LaunchUp #5 this past Wednesday was AWESOME! The energy and excitement about entrepreneurship was palpable.

We had a full house of 70 people in the room at Novell, and another 30 watching our live stream online at http://www.launchup.org/live

With our push to make sure and include women from the tech/entrepreneur community, we had 18 and since we hit our goal of 15 we set at LaunchUp #4, we gave away the Kodak Zi8 camera to Reah Sandberg. That’s 25% female attendance, not bad!

But don’t take my word for it, here’s some other reactions:

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LaunchUp was a lot of fun

You do not want to miss LaunchUp #6! Wednesday, March 10th at 6:30 p.m. in the Tropical Room at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi.

Ken Kaufman from CFOwise will be presenting In the Weeds on Top 10 Accounting Secrets for Startups.

Kynetx, Simler, iActionable will be presenting their companies.

And we’re giving away a free annual family membership to Thanksgiving Point, worth $175!

More to be announced, and details coming soon to here on LaunchUp.org. Register to be part of the LaunchUp community so we can let you know.

See you in a month!

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To help you to get to know the companies presenting at LaunchUp #5 we asked each to respond to a few questions…

The following Q&A segment is from Bryan Ferre of Zipadi.

Q: What does your company do?
A: Zipadi is a digital publishing + e-commerce platform-as-a-service

Q: Why does that matter and how do you make the world a better place?
A: We help companies leverage existing assets to save money, make money and make life easier.

Q: Why is your company cool?
A: Zipadi lets you publish and monetize print documents to the web, mobile devices and digital readers.

Q: What 3 lessons/observations would you tell other entrepreneurs?
A: Fake it till you make it. Operate Lean.

Q: Pick 5 people for your entrepreneur dream team (assuming you and your team were riding the bench)
A: Justin Kitch CEO (Founder of Homestead), Guy Kawasaki, Elliot Jacobsen, Deepak Chopra, Jerry Sloan

Q: Which one pursuit? Golf, Basketball, Skiing/Snowboarding, Knitting, Mountaineering/Climbing, Bowling, Watching Grass Grow
A: Golf

Q: Why are you an entrepreneur in Utah?
A: I have worked all over the world and with the exception of Washington DC, Utah is home.

We look forward to LaunchUp #5 and hearing more from Zipadi!