Past event…

Apr 26 2013 Event Ended

1050 Walnut St. Boulder, CO 80302

Startup Weekends are 54-hour events where developers, designers, marketers, product managers, and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch startups!

Teams will compete at the end of the weekend for fabulous cash and prizes (ok, no cash, but prizes, yes)

Venture Law Advisors, LLC - Full company formation, including filing fees, and other agreements, certificates, and elections needed to hit the legal ground running.
Scrib - 5 free co-working mobile memberships for the winning team (1 month).

Also, everyone that comes gets these great perks:

PickFu - Quick feedback on ideas and designs from a ready crowd.

Speakers

David Cohen

Founder and CEO of TechStars | Twitter LinkedIn Google+

David Cohen is the founder and CEO of TechStars, a mentorship-driven seed stage investment program for Internet startups.

Previously, David was a founder of several software and web technology companies including Pinpoint Technologies, earFeeder.com. He also had what he likes to think of as a “graceful failure” in between.

David is a active startup advocate, advisor, board member, and technology advisor who comments on these topics on his blog at DavidGCohen.com. He is also very active at the University of Colorado, serving on the boards for several organinzations including the Computer Science Department, Silicon Flatirons, and the Deming Center Venture Fund.

David’s hobbies are technology, software/web startups, business history, and tennis. He is married to the coolest girl he’s ever met and has three amazing kids who always seem to be teaching him something new.

Brad Feld

Managing Director at Foundry Group | Twitter LinkedIn Google+

Brad has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch and operate software companies. Brad is also a co-founder of TechStars.

Brad currently serves on the board of directors for many companies including Fitbit, MakerBot, Oblong, Orbotix, SEOMoz. Previously, Brad was an executive at AmeriData Technologies after it acquired Feld Technologies, a firm he founded in 1987 that specialized in custom software applications.

Brad is a nationally recognized speaker on the topics of venture capital investing and entrepreneurship and writes the widely read blogs Feld Thoughts, Startup Revolution, and Ask the VC.

Judges

Bart Lorang

Co-Founder & CEO at FullContact | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Google+

CEO & Co-Founder of @FullContactAPI - Tech Entrepreneur and Angel Investor.

Matt Bernier

Recovering Developer at Technical Integrity, LLC | Twitter LinkedIn

Matt Bernier is a father, a husband, an entreprenuer, he has been a software developer for 10 years having worked at two startups, is on the Denwhere? board, the organizing committee for Denver Startup Week, and is a technical recruiter and CTO at Technical Integrity. His passions are community building, gardening, biking, and being in the mountains.

Frank Mendicino III

Managing Director at Access Venture Partners

Frank Mendicino III co-founded Access Venture Partners in 1999. Access is a seed and early stage, high technology venture capital fund. Frank has been a venture capitalist for 18 years successfully investing in, and helping to grow exciting businesses.

Jamie Hollier

President, Anneal, Inc. - Partner, Commerce Kitchen | Twitter LinkedIn

Jamie Hollier is a project manager and consultant who is passionate about technology and the ways it can be used to create stronger communities. Jamie is the owner of Anneal, a consulting firm and a partner atCommerce Kitchen, a web design, development, and marketing company. Jamie is currently the project manager for DigitalLearn.org and was recently appointed to the Board of Directors for the Digital Public Library of America.

Bryan McKae

Attorney at Venture Law Advisors, LLC | Twitter LinkedIn

Husband, father, startup lawyer @VenLawAdvisors, entrepreneur, skier, runner, kid-herder, problem-solver. Not providing legal advice.

Brian Gryth

Founder and President at OpenColorado | Twitter LinkedIn

Brian is a Founder and the President of Open Colorado, a nonprofit organization established to facilitate a transformation in government that will make government simple, beautiful, and easy-to-use. Brian leads OpenColorado’s effort to expand the availability of government data to the community by increasing the release of government data and the number of OpenColroado’s partner organizations. He co-organized multiple events, including Gov 2.0 Camp Rocky Mountains, CityCamp Colorado in 2010, 2011 and 2012, devoted to promoting better government in Colorado. He lead the drafting of the Model Local Open Government Directive, a model policy document that municipal governments can adopt to promote and institutionalize open government principles in their organizations.

Cameron Houser

co-founder at Given Goods Company | LinkedIn

co founder of @givengoods. perpetually overexcited. wannabe famous cowboy. (!!!!!!!!)

Ben Nunez

CoFounder and CEO at BirdBox | Twitter LinkedIn Google+

Co-founder and CEO at Birdbox. Serial entrepreneur interested in video and photo management for consumers and the enterprise, along with anything music or sport.

Jessica Dillon

Developer at Quick Left | Twitter LinkedIn

Software developer working on consulting and coding web applications for startups and established businesses.

Evan Spitler

Troubleshooter/Instructor at SparkFun Electronics

Robot Wrangler and Arduino Instructor built on a mechanical engineer with an electrical accent.

Eugene Wan

Program Manager at TechStars | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Google+

Program Manager, TechStars Boulder. A lover of ideas and where they become more than ideas - startups.

Tim Burcham

COO at Markit on Demand

Developer, builder, turn-your-idea-into-software, make sure it gets done on time, and runs in production guy.

Christian M. Macy

Director at Fuse at The Riverside | Twitter LinkedIn Google+

Christian is the founder and director of Fuse at The Riverside - a coworking community that focuses on creating opportunities for personal and professional development that empower members to live their ideal lives.

Aside from running Fuse, Christian spends his time mentoring aspiring entrepreneurs, playing the occasional video game, and most importantly spending quality time with his fantastic wife and two incredible kids.

David Aragon

Developer at Quick Left | Twitter

David Aragon has been a web developer in Boulder for the past 3 years. He enjoys working on both front and back end features, with a particular expertise in Rails and Backbone apps. David splits his time between Quick Left and the CU graduate school of computer science.

Bob Bonifield

Practice Lead at Quick Left | Twitter LinkedIn

Head cattle wrangler and software developer at Quick Left.

Brandon West

Developer Evangelist at SendGrid | Twitter

As a Developer Evangelist for SendGrid, Brandon's focus is on empowering developers to build things, gathering feedback for new features and improvements, and fostering a cooperative developer community for anything that needs email integration.

John Foley

Developer at Pivotal | Twitter LinkedIn

Software engineer at Pivotal Labs
Organizer of http://projectgrok.com
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Jacqueline Claudia

Strategy Director, Making Colorado and Partner, Thurston Hall | Twitter LinkedIn

The perfect marriage between "Big Picture Strategy" and "Get It Done", and we've been together a long time. Jacqueline has worked with over a hundred companies from start-ups and labs to Fortune 5 behemoths on growth strategy and customer development. Special passion for wire brushing a neat idea into a fundable business, and coaching raw talent into pitch ready pros.

Schedule

Friday

Apr 26

5:30pm Registration Starts
6:10pm Welcome
6:15pm Brad Feld Speaking
7:00pm Dinner & Networking
7:45pm Pitches Start
9:15pm Attendees vote for the top ideas
9:30pm David Cohen Speaking
10:15pm Teams start forming and discussing ideas
10:45pm Start to formalize teams and take an inventory of skills. Be honest, and direct about what resources and skills are needed for the weekend. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow

Saturday

Apr 27

9:00am Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
9:30am Teams formed and setting up workspace for the weekend
12:00pm Lunch
1:00pm Call for needs & skills
2:00pm Coaches help teams one-on-one. They are here to help!
6:30pm Dinner
7:30pm Mid weekend check-in, status reports, call for help
10:00pm Finished for the day. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow