steelhouse & Zuora on what’s happened since they launched at
Launch: Silicon Valley in earlier years.
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14. Wednesday, June 8
Shomit Ghose, Partner ONSET Ventures
Shomit Ghose joined ONSET Ventures in 2001 after 19
years of working at high-tech companies in the Silicon
Valley. During his career he participated in several
successful IPOs, including those of Sun Microsystems and
Broadvision.
Prior to joining ONSET, he was Sr. VP of Operations at Tumbleweed
Communications, where he managed the marketing, professional services,
applications engineering and corporate development departments. He
helped the company through a successful IPO in 1999. Previously, he was
VP of the Worldwide Professional Services Organization at BroadVision and
helped that company through a successful IPO in 1996.
His first job was as network protocol engineer at Metaphor Computer
Systems, a company acquired by IBM. Later, he was an engineer in the
original pre-IPO software development team at Sun Microsystems. He has
also been Director of Marketing and then Director of Asia/Pacific Operations
for nCUBE, a manufacturer of video-on-demand servers, and a board
member of Alier, a data integration software company that is now part of
webMethods.
Shomit was awarded two academic scholarships to the University of
California, Berkeley, at age 15. He graduated in 1982 with a degree in
Computer Science.
At ONSET Ventures, Shomit focuses on software, networking and
infrastructure companies. He also mentors and provides management
resources to portfolio companies to help maximize their success.
Shomit led ONSET’s investments in Adara Media, Gridstore, Netseer,
Pancetera (acquired by Quantum), Sentilla and Truviso (acquired by Cisco).
He is an Industry Fellow and lead venture coach at UC Berkeley’s College of
Engineering, and serves on the entrepreneurship advisory board at the
University of San Francisco.
ONSET Ventures
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15. ONSET Ventures helps entrepreneurs transform great ideas into successful
businesses. We invest in information technology and medical markets,
leveraging both disruptive technologies and disruptive business models. In
information technology, we focus on mobility, new media and infrastructure
software. Within medical technology, we focus on medical devices, drug
delivery, diagnostics and healthcare information technology.
We invest in businesses at all stages. Our specialty is working with
inventors and entrepreneurs at the earliest stages to help them create a
business from their vision. We get in the trenches with you to help identify
markets, build business models and find the ideal management team. It’s
our personalized approach that makes us different – “venture
craftsmanship”- and it’s why so many entrepreneurs choose to work with
ONSET Ventures again and again. You want to change the world. We want
to help.
Brad Gersich, Partner DLA Piper
Brad Gersich focuses his practice in emerging growth and
venture capital.
Recent Matters include; Advised high-technology, networking
and biotechnology companies in venture capital financings, debt
financing transactions and general operations.
Represented several venture capital firms in early and late stage private
placement investments.
Represented purchasing and selling companies in mergers and acquisitions
and asset sales.
Negotiated and drafted executive employment agreements on behalf of
companies and high-level executives.
Represented companies and underwriters in initial and secondary public
offerings, including Rule 144A convertible debt offerings.
Carrie Walsh, Director with Silicon Valley Bank Capital
Carrie Walsh has over 15 years of experience in the
venture capital industry. As a Managing Director with
SVB’s Accelerator, Carrie leads a team that leverages the
bank’s deep experience and relationships with the
venture community in ways that help Founders and CEOs
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16. of emerging technology, cleantech, and life science companies succeed.
SVB Accelerator provides strartup and VC clients with access to high end
programming and targeted introductions that work to create a mutually
beneficial ecosystem that's unparalleled in the technology banking industry
today.
Previously, Carrie was a Partner at a leading transatlantic executive
recruitment firm where she built out executive teams and boards for
venture-backed technology portfolio companies. Prior to that, Carrie was
the Vice Consul for IT & Communications at UK Trade & Investment and the
British Consulate, where she led a nationwide team working with US
venture funds and their technology portfolio companies to drive inward
investment to the UK and to promote British trade abroad.
