The Advisory Room
One-on-one meetings with experienced entrepreneurs, investors and service providers
How does it work?
During the conference, a room of experienced entrepreneurs, investors and professionals
will be available to have 15-minute-long, one-on-one meetings so you can seek guidance,
advice and to establish business relationships.
On the day of the event you can book up to two meetings (more if availability permits) with any of the Advisors,
on a first-come first-serve basis. Just look for the Advisory Room Registration
table.
Advisors
The Advisors names will be published a couple of weeks before the event.
Table # 1CubeDuel Tony Wright, Founder, Designer, Marketeer Founded RescueTime (Y Combinator 2008, Series A 2009), now profitable. Built Cubeduel (side project, 2011), insanely viral. Now working on mobile stuff. Meeting times: 2:50, 3:10, 3:30
Table # 2MoonTango Bob Crimmins, CEO Serial technology entrepreneur in the areas of health care, social media and ecommerce. Currently founder & CEO of MoonTango, a subscription-based delivery service for women's personal care products. Seattle TechStars mentor. Meeting times: 11:20, 11:40, 12:00, 1:00, 2:50
Table # 3Angel Investor Boedian Lumanau, angel investor, later stage 20 years investment banking and corporate finance in Asia, advised tech b-2-b and p-2-p start ups Meeting times: 12:20, 12:40, 1:30, 1:50, 2:30
Table # 4Puzzazz Roy Leban, Founder & CTO Roy Leban is Founder and CTO of Puzzazz, a puzzle technology company in Redmond. A serial entrepreneur, Roy is a veteran of seven previous startups, including ones sold to Ashton-Tate, AT&T, and the Charter Fund. He created SeattleTechCalendar, SeattleTechWiki, UX Office Hours, has served as a advisor and consultant to numerous local startups, and is a community advisor to StartupWeekend. Meeting times: 1:50, 3:10, 3:30, 3:50
Table # 5Squidoo Megan Casey, Cofounder, Squidoo MEGAN CASEY is cofounder of Squidoo.com, which she started with Seth Godin and a small team in 2005. Together they bootstrapped their way to millions of pages of original content published by hundreds of thousands of creative writers, and earned a spot as one of the top 100 most visited websites in the world (so says Quantcast, for those who follow such things). She spends her free time helping entrepreneurs take their ideas and make them happen. Meeting times: 2:50, 3:30, 3:50
Table # 6Madrona Venture Group David Rosenthal, Associate David joined Madrona Venture Group in 2010, where he assists in identifying and executing new portfolio investments and supports Madrona’s existing portfolio companies and community relationships. He is a board observer for Mixpo, PayScale, AppFog and Cedexis. Meeting times: 12:00, 12:20, 12:40, 1:00
Table # 7Graybeal Jackson LLP Paul F. Rusyn, Partner Mr. Rusyn is a registered patent attorney focusing his practice on the procurement of patent rights in various electronics-related high technology areas. He also provides counseling to start-up companies on intellectual property related matters including trademark, trade secret, and copyright protection and as well as patent infringement, clearance, and invalidity opinions and related due diligence in the potential investment, acquisition or sales context. He has a B.S. EE and J.D. from CWRU. Meeting times: 1:30, 1:50, 2:10, 2:30, 2:50, 3:10, 3:30, 3:50
Table # 8Paladin Partners Janis Machala, Managing Partner Janis has been involved in mentoring and coaching and co-founding start-ups in Seattle for 15 years. Her prior world was in marketing and business development at Wang, Sun, Microsoft and she was CEO of a developer tools company before founding Paladin Partners. Meeting times: 1:00, 1:30, 1:50, 2:10, 2:30, 2:50, 3:10, 3:30, 3:50
Table # 9The Macabe Associates, Inc. Mary Abdian, President & CEO Mary has spent 20 years working with small and startup business in the selection and implementation of business management systems. Mary's breadth of experience with entrepreneurs and venture capital firms is extensive. Mary knows each unique business requires individualized assistance with the selection of a system if it is to meet their needs. Mary assists startups in identifying what data is necessary for reporting on their key performance indicators and contributing to their success. Meeting times: 11:20, 12:00, 1:00, 1:30 Patrick Chen, Director of Engineering Patrick has spent his career helping small business’s make one-size-fits-all software satisfy specific business needs. He’s committed to delivering the ERP functionality that matches the needs of individual businesses. Utilizing Sage MAS 90 MAS 200 or MAS 500 API set and import routines, he’s built everything from barcode scanning Android Apps to track inventory on an entrepreneurs cell phone to internal scripting for the automatic creation of Purchases and Sales to streamline work flows. Meeting times: 11:40, 12:20, 1:30, 1:50
