OverviewJune 29, 2010

VLAB 20th Anniversary Party

Mission

VLAB is a network of human beings who make innovation happen in Silicon Valley.

The Panels are only one part of the story.

The panel events are the most visible to our guests.

However, there are the conversations that are not immediately visible.

Let’s make the people & processes visible at the VLAB party.

It’s here that abstract ideas are voiced and relationships that are formed.

And it’s only through human networking that start-ups are created.

This is how start-ups become a reality.

How do we connect people through stories and relationships?

Documentation

Document our learnings this year with an online Yearbook

VLAB Volunteers

Will many volunteers be meeting each other face-to-face for the first time at the party?

Yearbook 2009-2010

What was I there for?What did I do? What part did I play?

How will I remember this year and all its achievements?

How did we entrepreneurially use new ways of doing things at VLAB during 2009-2010?

VLAB Yearbook 2009-2010Profiles, Learning and Network Building

Yearbook 2009-2010

Yearbook Example for Volunteers

What was I there for?What did I do? What part did I play?

How will I remember this year and all its achievements?

How did we entrepreneurially use new ways of doing things at VLAB during 2009-2010?

20 Years of VLAB

How can Volunteers Learn from 20 years of Experience?

How can Advisors share their battle stories?

How can advisors and panelists collectively share 20 years of wisdom with volunteers?

We want to hear their battle stories.

20 Years of VLAB: Personal Stories

Web VersionMobile Web Version

Logistics How will we do more with our money?Creating less work?And provide more of an experience and value for our guests?

Create a centralized Workspace on Google Sites with Buy-In

We meet so rarely face-to-face

Google Groups Pages only go so far

For a complicated project like this we need to be on one system

VLAB Party Timeline

June 1

June 10

June 17

June 24

Event Alternate Dates of 6/29, 7/6, 7/19

Current WeekFirst week meeting in person about the event

Problem: Behind Schedule

Possibilities to try out new things

Possibilities to try out new things

Possibilities to try out new things

VLAB Party Timeline

June 1

June 10

June 17

June 24

Event Alternate Dates of 6/29, 7/6, 7/19

Current WeekFirst week meeting in person about the event

Problem: Behind Schedule

Possibilities to try out new things

Possibilities to try out new things

Possibilities to try out new things

Can we use the sense of urgency to spur us to action?

To try out new things?To think entrepreneurially?

Victories

Re: Biofuels Marketing Push

A crisis brought the team together to create sell-out event and even bring new partners and VLAB

participants.

Re: Biofuels

Budget

The VLAB Party budget is a perfect opportunity to think entrepreneurially.

2009 Budget: approx. $7,000 - Drinks covered by various sponsors

$4,995.75!

$290.00!

$675.00!

$498.40!

$192.00!

Venue (includes Catering)! AV Rental! Labor! Tax! Alcohol, Corkage!

2010 Budget: approx. $9,000

?How can we do more with

less?

Re: Biofuels

Budget

The VLAB Party budget is a perfect opportunity to think entrepreneurially.

2009 Budget: approx. $7,000 - Drinks covered by various sponsors

$4,995.75!

$290.00!

$675.00!

$498.40!

$192.00!

Venue (includes Catering)! AV Rental! Labor! Tax! Alcohol, Corkage!

2010 Budget: approx. $9,000

?How can we do more with

less?

How can we do more with less?

Suppose we used new sponsorship models to end up with more money than we

started with?

Venues

http://thetechvirtual.org/projects/places-of-invention

Participants enter Second Life and model their own ideal environments for invention.

Project:Places of Invention

Won the Linden Lab 2010 Prize today!

Director of Places of Invention willing to work with us in every possible way.

Guests will be able to contribute to a prestigious, prize-winning Smithsonian - Tech Museum Virtual World project.

Project:Places of Invention

Won the Linden Lab 2010 Prize today!

Project: Places of Invention

“Use a virtual environment, computer-based design tools, or manual design tools to model your own place of innovation—either a real or imagined place, an individual workspace or an entire community. “

This is what VLAB is all about!

The San Francisco Bay Area is a hotbed of new ways of thinking, serving and eating food.

Why not incorporate food entrepreneurialism into the event?

CateringFood Entrepreneurialism

Very close to Palo Alto

Expensive ($4000+ Minimum) No sponsorships or negotiations have taken place

Second Choice Venue: Computer History Museum

Back-Up Venues

Stanford Alumni Center (3rd Choice)

Other, Newer Approaches Last Year’s Event

Tent on Stanford campus?

Keynote Speaker

How do we enable the keynote speaker to create an experience people will remember positively for years?

How do we bring the Keynote Speaker and the audience closer together both before and after the event?

Keynote Speaker

• How can we make this experience remarkable for both the speaker and audience?

• This is our time to try new things.

• How can the event be shared with the rest of the world?

Keynote Speaker

Could we try two keynote speakers, one “veteran” and one “up and comer”?

Documentation

New Sponsorship Models

Sponsorship Models

What if we ended up with more money at the end of the party than we had at the

start?

Sponsorship Models

What if we use the new tools for nonprofits?

Sponsorship Models

What if we tried new models of sponsorship?

MIT Media LabSponsor Projects

Kickstarterhttp://www.kickstarter.com/

What if each VLAB Volunteer became a mini entrepreneur,

helping to fund the party?