School is starting again, and we’re going to just keep on raising those entrepreneurial barns! It’s time for campus stop #4, this time we’ll be at Utah Valley University. LaunchUp Mentoring (formerly we called them “clinics”) is back from 5:30, and after that we have an all-star lineup of presentations, free food and plenty of time to talk to company founders and network.

As if you needed another reason to come, we’re going to be giving away an Apple TV again!

This will be an awesome event! Come out and support entrepreneurship in Utah!

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Specifics:

Promotion/RSVP: Please use our FaceBook event page for LaunchUp Las Vegas to RSVP and forward on to/invite your friends.

If attending in person, PLEASE also help spread the word by tweeting:

I’m going to #LaunchUp Sep 1 – EcoScraps, ForeUp, Hmn Xtns, TaleSpring, Inbounding.com. Are you? RT! http://bit.ly/launchup22

If not on Twitter or Facebook, join them. If morally opposed to joining for some reason, email jeremy . hanks @ gmail . com and let me know you’re coming. It helps us plan for food.

Date: Thursday, September 1, 2011

Time: 6:30 p.m. (Mentors available from 5:30)

Location: Utah Valley University

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The event will be held in the Sorenson Center at UVU room 206 B/C. Park in the Sorenson Center parking lot (.jpeg version of map is here, or interactive map is here)

Driving Directions
Utah Valley University is located in Orem, Utah just off of I-15 University Parkway exit (#269) at: 800 West University Parkway Orem, Utah 84058. Those that are traveling via I-15 may want to be aware of the ever-present I-15 construction information (nothing out of the ordinary for those that are used to it).

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Agenda:

LaunchUp Mentoring: 5:30 P.M. to 6:30 P.M.

LaunchUp Mentors (who will be wearing LaunchUp lanyards) will be available from 5:30 to 6:30 PM, the hour before the official LaunchUp event begins. These experts in their respective fields will be there to answer questions and offer advice and expertise.

• Legal: Attorneys will be on hand to talk on issues relating to formation, angel and venture financings, employment, options, intellectual property, strategic partner relationships, customer contracts, exits and other issues that startups regularly face.
• Tech: With the Tech Mentors, you discuss your questions and ideas with experienced software startup architects and engineers.

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LaunchUp #22: 6:30 p.m.

Amp Session: 10 minutes Daniel Blake, CEO and Founder of EcoScraps. EcoScraps was started March 2010 by Daniel Blake, Brandon Sargent and Craig Martineau. Daniel is a BYU undergrad studying English and Business. He is a SoCap Scholar and a Sparkseed Fellow. Daniel and EcoScraps were featured on the cover of the May edition of Inc. Magazine.

 

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In The Weeds: 10 Minutes. So, you want to build an Internet application? Scott Lemon, Founder/President, Human Xtensions. Scott Lemon is Futurist, technologist, aggregationist, entrepreneur, technology & software consultant. He has extensive computer and technology experience, from hardware up through software, local area networking and Internet experience. He has been involved in the computer industry since it’s infancy. Using this broad base of technology knowledge he applies these patterns to almost any industry. He has a long history of working in support and sales, and so his customer interaction has lead to a unique expertise in applied technology and a deep understanding of business. He follows a broad set of disciplines from biotech to nanotech.

 

Company Presentations: 30 Minutes

ForeUp
ForeUP provides free SaaS tee time software to all golf courses in order to create a global tee time network. With the data of all live and open tee times, ForeUP creates an online booking engine similar to “Priceline.”



TaleSpring
TaleSpring is an online digital media platform that is used for 1) self-publishing interactive ebooks for the iPad/iPhone, and 2) multimedia scrapbooking. Free to sign-up, free to create ebooks and scrapbooks. Free storage up to 25 MB; only $10/mo. for 2GB. Publish to the App Store, share online, or download for personal use.



Inbounding.com
InboundInk from Inbounding.com is a commercial open source platform to manage all your inbound marketing efforts. Its built to be an open platform that allows 3rd party add-ons or apps to run on top of it that perform or facilitate marketing tasks (i.e. keyword research, website automation, seo service integration, content distribution, lead nurturing, social media monitoring, etc). We target Marketing Agencies (SEOs, Web Development/Design), Content Publishers (Media), and Power Marketers (e-Commerce, Affiliate Marketers). Our business model is very similar to the popular Magento e-Commerce platform: an open-source community edition, and professional/enterprise paid editions. In fact, I often refer to us as: Magento for Marketers..

 

 

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Corner Dives Grab some food at around 8:00 p.m., and each of the three presenting companies will head to different corners to field questions and engage in discussion.

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/launchup22 Is the URL for all the event details.
And use our FB event page to RSVP and forward on to/invite your friends.

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 #22 supporters:

Utah Valley University for providing the location and helping with the food!

Additional thanks to

Doba for being our Founding Sponsor,

And

MWI for sponsoring LaunchUp.
Finally, LaunchUp #23 will be in October on Thursday October 6, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. at location TBD.

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

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

Subscribe to our RSS feed — Join our LaunchUp Linked Group — Follow us on Twitter: @launchup — Become a fan on Facebook: LaunchUp.org — Email Jeremy Hanks if you’d like to help/get move involved: jeremy . hanks @ gmail . com

Drumroll please…

LaunchUp is thrilled to announce its first non-Utah excursion. Spoiler alert: What happens at this LaunchUp event may or may not stay at the location of interest.

That’s right. We’re headed to Vegas. Never heard of LaunchUp? LaunchUp is a barn raising for entrepreneurs. We bring together entrepreneurs and startup junkies alike, leveraging the current ecosystem with our community focus and distribute passion and bolster up the entrepreneurship ecosystem. In short, we provide help, resources, and support for the risk takers, the doers, and the makers of things.