Table # 10Foster Pepper Steve Fisher, Member / Partner Steve has 30 years of legal experience representing Seattle based start-up businesses in a variety of industries, including industrial design, software, online sales and advertising, SmartPhone App development and engineering. Meeting times: 10:40, 11:00, 11:20, 11:40, 12:00, 12:20, 12:40, 1:00 Vin Ricci, Member/Partner Vin’s practice focuses on representing early stage life science and technology companies, venture capital firms and angel investors, and includes financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, public company reporting and disclosure, cross border transactions and general securities law and corporate matters. Vin assists entrepreneurs and startup companies with corporate formation, choice of entity, early stage financing and general corporate issues and questions. Meeting times:
Table # 11WildTangent Matt Shea, EVP Products and Technology Matt runs Product Development and Technology for WildTangent. WildTangent has a cross-platform games service with one of the most unique business models in the space. In addition, WildTangent has one of the most successful premium ad platforms with BrandBoost. Matt is co-founder of the WildCoins business model and BrandBoost and has been in the games space for over 15 years. Meeting times: 2:30, 2:50, 3:50
Table # 12Entrepreneur John Wedgwood, Former CTO and co-founder of 1000 Markets Co-founder and CTO at 1000 Markets, e-commerce company funded by True Ventures and Founders Fund. That business was sold in late 2010. CTO at Onscreen Systems, delivering user generated games based around popular television programs. Employee 13 at Geoworks (IPO) and founder of their Seattle Design Center, a remote office that grew to more than 30 people. (The office was sold to Amazon.com in a talent acquisition.) Meeting times: 10:40, 11:00, 11:20, 11:40, 12:00, 12:20
Table # 13Christensen O'Connor Johnson Kindness David Sheldon, Attorney David Sheldon’s strong background in computer science and technical experience in software engineering helps him assist his emerging technology clients with patent drafting, prosecution, and counseling. David’s technical expertise includes technologies such as encryption, wireless communication, information search and retrieval, digital signal processing, and social networking platforms. Meeting times: 10:40, 11:00, 11:20, 11:40, 12:00, 12:20, 12:40, 1:00
Table # 14Voyager Capital Enrique Godreau III, Managing Director Co-founder of Voyager Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in software, wireless, and digital media start-up's. Meeting times: 11:00, 11:20, 11:40, 12:00, 12:20, 12:40
Table # 15Madrona Venture Group Julie Sandler, Prior to joining Madrona, Julie was a senior product manager at Amazon Kindle. She managed online marketing for Kindle’s ebook business, both in the US and internationally. Earlier in her career, Julie worked at Accenture, where she spent several years in product management at Microsoft. During her MBA, she did a stint at TeachStreet in product and business development. She has an MBA with honors from Harvard Business School, and a Master's degree in Psychology from Stanford. Meeting times: 10:40, 11:00, 11:20, 11:40, 12:00, 12:20
Table # 16Foster Pepper Rick Vershave, Patent Attorney Rick provides general counseling on patent and trade secret protection, such as helping clients identify critical dates or activities and understanding various disclosure and inventorship laws. Meeting times: 10:40, 11:00, 11:20, 11:40, 12:00, 12:20, 12:40, 1:00 Joel Ard, Patent Attorney A registered patent attorney, Joel has over a decade of litigation experience which he brings to bear helping small and start-up businesses navigate their patents, trademarks, and IP licenses without finding themselves in court. He pursues and defends reexaminations, offers clearance opinions, performs IP diligence and provides IP valuations, and offers strategic portfolio management. Meeting times:
