2011 Silicon Flatirons Annual Mile High Tech Entrepreneurship Conference: Going International

Join Silicon Flatirons on Friday, April 22 for our Annual Mile High Tech Entrepreneurship Conference. This year’s conference, Going International, will examine global issues relevant for start-ups in the Front Range. Topics will include when and how to identify international opportunities, how to mitigate threats (such as copycat business models), how to develop and structure relationships with off-shore providers and developers, and macro trends related to economic development and human capital.

The conference will feature discussions from national and local leaders. Confirmed participants include Anthony Chan, Chief Private Bank Economist, JP Morgan, acclaimed scholar Anno Saxenian, Dean of the University of California-Berkeley’s Information School, Jim Franklin, CEO, SendGrid, and Katrin Windsor, Founder and Board Member, International Business Circle. The conference runs from 1:00 – 5:45 p.m. with a reception to follow. Special thank you to JP Morgan, the flagship conference sponsor. Click here to register.

Global trends suggest that emerging companies which focus solely on domestic considerations may be missing large markets and, perhaps, operating at their peril. Internet adoption world-wide, and especially in developing countries, is spawning a global start-up generation where innovation, market opportunities, and copy-cat threats span the globe. Internet usage is increasingly international. An estimated 240 million Americans are now Internet users. Meanwhile, another 521 million people are Internet users in China, Brazil and India combined. Each of these three emerging countries feature annual growth in Internet user adoption rates which are 4 to 7 times those in the United States. International aspects of entrepreneurship are no longer quaint stories of isolated economic development or matters of outsourcing mundane tasks. Rather, international considerations are increasingly critical for a start-up.

Against this backdrop, the 2011 Silicon Flatirons Annual Mile High Tech Entrepreneurship Conference, Going International, will focus upon international-oriented issues facing a high-growth technology companies. A schedule of events is listed below.