StartupDay Recap - Slides and more!

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By Jennifer Cabala

StartupDay was this Saturday and a great community success. It had great buzz, turning #startupday into a twitter trending topic and maxing out my row feeder account. We also had coverage from GeekWire and plenty of individual bloggers. I say it was a great community success, because while Startup Weekend and Startup Foundation organized the event we had help from Seattle 2.0’s Marcelo Calbucci, more than a dozen fantastic sponsors, 30 advisors and 15 speakers. We also had a full house with more than 350 people!

Talks and Slides

Speakers included Brian Wong, Glenn Kelman, Micah Baldwin, Marc Nager, Megan Casey, Brian Goffman, Scott Porad, Jenny Lam, Jonathan Sposato, Sean Ellis, Tom Seery, Matt Shea, Rand Fishkin, T.A. McCann and Eric Ries. You can find their slides — except Micah who went without — on SlideShare. We hope to have videos back and uploaded in a few weeks.

StartupDay was a world class experience, one we couldn’t have done without the great companies who support entrepreneurs. Thank you toStartupDay 2011’s incredible sponsors.

The KauffmanFoundation

The Ewing Marion KauffmanFoundation is the world’s largest foundation devoted toentrepreneurship. Established in themid-1960s, the Foundation’s mission is to foster “a society of economicallyindependent individuals who are engaged citizens, contributing to theimprovement of their communities.” Inaddition to entrepreneurship, other areas of focus are advancing innovation,education, and research and policy.

Foster Pepper

For over 100 years, FosterPepper has represented diverse groups of people—from publically tradedcorporations to individuals—and helped them navigate complex and politicallysensitive projects. With teams inSpokane and Seattle, Foster Pepper is proud of their community involvement inWashington as well as their broad range of legal expertise and global reach.

Microsoft BizSpark

A global program, Microsoft BizSpark provides helpto young startups by “giving them access to Microsoft software developmenttools, connecting them with key industry players” and providing marketingvisibility to entrepreneurs getting their startups off the ground. In addition to software, startups alsoreceive lots of support and visibility from the Microsoft global network.

WTIA

The WashingtonTechnology Industry Association seeks to build a community of technologyprofessionals and companies in order to develop Seattle as a “StartupGround.” With focuses on gaming, mobile,the next generation of e-commerce and beyond the WTIA is committed to sharingexpertise and delivering discount business services.

Cooley LLP

Cooley LLPhas a long tradition of providing legal advice and representation to innovativeand disruptive companies bringing breakthrough products and technologies tomarket. Cooley offers counsel to youngstartups and works with them through all stages of business growth: from seedand mezzanine financing all the way to IPO and M&A.

Thanks also to ourSupporting Sponsors:

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