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.
No Thank You. They can keep the fame and fortune. Two professional scammers, the other got here thanks to scale of porn-related communities. Fake and Adelson are solid but any founder trying to build these types of businesses today is simply doomed.
What’s wrong with porn-related communities?
I’d love to, but unfortunately I’m not in silicon valley, or even the USA.
Thanks Eric, nice post and pointers, First round capital comes up with some good ideas.
Yeah, not sure what Ning has accomplished to date. The others are much more accomplished imho.
Can the “mentoring session” with Gina Bianchini be a date?
+1
If it comes with a happy ending.. remind me where to sign up.
Wait a second.
You want us to tell you everything about our companies with absolutely no information about who will see this stuff?
Seems sort of shady.
Everything? Did you see the form you have to fill out? It is extremely short and requires very little detail.
Jay is not a founder of Digg. He came on much later.
Jay Adelson is talking on a phone. He must be really tech-savvy.
What do they mean by “unfair advantage”? Something against me or for me?
What do you do if one or more of the panelist are your direct competitors?
You make a new idea up, and when you meet them ask tons of “so how did you guys ____”
I’ll drive 6 hours to the bay area if I win, no problem at all!
Sounds like a great opportunity!