Here are all the glorious details about the first LaunchUp, our community barn raising event for entrepreneurs. We’re going to stream the event live and make it as inclusive as possible to anyone, even if you cannot attend in person. This way, during the featured company’s presentation and the moderated deep dive/community conversation, anyone, anywhere, can participate. We have a great event planned with 2 great companies that need/want our help.

If you want to participate in the community discussion during the event, and especially during the 2 company Barn Raisings, you must be online. Even if you’re at the event in person. There will not be any Q&A/feedback mechanism except the online chat that coincides with the live video stream. So bring your laptops! I hope we have a room full of them.

We’re then going to record that chat discussion and we’re hoping that provides a great resource to the entrepreneurs. Ultimately, this event will be the starting point for helping to raise the barn, with hopefully lots of follow-up interaction.

Specifics:

Date: Wednesday March 25th

Time: 6:00 p.m.

Location: Doba – 1530 N Technology Way, Orem, UT 84097 – Canyon Park Technology Center Building D (or online)

RSVP: If attending in person, PLEASE RSVP. If on Twitter, tweet: I’m going to #LaunchUp, are you? If not on Twitter, email jeremy @ jeremyhanks . com and let me know you’re coming.

Event URL: http://doba.acrobat.com/launchup1/

Agenda:

Amp Session: 15 minutes: Ben Peterson  Ben is one of the smartest and successful entrepreneurs I know. He also knows a thing or two about online marketing. He started MingleMatch in 2000 which he sold to Spark Networks in 2005. He’s been active with the Utah Angels since then, and is currently working on his new startup, Human Services HQ.

Barn 1: 15 minutes: Tweetbooty  http://tweetbooty.com/ Tweetbooty is a new way to access amazing discounts and giveaways from qualified local retailers. Our users want to know the answer to one simple question: What are you offering us right now?

Barn 2: 15 minutes: Entice Labs  http://www.enticelabs.com/ TalentSeekr™, a patent pending technology from EnticeLabs, connects employers with these “passive candidates” by placing relevant and enticing career opportunities directly in front of them. Both employers and job candidates are given opportunities neither would have had otherwise.

Open Ideas 10 Minutes: we’re going to try an Open Idea period where the floor is anyone’s for 15 seconds

Break for Food: around 7:30, pizza/drinks

Networking: till whenever

If you don’t come or logon, well then you’re just not at all cool. Seriously, we’ll put you on an anti-cool list on the site. Please spread the word. (If you’re using Twitter, please use hashtag #LaunchUp)

Finally, the April LaunchUp will be the evening of Wednesday, April 22nd, somewhere in Salt Lake County, so mark your calendars. If your company, or one you know, would like to be a ‘barn’, email me: jeremy @ jeremyhanks . com

Subscribe to our RSS feed — 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 @ jeremyhanks . com

Due some unforeseen things (namely I’m spending 6 weeks in India and it just took some time to coalesce the ideas for LaunchUp), we’ve moved the first ever LaunchUp to Wednesday, March 25th.

We’re going to have a great event. We’ll have an kick-off presentation by a well known and successful entrepreneur for 10-15 minutes, then we’re going to dive into our first ‘barn’ and spend some good time understanding a technology startup to the point that the attendees at the event and simultaneously online participants can provide relevant questions/concerns/feedback/help to those entrepreneurs, and we’ll end with an open-mic segment where anyone gets 60 seconds to throw out anything to the group: ideas, questions, thoughts. Then we’ll break for food and networking and Rock Band. (probably just kidding about the Rock Band, but you never know, we might set it up–what entrepreneur worth their salt hasn’t at some point dreamed of being a Rock Star.)

We’re looking for companies to help, so if you have a demo-able product, have some traction, have a cool opportunity, email me: jeremy @ jeremyhanks . com

Please spread the word, here are the new specifics:

- Mark your calendars for Wednesday, March 25th, the first ever LaunchUp, held @ Doba in Orem. 1530 N Technology Way, Orem UT 84097 . Building D in Canyon Park Technology Center.

- You can still learn more about the genesis for the idea of LaunchUp.org: What is LaunchUp?

- Subscribe to our RSS feed

- 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 @ jeremyhanks . com

See you Wednesday March 25th at 6:00 p.m. More details to come on who will be attending and what technology startup ‘barn’ we’re going to be helping.