• Speakers


    • James Mackie James Mackie

      Speaking: Saturday afternoon

      Topic: How Cloud Computing can Help Startups

      Bio: J

      ames Mackie, 29 years old. Left Forest public school at 16 and became a full time ColdFusion web Developer, then upgraded to ASP and then .NET so had been a full-time employed web developer for 10 years. Single handedly built a website called fivepounds.com in my spare time, within 1 year after launch we had 5,000 members all paying £10 per month. I then setup Appiam an IT support company 4 years ago, next years projected TO is £1m. Setup VESK earlier this year with £250K investment, live desktops now in the hundreds so are already self funding, if growth is consistent we should hit 1,000 desktops in the next 12 months.


    • Marc Ortmans Marc Ortmans

      Speaking: Friday evening

      Topic: Startups & Brand Communications

      Bio: Marc is the man behind the creation of the Global Entrepreneurship Logo! An independent consultancy advising and assisting businesses with the creation and management of their brand communications.

      Services include naming, brand strategy, sourcing, creation and management of identity, communications, products and launches. We create brands from a blank sheet of paper and re-energise existing ones. From SMEs to global brands, we provide the strategy, guidance and support to enable you to establish a successful brand quickly and cost effectively. We aim to maximize ROI and provide the tools to manage your brand day to day. Our expertise, ideas and management skills have enabled enterprises, products, services and events to achieve their potential

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  • Organizers


    • Jeremy Tanner Jeremy Tanner

      Bio: I’m @Penguin on Twitter, but Jeremy to my mother and the law. A geek, startup junkie and party crasher from Detroit, now based out of Boulder.

      Likes: Motorcycles, mountains and suede shoes; Hates: Artificial grape flavor, smog and motorists who cross the double yellow in the canyons. What I’m up to… Consulting / speaking on social tools and strategy. Drawing attention, teaching folks to listen, helping marketing and PR folks figure out what time it is. The internet didn’t make you awesome, it just exposed your awesomeness to the world. I help expose your awesome. Catch me at a meetup, at 248.990.3862 or at jeremy at jeremytanner.com Head Facilitator for Startup Weekend Running Startup Weekends from the ground. Averting disaster. Securing last minute locations. Sponsor relations. Mediator. Ringmaster. Team Member. Food Getter. Project Manager. Promoter. Blogger. Videographer. Doorman. Community Builder. In short, the startup Scottie Pippen, dishing out the assists that make the attendees awesome. Boulder Ambassador Reppin’ Boulder when I’m out of town, welcoming visitors when I’m around. Organizing community events, luring talented tech folks to the Front Range. Attender of meetups, shaker of hands. One part tour guide, two parts party host. Your man on the ground, your guy with a guest room. Let me know if you’re headed out this way. Producer and Host of Where the Fun’s At Where the Fun’s at (WTF@) is a webshow hosted by myself and Andrew Hyde on happenings in Boulder and around the US. Speaking at: Ignite Boulder – Practical Party Crashing – 10/29/08 Thin Air Summit – New Media Landmines – 11/8/08 Ignite #3 – What Biz Dev Can Learn from the Seduction Community – 2/18/09 SXSW ‘09 – How Social Networks are Killing the Revolution – 3/15/09 Module Midwest Digital 09 – Learning to Listen – 4/10/09 BoCo – 10/2/09 BlogWorld – The Blog as a Community Springboard – 10/17/09


    • Lukas Burger Lukas Burger

      Bio: My name is Lukas Bürger I was born in the south of Austria and my hometown is Feldkirchen. After the grammar school my education was only about art and design.

      With 16 I had my first experiences with local and international companies and I have made some design concepts and small production products for them. I graduated 2009 with my design education at the higher technical school Ferlach. Now I am studying MA for Product + Space at the Kingston University London and I will graduate in October 2010. I am very interested in technical design concepts and in my free time I am working on concepts for different design awards.


    • Siegfried Strauss Siegfried Strauss

      Bio: Siegfried Strauss, 24, made and born in Austria! I started my design career with 16 when i first got photoshop 7! I learned it next to some technical school! My interrests in design became stronger and stronger so i decided to study it, first in College in Ferlach and now MA for Product + Space in Kingston England.

      In my freetime I worked with and for the local ski & snowboard industrie, did diffent type of graphics for diffrent purpose and a big car manufactorer in Austria! My hobbies are mountainbiking, swimming, skiing and snowboarding, art & graphics, drumming and a bit party…

TechCrunchEU coverage!

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Great job everyone! Check out the TechCrunchEU Coverage!

http://eu.techcrunch.com/2009/11/25/a-sleepless-58-hours-later-startup-weekend-london-produces-six-potential-companies/

Free Subversion Hosting from XP-Dev!

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What is XP-Dev?

XP-Dev.com is an online service that provides Enterprise grade project tracking along with Subversion & Trac hosting.

What do you get?

London startup weekend participants get 1GB of space along with all paid account features for FREE! That’s a value of $60 a year for life!

DEMO partnership!

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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” registrations 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!

Already a Startup?

Get the Demo Facts, and Attend DEMOspring 2010 in California March 21st-23rd.

Twilio grand prize increased!

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There has been some great interest in the Twilio contest, so the folks at Twilio have upped the prize!

“We have sweetened the pot to motivate the local organizers as well. The winning city will receive a sponsorship from Twilio that includes a meal of pizza, 2 FlipCam Minos, Twilio shirts and stickers AND I’ll fly to that city to hang out at the next event and build something.”

http://startupweekend.twilio.com/

HOW ABOUT THAT!??!

Keep building!

Win a netbook from Twilio!

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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.

How It Works

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.

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Get Motivated

Brainstorm Ideas for Your Project Pitch

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.

Read About Past Twilio Projects at Startup Weekend

What’s new with Startup Weekend?

Posted by Startup Weekend Crew

Were you at the first Startup Weekend in London? Some great changes have taken place since that event in the way we run.

So what has changed?

  • Startup Weekend is now a Non-Profit based out of Seattle, WA
  • As many projects as supported by the audience are created out of the weekend
  • All IP created during the weekend stays with the teams
  • More mentor/advisor help from local experts and the Startup Weekend team
  • Global visibility and promotion for successful startups from the weekend

We look forward to helping put on great community events for local entrepreneurs! Feel free to shoot us any questions!

The Startup Weekend Team

Media Temple providing Free hosting to teams!

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A big thank you to Media Temple who will be providing FREE hosting to teams at the event in conjunction with Sun Startup Essentials!

Sun Startup Essentials Hosting SWLondon!

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A big thanks to the team at Sun Startup Essentials for helping us host the next Startup Weekend London event in downtown. The location is going to be perfect!

Stewart Townsend and his team seem to know know everyone out there in the London startup space! Let them know if you need anything Sun/Startup related!

Are you in a Startup? Are you a member of SSE? If not, you are missing out on some amazing support, heavily discounted hardware, huge marketing exposure, and inside access to networks around the world! It’s 5 minutes, it’s FREE, and it’s amazingly valuable for ANY startup.

They have a great startup blog as well. Here is their latest post: “Why Every Startup Should Have a Blog”

The Flag and Bell Tech Pub Crawl

Posted by Startup Weekend Crew

Hey Everyone! Check out the Flag and Bell Tech Pub Crawl happing Tue 3rd of November! It is FREE and a great way to network! http://flag-and-bell.com/

GEW Early Registrtion Discount!

Posted by Startup Weekend Crew

This is a special offer for the GEW events for early registrants! Register before 10/30 at 6pm and get 20% off using the code “swearlybird” Register now!

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