Entrepreneurs + Community + Energy < 90 mins = Awesomeness

Oh, and we’re giving away an Apple TV for good measure.

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Specifics:

Promotion/RSVP: Please use our EventBrite event page for LaunchUp Las Vegas #1 to RSVP and forward on to/invite your friends.

If attending in person, PLEASE also help spread the word by tweeting:

I’m going to #LaunchUp in Vegas on Sept 14 – Are you? RT! http://bit.ly/launchupvegas1 (please RT)

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

Date: Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Time: 6:30 p.m.

Location:
El Cortez (In the Founders Room – 2nd floor)
600 E Fremont Street
Las Vegas, 89101

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Agenda:

LaunchUp #1 – Las Vegas: 6:30 p.m.

Amp Session: 10 minutes Yiying Lu (designer of our favorite pop culture icon the Twitter ‘Fail Whale’). Yiying is also a co-founder of walls360 which will be relocating operations to Vegas.

In The Weeds: 10 Minutes Building A Community The local husband and wife entrepreneur team of David and Jennifer Gosse have founded vortaloptics.com, namechk.com, and are working on another startup trac.ky. David Gosse is the founder of Namechk, a username search tool, and CEO and founder of Vortaloptics, a software company headquartered in Las Vegas that develops custom search engines and social media apps. Jennifer Grosse is the CMO of Trac.ky and Vortaloptics. Ten years of startup, product development and digital marketing experience. Passionate about innovation, the digital landscape and products that improve and simplify our increasingly busy lives.

Company Presentations: 30 Minutes

Advanced Information Systems
After 20+ years of developing custom software solutions for companies such as PMI, GMAC, WebVan, HSBC (formally HFC), First Data, Royal Bank of Scotland, and many, many others, AIS owners Frank & Mike Yoder decided to start over. Transitioning from a Custom Software Development firm to a Software Products firm proved that no matter how much development experience you have, launching a technology product presents it’s own unique set of challenges.

Ayloo
Ayloo is a conversation network that allows anyone to connect to the people they know so they can have more meaningful conversation online.

Rumgr
Sell Stuff Locally. Rumgr is a location based marketplace; we took the common experience of garage sale interactions and placed them in an app. Rumgr makes it dead simple for people to sell their stuff locally and gives them a much wider audience than a standard garage sale.

Corner Dives Grab some food at around 8:00 p.m., and each of the three presenting companies will head to different corners to field questions and engage in discussion.

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)

bit.ly/launchupvegas Is the EventBrite URL for all the event details.

We are also building a list of those that want to support first-time technology entrepreneurs. 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.

A special thanks to LaunchUp Las Vegas #1 supporters:

To

Doba for being our Founding Sponsor

Also, thanks to

Zappos and

MWI for sponsoring LaunchUp.

Next LaunchUp Las Vegas TBD

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

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

Subscribe to our RSS feed — Join our LaunchUp Linked Group — Follow us on Twitter: @launchup — Become a fan on Facebook: LaunchUp.org — Email Jeremy Hanks if you’d like to help/get move involved: jeremy . hanks @ gmail . com

Summer keeps marching along! LaunchUp August is ready to go. Everyone is busy, but come out, we have a solid like a rock event planned, and we continue our Campus Tour at Neumont University in South Jordan.

For those of you unfamiliar with Neumont, they only teach digital sciences and computer science programs. So all you entrepreneur lamenting needing technical help, Neumont has several hundred students doing nothing else! And a lot of them (like Ryan and Jason from iActionable) are entrepreneurs too.

We’re going to be giving away an Amazon Kindle again!

Should be a great event! Come out and support entrepreneurship in Utah!

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Specifics:

Promotion/RSVP: Please use our FaceBook event page for LaunchUp 21 to RSVP and forward on to/invite your friends.

If attending in person, PLEASE also help spread the word by tweeting:

I’m going to #LaunchUp Aug 4 to see ChampionVillage, Fuze Network, Explorer.io. Are you? http://bit.ly/launchup21 (please RT)

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

Date: Thursday, August 4th, 2011

Time: 6:30 p.m. (Note: no clinics this month, clinics will resume in September)

Location: Neumont University

10701 S. River Front Parkway, Suite 300
South Jordan, UT 84095

More directional info is available on Neumont’s Getting Here page.

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Agenda:

LaunchUp Clinics: No clinics this month, Clinics will return in September

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LaunchUp #21: 6:30 p.m.

Amp Session:10 minutes Investing in Emotional Capital Anna Stehrenberger, Founder MarriedToAnEntrepreneur.com. Anna Stehrenberger married an entrepreneur 7 years ago, not knowing what that lifestyle would entail. Just as her Entrepreneur seeks advice from business mentors and associates about the road of Entrepreneurship, Anna desired the same type of guidance as the Spouse of an Entrepreneur and couldn’t seem to find it. So she created MarriedToAnEntrepreneur.com, a company that offers support and insight to the spouses of entrepreneurs. She writes about the amazing adventures, difficult challenges, and the fun roller coaster ride that her life has been as the wife of an Entrepreneur. As part of her company she interviews other spouses of entrepreneurs (from successful to aspiring successful) to get their insight, stories, and advice. Married to an Entrepreneur is also gathering research data via her blog survey as support data for her upcoming book. She hopes to not only to help prepare those who are looking to marry or recently married an entrepreneur, but to also improve the marriages of veteran entrepreneurs as well. She has helped her Entrepreneur in many of his startups from screen print t-shirts in a college apartment to driving Ferraris in a luxury car leasing company and with 8 years of an Entrepreneurial Marriage under her belt she is excited to share her experiences and learn from other spouses as well. She hasn’t always been convinced she loves this life, but she does love the man who loves this life and that makes all the difference.

