oDesk founder & CEO : Getting to Millions of Users ( and $$$) per Month

Every year, hundreds of thousands of new businesses are formed... Every year, hundreds of thousands of new businesses are formed - and nearly as many head to the deadpool. How to take your business beyond the choppy waters of a startup and into the calmer seas of a multi-million dollar global business?

How to became the industry leader, bringing millions of users (and dollars) to your business? Join us to learn how oDesk overcame common startup challenges to become a multi-million dollar global company. Co-founder Odysseas Tsatalos and CEO Gary Swart will be sharing their insights on growing a business from early-stage startup to more than $16M in earnings each month. oDesk is the largest and fastest-growing global employment platform where employers can hire, manage, and pay a flexible online workforce. With more than 1.2 million contractors in 150 countries, oDesk (www.oDesk.com) is the industry leader in remote work.

What They Say About Us

"The wonderful thing about entrepreneurs is that their passion for starting new companies transcends languages and geographic boundaries."

Ron Conway, Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds, early stage investor in Google and PayPal

"Networking is very important for start-ups. The challenge for them is often not money: it is mentoring and finding people who can give good advice from experience."

Esther Dyson, Founder, EDventure Holdings

"This conference is clearly a labor of love for a group of dedicated professionals who care deeply about the Eastern European entrepreneurs. From the value-packed educational panels, to the star-studded key note speakers' line up, to an amazing quantity of venture capitalists – this is a not to be missed event for any high tech entrepreneur,"

Richard Guha, President of the Marketing Executives Network and Managing Partner at MaxBrandEquity

"As Stanford MBA students, we were exposed to a lot of VC firms both from the Valley and abroad. It is at Stanford that we met Anna Dvornikova, an absolutely amazing business leader and (by our big luck) our friend, who was the center of the Russian Silicon Valley professional community, and was doing a huge work to connect Russia and the Valley. Anna helped us a lot with kick-starting Wikimart, put us to our first-ever conference, introduced us to most of Russian VCs. And all that happened in a very short time span! It was the beginning of a six-month journey that despite the particularly tough times resulted in an extraordinarily group of investors backing our start-up."

Maxim Faldin and Kamil Kurmakayev,
co-CEOs, Wikimart