Steven ThrasherSpeaking: Saturday afternoon
Topic: Protecting Startup IP on a Ramon Noodle Budget
Bio: Steven is an intellectual property attorney licensed with the Patent Office who assists businesses, particularly start-ups and early-stage companies, with identifying and mapping intellectual assets, crafting licensing, and supporting litigation related to intellectual property.
His experience includes intellectual property litigation, patent prosecution, trademark prosecution, and copyright prosecution, Digital Millennium Copyright Act compliance, trade secret compliance, open source software, licensing program drafting/review, due-diligence reviews/opinions, trade secret litigation, trademark litigation, and asset valuation. Steven has managed transactions in Europe, Canada, Asia and Latin America. Clients have used his assistance to 'go public', receive private placements, achieve acquisition, secure investment, and stop infringement. Steven has served as a Director of the United Inventors' Association of America, and serves on the Board of the Dallas MIT Forum. Steven has authored many publications including the E-Copyright Practice Manual by Aspen Publishing, and made television and radio appearances. Steven received M.B.A. & J.D. degrees from Baylor, and degrees in Electrical Engineering & Finance from Auburn. He completed additional studies in international law at Oxford University, England, & the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara. Prior to law school, he wrote avionics software for McDonnell Douglas's F-18 E/F strike-fighter, & Star Wars program.
Ryan RobertsSpeaking: Sunday evening
Topic: How to startup the startup weekend way
Bio: Ryan Roberts is a startup lawyer and represents technology companies through all phases of the startup process, including incorporation, seed & venture financings, and exit transactions.
Click here to learn more about his practice. subscribe to The Startup Lawyer, follow @startuplawyer on Twitter, or contact Ryan directly.
Matt HimelfarbSpeaking: Friday evening
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Bio: Matt joined Trailblazer Capital in January of 2008. His responsibilities at Trailblazer include deal flow screening, due diligence on potential investments, legal review, internal fund management and business development for the fund’s portfolio companies. While attending graduate school, Matt founded a digital music company that has domestic and international patents pending in variable music pricing.
He was successful in both raising capital for his company and attracting local talent. In February of 2007, Matt became acquainted with Trailblazer when he pitched his company to the fund. Although he no longer has an active role in this company, the experience gave him unique perspective into the world of the entrepreneur. Matt received both a J.D. and an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University with a concentration in Finance. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at Colgate University and is a member of the State Bar of Texas. He is a board member of the Dallas chapter of Texchange, a networking organization for technology entrepreneurs, and a frequent participant in NFTE, The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship.
Tiffany SundaySpeaking: Sunday mid-day
Topic: Product and Customer Development
Bio: Tiffany Sunday is a consultant that helps startups simplify the process of starting a new company. Her experience includes brand marketing for two national consumer products companies and successfully managing the market launch of an auto sales company, telecom provider and consumer food products.
While obtaining her MBA, she worked as a securities regulator at the NASD; within six month of employment she developed a plan to create a web based auditing program. She was appointed to the initial designed team that developed and implemented the program companywide. The NASD’s move from a paper based system increased examiners’ efficiencies and reduces time in the field. Tiffany launched dillon 5, three years ago and works with a wide range of startup companies. Click here to learn more about dillon 5 www.dillon5.com, Subscribe to dillon 5 blog http://dillon5.com/dillon-5-blog/ follow @dillon5llc on twitter or contact Tiffany directly at tiffany@dillon5.com.
Cameron GawleySpeaking: Friday evening
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Bio: Digital Strategist, Serial Entreprenuer, Technology Junkie, Music Lover, Marketing Guru Cameron Gawley is the founder of BuzzShift Digital Strategy.
Cameron is a visionary and entrepreneur who combined his passion of technology and marketing to create multiple ventures. For the past 11 years Cameron has started and built 3 successful tech startups and worked with Fortune 500 clients on technology and marketing solutions. As IT Director and Social Media Strategist for the National Breast Cancer Foundation Cameron has helped build one of the strongest Non-Profit communities online. This past year Cameron and team lead the relaunch of the Social Media Club Dallas. He consults and coaches in the areas of Social Media Marketing, Technology Integration, SEO, Success Metrics and overall Digital Strategy. You can follow Cameron on Twitter at @cgawley.
Joey PomerenkeBio: Internet Marketer, Entrepreneur, Startup Enthusiast, Travel Junkie, Coffee Lover, Beer Connoisseur and just a really cool guy!
Chris WaltersBio: Chris Walters has more than 15 years experience as a business operator, entrepreneur, and executive in a variety of industries including information technology, telecommunications, portable moving and storage, software, medical, and marine.
Currently, he is helping the Dallas technology community by mentoring, blogging, twitting, seed investing, and organizing events. He is also the Founder of Tuxedo Dinners and utilizes Veridicus Software as his consulting entity. Prior to living in Dallas, Chris was the President of Rocky Mountain Portable Storage where he successfully started and operated two multi-city PODS (Portable on Demand Storage) franchises. Chris began his carrier by founding Cheetah Medical Solutions, a value added reseller focused on computer hardware and practice management software for the medical industry. He sold Cheetah Medical Solutions in early 2000. Chris is passionate about helping technology start-ups succeed by offering mentoring, making connections, generating capital, and imparting real world experience. Chris loves Dallas and gives back generously by volunteering his time at the YMCA as a Division Leader for their yearly Partners Campaign fundraiser. Chris also supports his children’s elementary school as an active member of the Dad’s Club and volunteers as a coach for various youth basketball, football, and baseball programs around Dallas.