Carrie’s experience also includes work at two venture funds, Red Rock
Capital and Brad Peery Capital, where she was Director and Vice President
of Strategic Development. Prior to her invest-side experience, Carrie was a
record-breaking executive at VentureOne, a leading industry research firm,
and at Teletrac, a venture-backed mobile solution provider optimizing the
service delivery process.
Carrie is a currently an Executive Board Advisor for the Computer History
Museum.
Mikkel Svane, CEO and Founder of Zendesk
After an inspirational trip to San Francisco in 1995 Mikkel
launched what was one of Denmark’s first horizontal community
portals. Less than a year later the portal was acquired by a
Danish newspaper and Mikkel founded Caput, a software
company specializing in standard software components for
community building and social networks. Serving as its CEO
until 2002 he became General Manager for the German service
management consulting group Materna. His tenure there reunited him with
former friends and colleagues Morten and Alex with whom he founded
Zendesk and launched it in October 2007. Mikkel holds a BSc(Econ) in
Market Economics from Denmark, is a frequent Twitter user and loves
spending time with his wife and kids when not working with his awesome
team and Zendesk customers.
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17. Zendesk
If you have customers, then you need Zendesk. More than 65 million
people around the world receive support from Zendesk-powered customer
service departments and help desks. While industry averages point to low
customer satisfaction, our customers experience positive ratings for over
86% of their interactions.
Why? It’s the Zendesk difference. Our unique approach to customer
engagement enables you to listen, respond, and delight your users in ways
not possible before. Zendesk is not just another help desk tool. It is the
easiest and fastest way to great customer service.
Much like the art of Zen, the path to customer service excellence is a
continuous journey that involves product, people, practice.
Torsten Kolind, CTO of YouNoodle
Torsten Kolind is CTO of the American startup YouNoodle.
YouNoodle develops innovative ways to bring together the
information, people and technology that help startups succeed.
We provide a platform for so far 50 of the world's top university
entrepreneurship clubs and competitions, serving tens of thousands of
members and thousands of startups. Our tools help to effectively manage
business competitions, events, mailing lists and community development. If
you run a group and would like to join the platform apply and we'll get in
touch. Startup Predictor is the first in a series of decision-making tools
YouNoodle plans to introduce for the startup industry. Our development
team studied thousands of current and past startups, using both publicly
available and proprietary data, to determine patterns of predictive factors
for early-stage companies' success. You can try the test for free. YouNoodle
is based in San Francisco, California.
Thursday, June 7th
Michelle Messina, Guidewire Group
Market entry strategist for corporations; Economic
development expert for international governments; Serial
entrepreneur with extensive expertise in sales, marketing,
international trade.
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18. • Boot camps, Master Classes training programs, assessments, score cards
and market entry services for companies expanding into additional
markets, delivered on behalf of international government clients,
universities, technology commercialization and incubation programs.
• Certified facilitator for Kauffman FastTrac GrowthVenture Programs.
• In-depth Study Tours of the Silicon Valley tailored for visiting academic,
government, and business executives. Briefings and networking with
executives and thought leaders from the region’s major internet, clean
energy, hardware, communications companies.
• Market research, competitive analysis, positioning & messaging, and first-
customer acquisition programs for companies entering new markets and
governments seeking key partners and foreign direct investment (FDI).
• Invited keynote speaker (English & Spanish) and international judge for
business plan competitions.
• Particularly interested in serving and supporting entrepreneurship,
innovation ecosystems, foreign direct investments (FDI), and economic
development programs.
Over the last 5+ years, Michelle has worked in Armenia, Chile, China,
Colombia, Costa Rica, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Kosovo,
Mexico, Peru and the U.K, helping companies prepare for growth &
expansion. She has also worked with government and business executives
from many other countries on In-depth Study Tours of Silicon Valley.
Specialties
• Experienced with tech companies in IT, clean energy and non-tech
companies in food products, textiles and agriculture.
