• Speakers


    • Eric Ries Eric Ries

      Speaking: Friday evening

      Topic:Lean Startup

      Bio: Eric Ries is the creator of the Lean Startup methodology

      and the author of the popular entrepreneurship blog Startup Lessons Learned. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms.


    • Naval Naval

      Speaking: Sunday

      Topic: Startups

      Bio:I am an entrepreneur and angel investor,

      a co-author of Venture Hacks, and a co-maintainer of AngelList. Previously I was a co-founder at Genoa Corp (acquired by Finisar), Epinions.com (IPO via Shopping.com), and Vast.com (largest white-label classifieds marketplace). I’ve also advised Bix.com, iPivot, and XFire, among others, and invested in many companies, including Twitter, FourSquare, DocVerse (sold to Google), Mixer Labs (sold to Twitter), Jambool (Social Gold), SnapLogic, PlanCast, Stack Overflow, Heyzap, and Disqus. If you would like to contact me about investing in your company, please use AngelList to reach me.


    • Anthony Kim Anthony Kim

      Speaking: Saturday

      Topic: Education

      Bio: Anthony Kim is an entrepreneur with extensive experience in online education

      and instructional technology. Currently, Anthony is working with several foundations to design and implement the next generation learning environment, a “hybrid school”. He is also working with private equity firms as an education industry expert: evaluating potential high growth companies, supporting due diligence teams, and reviewing corporate strategy.


    • Jon Bischke Farb Nivi

      Speaking: Saturday

      Topic: Education

      Bio:Farb Nivi is founder and CEO of Grockit

      , a web-based social network for studying. Farb founded Grockit in 2007 with the vision to break the old paradigm of one size fits all classes and create a customized learning environment that adapts to the student. and Prior to Grockit, Farb served as an academic director at Kaplan Test Prep and The Princeton Review honored Farb as National Teacher of the Year. Farb earned his bachelor’s in psychology from the University of Michigan.


    • David Koehn David Koehn

      Speaking: Friday

      Topic: Education

      Bio: David started his career as a teacher,

      graduated to guiding corporate education services, and evolved into starting his own venture funded learning Start-up. He now Leads Saba’s strategic direction in the area of Saba Learning


    • Nick Punt Nick Punt

      Speaking: Friday

      Topic: Education

      Bio: Nick Punt is the VP of Products at Inigral

      , Inc, makers of Facebook applications for postsecondary admission and retention. Nick’s career includes founding Socialfly, a social relationship manager on Facebook, working on educational software and online communities products, and designing video games at Pandemic Studios. Nick has an MBA/MA Education from Stanford and BA in Psychology from UC Irvine.


    • Michael Staton Michael Staton

      Speaking: Friday

      Topic: Education

      Bio: Michael Staton is the co-founder and CEO of venture-backed Inigral

      , Inc, the leading provider of Facebook Applications to Postsecondary Institutions addressing needs around student recruitment and retention. He has been an interaction and curriculum designer focused on issues of college readiness, as well as an innovative teacher of social studies in both under and over-performing high schools.


    • Ryan Boyd

      Speaking: Saturday

      Topic: Technology for education

      Bio: Ryan Boyd is a developer advocate at

      Google focused on enabling developers to extend Google Apps and build businesses on top of Google technology. He previously worked on OpenSocial and led the developer relations team for Google's AtomPub APIs. Prior to joining Google, Ryan worked in higher education as a web architect for RIT's central web hosting environment and as web app developer building admissions and student systems.


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  • Past Companies

    QleeQ

    Sensing the Internet, providing Collective Wisdom Insights

    www.QleeQ.com
    December, 2009

    Contact: Dan Schamir, founder CEO Email: info@QleeQ.com


    • An initiative of

      The Kauffman Foundation

    • Sponsors

      • Parisoma
      • Socialmedia
      • Opinno
      • Media Temple
      • Women2.0
      • The Kauffman Foundation
      Interested in Sponsoring? Contact us!

