How To Get Your First Million Users
Friday, October 12, 2012 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PDT)
Santa Monica, CA
How To Get Your First Million Users
Michael Geer, Founder, CauseCart & NYC Bubble Proof
Friday, October 12th from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Complimentary beer and wine will be served.
Learn how to get the first million users to your service, or speed up your already decent growth. This class is geared towards those with an idea they want to bring users to, or startups that are ready to scale from thousands to millions. Come to learn from Michael Geer’s experience and lessons learned while building some of the largest social sites and apps in the global market today.
The class is taught in a presentation and Q & A style throughout, allowing for specific questions to lead to deeper understanding of the presented concepts. Areas covered will include launching and designing the product, viral marketing and expanding globally. Students will take away a core understanding of what actually creates a viral product. It most likely is not what you think.
About the Instructor
Michael Geer cut his teeth with Badoo over in Moscow and London. During his 5 years there he helped bring Badoo from less than an idea to a global 70 million member network. He left Badoo in July 2010 and is now a Techstars mentor, a Board Advisor to several startups, teaches popular SkillShare classes on user acquisition and leads a social good for-profit meetup in NYC. MG has recently started a new venture as Founder of CauseCart – focusing on allowing users to raise funds for their chosen cause without donating any of their own time or money (launching soon…). You can follow MG on Twitter: @geeria
LaunchPad LA
1520 2nd St
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Friday, October 12, 2012 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PDT)
Intro to the LA Startup Community
Saturday, October 13, 2012 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM (PDT)
Santa Monica, CA
Intro to the Los Angeles Startup Community
Sam Teller, Managing Director, Launchpad LA
Saturday, October 13th from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Complimentary beer and wine will be served.
Join us after our Weekend Workshop for an intro to the LA startup community!
This free class is an orientation to help newcomers to the startup scene get acquainted with the exciting world of tech in Los Angeles. We will canvas key events/meetups to attend, people, companies, VCs, blogs, hot issues, and more. Learn the role of key players such as Los Angeles UX & UI Meetups, Startup Weekend, Creative Mornings, Maker Studios, Machinima, Nation Builder, Factual, Riot Games as well as Launchpad LA and the Accelerator / Incubator ecosystem. After class you are welcome to network with a number of prominent folks in the ecosystem.
Sam Teller is Managing Director of Launchpad LA, a leading startup accelerator in Los Angeles. As Managing Director, Sam is focused on finding the best early stage companies and most talented entrepreneurs. Prior to leading Launchpad LA, Sam co-founded Charlie, a Los Angeles-based media company and interactive agency. At Charlie, he led new media strategy for top entertainment, corporate, and political clients, including Samuel L. Jackson, Tumblr, Rachel Zoe, and Dick Clark Productions. Before Charlie, Sam was a member of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and inaugural new media team. Sam was born and raised in Los Angeles and received a BA from Harvard College, where he was business manager of the Harvard Lampoon and wrote some of the earliest news stories about Facebook.com.