• Revenue-focused consulting service with specialized expertise launching
new companies into the U.S. market.
• Prior executive corporate positions included responsibility for $10M in
revenue generation, international business dev and strategic alliances,
development and execution of global demand generation programs,
establishment of international marketing operations.
Juha Christensen, partner at Progression Partners
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19. After 6 years at handheld computer pioneer Psion, Juha
developed the idea for Symbian, the operating system
company. He wrote the business plan and negotiated
investments worth $130 million. Juha served on Symbian's
board and led the company's business activities and
technical strategy. Following Symbian, Juha spent four years
as Corporate Vice-President at Microsoft, responsible for a range of mobile
software and server products, including Mobile Information Server, Server
ActiveSync Smartphone and Pocket PC.Juha also serves on the board of
Teleca, the largest Systems Integrator in the mobile industry and Unwire, a
leading mobile services company.A frequent speaker at industry events,
Juha has also been a regular commentator on CNBC, Bloomberg, Wall
Street Journal, BusinessWeek and Financial Times. Juha was voted one of
the 25 most influential Europeans in technology by Time Magazine.
Singularity University
With the support of a broad range of specialists in academia, business and
government, Singularity University creates a global network of like-minded
entrepreneurs, technologists and young leaders to participate in crafting a
road map to guide the evolution of these disruptive technologies. SU helps
create solutions and applications of these technologies for the benefit of
humanity through its Graduate Studies and Executive Programs. SU is
based at the NASA Research Park campus in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Plug and Play Expo 2012
Plug and Play EXPO Summer 2012 features 30
promising startups gaining exposure to over 75+
top-tier VCs, investors and corporate players. Join
us for an exclusive first look at emerging
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20. technologies, rapid-fire pitches, live demos and networking at Plug and Play
EXPO!
• Top Startups, VCs, Angels, Corporate Representatives, CEO’s,
Entrepreneurs, University Representatives, Government Officials,
and local/international press
Who will be there?
• A full afternoon of rapid-fire pitches from the hottest startups, live
demos, and networking with top Silicon Valley influencers.
What you will experience?
• Learn about the latest technology developments and products from
local and international companies. Make new contacts and friends in
the heart of Silicon Valley.
Why you should be there?
VC Panel
• Jim Barnett, Shasta Ventures
3:00pm –
• Sumeet Jain, CMEA
3:30pm
• Ajay Agarwal, Bain Capital
• Kamran Elahian, Global Catalyst Partners
3:30pm –
Startup Pitches
4:25pm
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21. 4:25pm – Keynote: “The Era of Hypergrowth. How it changes
4:50pm everything.” by Robert Goldberg
4:50pm –
Top 3 Startup Winners Announced
5:00pm
5:00pm –
Networking Reception
7:00pm
Blackbox
Program: At blackbox’s startup Mansion all SCALEit
comapnies will get a change to pitch in front of
invited investors and friends of the blackbox network.
blackbox was founded in mid December 2010 by Bjoern Lasse Herrmann,
Max Marmer, Fadi Bishara and Aleksandra Markova. Inspired by the global
explosion of startups contrasted with their very high failure rates, they
decided to find a scalable way to accelerate startups. The company has two
core entities: blackbox labs and the startup genome. Blackbox labs is an
accelerator and community for entrepreneurs located at blackbox mansion.
The startup genome is an R&D project uncovering the mechanics of
startups.
Blackbox evolved out of four organizations techVenture, Cofounder
Network, Founders First and Startup School. Those have a combined
trackrecord of having worked with 100+ companies, 76 funded, 16 exits
(including Bebo, Tapulous, Lala, Zynga). Blackbox mansion is currently
home to 14 technology entrepreneurs. In the last 6 months 30+ events
with selected entrepreneurs and investors have taken place at blackbox
mansion. Blackbox has partnered with 30+ seed accelerators & early stage
investors from around the globe. Blackbox's portfolio is made up of
approximately 80% internet startups and 20% in emerging technologies.
