Sunday Presentations
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Dan MartelSpeaking: Friday evening
Topic: Startups / Lean Approach / Customer Development.
Bio: Dan Martell is an angel investor and co-founder of Flowtown. He skydives and snowboards and believes running is among the secrets to a fruitful life.
An award-winning entrepreneur, at 25, Dan formed his first start-up, Spheric Technologies Inc., and watched it grow by an average of 152% per year before he sold the company in mid-2008. An award winning Entrepreneur, Dan recently co-founded Flowtown, a company focused on providing web-based tools that allow small businesses to measure their online marketing efforts. As an informal angel investor, he is active in advising entrepreneurs using metric-based marketing tactics to gain market adoption. Martell is a board member of Propel ICT and also volunteers his time working with youth battling addictions at Portage NB. He is passionately involved in facilitating micro-lending to entrepreneurs in developing countries through the non-profit, Kiva.org.
David WeeklySpeaking: Friday evening
Topic: More hacking, less talking!
Bio: A Boston native and son of a MIT engineer, David has been programming since he was five and has coded for MIT, Harvard, Stanford, There.com, atWeb, and Legato.
David wrote the first layman’s description of MP3 in early 1997 and graduated in 2000 with a BS in Computer Science from Stanford, where he was a President Scholar and a finalist in the ACM International Programming Competition. David started the company that became PBwiki (now PBworks) in 2003, along the way creating SingleStat.us and IMSmarter. David is a Founding Director of Hacker Dojo, a non-profit 501(c)(6) community center aimed at providing programmers in the SF Bay Area a place to collaborate and innovate. This largely came out of David’s efforts as the co-founder of SuperHappyDevHouse, a monthly hackathon whose 33+ Saturday gatherings of 100-400 programmers have produced many projects, companies, and friendships. David was also the founder of the California Community Colocation Project, which provided free colocation services to over 130 non-profits and after merging with the Online Policy Group successfully sued Diebold Election Systems in Federal Court (see OPG v. Diebold). David likes to throw parties, fly helicopters, have adventures, and make useful things.
Bill ClericoSpeaking: Saturday mid-day
Topic: Mentor / Advisor Revenue Models
Bio: Bill Clerico is the CEO and cofounder of WePay, Inc., a payment application that helps groups collect and manage money. Prior to WePay, Bill worked in technology investment banking at Jefferies Broadview where he advised technology companies on M&A and capital markets transactions.
He also worked in software development at Goldman Sachs and the U.S. Army. Bill has a B.S. in Computer Science from Boston College, where he was a Presidential Scholar.
Gregory ClarkSpeaking: Sunday afternoon
Topic: Mentor / Advisor - Legal
Bio: Greg Clark is Senior Vice President, Business Development, for Cooley Godward Kronish's Colorado and San Francisco offices. He has over 20 years of experience in business development leadership roles in the technology industry. Prior to joining Cooley, Mr.
Clark was Vice President of Sales at Wink Communications, which he helped build from a start-up through an IPO in 1999. He also served as Director of Sales at Lucent Technologies and held various senior management positions at AT&T and the Unisys Corporation. Mr. Clark also has consulted for several private firms on business development and client service processes. He holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed the Executive Development Program at Duke University.
Betty KaytonSpeaking: Saturday afternoon
Topic: Mentor / Advisor - Finance
Bio: Betty enjoys helping start-ups in the “zero to something” stage of growth, typically beginning her involvement when the company’s business plan is still on a cocktail napkin.
Typically, the founding team has great technologists and customer-facing skills, but needs someone to be the Vice President of Everything Else…. helping with fund raising, business plans, admin/ops, human resources, legal, etc. Past/present clients/industries include Dropbox, eLearning, Leapfrog toys, MGA Entertainment, Venture Hacks, mobile gaming, web 2.0, enterprise software and telecoms. Credentials include: CPA (Ernst & Young) and MBA.
Shai GoldmanSpeaking: Sunday afternoon
Topic: Mentor / Advisor / Panelist - Investing
Bio: Shai Goldman is a director with SVB Capital's Entrepreneur Services Group, which serves as a platform to provide quality investment referrals to venture firms and assist emerging companies in raising capital through strategic introductions to the right investors for their business.
Goldman is also responsible for identifying investment opportunities for SVB Capital Partners Fund and other venture capital firms. His primary focus for the investment opportunities is software, particularly in the SaaS, open source, mobile software and digital media subsectors. Goldman has assisted numerous companies raise capital including InfusionSoft, Veodia, Fastscale and Gamestrata. Goldman joined SVB Financial Group in December. Prior to joining the Entrepreneur Services Group, formerly Venture Exchange, Goldman worked with SVB Private Client Services providing personal financing solutions to entrepreneurs, investors and senior executives in the technology, life science, venture capital and premium wine industries. Goldman holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Santa Clara University. He is the co-chair of SDForum's Venture Finance SIG, a group dedicated to helping early-stage entrepreneurs prepare to meet with and attain funding from the venture capital community. Goldman is also active with Astia and the California Clean Tech Open. Since, Goldman has been a mentor for BUILD, a non-profit organization committed to inspiring underserved high school students to succeed in school and pursue higher education by advising them on how to create and run a viable small business. sgoldman@svb.com 650.233.7424
Jonathan RubensSpeaking: Saturday afternoon
Topic: Mentor / Advisor - Legal
Bio: Jonathan Rubens represents entrepreneurs and investors in new venture formation, equity financings, mergers and acquisitions, and commercial loan transactions, and he advises businesses on a wide variety of commercial transactions, intellectual property and data security and privacy issues. Emerging Companies, Corporate, M&A Jonathan has worked with many entrepreneurs and investors involved with technology startups and early stage companies.
This includes setting up angel investment funds, advising on the capitalization of corporations and limited liability companies for new technology and online media businesses, drafting founder and adviser agreements, closing seed through C round equity financing transactions, structuring executive employment agreements and incentive compensation plans. Jonathan also works with clients at the later stage of an enterprise, in finance and merger and acquisition transactions. His experience includes representing borrowers in lending and refinancing transactions involving loans up to $60 million and both buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions ranging from small asset sales to deal values up to $125 million.
Rob GarciaSpeaking: Friday evening
Topic: Funding Alternatives
Bio: Rob has been creating innovative ecommerce and web based products and experiences for more than 10 years, delivering outstanding web experiences for his clients.
He is curently the Senior Director of Product Strategy at LendingClub.com, responsible for the overall product roadmap and experience. Under his leadership, Lending Club's website has become a rapidly growing online financial community, winning numerous prizes such as the Webby Award as best Banking site, the W3 Silver Award as outstanding Financial Services website, two WebAwards for outstanding website in the Financial Services and Investment categories, and the Interactive Media Award as Best-in-Class Banking website. Rob has quickly become a leading voice in the peer-to-peer lending, microfinance, and emerging finance 2.0 spaces, blogging, tweeting, and speaking publicly about the exciting new products and technologies available. Rob also holds an M.B.A. in Entrepreneurship from Babson College.
Tyler WillisBio: My Name is Tyler Willis. I am 22. I always wear a beard. I live in SoMA, SF, CA. I love working for Involver. I went to Film School, I started a consulting firm, and I worked for several startup companies.
I throw some events. I explain myself on my webpage, but post more frequently on my Tumblr.
Kevin RochowskiBio: Kevin has over 10 years experience with cutting edge internet and video solutions, working with Fortune 100 companies in the US and Europe.
He has a passion for New Tech and still remembers writing out websites by hand when Mosaic 1.0 was the web browser of choice.
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The season of consuming too much turkey has finally come to an end, and so we finally present to you the final post from Startup Weekend Bay Are at the Hacker Dojo. And what an event it was! With over 150 registrations and 40+ pitches, once again the Bay Area demonstrated just how much innovation and raw enthusiasm it has to offer.
After the pitches on Friday night, thirteen groups formed and started turning their ideas into reality. Some 48 hours later, they were back to show what they had done. Here, Niten Luthra provides a great overview of the pitch night:
Launching at Startup Weekend:
Using the Twilio API, DialSocial allows you to create and host your own “party line” (remember those?!) for free. Business or pleasure, chat with like minded people from around the world.
Verdant Event created the scheduling system used for the Sunday night Startup Weekend presentations! Their primary focus is around green events, and enabling the communities that search for them.
Caduces aims to help maintain your entire family’s health, wellness, and fitness information all in one place by providing a “virtual safety deposit box” which contains your ”family health genealogy”.
Tweet Leaders seeks to identify who are the most influential people on twitter for any given topic, effortlessly providing the top ten for any search term based on conversations and mentions in the both the public and private domain. Still looking for a video of this great presentation!
FooTraffic provides a means to monetize location based networks such as FourSquare by providing a self-service couponing system for local businesses.