    • Organizers


      • Kevin F. Adler Kevin F. Adler

        Bio: Kevin F. Adler is an entrepreneur and change maker who is passionate about education, collaborative technologies, and all things community.

        Currently, he is developing BetterGrads, a nonprofit organization that helps high school students reach their college-going potential through 1:1 eMentoring from college students and young professionals in their own community. Kevin is also a founding trustee of the San Francisco chapter of the Awesome Foundation, which makes monthly micro-grants to innovative projects in the Bay Area, and a researcher at a public employees union. Previously he served as community manager for a social media communication startup. He recently completed his M.Phil in sociology at the University of Cambridge; his research on the impact of natural disasters on social capital will be published in a forthcoming book by CRC Press. Kevin is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Occidental College, where he studied political science and diplomacy & world affairs as a Boys State Leadership Scholar and Culley Award recipient. This fall, Kevin will travel to Oaxaca, Mexico, for six months as a 2010-11 Rotary District Ambassadorial Scholar.


      • Kevin Braithwaite Kevin Braithwaite

        Bio: Kevin is an entrepreneur with a particular interest in technological innovation and currently divide his time between Silicon Valley and Cambridge, UK.

        Over the last 10 years, Kevin has advised very early stage academic spin-outs through to multinational technology corporations, telecom operators and banks. He has worked with or founded companies in a variety of industries including software, media, Internet solutions, and business services. Kevin has worked with new spin-outs and start-ups from Cambridge University through his role as an advisor to Cambridge Enterprise and mentor at The Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at The Judge Institute of Management. Most recently, Kevin became involved in social entrepreneurship. This has led to the founding of various initiatives that empower technology based ventures to solve social and environmental issues in disadvantaged communities around the world. Kevin holds an MBA from London Business School. Kevin has founded and built a number of companies, encompassing both service and product based ventures in multiple technology sectors. He has been a valued advisor to early stage technology investors, startups, corporations and universities. For a number of years, he worked with the venture incubator at the University of Cambridge, where he mentored, trained and supported a wide range of young entrepreneurs. Kevin currently sits on the advisory boards of GreenMango, a mobile platform empowering low-income entrepreneurs in India, and Aptivate, a non-profit providing IT services for international development. Kevin has been a mentor or judge for many leading business plan competitions, including the Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC), the Clean Tech Open, Women 2.0 and annual venture competitions at Oxford, Cambridge and Stanford universities. This year I'm also a mentor at the innovative Unreasonable Institute (http://www.unreasonableinstitute.org/


      • Shane Reiser Shane Reiser

        Bio: Shane organizes Startup Weekends


      • Grant Wernick Grant Wernick

        Bio: G

        rant Wernick - our Kauffman Labs rep. Kauffman Labs education initiative is one of the primary inspirations for Startup Weekend Education


      • Franck Franck

        Bio: Franck love startups...


      • Bjoern Lasse Herrmann Bjoern Lasse Herrmann

        Bio: B

        joern is a passionate change maker and serial entrepreneur in the space of education, development and hr. His mission is it to maximize the capitalization of every individual worldwide.

    • @pier38


      Agrandir le plan

    • Poll

      Startup Weekend survey

    27 pitches –> 8 teams

    Posted by Startup Weekend Crew

    “Continuous professional development and knowledge sharing through reputation based peer interaction.”

    Classroom Sense

    Classroom Sense takes complicated district data and makes it practical for principals to use. Principals must make daily decisions around student attendance, teacher development, and school budget on a continuously evolving basis. Districts already collect data about students, staff, and school, largely to comply with state reporting requirements, but it’s inaccessible, unprioritized, and unusable. We make that data smart so that principals are empowered to act on issues ranging from budget approval to prioritizing teacher observations.

    We want TheCoursebook to be the place you think of when you think of quality online education.  We want to do for educational content what Yelp did for restaurants and what Amazon did for consumer products.”