In The Weeds: 10 Minutes Mobile Mud Pie Dave Stevenson, Founder, Stevenson Software. Dave is founder of Stevenson Software, publisher of over 40 mobile applications. An accomplished entrepreneur with 13 years in technology, Dave has started and sold three successful internet based businesses. Prior to Stevenson Software, Dave has held leadership positions in various real estate and banking software companies. Most recently, Dave was the Director of Integration and Support Services for Simplifile, LC. While at Simplifile, he served as a co-chair on the technical committee for the national Property Records Industry Association (PRIA), helping design and promote a nationwide standard for property records information transfers. Dave is also active in social media, having been named one of the “50 Tweeters Every Utahn Should Follow” on Twitter. Between tweets, he can be reached at dave @ stevensonsoftware . com or on Twitter @dnstevenson

Company Presentations: 30 Minutes

ChampionVillage
ChampionVillage is an online fitness platform for kids. Combining game-mechanis and social interaction to get kids off the couch and out of the house.

Fuze Network
Fuze Network is a payments technology company providing customers with the option to find and pay in cash at over 17,000 Banks and 100,000 Retail locations nationwide

Explorer.io
Explorer.io is a social technology that enables users to discover, plan, journal & share their adventures. The technology can be purchased by outdoor companies and used for customer insights/analytics, a social product recommendation engine, and building niche brand communities.

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/launchup21 Is the URL for all the event details.

And use our FB event page to RSVP and forward on to/invite your friends.

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 #21 supporters:

Neumont University for providing the location!

And to

Doba for being our Founding Sponsor.

Finally, LaunchUp #22 will be in September on Thursday September 1, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. at UVU.

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

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

Subscribe to our RSS feed — Join our LaunchUp Linked Group — Follow us on Twitter: @launchup — Become a fan on Facebook: LaunchUp.org — Email Jeremy Hanks if you’d like to help/get move involved: jeremy . hanks @ gmail . com

Hopefully everyone had a great 4th of July!. Can’t believe it’s already July. 2011 is downhill from here. So LaunchUp July is ready to roll.

Should be a great event! Come out and support entrepreneurship in Utah!

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Specifics:

Promotion/RSVP: Please use our FaceBook event page for LaunchUp 20 to RSVP and forward on to/invite your friends.

If attending in person, PLEASE also help spread the word by tweeting:

I’m going to #LaunchUp July 7 to see VuTherapy, Jumbas, Event Espresso. Are you? http://bit.ly/launchup20 (please RT)

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 7th, 2011

Time: 6:30 p.m. (Note: no clinics this month, clinics will resume in September)

Location: C7 Data Center Bluffdale (point of the mountain, just next door to SEO.com)

14944 Pony Express Dr.
Bluffdale, UT 84065

Located just South of Draper exit 288 on the west side of the freeway, at Point of the Mountain.

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Agenda:

LaunchUp Clinics: No clinics this month, Clinics will return in September

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LaunchUp #20: 6:30 p.m.

Amp Session:10 minutes Phil Windley, Founder & CTO, Kynetx. Phil Windley is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Kynetx, an early stage company providing a platform for building browser apps. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University where he teaches courses on reputation, digital identity, large-scale system design, and programming languages. Phil writes the popular Technometria blog and is a frequent contributor to various technical publications. He is also the author of the book Digital Identity from O’Reilly Media. Prior to joining BYU, Phil spent two years as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the State of Utah, serving on Governor Mike Leavitt’s Cabinet and as a member of his Senior Staff. Before entering public service, Phil was Vice President for Product Development and Operations at Excite@Home and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of iMALL, Inc. an early creator of electronic commerce tools. Phil serves on the Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards for several high-tech companies. Phil received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Univ. of California, Davis in 1990.

In The Weeds: 10 Minutes A Masochist’s Guide to Managing Scope Tyler Bye, Managing Partner, Protoven. Self-described as a “Startup Catalyst”, Tyler has served amongst the senior engineering staff of several startups. As Managing Partner of Protoven, Tyler transitions to the executive level where he, “…Suffers at the hands of his own decisions.” With a customer list that includes ABC / Disney, and a Protoven founded startup named upLynk taking off, those decisions are starting to reap benefits.

Company Presentations: 30 Minutes

VuTherapy
VuTherapy provides a platform for secure online video therapy. We also introduces patients to therapists via an online marketplace and help therapists manage their online practice with essential patient management tools.

Jumbas
Jumbas provides the fuel for your lifestyle by making it easy to access huge discounts on great activities, restaurants, and services in your city. Jumbas aggregates all the best daily deals from industry leaders such as Groupon, LivingSocial, BuyWithMe, and many more, and allows its users to set preferences, easily find deals they’re interested in, and receive personalized emails filled with deals filtered to match their preferences. Jumbas also provides a secondary marketplace where users can instantly buy and sell daily deals from one anther.

Event Espresso
Event Espresso is an online event registration software company. Our current product is a premium software “plugin” that adds event registration and online payment capabilities to any of the 16 million website that runs on the self-hosted version of the WordPress platform. Our strategic plan is to expand our product to meet the needs of a larger and more general online event registration (at least a $350 million) market.

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/launchup20 Is the URL for all the event details.

And use our FB event page to RSVP and forward on to/invite your friends.

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 #20 supporters:

C7 Data Centers for providing the food and location!

And to

SEO.com for providing the extra chairs and moving manpower!

And to

Doba for being our Founding Sponsor.

Finally, LaunchUp #21 will be in August on Thursday August 4, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. (clinics will not be held, they’ll resume in September) at location TBD.

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

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

Subscribe to our RSS feed — Join our LaunchUp Linked Group — Follow us on Twitter: @launchup — Become a fan on Facebook: LaunchUp.org — Email Jeremy Hanks if you’d like to help/get move involved: jeremy . hanks @ gmail . com

Hopefully everyone had a great Memorial Day. Tomorrow, it’s JUNE already! So LaunchUp June is ready to roll.

