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It's nice to see a conference targeted at self funded startups.

I'm in London so Vegas is a bit of a stretch, it's very tempting.

Ditto. For me, as a self funded startup also, it would be nice to at least have an idea of the price of tickets. That way I can plug 'em into my cashflow projections and work out now whether it's worth dropping my email address in.

As it is, I won't, because my perception of these events (I'm comparing it to BoS here) is that while they are very useful they do cost a lot to attend. That, plus the air ticket, = no sale.

The pricing is a bit in flux right now because the cost is going to be largely based on the number of people who actually attend. Our target is to keep it under $750 no matter what. So that's on the high end of the pricing scale. Chances are really good it will be less.

The reason BOS is so expensive is because it's in Boston and they don't have sponsors. Vegas is significantly less expensive to host a conference. We did look into Boston and it was kind of ridiculous.

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