Win A Mentoring Session With Founders Of Digg, Flickr, Mint, Ning, Slide Or Zynga

Monday, February 8th, 2010

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Are you a budding Web entrepreneur who would like some pointers or advice from seasoned company founders? MayField Fund and First Round Capital are sponsoring a raffle to give away mentoring sessions with the founders of Digg (Jay Adelson), Flickr (Caterina Fake), Mint (Aaron Patzer), Ning (Gina Bianchini), Slide (Max Levchin), and Zynga (Mark Pincus).

The raffle will take place at a private event in Silicon Valley with space for 100 attendees on March 1. But you can win a ticket for the event by applying here. The event and raffle are free, but the 100 attendees in the running will be selected beforehand by partners at Mayfield and First Round.

Winners of the raffle do not get to become Best Friends Forever with the founders. But they will get one intense mentoring session each.

Financial-organization: First Round Capital
Website: firstround.com
Launch Date: January 11, 2004

First Round Capital is a venture capital firm that primarily makes early round investments. They look to play an active role in the operations of most the companies they invest in.

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Financial-organization: Mayfield Fund
Website: mayfield.com

Founded in 1969, Mayfield Fund is a venture capital firm located in Menlo Park, CA. The firm has over $2.7 billion under management with expertise in communications/wireless, consumer/media, enterprise software and semiconductors.

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