There are just 11 more days until StartupDay 2009. We have everything ready to go. If you have not bought your ticket yet, you stop procrastinating and
buy it today! The price goes up this Friday.
And now we'd like to thank our sponsors one more time for helping us bring this conference to you.
Beacon Law Advisors, PLLC
http://www.beaconlaw.com
Beacon Law Advisors are lawyers with actual operating experience. BLA is a boutique corporate, securities, and technology firm with a Seattle and Silicon Valley-based practice. All BLA lawyers are seasoned corporate, transactional, and technology attorneys who also have significant operating, in-house and entrepreneurial experience. Founded in 2003 on the premise that operating experience and having a business operator’s perspective makes a qualitative difference in counseling growing businesses, we have assembled a team of highly proficient business lawyers, who combine the legal skill set of experienced “big firms” with the grounding that comes from actually having run a business. We have served as chief operating officers, chief financial officers, general and senior counsels in both private and public companies, have founded and held operating roles within start-ups, and have also gained valuable practice experience within large national firms. We have raised VC and angel money for our own companies. We have sold our own companies. We get it. We understand you because we have been – and still are – you.
Microsoft BizSpark
http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark
Microsoft BizSpark is a program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage tech startups by providing key resources when they need it the most: software, support and visibility. In addition to development tools and software, you’ll get access to a nationwide network of organizations that are focused on helping startups succeed, and finally, gain crucial visibility when you need it most. Click to learn more.
Washington Technology Industry Association
http://www.washingtontechnology.org
Founded in 1984, the WTIA is the largest statewide association of technology professionals, companies and IT departments in North America. We have over 1,000 member companies representing more than 100,000 technology sector employees in Washington state. The WTIA exists to support businesses across all technology sectors and company sizes. Our members include established industry leaders, technology startups, IT departments, and companies who help the industry grow and thrive in Washington state. By providing connections, discounts and advocacy, we help emerging companies build key relationships, lower the cost of doing business, and make sure critical technology industry issues are addressed in government. Join us. Grow with us.
Denali Financial Consulting - Denali Financial Consulting provides financial and operating leadership for growing companies on a part-time, as-needed basis. Our services include financial modeling, fundraising coordination, investor relations, Board support and coordination, metrics and dashboard design, accounting and financial reporting, audit preparation, M&A due diligence, revenue recognition analysis, and HR coordination. As a member of your entrepreneurial team, we expertly manage your financial operations so you can focus on building an amazing company.
Fenwick West LLP - Emerging technology companies partner with Fenwick & West for a broad range of services, through all stages of growth. We represent venture-backed private companies from formation and initial funding through IPOs and mergers. Through 30 years of partnering with leading technology start-up companies, we have obtained a deep understanding of how companies are formed, financed, grown and taken public or merged and earned the role of key trusted advisor. Fenwick is ranked by Dow Jones as the fourth most active U.S. law firm in helping IT clients raise venture capital and by MergerMarket and as one of the top five technology M&A practices in the U.S.
Foster Pepper PLLC - Foster Pepper attorneys have extensive experience representing emerging companies as well as venture capital and other investment funds. Our emerging company representation is not limited to corporate finance and intellectual property, but also includes counseling on all aspects of business formation and growth, including real estate, employment, litigation, distribution, tax, trade regulation and other issues that must be addressed. We also represent those investing in emerging companies. Our private equity clients value our understanding of trends and customs in the venture capital markets coupled with an experience in the legal environment governing such investments.
Garvey Schubert Barer - Garvey Schubert Barer represents emerging companies at every stage of development and across industry sectors, including software, hardware and peripherals, computer gaming, medical devices and clean technology. Our emerging company clients find that Garvey Schubert Barer differentiates itself from larger competitors by providing a steadfast, accountable and experienced corporate counsel to serve as a single point of contact for virtually all their legal needs. We offer a unique value proposition while maintaining a full-service platform which provides access to lawyers practicing in specialized legal areas such as labor and employment, executive compensation, real estate, intellectual property, technology licensing, and tax.