Better talking allows you to hone your interview skills through sharing your responses to an automated stock interview with your friends, and gathering their feedback. See it action here:
We hate getting parking tickets as much as the next guy, which is why this system for automatically reminding you to fill the meter using twitter is so awesome. In their own words:
GIRLSWHOLIKE.US
Looking for fun? For stimulating conversation? Socially awkward and need tech to help you score? This mobile platform with fun social games could help you then!
INTELLIMED
Intellimed uses Twilio to contact patients and remind them to take their pills.
Stacy Please is an automated assistant which can remind you of important actions at a time of your choosing.
Dress Me Sue allows to catalogue your outfits and save your favorite combinations to use again. Perfect for the stylish beau about town!
Chorely brings together geolocation and reminders to ensure that you never again forget to pick up the dry cleaning whilst you’re in the neighborhood! See their presentation here:
Handoff Me provides a DNS based means to balance between two separate service providers for your web app:
And The Winners Are…
It was a tough decision, but our crack team of tried and tested entrepreneurs were able to choose four winners.
The winners were:
4th PLACE – Dress Me Sue
3rd PLACE – FooTraffic
2nd PLACE – Better Talking
1st PLACE – Tweet Leaders
Congratulations go out to both the winners and all who participated. Most of the companies launched created dedicated twitter accounts for their projects, which we have add to a list here. Go follow it!
Look forward to seeing you all at the next event!
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An insight to just a few of the teams working hard….
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All of us here at Springbase are excited to be teaming up with Startup Weekend in the Bay Area for the weekend of November 20th! We’ll be providing unlimited access to the Springbase platform to teams at the event, as well as providing live, on-site support throughout the weekend.
Springbase is a platform for rapid web application development, helping you build rich web apps with no servers to configure or software to install. We can’t wait to see what the people at Startup Weekend can do with it! Check out our website to get a sneak peek at our platform. Need a ticket to the event? Check out our blog.
Springbase – Web Application Development
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Google will be sending two App engine techs to help out over the weekend!
Jason Cooper, App Engine Developer Advocate & Mike Repass, App Engine Product Manager will be joining us over the weekend to help teams out! Google App Engine is obviously a great tool for startups over the weekend, and these guys can ensure that teams are utilizing them to their fullest!
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Startup Weekend is excited to announce it is partnering with the guys at DEMO to help further our efforts to provide new and valuable opportunities to our community!
DEMO is one of the foremost tech conferences in the world. What types of companies come from DEMO?
vmware, Salesforce.com, Tivo, Bitgravity, Symantec, Java, E*Trade, Boingo, palm, six apart, and more!
Why is this cool?
Successful Startup Weekend companies will get “fast track” consideration with the directors of DEMO for the Alpha Pitch segment of the event for early stage startups! Stay tuned for other great opportunities to come from this partnership!
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Get the Demo Facts, and Attend DEMOspring 2010 in California March 21st-23rd.
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We just got word of the list of people attending from Sun Microsystems for the weekend. In addition to the support from Sun Startup Essentials team, we will have some pros from all of the big technologies at the weekend to participate! So cool!
Attending will be:
Jim Parkinson – Cloud Computing VP
Sriram Natarajan – PHP integration in Web Stack
Shanti Subramanyam – AMP stack, ruby, etc.
Arun Gupta – GlassFish
Marina Fisher – Sun Startup Essentials Web Architect
Rajesh Ramchandani – Sun Startup Essentials and Cloud Computing Biz Dev
Don’t miss the amazing opportunity to mingle, learn, and build a startup with the help of these guys!
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Twilio is teaming up with us for the weekend of November 13th through 22nd to encourage innovation with voice enabled applications, using our open API. If your team uses Twilio in any way over the course of the weekend, you’re eligible to win Netbooks for your team members.
Startup Weekend teams range in size, so we will award the winning team with up to six Netbooks, along with other Twilio goodies. Startup Weekend teams in six cities will compete for the chance to win, and we’ll be blogging and tweeting about your projects throughout th weekend and beyond.
Do you have a laundry list of projects you’ve been meaning to build, or are you drawing a blank? Either way, its time to begin generating ideas so you can decide what to pitch on Friday night.
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Thanks to isocket for signing up as a sponsor for this Startup Weekend! isocket is looking to expand their network and to possibly recruit & hire some developers!
“Introducting the first commission-free ad platform! isocket is an exciting new application that makes it easier to sell any kind of advertising, such as website banner, mobile video or out-of-home digital sign.”