Should be a great event! Come out and support entrepreneurship in Utah!

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Specifics:

Promotion/RSVP: Please use our FaceBook event page for LaunchUp 19 to RSVP and forward on to/invite your friends.

If attending in person, PLEASE also help spread the word by tweeting:

I’m going 2 #LaunchUp June 2 to see OER Glue, Proz, iPadEnclosures. Are you? http://bit.ly/launchup19 (please RT)

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

Date: Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

Time: 6:30 p.m. (clinics start at 5:30 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:

LaunchUp Clinics: 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

If you’re starting a company, or are thinking about it, these clinics offer free help from experts in the industry!

LaunchUp Clinics are offered from 5:30pm to 6:30pm, the hour before the official LaunchUp event begins where you can talk to experts 1×1. Here is a brief summary of each:

• Legal: Attorneys will be on hand to talk on issues relating to formation, angel and venture financings, employment, options, intellectual property, strategic partner relationships, customer contracts, exits and other issues that startups regularly face.
• Tech: At the Tech Clinic, you discuss your questions and ideas with experienced software startup architects and engineers.

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LaunchUp #19: 6:30 p.m.

Amp Session:10 minutes Alex Lawrence, Vice Provost of Innovation & Economic Development, John B. Goddard School of Business and Economics at Weber State University; Director of USTAR Technology Outreach for Northern Utah. Alex has been launching and growing successful companies for more than 15 years. Along the way there have been plenty of struggles as well – learning equally from both the ups and downs of entrepreneurship. Learning by doing has made Alex well-versed in business strategy and development, sales, internet marketing, social media, venture & debt capital, mobile and web application development, franchising, mergers and acquisitions, exits, and day-to-day business operations. He is always reading and trying to pay attention to those around him; books and others are some of the best resources for learning. Alex’s current partnership, Lendio, ranks #34 on the Inc. 500 list. You can read about the exciting things going on with Lendio in a recent article on TechCrunch. Alex is Vice Provost of Innovation and Economic Development as well as a Professor of Internet Marketing and Entrepreneurship at the John B. Goddard School of Business and Economics at Weber State University, where he earned his MBA. If you are at or near WSU, consider taking his class. It will be one of the more unique courses of your college experience. As Vice Provost, Alex works with faculty, staff, students and business members in the community to help start and grow businesses. Alex is also the Director of USTAR (Utah Science Technology And Research) Technology Outreach for Northern Utah. USTAR is a long-term, state-funded investment to strengthen Utah’s “knowledge economy.” This revolutionary initiative invests in world-class innovation teams and research facilities to create novel technologies that are subsequently commercialized through new business ventures.

In The Weeds: 10 Minutes Offshore Outsourcing for Startups Brigham Tomco, CEO, Zylun. Brigham is the Owner and CEO of Zylun, an offshore staffing and outsourcing firm with over 500 employees. Zylun helps businesses build offshore teams of call center, live chat, programming, design, internet marketing, and data entry agents. Brigham is also an owner and Director of Oxzen Media, an internet marketing firm. Prior to co-founding Zylun, Brigham worked in New York City for Ocean Road Advisors and Meyer Ventures where he was a member of the investment committee and managed an $800 million portfolio invested in public and private equities, hedge funds, real estate, venture capital, high-yield debt, and fixed income. He has played a founding role in six start-up companies. After graduating from Ricks College where he was a captain of the football team, Brigham earned a degree in Accounting and a JD/MBA from Brigham Young University. Brigham enjoys spending time playing sports and being in the outdoors with his wife four children.

Company Presentations: 30 Minutes

OER Glue
OER Glue delivers authentic learning experiences via mashups created by integrating popular web services, page snippets, images, videos, flash, and applets from any web site, drag and drop editing, Google Docs and custom search over collections of learning resources.

Proz
Proz provides three services: a referral center FindProz.com to aid in finding clientele; management solutions through MyProz.com to provide accounting, scheduling; and communication management tools, and community pages.

iPadEnclosures
iPadEnclosures, an ArmorActive Company, assists various organizations seeking to turn the iPad and other tablets into public kiosks using our secure hardware solutions. iPadEnclosures has a popular Metal Jacket product line that can be purchased online. Our true competitive advantage is our design and manufacturing that can quickly prototype custom cases for industry specific needs. We currently have sold to and work with over 20 Fortune 500 companies iPadEnclosures is a Limited Liability Company founded January 2011.

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/launchup19 Is the URL for all the event details.

And use our FB event page to RSVP and forward on to/invite your friends.

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 #19 supporters:

Thanksgiving Point for providing the location!

And to

Doba for being our Founding Sponsor.

Finally, LaunchUp #20 will be in July on Thursday July 7, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. (clinics will start at 5:30 p.m.) at Center 7 Data Center in Bluffdale.

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

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

Subscribe to our RSS feed — Join our LaunchUp Linked Group — Follow us on Twitter: @launchup — Become a fan on Facebook: LaunchUp.org — Email Jeremy Hanks if you’d like to help/get move involved: jeremy . hanks @ gmail . com

After two Campus Tour Stops at the University of Utah and BYU, we’re back to Point of the Mountain for May’s LaunchUp — On Cinco De Mayo no less!

To help get you out of the house and drive up/down to Lehi, we’re going to be giving away an Apple TV again! Last month’s giveaway went really well.

We’re trying a new section called “Problem Pitch” where people can use Open Mic to tell us about a problem they see that they’d like to solve.

BoomStartup is also announcing their Summer 2011 companies to the public, don’t want to miss that!

We’re going to have a boatload of Tacos from Del Taco (best, authentic Mexican food around). Should be a great night!

