• Speakers


    • David Kidder David Kidder

      Speaking: Friday evening

      Topic: Something Amazing!

      Bio: David S. Kidder is co-founder and CEO of Clickable, a Web service that brings simplicity to online advertising. Prior to Clickable, Kidder co-founded SmartRay Network, a mobile advertising delivery pioneer acquired by LifeMinders.

      Previously, David helped lead corporate development at THINK New Ideas, a publicly traded e-business and interactive advertising firm. Prior to THINK, Kidder founded Net-X, a Web authoring and Internet advertising services company, acquired by Target Vision. Kidder is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, and received ID Magazine's International Design Award and Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2008. Kidder is founder of GoodAdds.org, a nonprofit cause-marketing platform created in partnership with GE and Millennium Promise. He also is the creator and co-author of the two-time New York Times bestselling book series, The Intellectual Devotional, published by Rodale. He lives in Westchester County, New York, with his wife and two sons.


    • Jeff Gilkerson Jeff Gilkerson

      Speaking: Sunday afternoon

      Topic: Mentor / Advisor

      Bio: Jeff, who grew up in Illinois, Kentucky and Pennsylvania, did not attend "traditional" summer camps, but rather, spent the wondrous summers of his youth attending and working as a counselor at several elite basketball camps.

      It was during these summers that Jeff both honed his game and learned to appreciate the benefits and beauty of the camp experience. Jeff graduated from the NYU Stern School of Business with a degree in finance and marketing while also playing 4 years of college basketball. For 2 summers at NYU, Jeff interned at Bunk1, where he was a stand-out, proving he could excel off-the-court, not just on it. After graduating, Jeff worked at a small management consulting company working with Fortune 500 companies on their supply chain and operations. Life sometimes comes full circle, and Jeff has returned to Bunk1, this time as our Chief Operating Officer. As such, Jeff has been charged with the demanding task of managing all aspects of Bunk1's operations. Standing at 6'8, Jeff is an imposing figure(incidentally, he's a 3-time NYU Basketball team MVP). We're not sure how his tall, lanky frame will hold up on the baseball field; if nothing else, we're sure his presence will intimidate a fare share of pitchers and batters alike. Stay tuned for an update after his first full season on the diamond.


    • Josh Keay Josh Keay

      Speaking: Saturday afternoon

      Topic: Mentor / Advisor

      Bio: Joshua Keay lives in New York City, where he's a product designer, though everything he designs winds up looking like a toy. He started Monkey Business Labs with some friends shortly before Tiger came out, and he's been making widgets ever since.

      He's a stickler for beautiful, simple objects, though he's not above using superfluous visual effects in his own work, as long as it makes people smile. You can check out his portfolio at JoshuaKeay.com and at Monkey Business Labs.


    • Peter Chislett Peter Chislett

      Speaking: Sunday afternoon

      Topic: Mentor / Advisor

      Bio: @chislett Co-organizer: ny.laidoffcamp.org / @laidoffcampny barcampnyc.org / @barcampnyc runwayproject.org / @runwayproject


    • Sam Lessin Sam Lessin

      Speaking: Sunday evening

      Topic: Sunday Panelist

      Bio: Goal: To grow great companies.


    • Charlie O\'Donnell Charlie O\'Donnell

      Speaking: Sunday evening

      Topic: Sunday Panelist

      Bio: Charlie is the Co-Founder & CEO of Path 101, a NYC startup that is revolutionizing career guidance though the mining of data from millions of public resumes.

      After funding VCs at the GM pension fund, and funding startups at Union Square Ventures, Charlie spent a year as Director of Consumer Products at Oddcast before starting Path 101 with Alex Lines. The founder of nextNY , he also teaches entrepreneurship at Fordham University and is the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at ITAC


    • Nate Westheimer Nate Westheimer

      Speaking: Sunday evening

      Topic: Sunday Panelist

      Bio: Nate Westheimer is the Co-Founder and VP of Product at AnyClip.com, a company indexing every moment from every film. Formerly, Nate was the Entrepreneur at Rose Tech Ventures, Founder of BricaBox.com, and the Technology Strategist for National Public Media.

      Nate blogs at innonate.com and guest writes for Silicon Alley Insider, among other outlets. Currently, Nate also Organizes the NY Tech Meetup, a 10,000 member organization of technologists in the New York City area.


