For questions about Inbox Love including speakers, agenda, and sponsors, contact Christen O’Brien, Events Director at 500 Startups.

500 Startups is a Mountain View-based seed fund and startup accelerator founded by Dave McClure. With more than 60 startups in our portfolio and over 100 mentors that represent a “who’s who” of tech, we take a unique approach to startup growth that is deeply rooted in design, data, and distribution.

We also produce events and conferences with the goal of providing startups with affordable and valuable access to knowledge and networking. Our events include:

Warm Gun: Designing Happiness

1-day conference about measurable, conversion-focused web design featuring the web’s leading designers and “converters” like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Zynga and more. Warm Gun will take place in 2011 in San Francisco and New York City.

Lean Startup with Eric Ries

Half-day conference in March about Eric Ries’ “The Lean Startup” method. Lean Startup will take place in 2011 in Austin.

SMASH Summit

1-day conference about strategies and tactics for social distribution channels featuring some of the best socially distributed companies out there, such as YouTube , Facebook, Comcast, Virgin, HP. KISSmetrics, Dogster, Animoto, and more. SMASH summit will take place in 2011 in San Francisco and New York City.

Inbox Love

1 day conference about the future of email and the inbox as a platform. Inbox Love will take place in 2011 in Mountain View, Ca.

Geeks on a Plane

7-10 day tour of regional tech hotbeds abroad (and sometimes domestically) with the goal of knowledge sharing, networking, and unearthing some amazing international startups. Past trips have included Asia, Hawaii, and Washington D.C. In 2011, GOAP will be venturing to South America (Brazil, Argentina, and Chile), Asia (Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo), and India.