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Specifics:

Promotion/RSVP: Please use our FaceBook event page for LaunchUp 18 to RSVP and forward on to/invite your friends.

If attending in person, PLEASE also help spread the word by tweeting:

I’m going 2 #LaunchUp May 5 to see eLearning Brothers & Gypsy Modular. Are you? http://bit.ly/launchup18 (please RT)

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

Date: Thursday, May 5th, 2011

Time: 6:30 p.m. (clinics start at 5:30 p.m.)

Location: One on One Marketing
2912 Executive Parkway, Ste 300, Lehi, UT, 84043

Driving Directions:
From I-15 take Exit 284 (Highland Alpine)
Turn West at UT-92 W
Continue on Club House Dr
Turn left at Executive Parkway
One on One building is last building on left side (next to soccer field)

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:

LaunchUp Clinics: 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

If you’re starting a company, or are thinking about it, these clinics offer free help from experts in the industry!

LaunchUp Clinics are offered from 5:30pm to 6:30pm, the hour before the official LaunchUp event begins where you can talk to experts 1×1. Here is a brief summary of each:

• Legal: Attorneys will be on hand to talk on issues relating to formation, angel and venture financings, employment, options, intellectual property, strategic partner relationships, customer contracts, exits and other issues that startups regularly face.
• Tech: At the Tech Clinic, you discuss your questions and ideas with experienced software startup architects and engineers.
• Design/Front End: Get past any design/front-end hurdles that they might have with your startup by talking to designers/front-end gurus.

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LaunchUp #18: 6:30 p.m.

Amp Session:10 minutes Jay Bean, Founder and CEO, Orange Soda. Jay Bean is the co- founder and CEO of OrangeSoda, Inc., a marketing-driven technology company that empowers merchants with smaller advertising budgets to maximize their online presence through its search marketing and optimization platform. He is responsible for guiding the company’s strategy and growth. OrangeSoda has helped thousands of merchants implement successful online advertising since bringing its core technology to market in early 2007. Through the company’s proprietary, analytics-driven campaign management center, local merchants are now realizing the effectiveness of localized search engine marketing and optimization. In 1999, Bean founded ah-ha.com, a leading pay-for-performance search engine marketing company. Ah-ha.com connected thousands of merchants with millions of consumers via highly targeted pay-per-click advertising programs, including paid search listings, contextual advertising, and paid inclusion. In February 2003, ah-ha.com was acquired by Marchex Inc. (MCHX).

In The Weeds: 10 Minutes Startup’s Guide for Selling John Boyd, President, J Curve Sales. John is the President of J-Curve Sales, a B2B sales outsourcing, sales training, and sales consulting company. Over the past 5 years, J-Curve has helped dozens of local and national companies move the sales needle forward. Before John started his company, he was an early sales contributor with several venture-backed technology startups, the most recent of which was Omniture/Adobe. Endorsed by Steven R Covey, Brian Tracy, and Daniel Pink, John recently published the book The Illustrated Guide to Selling You – Custom Design Your Work Life.

Company Presentations: 30 Minutes

eLearning Brothers
eLearning Brothers wants to make your online training look awesome! We provide eLearning templates (games, interactions, quizzes, layouts, assets) that designers can use to quickly build online training that is engaging, interactive, and inspiring.

Gypsy Modular
Furniture made of modular wood components can mixed, matched, swapped, and reconfigured to outfit your turf. All with no tools.

Problem Pitches: 15 Minutes

Take a minute and tell the audience the problem you think you have an idea to solve. Get some quick feedback.

Special Announcement: 10 Minutes

BoomStartup 2011 Summer Program Companies
BoomStartup is a mentorship-driven investment program focusing its efforts on providing money, mentors, and markets for its energetic tech entrepreneur participants. We mentor tech startups from ideation through execution.

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/launchup18 Is the URL for all the event details.

And use our FB event page to RSVP and forward on to/invite your friends.

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 #17 supporters:

To One on One Marketing

for providing the location!

And to

Doba for being our Founding Sponsor.

Finally, LaunchUp #19 will be in June on Thursday Jun 2, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. (clinics will start at 5:30 p.m.) at location TBD.

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

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

Subscribe to our RSS feed — Join our LaunchUp Linked Group — Follow us on Twitter: @launchup — Become a fan on Facebook: LaunchUp.org — Email Jeremy Hanks if you’d like to help/get move involved: jeremy . hanks @ gmail . com

We have a great LaunchUp planned, as we continue our Campus Tour with a visit to Brigham Young University, hosted by the BYU Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, for LaunchUp #17:

BYU is rolling out the blue carpet for us. We want to get more college students involved with the LaunchUp community. We know going to BYU isn’t the easiest logistically, but we are going to be at the Wilkinson Student Center, so there’s tons of parking close. Details below.

Finally, to get you out of the house and out to campus, we’re going to be giving away an Amazon Kindle again! Last month’s giveaway went really well, so we’re having a drawing again.

Free event! Free food! Chance to win free stuff! Great Agenda! Entrepreneurial revival all around!

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Specifics:

Promotion/RSVP: Please use our FaceBook event page for LaunchUp 17 to RSVP and forward on to/invite your friends.

If attending in person, PLEASE also help spread the word by tweeting:

I’m going 2 #LaunchUp Apr 7 to see DeclareMedia, CloudHarmony, Needle. Are you? http://bit.ly/launchup17 (please RT)

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

Date: Thursday, April 7th, 2011

Time: 6:30 p.m. (clinics start at 5:30 p.m.)

Location: Room 3280, Wilkinson Student Center – BYU

BYU Wilkinson Student Center, 1060 East Campus Dr, Provo, Utah 84602 (Google Map)

Parking Map and Directions (PDF)

Wilkinson Center Room 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:

LaunchUp Clinics: 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

If you’re starting a company, or are thinking about it, these clinics offer free help from experts in the industry!