    Practisimo

    Practisimo is Chatroulette for online language practice. Practisimo lets you talk, when you want, with a native speaker from the comfort of your own computer or mobile phone. It’s easy, convenient, social, and free*. Sign up today to keep your language skills alive or perfect your second tongue. With Practisimo, a little practice makes a world of difference.
    *Premiums members can schedule lessons with highly rated native speakers.

    LeanTechTraining.com

    LeanTechTraining.com provides online technician training for robotics, solar energy, and other electronics courses for the junior college and high school market. Providing training for new service jobs that can’t be shipped overseas. Solving the problem of how to teach electronics courses online that currently require expensive hands-on labs by providing affordable electronics devices, curriculum, software, and training packages.

    SproutWorlds is an online gaming platform for math homework. Teachers choose the problems, and students do their homework online while earning points and virtual goods. SproutWorlds will provide an extra incentive for students to spend time learning math after school by using game mechanics that have engaged millions on Facebook games. The program will individually tailor questions, and will provide teachers with custom reports on the progress of each student.”

    E3 – Exceptional Education Ecosystem

    SchoolDom

    Ning Meets Yammer in an online social network for kids under 13. We provide a safe space for children to engage in social networking on line.

    Win $5000 this Weekend

    Posted by Startup Weekend Crew

    Well actually 2x $2500 for the winning teams (public favorite and judges best)
    that would translate for each winning team (assuming 4 people)

    1) One year of pasta to work on the project
    2) An Ipad for everyone in the team
    3) A trip to Burning Man and a lot of beer

    We still have some tickets left so hurry up! -> http://sweducation.eventbrite.com/

    Reading Recs for SW – Education

    Posted by Kevin Adler

    The times they are a-changin’ in the world of education. New ideas, better models, more innovative approaches, and sleeker uses of technology are transforming how we learn, teach, and understand.

    With only 3 days remaining until the first-ever SW Education – when 50 developers, marketers, designers, and entrepreneurs convene to build new education startups over the course of 54 hours – we’d like to offer some recommended reading for participants and interested bystanders alike. Collectively, these articles and videos provide a survey of some of the most exciting and pressing areas for innovation in education. They are a mix of inspiration and fright, and an absolute must-read.

    Check back in the next few days for six more recommendations.

    1. Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom – New York Times
    2. Computers at Home – Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality – New York Times
    3. Mentoring helps immigrants’ children aim for college – Washington Post
    4. Comparing U.S. Education to Itself – BetterGrads.org
    5. Richard Baraniuk on open-source learning – TED
    6. Why Solve Anything Other Than a Great Big Problem? – Change.org

    @kevinfadler

    Party! Thursday night

    Posted by Startup Weekend Crew

    Join us for drinks + pizza. We welcome a BYOB, so consider bringing your favorite liquid or brain food! Subscribe here

    If you did not register yet for the Startup Weekend Education hurry up!

    Feynman and intuition

    Posted by Startup Weekend Crew

    I recently had a friend quoting Richard Feynman, you can find his amazing lectures on google books

    I loved reading Feynman for fun while being a student. I loved physics and Mathematics, but the French education system was so boring that I decided to read by myself to have fun instead of following the official lectures… Of course I failed, but I realized by reading Feynman that I was missing an important piece of knowledge. Solving an equation is sure useful, and require knowledge, but what impressed me the most was the people who asked the right questions… These amazing intuitions, should be more discuss, modern education focus on explaining the knowledge instead of questioning it. Why did we even bother work on differential equations at first? Why did Einstein though about linking mass to the celerity of light… Most of these questions can’t have a definitive answer, but explaining the historical context would be a great help. Understanding how Galileo put is life in stake for the sake of science should be understood as much as his work.

    Mixing History and Math, trying to let the student guessing the next step by themselves to reproduce or at least understand the intuition behind great Scientific evolutions might be interesting…

    And you what would you change in our education?

    @peignoir

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