Table # 17Stem Irina Menn, Principal Consultant Mrs. Menn founded Stem Product Management Consulting in 2007 with the belief that implementing Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) best practices early in the technology startup formative years will help them build the right products for the right markets and significantly increase their chances of success in the marketplace. Mrs. Menn specializes in implementing scalable Product Management programs that allow technology organizations innovate and grow their businesses quickly. Meeting times: 1:30, 1:50, 2:10, 2:30, 2:50, 3:10, 3:30, 3:50
Table # 18Cheezburger Network Scott Porad, CTO Scott Porad leads Product Development as the CTO at the Cheezburger Network, the company behind I Can Has Cheezburger? Failblog.org, Memebase.com, TheDailyWh.at and KnowYourMeme.com. Since 1995, Scott has been involved with six web-based startups including launching drugstore.com, working on ESPN.com at Paul Allen's Starwave Corporation and for Seth Godin at Yoyodyne Entertainment. Scott lives online at http://scottporad.com and in real life with his family on Seattle. Meeting times: 2:50, 3:10, 3:30
Table # 19Findwell Kevin Lisota, CEO Kevin is CEO and Co-founder of findwell, an online real estate brokerage in Seattle. An 8-year veteran at Microsoft, Kevin’s was investing in real estate on the side and channeled his frustrations with the real estate industry into his own startup in 2008. findwell is focused on reducing commissions and improving service through a very different approach to selling real estate. Meeting times: 11:00, 12:00, 2:10, 2:30, 2:50, 3:10
Table # 20Madrona Venture Group Greg Gottesman, Managing Director I am very passionate about startups at the earliest stage. I joined Madrona in 1997 and currently serve on the boards of AdReady, Bocada, BuddyTV, Cheezburger, Decide, Intrepid Learning Solutions, Nimbic, ThinkFire, and WildTangent. I also am the founder and interim CEO of Rover.com, a company we launched out of a recent Startup Weekend. I look forward to meeting with you! Meeting times: 11:00, 11:20, 11:40
Table # 21Graphicly Micah Baldwin, CEO & Founder Micah is CEO and Chief Community Caretaker of Graphicly. Graphicly helps visual story tellers and brands share and promote their stories digitally. Graphicly is Micah's sixth startup. He has been involved in raising more than $350mm and had his last startup acquired in 2007. Meeting times: 11:40, 12:00, 1:50, 2:10, 2:50, 3:30
Table # 22Kiip Brian Wong, Founder Brian Wong is the founder of kiip (pronounced "keep"), a mobile rewards network, backed by True Ventures. Kiip has raised over $4.4 million in funding to date and is redefining the advertising industry through a "moments"-based value model, versus the traditional attention based screen estate model. Very recently, Kiip was listed by Forbes as one of the "4 Hot Online Ad Companies to Put on Your Watch List". Meeting times:
Table # 23Biz Enrich Berry Zimmerman, CEO & Founder Berry Zimmerman is Founder & CEO of BizEnrich, a collaborative organization of independent business experts. Berry will help you surround your business with expertise and experts to ensure a successful launch and build sustainable business practices. Berry will help you identify expertise gaps in your existing team and discuss risks and benefits of filling those gaps with relevant and outside assistance. Meeting times: 11:00, 11:20, 11:40, 12:00, 12:20, 1:00, 1:30, 1:50, 2:10, 2:30, 2:50, 3:10, 3:30
Table # 24Catchfire Sean Ellis, CEO & Founder Sean Ellis is the founder and CEO of CatchFree, a new startup that makes it easy to discover and share the best free apps and avoid those with hidden catches. Before founding CatchFree, Sean ran marketing at LogMeIn and Uproar from launch to NASDAQ IPO filings & helped bring Dropbox, Lookout, and Xobni to market in interim marketing leadership roles. He also helped accelerate growth at Eventbrite, Socialcast, Webs, World Golf Tour, Wordpress.com and Songkick. Meeting times:
Table # 25Gist T.A. McCann, Founder & CEO T.A. McCann was the founder and CEO of Seattle-based Gist, Inc. and is now a Vice President at Research In Motion, which acquired Gist in February 2011. Previously T.A. was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at both Vulcan Capital and Polaris Venture Partners. Prior to Polaris, he held senior positions at Microsoft, leading product planning for the Exchange Server Group and developing Service Delivery Platforms focused on mobile applications. T.A. currently serves on the board of Zoopa and Wishpot. Meeting times:
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