LaunchUp Clinics are offered from 5:30pm to 6:30pm, the hour before the official LaunchUp event begins where you can talk to experts 1×1. Here is a brief summary of each:

• Legal: Attorneys will be on hand to talk on issues relating to formation, angel and venture financings, employment, options, intellectual property, strategic partner relationships, customer contracts, exits and other issues that startups regularly face.
• Tech: At the Tech Clinic, you discuss your questions and ideas with experienced software startup architects and engineers.
• Design/Front End: Get past any design/front-end hurdles that they might have with your startup by talking to designers/front-end gurus.
• Mentoring: Mentors from BoomStartup will be on hand to provide general mentoring and entrepreneurship advice.

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LaunchUp #17: 6:30 p.m.

Amp Session:10 minutes Ben Peterson, Co-Founder and CEO, BambooHR. Ben Peterson is currently Co-founder and CEO of BambooHR (www.bamboohr.com), a SaaS HR technology solution for small to medium-sized businesses. BambooHR was launched nationwide in 2008 and continues to be a leader in HR technology solutions for small and medium sized-businesses. Prior to starting Bamboo HR, Ben was founder and CEO of MingleMatch, Inc. MingleMatch began in 2001 as an online personals network and sold in May 2005 to Spark Networks, Inc. Ben was Vice President of Business Development and Sales at MyComputer.com (now Omniture). He was also a co-founder of Utah Best, now Allegiance Technologies. He frequently lectures at BYU and UVU on topics including online business models, financing new ventures, marketing and online technology. He serves on the incubator board for CEDO, is a member of BYU’s Young Entrepreneur Founders Organization. He is an angel investor in multiple startups and a partner at the Utah Angels, a small group of private investors seeking to fund growth companies.

In The Weeds: 10 Minutes The Importance of Design for Startups Garrett Gee, Founder, QR Code City and Capital G Design. Garrett Gee is founder of QR Code City and Capital G Design. He and his wife currently live in Provo where Garrett plays soccer for BYU. You can view his portfolio and find out more online at http://garrettgee.me

Company Presentations: 45 Minutes

DeclareMedia
DeclareMedia publishes almost 4,000 online, local business directories. The directories rank well in search engines like Google, and the traffic generated from online searches is then passed on to those companies that list themselves on DeclareMedia’s directories, allowing them to get business from search engines for targeted keywords while also boosting their SEO efforts.

CloudHarmony
CloudHarmony is an independent source of cloud computing performance analysis. This analysis covers over 100 cloud services including servers, storage, platforms and content delivery networks. Our repository of over 17 million performance metrics is publicly accessible on our website and via web services.

Needle
Needle provides websites with real-time product experts that help sell products and services. Using a social powered chat platform, and a cloud workforce of experts, Needle helps websites raise conversion and build customer loyalty. Needle was started by Morgan Lynch (Logoworks founder) and Mikko Valimaki (Novell, Cerberian, Blue Coat), and recently raised a $1M+ round from strategic investors.

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/launchup17 Is the URL for all the event details.

And use our FB event page to RSVP and forward on to/invite your friends.

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 #17 supporters:

BYU Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology for providing the location AND the food!!

And to

Doba for being our Founding Sponsor.

Finally, LaunchUp #17 will be in May on Thursday May 5, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. (clinics will start at 5:30 p.m.) at One on One Marketing offices at Thanksgiving Point.

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

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

Subscribe to our RSS feed — Join our LaunchUp Linked Group — Follow us on Twitter: @launchup — Become a fan on Facebook: LaunchUp.org — Email Jeremy Hanks if you’d like to help/get move involved: jeremy . hanks @ gmail . com

LaunchUp #16 tomorrow will offer the first ever Fundraising Clinic along side the popular Legal and Tech Clinic!

If you’re starting a company, or are thinking about it, these clinics offer free help from experts in the industry!  (If there are other clinics that you would like to see LaunchUp offer, let us know.)

LaunchUp Clinics are offered from 5:30pm to 6:30pm, the hour before the official LaunchUp event begins with the experts around tables where you can have a conversation. Here is a brief summary of each:

Fundraising Clinic

At the Fundraising Clinic, get answers from institutional investors about what it takes to raise VC money. Put on by partners and associates from University Venture Fund, Epic VC, Peterson Partners, and Mercato Partners.

Tech Clinic

At the Tech Clinic, you discuss your questions and ideas with experienced software startup architects and engineers. These architects and engineers will help you understand what it will take to make your idea a reality. The goal is to help you move forward on the technical aspects of your startup, answer your questions, and give you a chance to meet with practicing engineers. Discuss the technical questions you might have about your business ideas. The goal is to have entrepreneurs walk away knowing more about what it will take to implement their idea. Ideally, this includes some high-level architecture, a rough “bigger than a breadbox” effort estimate, and relationships with real startup architects/engineers. 

Legal Clinic

Attorneys will be available from 5:30 to 6:30 to sit down around tables with entrepreneurs in a one on one setting to answer legal questions you might have about your business. These guys can give you their thoughts on issues relating to formation, angel and venture financings, employment, options, intellectual property, strategic partner relationships, customer contracts, exits and other issues that startups regularly face. Business and intellectual property attorneys from Bennett Tueller Johnson & Deere, Dorsey & Whitney, Bateman IP, and Kunzler, Needham, Massey, & Thorpe will be there.

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See everyone there!

LaunchUp #16 is at University of Utah Lund Commons at the C. Ronald Christensen Center (CRCC)

1637 Campus Center Dr.
Salt Lake City, UT

1637 Campus Center Dr. Salt Lake City, UT (Google Map)

Parking Map and Directions (PDF)

We have a great LaunchUp planned, and we’re excited to announce two firsts happening at LaunchUp #16:

–> We’re kicking off our first stop on a College Tour by heading to University of Utah

The U of U is rolling out the red carpet for us (sweet pun, no?). We want to get more college students involved with the LaunchUp community. We know going to colleges isn’t the easiest logistically, but we are working with the school to address parking, and the U is being great! Details below.