    • Michael Galpert Michael Galpert

      Speaking: Sunday evening

      Topic: Sunday Panelist

      Bio: Michael is one of the founders of Aviary, a suite of collaborative web based creative apps . In his day to day he works on strategic business development, expanding Aviary's footprint and product offerings. He is driven by a passion to help others do what they love and currently sits on the advisory board for Web 2.0 Expo New York, is a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.

      Helps organize Barcamp New York and is actively involved with the NYC-based tech community group NextNY. When he is not traveling on the information super highways or actual highways he enjoys taking pictures and wearing many hats. Everything written here is his personal opinion and is not read or approved before it is posted. No warranties or other guarantees will be offered as to the quality of the opinions or anything else offered here including the poor grammar.

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    • RT @thubten: @StartupWeekend, starting on Friday in Seattle, will be amazing! http://Seattle.StartupWeekend.org 59 mins ago
    • Free pre-SW AppEngine and Ruby bootcamps this weekend went extremely well in Seattle. Expect them to be replicated elsewhere! 5 hrs ago
    • RT @jameyice: Great night inAustin! w/ @natenavarro, then hangin downtown w/ @Chicotsky, @tomserres, & @clintnelsen... rad convos! @gro 2 days ago
    • RT @bizspark: Startup Weekend in Haiti - mobilizing Haitian innovation with Piryxtopia Charity Bash at SXSW http://bit.ly/d4LRpU 2 days ago
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  • Organizers


    • Elizabeth Fuller Elizabeth Fuller

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      lizabeth is interested in web and wearable technology user interface design. Skills include web design and developement, rapid prototyping, and creative proposal writing.


    • Jonathan Berger Jonathan Berger

      Bio: I grew up in Brooklyn, moved upstate, got a B.A. in Philosophy a little farther upstate, came back to Brooklyn, and have been here ever since.

      I recently completed a Masters Degree in Media studies, and am getting got married in August and then again in December. (Yes, to the same person. She’s from overseas). Design, development, video, animation, programming, politics, and social media all inform my view of the big picture. A nut-and-bolts intimacy with the tools at hand inform my view of the immediate here-and-now.


    • Stephen Douglass Stephen Douglass

      Bio: Stephen Douglass is the President of Young Impact LLC, an entrepreneurship education company. Stephen has focused his efforts on helping communities tap into the entrepreneurial energy and innovations of young people for the past 10 years.

      Prior to Young Impact, he worked with leading telecommunication and technology executives, advising on merger, acquisition, divestiture, and capital raising strategies at BB&T Capital Markets. He also gained valuable experience helping to turn around distressed businesses and structure debt and equity financing for start-up companies in emerging markets. In his spare time, he enjoys break-dancing--and that's it.


    • Shane Reiser Shane Reiser

      Bio: I live in Des Moines, work for Aviva Investors, organize #swdsm, host Startup Weekends around the world, and take MBA classes at Iowa State.


    • Danielle Lanyard Danielle Lanyard

      Bio: Danielle is the co-founder and CEO of Open Venture Society. Her background of life and work experience combines environmental study, community action, and business development from an early age.

      With a B.A. in Community Psychology and a minor in Environmental Studies, Danielle traveled the world doing development work and returned to the U.S to work extensively in social enterprise, green companies and startups to build the foundation in business development necessary to launch any venture.

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Cocktail Reception at Microsoft Jan 29th

Posted by Startup Weekend Crew

Please join us for cocktails at Microsoft at their Manhattan office, this event is open to anyone.  Beginning at 1pm on Friday January 29th startups will demo new features they developed on Azure and will be competing for a $5,000 prize.

From 5:30pm -8:00pm there will be cocktails and a reception open to the startup community.  Marc and I will be in attendance and we’re hoping we to have a chance to meet many of you.  The event is free to attend, please click “Register” to sign up.

Startup Weekend is coming out for a $5k giveaway from Microsoft

Posted by Startup Weekend Crew

We like to get involved in various startup activities from time to time, and we like to invite the Startup Weekend community to take advantage of them too.

Marc and Clint from Startup Weekend will be flying out the end of Jan. for the Azure BizSpark Camp in NYC at the MS office in Manhattan. This is a FREE event with a chance to win $5k. If you are familiar with Azure or any other MS platforms or want to learn, this is a great opportunity.

Not a member of BizSpark? Apply through Startup Weekend here.

We will be putting on a happy hour with the help of the BizSpark team one of the evenings which the entire Startup Weekend community is invited to come out and partake in. Stay tuned for details. In the meantime, check out the details of the event:

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“With several successful Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Weeks under our belt (Azure Atlanta, Win7 Boston, Win7 Reston, CRM Reston, CRM Boston, Win 7 Irvine, Mobility Mountain View,), we are pleased to announce Microsoft BizSpark Camp for Windows Azure in New York, NY during January 28–29, 2010. Based upon your feedback we have made several changes including offering cash prize, compressed time commitment and much more. We hope you’re tapping into the growing BizSpark community.

