More LAUNCH Festival Judges! Yossi Vardi, Naval Ravikant, Vivek Wadhwa, Cyan Banister; Applications due Feb 1

We've selected some pretty awesome companies for the LAUNCH Festival at the San Francisco Design Center, March 4-6 -- but we can't tell you about those just yet :-)

What we can tell you is that we have another batch of impressive judges:

Cyan Banister, Zivity
Jeff Eddings, Turner Broadcasting/Media Camp
Dave Goldberg, SurveyMonkey
Clint Gordon-Carroll, Space Monkey
Jeremy Hitchcock, Dyn
Ted Maidenberg, The Social+Capital Partnership
Jason Nazar, Docstoc
Naval Ravikant, AngelList
Demain Sellfors, Media Temple
Mark Siegel, Menlo Ventures
Greg Tseng,Tagged
Yossi Vardi, investor    
Vivek Wadhwa, Singularity University & Washington Post columnist

PLUS a few more folks for the Grand Jury, the dedicated group that sees every demo over the three days:

Brian Alvey, Ceros
Steve Chen, angel & owner, 5A5 Steak Lounge
Adeo Ressi, Founder Institute

The full list of judges & jury here: http://festival.launch.co/judges.html

Our Feb 1 deadline is just a week away, so don't wait to apply if you have something awesome that will be ready to launch by March 4:
https://www.wizehive.com/appform/login/launchfestival2013

We've got space for more awesome developers, designers and UI/UX gurus (aka builders), who can join us for FREE. Apply here.

Support the builders and secure VIP treatment for the Festival -- just $995!

Thanks to the new partners of the event!
(There’s still time to reach the 5,000 entrepreneurs/developers/startups that are going to be there. Email partners@launch.co) --
 * AWS (http://aws.amazon.com/)
 * Docstoc (http://www.docstoc.com/)
 * FusionPR (http://www.fusionpr.com/)
 * Google Developers (http://developers.google.com/)
 * MaRS (http://www.marsdd.com/)
 * Media Temple (http://mediatemple.net/)
 * Menlo Ventures (http://www.menloventures.com/)
 * Micro Ventures (http://www.microventures.com/)
 * PivotDesk (http://www.pivotdesk.com/)
 * Silicon Valley Bank (http://www.svb.com/)
 * Venture51 (http://www.venture51.com/)

We also have awesome media partners helping us get out the word. (Want to help? Email partners@launch.co)

Thank you to
 * Application Developers Alliance (http://appdevelopersalliance.org/)
 * ConnectionSF (http://connectionssf.com/)
 * Iron.io (http://www.iron.io/)
 * LeanUX (http://www.sf.lean-ux.com/)
 * MHacks (http://mhacks.eventbrite.com/)
 * SF Music Tech (http://www.sfmusictech.com/)
 * Startup Product Summit (http://www.startupproduct.com/)