–> We’ve also partnered with Women Tech Council for this LaunchUp. What that means is that this is a LaunchUp highlighting all ladies for presenters and CEOs/Founders. Way excited about that!

Finally, to get you off your bum and out to campus, we’re going to be giving away an Amazon Kindle too! Last month’s Apple TV giveaway went really well, so we’re having a drawing again.

Free event! Free food! Chance to win free stuff! LaunchUp, celebrating the Freedom of Entrepreneurs!

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Specifics:

Promotion/RSVP: Please use our FaceBook event page for LaunchUp 16 to RSVP and forward on to/invite your friends.

If attending in person, PLEASE also help spread the word by tweeting:

I’m going 2 #LaunchUp Mar 3 to see Carone Fitness, IdealShape, Attence. Are you? http://bit.ly/launchup16 (please RT)

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

Date: Thursday Mar 3rd

Time: 6:30 p.m.

Location: Lund Commons at the C. Ronald Christensen Center (CRCC) – University of Utah

1637 Campus Center Dr. Salt Lake City, UT (Google Map)

Parking Map and Directions (PDF)

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 Cydni Tetro, Entrepreneur in Residence, Disney. Cydni Tetro is a technology entrepreneur with a passion for social marketing. Cydni is currently a Disney Entrepreneur in Residence. At Disney she works with Disney Research to help productize and commercial projects. Over the course of her career she has helped dozens of startups successfully build, launch, sell and market new products and services. She was the COO for FamilyLink.com, a social network for families with over 80 Million users. While she was at FamilyLink.com it was the fastest growing website in the country. Prior to that she was Chief Marketing Officer for NextPage where she directed the strategy and execution of NextPage’s product and marketing initiatives. She has also lead Product Management teams at Novell and was responsible for global customer technical product training. She also managed the IT group for the 250 users at the distribution center in NuSkin. Tetro co-founded the Women Tech Council in May 2007 an organization that now has more than 4000 people participating in the community. She also co-founded a social media distribution company called Rocky Mountain Voices in 2006. For the last six years, she has been recognized as a vSpring Capital Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs (v|100). She was recognized as one of the 30 Women to Watch and was a finalist in the 2008 American Business Association Best Women Entrepreneur. She also serves as an Advisory Board Member for the BYU Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, National Society for New Communications, UVEF, MountainWest Capital Network and is mentor at BoomStartup. Cydni holds a master’s degree in business administration and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Brigham Young University.

In The Weeds: 10 Minutes Raising Money for Your Startup Alison Wistner, Principal, Mercato Partners. Alison Wistner is a Principal and Investment Committee member at Mercato Partners with over 15 years of experience in private equity, corporate finance and investment banking. Alison currently serves as chairman of the board of portfolio company, Cymphonix Corporation. Prior to Mercato Partners, Alison was a Principal at Prospector Equity Capital (PEC), a venture capital fund based in Park City, Utah. At PEC, Alison served on the investment committee and investment team and oversaw six portfolio investments. Alison was also the CFO of portfolio company, Zane Benefits, a healthcare technology company for three years. Previously, Alison worked as a Vice President at Hunter Capital Group and as a Financial Analyst for NationsBanc Montgomery Securities in mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. Alison received a B.S. in Business (Finance) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Special Presentation: 10 Minutes Departure Stall SaraJoy Pond, Founder, TippingBucket.org. SaraJoy Pond is a designer, educator, evaluator and social entrepreneur. Founder of TippingBucket.org, she’s currently enjoying the roller-coaster ride of building a social business that changes the world AND pays the rent. She’s intensely fond of typography, symphonic cello, and stracciatella gelato and detests bad line-breaks, bean soup and writing her own bio.

Company Presentations: 45 Minutes

Carone Fitness
Carone Fitness provides online health and PE courses for grades K-12 and higher education. Carone products include 20 different online courses for middle, high school, and college students. Most recently, Carone Fitness has partnered with Polar Electro to create an innovative product that incorporates the use of Polar’s heart rate monitors with specially developed online fitness tracking technology. Carone Fitness works directly with students or in collaboration with other schools seeking to provide an online option for their students. Since its inception in 2006 Carone Fitness has worked with over 30,000 students in hundreds of schools and colleges nationwide. Carone’s ultimate goal is to empower youth and adults as they develop a lifelong commitment to physical fitness and healthy living.

IdealShape
At Idealshape our mission is to assist individuals in transforming their mind and body for life, by using brain training, nutrition, and exercise. We do this by connecting experts and individuals in a community that fosters success.

My911, d.b.a Attence
Description: Attence is an early-stage company which has developed a patent-pending technology solution aimed at providing safety, security and awareness to the mobile consumer/mobile employee. Whether an individual is traveling in a car, recreating on motorcycles or ATVs, enjoying the outdoors by bike or boat; driving a company delivery vehicle; walking in the forest or the urban jungle, this simple solution resides on a mobile phone and triangulates the power of GPS and cell technology to inform and alert the users, employers, health and safety professionals and others of his or her tribe in the event of some unforeseen accident or safety need.

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/launchup16 Is the URL for all the event details.

And use our FB event page to RSVP and forward on to/invite your friends.

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 #16 supporters:

University of Utah David Eccles School of Business for providing the location AND the food AND the Ute Red Carpet!!

And to

Doba for being our Founding Sponsor.

Finally, LaunchUp #16 will be in April on Thursday Apr 7, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. at location to TBD.

