Please take a look (and feel free to edit) a sample sponsorship letter written for LaidOffCamp:
San Francisco Sponsor Letter
Also, check out this sample email to use when emailing potential sponsors.
Here is a MASSIVE list of companies that could be potential sponsors:
Social Media / Chat
- Yoono.com
- Digsby.com
- TokBox.com
- Meebo.com
- TinyChat.com
Web Tools / Startups
- JS-Kit .com
- squarespace.com
- Wordpress.com
- UserVoice.com (chutchins to contact)
- 30boxes.com
- casttv.com
- getsatisfaction.com
- twitter.com (Sent email to Evan Williams, awaiting reply. cgiven 2/21)
- eventbrite.com (chutchins to contact)
- hikkup.com
- jajah.com
- janrain.com
- jaiku.com
- Ning.com (Contacted, waiting for reply - cgiven 2/21)
- mozes.com
- Pandora.com
- PBWiki.com (chutchins to contact)
- simplifymedia.com
- slideshare.net
- SmugMug.com
- Dopplr.com
- BrightKite.com (chutchins to contact)
- Viddler.com
- Vimeo.com
- Etsy.com
- Mint.com
- sixapart.com
- box.net
- drop.io
- GetDropbox.com
- Tumblr.com
- technorati.com
- stumbleupon.com
- lijit.com
- disqus.com
- loopt.com
- wufoo.com
- justin.tv
- yelp.com (Contacted, awaiting reply - cgiven 2/21)
- EventVue.com
- mahalo.com
Web Servers / Hosting
- joyent.com
- mediatemple.net
- dreamhost.com
- geekstorage.com
- LaughingSquid.com (chutchins to contact)
- rackspace.com
- svwh.net
Big companies
- Sun Startup Essentials
- Adobe
- Facebook (chutchins to contact)
- Google
- HP
- IBM
- Mozilla
- Yahoo!
- Microsoft (BizSpark) (chutchins to contact)
- Microsoft (Contacted colleague whoe works there for help - cgiven 2/21)
Networking / Job-Related
- Workstir.com (CEO Duncan confirmed they are sponsors! - cgiven 2/25)
- meetup.com (Contacted, awaiting reply - cgiven 2/23)
- haystack.cerado.com
- Plaxo.com (Kathy, John, and Hendrick from Plaxo confirm they are sponsors! - cgiven 2/25)
- LinkedIn.com
- Social Media Club
- Monster.com (Emails on their website bounceback - cgiven 2/21)
- Craigslist.com (Contacted, awaiting reply - cgiven 2/23)
- CareerBuilder.com
- Indeed.com (Contacted, awaiting reply - cgiven 2/23)
- Jobster.com (Contacted, awaiting reply - cgiven 2/23)
- layoffspace.com
- jobfox.com
- hireahelper.com
- wink.com
- getafreelancer.com
- gofreelance.com
- SimplyHired.com (Contacted, replied maybe - cgiven 2/25)
- krop.com (Contacted, no reply yet - cgiven 2/23)
- emurse.com (Contacted, no reply yet - cgiven 2/23)
- dice.com (Contacted, not interested)
- flipdog.com
- idealist.org
- hotjobs.yahoo.com (Contacted colleague at Yahoo! - cgiven 2/23)
- Valut.com (Contacted, no reply yet - cgiven 2/23)
- sanfranjobs.com (Contacted, no reply yet - cgiven 2/23)
- oDesk (Contacted, they are sponsoring the event! - cgiven 2/24)
- Women's Initiative for Self Employment (Kelly emailed 2/25, no reply yet)
- Jewish Vocational Services (they do career counseling) (Kelly emailed 2/25, no reply yet)
Publications / Media
- current.com
- Zinette.com
- centernetworks.com
- GigaOM (Surj Patelto <surj@gigaom.com> followed up w/ Chris on 2/24 - not sure)
- podtech.net
- readwriteweb.com
- CNET
- Revision3
- TechCrunch (Contacted, no reply yet - cgiven 2/21)
- Mashable
- Wired
- valleywag.com (Contacted 2/23 - they replied that they don't do sponsorships at all right now)
- entrepreneur.com
- Digg.com (chutchins to contact)
- Ustream.tv
- Qik.com (chutchins to contact)
- VentureBeat (Contacted CEO Matt <matt@venturebeat.com>, no reply yet - cgiven 2/21)
Dating
- plentyoffish.com
- match.com
- hurrydate.com
- Ignighter
VCs
- Draper Fisher Jurvetson
- Charles River Ventures
- dcm.com
- First Round Capital
- Palomar Ventures
- O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures
- Garage Ventures
Other
Government
- Carmen Chu (SF Board of Supervisors) - (Contacted, talking with Rhonda and Eric Ward from labor dept; cgiven 2/25)
- Chris Daly (SF Board of Supervisors) - (Contacted, awaiting reply; cgiven 2/21)
- Mayor Gavin Newson - (Contacted, awaiting reply; cgiven 2/21)
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