Startup Weekend

Speakers

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  Dan Martel

  Speaking: 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.

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  David Weekly

  Speaking: 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.

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  Bill Clerico

  Speaking: 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.

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  Gregory Clark

  Speaking: 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.

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  Betty Kayton

  Speaking: 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.

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  Shai Goldman

  Speaking: 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

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  Jonathan Rubens

  Speaking: 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.

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  Rob Garcia

  Speaking: 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.