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

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

Subscribe to our RSS feed — Join our LaunchUp Linked Group — Follow us on Twitter: @launchup — Become a fan on Facebook: LaunchUp.org — Email Jeremy Hanks if you’d like to help/get move involved: jeremy . hanks @ gmail . com

Hey everyone LaunchUp #15 is cocked, locked, and loaded!!

We have another smokin’ event planned with 3 legitimate companies, plus a special presentation by 14 yr old Robert Nay who unseated Angry Birds as the number 1 iPhone app called “A Physics Puzzler and Upset Avians — The Story of the ‘Bubble Ball’ iPhone App”

Location: Noah’s in South Jordan.

We’re really excited to announce that yet again, you can come an hour early to LaunchUp #15 for a free legal clinic AND a free tech clinic put on by business and intellectual property attorneys and technologists.

These attorneys software architects will be available from 5:30 to 6:30 to sit down around tables with entrepreneurs in a one on one setting to answer legal and tech questions you might have about your business.

If you’re starting a company, or are thinking about it, you’d be extremely remiss to not take advantage of free legal and tech advice!!!

Following the Legal Clinic, LaunchUp #15 will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. per usual.

Come support our community “barn raising” and energizing event for entrepreneurs.

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Specifics:

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

Come 2 #LaunchUp Feb 3 to see Onguria, UpLynk, Shopping Nanny, are you? http://bit.ly/launchup15 (please RT)

And use our FB event page to RSVP and forward on to/invite your friends.

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

Date: Thursday Feb 3rd

Time: 6:30 p.m.

Location: Noah’s in South Jordan

322 West 11000 South South Jordan, UT 84095

How to get here: Just west of I-15 located near CarMax. North of the Walmart and Alternative High School.

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 John Mellor, Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, Adobe Systems. As vice president of business development and strategy for the Omniture Business Unit at Adobe Systems, Mellor works closely with strategic partners to extend the value and reach of Omniture’s web analytics and online business-optimization platform. Mellor’s responsibilities include the Omniture Genesis partner program which helps more than 200 ISVs integrate their solutions with the Omniture platform. Omniture’s partners include many of the world’s leading providers of email marketing, ad serving for advertisers and publishers, ad networks, social media, competitive intelligence, customer satisfaction systems, ratings and reviews, and CRM systems. Mellor joined Omniture in 2003. Prior to Omniture, Mellor was senior vice president of marketing and business development for Frontline Educational Products, a leading direct marketing company in the consumer education market. Before working at Frontline, he was senior vice president of corporate development for RichFX, an online merchandising company for high-end retailers. He co-founded and then led strategy and business development for Viewpoint, a provider of interactive media technology and services for websites and enterprise applications. Viewpoint was acquired in 1998 by Computer Associates. Mellor is an experienced public speaker, having presented at numerous conferences and trade shows on topics such as online marketing and advertising, digital media, and online business optimization. Mellor holds both a Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA from Brigham Young University.

In The Weeds: 10 Minutes Twilio Scott Lemon, Founder / President, HumanXtensions. Scott Lemon is Futurist, technologist, aggregationist, entrepreneur, technology & software consultant. He has extensive computer and technology experience, from hardware up through software, local area networking and Internet experience. He has been involved in the computer industry since it’s infancy. Using this broad base of technology knowledge he applies these patterns to almost any industry. He has a long history of working in support and sales, and so his customer interaction has lead to a unique expertise in applied technology and a deep understanding of business. He follows a broad set of disciplines from biotech to nanotech.

Special Presentation 10 Minutes Physics Puzzler and Upset Avians — The Story of the ‘Bubble Ball’ iPhone App Robert Nay Robert Nay is a 14-year-old 8th grader who has enjoyed working with computers for years. He created his first published website in third grade when his teacher asked him to make one for her class. Since then he has continued working with HTML and has also learned Ajax, PHP, and Javascript. With five years of web programming behind him, last summer he turned his interest to making iPhone apps. After experimenting with different types of software to help him write games he settled on the launchup SDK. In his spare time he coded his first complete game which was released on the Apple App Store on Dec. 29. It has been downloaded more than six million times since then. “Bubble Ball” spent 12 consecutive days as #1 on the Free App chart in the US. At some point in time it has been #1 in 63 of the 85 world app stores it is available in. Robert is not all computers. He gets good grades in all his classes and participates in extracurricular activities. He plays three musical instruments. And in mid-January he took 2nd place in his school spelling bee.

Company Presentations: 45 Minutes

Onguria
Onguria is a new technology company offering solutions to bridge the online and real time communities. Their flagship product, OnG, leverages the momentum of what LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter started to create the next big idea in social connectivity. OnG delivers real time, location based technology to empower you to make valuable new connections outside your existing networks.

UpLynk
UpLynk has a technology that allows content providers to stream to PCs, Macs, iOS, Android (beta), Roku(beta), and a growing number of devices with one encode for each of their video assets.

Shopping Nanny
SN provides personalized grocery savings for the average non-couponing mother. By tailoring to lists and profiles, SN automates the searching, sorting, matching and combining of store specials with digital/printable coupons to maximize savings (7X savings guarantee) with minimal time. Strategically, SN collects predictive shopping patterns, and based on approval, becomes a recommendation engine for consumers, retailers and manufacturers.

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/launchup15 Is the URL for all the event details.

And use our FB event page to RSVP and forward on to/invite your friends.

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 #15 supporters:

Noah’s for providing the location, and to

Doba for being our Founding Sponsor.

Finally, LaunchUp #15 will be in March on Thursday Mar 3, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. at location to TBD.

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

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

Subscribe to our RSS feed — Join our LaunchUp Linked Group — Follow us on Twitter: @launchup — Become a fan on Facebook: LaunchUp.org — Email Jeremy Hanks if you’d like to help/get move involved: jeremy . hanks @ gmail . com