LaunchUp #9 – Thursday July 1, 6:30 p.m. – @ Thanksgiving Point w O-CODES, RawData, Pixelture

Here are all the details about LaunchUp #9, our community “barn raising” and energizing event for entrepreneurs.

Come and have your mind blown by the entrepreneurial energy!

We have another smokin’ event planned with 3 spectacular companies.

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Specifics:

Promotion/RSVP: If attending in person, PLEASE tweet:

I’m going to #LaunchUp July 1 to see O-CODES, RawData, Pixelture, are you? http://bit.ly/launchup9

If not on Twitter, email jeremy . hanks @ gmail . com and let me know you’re coming. It helps us plan for food.

Date: Thursday July 1st

Time: 6:30 p.m.

Location: Amber Room in the Museum of Ancient Life (a.k.a. the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point

Thanksgiving Point – 3003 Thanksgiving Way, Lehi, UT 84043

Located just SE of exit 284 in Lehi in the Amber Room in the Museum of Ancient Life (a.k.a. the Dinosaur Museum) at Thanksgiving Point
View Thanksgiving Point Directions and Map

Event URL: You can watch our live stream online at http://www.launchup.org/live/ if you can’t make it out.

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Agenda:

Welcome and LaunchUp Report: 5 minutes: Jeremy Hanks

Amp Session:10 minutes Steve Spencer, SVP, Strategic Technologies. Director, OTO West at One to One Interactive. Steve Spencer has seen several companies from inception through successful exits. His last several company involvements being: CTO of dotOne which sold in 1999 for $52.5M, CTO of Mediaport which was the 2002 UEC and received further funding; President and CTO of Twelve Horses which sold in 2009. Steve’s companies have been named as “Top 30 Innovative companies”, “Technology Company of the Year”, and “Small Business of the Year.” Steve also serves on several advisory boards, such as: Westminster College Institute for New Enterprise, the Art Institute, and the Board of Directors for the Sandy City Chamber of Commerce.

In The Weeds: 10 Minutes Top Legal issues Startups Face Jared Richards, Attorney at Law – Bennett Tueller Johnson & Deere, P.C., Cofounder – Bluehouse Skis. Jared works in the business transactions group of the law firm of Bennett Tueller Johnson Deere (BTJD) advising clients on a wide variety of business law matters including business formations; structures; franchises and trademarks; angel, seed, and vc financing, bank financing, and other business transactions. Much of Jared’s passion for working with startups stems from his own entrepreneurial efforts as a co-founder of Bluehouse Skis. Jared received his JD from the University of Utah and an IS degree from BYU

Company Presentations: 45 Minutes

O-CODES
O-CODES lets people interact with content in the physical world, using simple text messages.

You can save magazine articles, movie trailers, TV commercials, catalog items, event information, contact information, even coupons and ads that you see in print or offline mediums, by texting the simple alphanumeric O-CODE that is associated with that content, to 62626.

Information is sent to your phone (which can include links to video, audio, pictures, or web pages) and simultaneously saved for you online in your free account at ocodes.com. You can connect your account to Facebook, Twitter, and Evernote, and can simultaneously share the content you save with O-CODES to those social networks, from the same text message. No special apps or special type of phone required.

RawData
RawData is hard at work developing the best Marketing Mousetrap. A ‘Mousetrap’ that determines consumer consumption of media regardless of location and broadcast medium.

Benefiting all who make decisions related to marketing from Chief Executive Officers to ad agencies, Marketing Officers to Broadcasters, or Consumers to Media Buyers.

RawData’s solution will create marketing accountability at all levels, reporting what markets and demographics were touched by specific media/campaigns.

Pixelture
“Pixelture(TM) develops software that allows multiple people to wirelessly and simultaneously share content from their laptop to one or more common displays in real time. Using our Wireless Pixels(TM) solution, users can join moderators in sharing content-on-the-fly with push-button ease, control multiple screens, and turn lectures into engaging discussions. ”

Corner Dives around 8:00 p.m., get food, and then each company heads to a corner, and anyone interesting in learning more or helping dives right in with them. General networking in highly energized setting.

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Please help spread the word. Bring your friends!! (If you’re using Twitter, use hashtag #LaunchUp)

http://bit.ly/launchup9 Is the URL for all the event details.

Remember, we stream the event live at http://www.launchup.org/live and make it as inclusive as possible to anyone, even if you cannot attend in person.

We are also building a list of those that want to support first-time technology entrepreneurs in Utah. You can join our community. It will help us track those that want to help, and your name/link will be published real time on the community page.

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A special thanks to LaunchUp #9 supporters:

Thanksgiving Point for providing the location, and to

Launch Sales and Marketing for providing the food!!

Finally, LaunchUp #10 will be in July on Thursday August 5, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. at SEO.com.

Watch the site for more info. If your company, or one you know, would like to present, please fill out our application:

If you’d like to help out, email jeremy . hanks @ gmail . com

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