V2V Speaker Scott Belsky Photo by Chris SaucedoThursday brings us to yet another advantage of attending V2V this summer. Number 6 on our Top Ten Reasons to register now: Intimate Environment.

At V2V you can experience influential and inspirational speakers, amazing networking opportunities, an exciting pitch competition, informative mentors, and fun evening events—all the things you love about SXSW—in a much more intimate environment. With daytime activities contained to the 4th floor of The Cosmopolitan, and evening events at a few locations in Downtown Las Vegas and on the Las Vegas Strip, SXSW V2V will give you the opportunity to leverage big take-aways on a small scale.

Photo by JW WalthallToday we launch our #V2Vstartuptips Twitter conversation to share ideas and take a glimpse into the type of advice you could receive at SXSW V2V. Whether you’re a seasoned entrepreneur or just beginning your first startup venture, you’ve all received opinions from your friends, family, and mentors--and that’s what we want to hear.

What makes your business tick? What helped you get through the early days? What took you to the next level?

This tip could be your ticket to the event. The participant with the most social traction from their valuable tip will receive a complimentary registration to attend SXSW V2V. Tweet out your tips through the next week and we will announce the recipient of the comp via Twitter and blog post next Friday, May 31.

Photo Courtesy of V2V Speaker Micah Baldwin

It's day three in our series of the Top Ten Reasons that you need to be at SXSW V2V in Las Vegas this August. Over these next two weeks we will be highlighting the opportunities that attending V2V will offer.

Discovery has always been at the core of SXSW: that undiscovered band that will be a household name in three years, the groundbreaking film paid for by credit cards and sweat that will change the way we think about cinema, the mind-bending app that some kid made in her basement that will change the way we communicate forever. V2V follows that tradition, highlighting the newest ideas and technologies that the rest of your peers will be talking about in two years. At SXSW V2V you will preview the future.

Photo by Christine Auten

Because a picture is worth a thousand words, V2V is now on Instagram! As we travel around the country for our Community Meet Ups, we are documenting all the interesting people we meet, and the cool locals we visit. You might also find a few shots of our adventures in our home city of Austin, Tx. Once a week we'll feature one cool image from our Instagram account right here on our blog, and tell you a little more about what makes that picture so special.

This week's V2Pic is from our San Francisco Community Meet Up at Mighty this past Monday. Alex was the first to arrive at our Meet Up; he was 15 minutes early, in fact. So I subjected him to a mini-photo shoot over by our beautiful Las Vegas banner. He was a good sport and stayed through the whole event.