Day 2 Candid Interviews!

Posted by Marc Nager


“Choose a product. Set your price. Get an alert. Buy”

SetPriceAlert.com

@setpricealert

“What’s good right now. Even in your own home.”

MenuPop.com

@MenuPop


“Harnessing the world’s unused processing power”

CPUsage.com

@cpupdx


“Event planning simplified. Conferences as communities.”

VerdentEvent.com

@verdentevent


“Where we publish all the great stories”

Readerschoicepublishing.com

@readers_choice


“The only source you need for information on local beer, wine, and spirits events. Cheers!”

LocalLibations.com

@locallibations.com


“Power Ownership = Freedom. It’s a new opportunity to go off the grid even while you’re on it.”

HabitatPower.com

@HabitatPower


“It’s who you’re playing”

EyeClash.com

@eyeclash

24 ideas and 9 teams running!

Posted by Marc Nager

Off to an amazing start here at PDXSW. We had 24 ideas pitched last night, and we now have 9 teams off and running with the ideas. Here are the ideas that are being built and the person who pitched them as of now:

#3. Murat – “Timeshare” green energy

#4. Donald – Mobile/web grocery list maker

#7. Stephen – Green Social Networking for conference planners

#8. Deborah – Reader’s choice publishing

#10. Ed – Local Libations – Social network for wineries and distillers

#11. Jeff – Grid/distributed computing

#13. Scott – Internet radio on embedded devices

#14. Tony – Amazon price notification service

#15. Garrett – Online multiplayer games with webcam interaction

Portland Ten Sponsoring

Posted by Startup Weekend Crew

Thank you Portland Ten for supporting Startup Weekend  attendees can receive

a. two free passes to the next 6 weeks of Skill Development workshops (12 workshops in legal, finance, accounting, VC, PR, product management, etc.)

b. Free Startup Checkups offered to any attendees of Startup Weekend– a 1-hour venture-capital style evaluation meeting to assess the startup’s current status.

More info about Skill Development workshops here, more about Checkups here.

Two more announcements: Portland Ten’s next Six Week Sprint will begin Friday, March 12th, we’ll offer 10% off for any Startup Weekend attendee.

Second, they are starting to evaluate companies for the May-July round of Portland Ten, as an FYI for anyone interested, and the best way to catch their attention is to a) attend Founders’ Coffee Tuesdays 9 am at Daily Cafe, 13th & Kearney NW, b) schedule a Startup Checkup, or c) attend any Skill Development workshop.

Special Offer from Mavenn

Posted by Startup Weekend Crew

Mavenn

A huge thank you to Mavenn for sponsoring Startup Weekend and putting together a special offer as well just for Startup Weekend attendees that is sure to help get startups up and going!

“Mavenn helps app developers make money through tasteful product referrals by automatically generating and custom placing relevant product links. Mavenn enables fully transparent tracking of your earnings with access to detailed analytics to help you grow your revenue.

For one best qualified and live consumer web app developed through the Portland Startup weekend, Mavenn will provide six months of better-than-free special service, complete with all the features, with no subscription fees or transaction fees.

For all other live web apps, Mavenn will provide three months on the same terms.”

NedSpace with an amazing offer!

Posted by Marc Nager

A big thanks to NedSpace for hosting the event, and in addition, they are putting together a nice offer for a few teams coming out of the weekend who want to continue!

The offer:

For one top qualifying Portland Startup Weekend team that is going to take their business model and work full time Monday thru Friday and grow it into an ongoing and financially sustainable entity, NedSpace is offering free open desk space for three months. For any other teams that meet the same criteria (fulltime effort, Monday thru Friday) will receive one month free open desk space.

The offer will be extended to the teams based on ambitions coming out of the weekend. This is an amazing way to help a startup get up-and running with the right kind of support. Thank you NedSpace!

Be sure to catch Ignite Portland!

Posted by Startup Weekend Crew

ignite portland

It starts at 5:30pm March 3rd – Get all the info here: http://www.igniteportland.com/

T-Minus 3 days!

Posted by Startup Weekend Crew

Hey everyone, things are shaping up quite nicely with a few days left to still register. For those of you who might be pitching an idea on Friday night, be sure to check out this handy tutorial on how to create the most effective pitch.

Join the Community & Check out the amazing lineup!

Posted by Marc Nager

It’s not final yet, but please hop into the Startup Weekend Community and join the Portland group to get in on some of the ongoing discussions where you can ask any questions, give your feedback, network with others before the event, and post ideas you might have for Startup Weekend!

Click on the badge in the left column or go here.

Check out the amazing lineup of speakers/mentors we have that will be around during the weekend to help out teams and provide their feedback. Since we got so much good support, we are going to do a panel with everyone. I’m going to work on panel questions now, if you have any ideas for questions to ask these guys post your ideas in the community discussion forum.

Portland Startup Weekend Register March 5-7

Posted by Startup Weekend Crew

The Portland event is really coming together and is shaping up to be a great one.  Don’t forget to REGISTER for it.  Read the post below on Mugasha, a company that came out of the last event.  We have some great speakers that will be there, possibly the mayor of Portland as well.

We’re really looking forward to March, for anyone that is not so familiar with Startup Weekend check out more details here FAQ

Join Our New Community

Posted by Startup Weekend Crew

We’ve needed to provide a social community for people to talk about pitches and projects before, during and after events for a long time now.  For everyone in Portland this is the first opportunity to do so.  It still needs a little bit of work but it would be great to start some chatter in there.  Thank you Garrett Gillas for being the first guinea pig!  Here is a link to JOIN THE COMMUNITY.

What can you do:

1.) Build your profile

2.) Pitch ideas for the upcoming event

3.) Start talking to eachother

This event is going to be great, thank again to NED Space for hosting us and to everyone at Portland Innovation Experiment (PIE) for being willing to host and for supporting the event.  Read a little about Mugasha below, they began as a Startup Weekend idea and now have five people working full time moving it forward.  To register click the top left register button, if you have any questions dig into our website or drop us an email or give us a call 206-659-4484.  Looking forward to seeing what comes out of this event, Mugasha set the bar pretty high!