  • Chance to win cash prize of $5000
  • Nomination for BizSpark One (an invitation only program) for high potential startups
  • Learn and build new applications in the cloud or use interoperable services that run on Microsoft infrastructure to extend and enhance your existing applications with help of on-site advisors
  • Get entrepreneurs coaching from a panel of industry experts
  • Generate marketing buzz for your brand
  • Create opportunity to be highlighted at upcoming launch

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We are inviting nominations from BizSpark Startupsinterested in Windows Azure Platform that target one or more of the following:

The Microsoft BizSparkCamp for Windows Azure will be held at Microsoft Technology Center, New York, NYfrom Thursday 1/28/2010 to Friday 1/29/2010. This event consists of ½ day of training, 1 day of active prototype/development time, and ½ day for packaging/finishing and reporting out to a panel of judges for various prizes.

This event is a no-fee event (plan your own travel expenses) and each team can bring 3 participants (1 business and 1 – 2 developer). It is required to have at least 1 developer as part of your team. To nominate your team, please submit the following details to Sanjay Jain (preferably via your BizSaprk Sponsor) no later than Monday January 18, 2010. Nominations will be judged according to the strength of the founding team, originality and creativity of the idea, and ability to leverage Windows Azure Scenarios.

  • BizSpark Startup Organization Details: Name, Web Site URL, Mailing Address, Solution Overview, Key Windows Azure Scenarios, Target Industry, Company Size and Year Founded, How did you hear about this event?
  • BizSpark Sponsor Details: BizSpark Network Partner or Microsoft Champion Name, Web Site URL
  • Team Details: For each participant, Name, Brief BIO, Email, Phone, Twitter, Blog

All info here: http://www.microsoftstartupzone.com/Blogs/sanjay_jain/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=77465549-f53f-497c-a9e1-5b32eac479bc&ID=8

Posted by Startup Weekend Crew

WOW! AMAZING LINEUP!

Posted by Startup Weekend Crew

Take a look at the listed speakers, mentors and organizers for this event! AMAZING support!

These are the type of teams that truly make Startup Weekend what it is. This event is sure to be one for the record books!

A sincere thank you to everyone in NYC from the Startup Weekend Team!

Startup Weekend partners with DEMO!

Posted by Startup Weekend Crew

DEMO

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” consideration 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.

Updates & Venue Change!

Posted by Startup Weekend Crew

Hey Everyone!

Quick update – We have changed venues to a couple blocks away. The event will now be held at Sun Microsystem’s office in downtown at 101 Park ave! We needed a venue that was a bit bigger and more suitable for the tech focus (aka. needing a ton of wifi!! :)

Sun will have some reps out there helping with some of their platforms as well as providing FREE hosting for 6 months for all teams!

We will also have David Kidder speaking on Friday night!

Things are shaping up great, and we are going to have an amazing line up of mentors/advisors helping with free legal, strategy, and investment perspective over the weekend. The press should be huge as well. We will have reporters their from local news and Forbes as well!

This will be an event not to miss! Be sure to tell your friends!

Best,

The Startup Weekend Team

Win a netbook from Twilio!

Posted by Startup Weekend Crew

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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

Check out New York Entreprenuer Week!

Posted by Startup Weekend Crew

See what the guys are up to over at NYEW.org. They are a fellow non-profit who is doing some amazing things this year for Global Entrepreneurship Week November 16th-20th. 350 events, 120 speakers from 50 cities! “Stand up and Come Together” http://nyew.org/

See the April 2009 Highlights:

GEW Early Registration Discount!

Posted by Startup Weekend Crew

Special offer for all of the GEW events for early registrants! Register before 10/30 at 6pm and get 20% off using the code “swearlybird” Register now!

NYC Startup Weekend part of Global Entrepreneurship Week!

Posted by Startup Weekend Crew

We are happy to announce that this event is officially supported by Unleashing Idea’s Global Entrepreneurship Week! Last year over 3 million people participated in over 25,000 events around the world. This year, Startup Weekend will be one of 10 Featured Events for GEW! Join us and the other Startup Weekend Events happening around the world to Inspire, Connect, Mentor, and Engage entrepreneurs!

GEW08 Review from UnleashingIdeas on Vimeo.

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