The startup genome project launched in February and released its first
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22. report on Saturday, May 28th. The research was conducted in collaboration
with Stanford and Berkley faculty members. Advisors of blackbox include
Saad Khan, Steve Blank and Daniel Kraft.
Friday, June 8th
Tradeshift
Tradeshift is a global startup with the ambition to change
the way we do business by allowing organizations to
exchange invoices for free. It connects businesses to all
their suppliers and customers regardless of company size
not only saving time but also ensuring they get paid faster at both ends of
the supply chain.
The initial driver behind Tradeshift's foundation was frustration with
available solutions and technology, but soon the company's founders
realized that a fundamental shift in the focus of business networks was
needed. They aimed to create a new kind of network – one that focused on
people and business relationships as well as transactions. On top of
electronic invoicing, Tradeshift provides users with a range of revolutionary
value added services, such as Instant Payments and CloudScan®.
Tradeshift has offices in San Francisco, Copenhagen and London with
customers across 190 countries. Customers include Kuehne + Nagel, TDC
and the NHS. Tradeshift was awarded Best Enterprise 2010 at The
TechCrunch Europe startup awards.
Podio
Podio, now part of Citrix Systems, is an online work
platform with a new take on how everyday work
gets done. Podio gives people more power than
ever before to manage their work in their own
way and is trusted by thousands of teams, companies and organizations
worldwide. Podio users create workspaces to collaborate with specific
groups of people, use an Employee Network for company-wide
communication across departments and locations, and get their work done
using Podio Apps. Anyone can build their own Podio Apps without any
technical skills, and can choose from hundreds of readily available, free
apps in Podio's App Market. These apps add structure to any business
process or project and are connected to social, collaborative activity
streams used for commenting and discussion.
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23. Appharbor
AppHarbor is a .NET Platform-as-a-Service. Developers push code to
AppHarbor using either Git or Mercurial. AppHarbor then builds the code
and runs any unit tests. If everything checks out, the code is deployed to
AppHarbor's scalable cloud platform.
AppHarbor lets developers spend their time coming up with ideas and
developing applications, not patching servers, worrying about deployment,
messing with configuration files, or scaling.
At AppHarbor, we believe that developing and deploying .NET applications
should be simple and fun. AppHarbor has been designed to tie in with
developers day-to-day workflows. Deploying a new version to AppHarbor is
as simple as checking in code when a new feature is ready.
AppHarbor will run most ASP.NET applications without modification. Moving
an application to our platform requires no AppHarbor-specific code
modifications nor installation of plugins or other custom software. We
believe developers should be able to move applications and data to
different cloud-vendors with as little friction as possible.
AppHarbor believes in giving developers access to an open ecosystem of
add-ons and 3rd party services, not just the ones we decide to provide
ourselves.
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24. SCALEit CONTACT INFO:
For info on the the SCALEit event please visit come.scaleit.us
You are always welcome to contact us:
Lene Sjørslev Schulze
Mobile: 415 812 6646
Email: lsa@innovationcenterdenmark.com
Søren Therkelsen
Email: soren@yggdrasil.me
Lars Andersen
Mobile: 415 316 8463
email: inn@innovationcenterdenmark.com
Innovation Center Denmark
Innovation Center Denmark is a tangible result of Denmark's globalization
strategy with the objective to turn Denmark into a leading knowledge-
based economy by 2015. This ambitious objective calls for innovative new
approaches to position Denmark in the global value chain. For that reason,
we are creating innovative hubs in global hot spots, Silicon Valley being one
of them. Innovation Center Denmark connects researchers, companies and
ideas between Denmark and the US in high-tech areas; CleanTech,
Information & Communications Tech and Life Sciences.
Connect: Read our Danish written blog - SVTECHTALK.COM - Follow us on
TWITTER.COM/ICDK
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