McNaul Ebel Nawrot & Helgren PLLC - The TechLaw practice at the McNaul Ebel law firm focuses on entrepreneurs and startups. Our company clients range from social media and 2.0 businesses to video game and software developers to information analytics companies and a nanotechnology laboratory. We regularly assist pre-entrepreneurs with noncompetes (current or prior employer), founders' relationships, new entity organization, IP licensing, financing, and trademark and branding matters. We are a boutique, which means that all of our attorneys have significant legal experience and you do not pay to train new lawyers. As a McNaul Ebel client, you will have direct relationships with passionate, personable and technologically savvy attorneys who are accessible whenever you are curious, challenged or amazed.
NWEN - NWEN is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to helping entrepreneurs succeed through inspiration, education, and connections. From our long-running regional flagship annual event, Entrepreneur University, to newly-launched, 2-hour, hands-on workshops (eIQ’s), we deliver “news you can use” to entrepreneurs who are starting or scaling their business. Add monthly breakfasts and “Think Tanks,” half-day workshops, bi-monthly pub nights and bi-annual “First Look Forums,” and you’ve got over 50 opportunities a year to get engaged, get relevant, actionable information, and have fun.
Washington Partners - Washington Partners is the leading corporate real estate advisor to startups and technology-based companies in the Puget Sound area. Having specialized in understanding the unique needs of emerging companies since the mid 1990’s, Washington Partners has developed successful real estate strategies that emphasize flexibility for inevitably changing space needs. We have deployed these strategies from early stage through maturity for many of the region’s most successful companies, including Amazon.com, aQuantive, RealNetworks and F5 Networks.
Washington State Dept. of Commerce - Washington State Department of Commerce strives to be the widely recognized business champion in state government and a respected leader and partner with the private sector in growing our state’s economy for the benefit of all of our citizens. Our mission is to grow and improve jobs in Washington today. Of particular importance to the health of the state economy are the high-paid jobs in the technology sector. Meanwhile, innovation is the single most important concept in keeping our state competitive. For these reasons, Commerce is proud to support the Seattle startup community and will strive to create a business environment in which startups succeed and grow into healthy operating companies that create jobs in the state. For more information, visit www.choosewashington.com or contact Karl da Gama Campos.
GigaOm/Mobilize 09 - The iPhone and a billion downloaded apps is just the start of a boom. Will Netbooks be next? Mobilize 09 is a one-day conference that brings together the thought leaders and practitioners of the mobile web and telecom ecosystems for demonstrations and debate. We’ll examine what it means to have wireless broadband speeds at the Gigabit scale and how the explosion of platforms beyond traditional handsets creates new opportunities for entrepreneurs, investors and consumers. Hot Topics to be Covered Include: The Netbooks, MIDs and the Ultraportable Boom; Ultraband: A Fast Platform For Innovation; Monetizing your Apps; Monetizing Context and Location; Innovating New Products And Service Ideas; "Appstore" Models; Mobile Analytics Panel; VC Outlook on Investments.
Mashable - Founded in July 2005, Mashable is the world's largest blog focused exclusively on Web 2.0 and Social Media news. With more than 7 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific blog reviewing new Web sites and services, publishing breaking news on what's new on the web and offering social media resources and guides. Mashable's audience includes early adopters, social media enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, influencers, brands and corporations, marketing, PR and advertising agencies, Web 2.0 aficionados and technology journalists. Mashable is also popular with bloggers, Twitter and Facebook users — an increasingly influential demographic.
nPost - nPost.com is a site devoted to entrepreneurship and startups. The nPost.com Tech Startup Job Board features opportunities with Internet and Software startups. By focusing on the tech startup space, nPost brings together startups with people that are specifically interested in and familiar with the dynamic and high growth nature of startups.
Silicon Florist - Oregon Startup News