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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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