Silicon Valley Comes to Jamaica – Michelle Messina to speak at Caribbean BETA

Michelle Messina

The opening keynote speaker for Caribbean BETA Tech Entrepreneurship Conference is Michelle Messina, Vice-President of International Business Development of the Silicon Valley-based Guidewire Group. GuideWireGroup focus is to provide startups, their supporters, and those who do business with them with the tools, data, networks and programs they need to discover, monitor, benchmark, compare, and promote early-stage companies. In short they know about startups what they need to thrive.

Ms Messina will open the conference with her keynote speech at 9:00 am. She will be talking about The Entrepreneurial Mindset. What does it Take? WHich will explore among other sub themes – So you have a great idea? Now what? What problem does your idea solve? Is it a business or a project? How do you develop profitable business models ? How do you take your idea and make it into a real business?

GuideWire Group was founded 7 years ago by Chris Shipley the woman who has had over 25 years experience in identifying emerging market opportunities and the innovative startups poised to capitalize on them. As executive producer and host of the DEMO conference (the DEMO conference is a technology conference that focuses on showcasing new products from both entrepreneurs and established companies) from 1996 to 2009, helped companies including E-trade, Adobe Acrobat, WebEx, VMWare, salesforce.com, TiVo, Xfire, Ribbit, and Ironport make their market debut.

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