Sign up for our awesome SF Bay Area Tech Events weekly email newsletter.     LOCATION EVENT DETAILS <P>Don't miss the 8th edition of<STRONG>The Startup Conference</STRONG>on May 17 in Redwood City. With 1,000+ attendees, The Startup Conference is one of the larger tech conference for entrepreneurs.</P> <P>This year, sessions will cover:</P> <UL> <LI>My Startup, Day 1: avoid beginner mistakes</LI> <LI>How to raise funding from angels & they differ from professional VCs</LI> <LI>Machine Learning & AI</LI> <LI>Autonomous Everything</LI> <LI>Negotiating a successful exit for your startup</LI> <LI>Growth hacking: going from no users & no traction to millions of users</LI> <LI>and more...</LI> </UL> <P>The final program will be announced a few weeks before the conference.</P> <P>Past speakers include some of the most succesful entrepreneurs & thought-leaders of the startup world:</P> <UL> <LI>Naval Ravikant, founder of AngelList</LI> <LI>Tim Draper, VC</LI> <LI>Guy Kawasaki, Evangelist</LI> <LI>David Hornik, VC</LI> <LI>Michelle Zatlyn, co-founder of CloudFlare</LI> <LI>Dave McClure, founder of 500 Startups</LI> <LI>Aaron Patzer, founder of Mint</LI> <LI>Slava Rubin, co-founder of IndieGoGo</LI> <LI>Robert Scoble, Evangelist</LI> <LI>Leah Busque, founder of TaskRabbit</LI> <LI>Ben Parr</LI> <LI>Vivek Wadhwa</LI> <LI>Jerry Kaplan</LI> <LI>etc.</LI> </UL>