Seth McGuinnessBio: Seth hopes to soon make his mark in the Dallas startup community whether via successful entrepreneur endeavors or just helping the community grow and foster future startups. Currently, he is an aspiring entrepreneur who is excited about the efforts being made to create a startup community in Dallas.
He spends his days (and sometimes nights) working as a web developer for Thomson Reuters. However, in his spare time has slowly begun rolling out a Twitter app for sports fans called twtseat.
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Before posting the sarrtups links here (I’m waiting for your emails guys)
I wanted to share with you the big “souvenir” picture! a big thanks to Chris, Seth, Joey the local organizers and Company Dallas with Matt they made that possible
see you @the next one 
Yeaaaaah Dalas!
Franck
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Yesterday we had a great presentation full of IPs and noodles by Steven
you can find more information here
here is the PDF of the presentation
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Hey guys,
I’m very excited to meet the dallas entrepreneurs community today and all this weekend at company Dallas. Here is the map by the way so we are sure you guys don’t get lost.
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Startup Weekend is back. We are so excited to see you guys that we’ve decided to invite you to the biggest Entrepreneurship Party in town, hosted at CoHabitat.
We’ll have music and drinks, so come party with us and mingle with Dallas’ brightest innovators!
CoHabitat
2517 Thomas Avenue
Dallas, Texas 75201
Be sure to join us at the next STARTUP WEEKEND April the 16th – 18th if you have nothing to do this weekend you could create your Startup and meet brillant people
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Start-Up Guest Blog
I’m Steven Thrasher, serial entrepreneur & IP attorney specializing in software startups. I, along with about one hundred others, attended November’s Dallas Startup Weekend, and the group I participated with still meets today. Here’s what has happened to us, and some of what we learned.
Maybe you haven’t attended a Startup Weekend and wonder what happens to the start-ups that are formed over the course of a short weekend. Maybe you went and wonder “whatever happened to those startups?” Having been there, pitched an idea, and presented at the closing, I wonder these things as well.
Here’s my understanding—at least three groups that pitched are still meeting. My/our startup was MeetUpSports, and I hope you’ll enjoy our perspective.
The Project
MeetUpSports, which you can see at www.meetupsports.com, allows users to quickly locate people who want to play any given sport, and are close enough to play. Today, it is merely an instance of a broader and more powerful toolkit of local area social networking modules that allow developers to cut hundreds or thousands of hours out of their development time. So, in a sense, MeetUpSports was, at startup weekend, a laser-beam narrow application, while the startup that evolved from startup weekend is now a considerably broader and monumentally more ambitious crusade, now called Proxomo.
The People
We started that weekend with eight people, and only lost one on Friday. One decided not to move forward after the weekend, and one later decided to not participate. Of the three of us who have been most active, our two developers have worked like pyramid builders. We chose to pay for the services of a designer (to avoid dilution, and since our experience has been that designers work best when they are working for cash). And have recently recruited others to the team. We continue to work almost daily, and are quite cohesive. Interestingly, everyone now involved had startup experience prior to Startup Weekend.
The Formalities
Proxomo is now incorporated, has a board of directors, and is following corporate formalities. A trade secrets program is in place. A patent application and two copyright applications have been filed, and a trademark search has been performed on Proxomo and other potential brands. We also have set up internal email accounts.
The Way Forward
Not only was Startup Weekend the prime moving event in our company, we plan to use the next Startup Weekend to tell our story and recruit more developers, designers, marketing minds, and at least one “accountant-type” to our team. We anticipate introducing our MeetUpSports beta at the Startup Weekend, and will roll out our Proxomo Beta at AppCon (www.appconlv.com) which will be held in Las Vegas in August, where we have been asked to pitch and present.
What We Learned
To summarize, have high hopes, but keep expectations low as to not take on too much and rush to finish Sunday afternoon–enjoy the energy. But remember, energy dissipates, though, for some and “real life” intervenes for others. So, avoid expecting to be able to create realistic corporate formalities or equity distributions around the time of Startup Weekend. Also, expect to have little more than vaporware (or crude prototype for non-software startups) by Sunday evening.
What We Would Like to See
More marketing types. More accounting types. More angels. Non-tech startups– Gadgets. More fun stuff. And, the skills and energy you bring the to event.
I would very much like to hear about where the other Startup Weekend startups are.
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Head on over to http://www.eventbrite.com/event/602057771 to purchase tickets to SW Dallas 2!
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Hope to see you there!
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We’re in the planning phases for round 2 of Startup Weekend! We are aiming for April 16th – 18th, so mark it on your calendar and check back here for updates!
If you have any good ideas for what you want to see happen at the next event, or if you might be able to help support the event, please let us know!
Twitter: @startupweekend
Hash Tag: #swdallas
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Come join everyone for the standard SpringStage happy hour at the High Tech bar at the INFOMART Monday December 7th from 5pm-8pm. Please RSVP HERE
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What an amazing set of presentations tonight! After a weekend of hardcore coding, some great Texas food, and some unrealistic expectations, we had 8 presentations, and the top 3 teams won some cold, hard cash! The vote was done from an informal panel of judges in the room with decades of collective startup experience.
Congratulations to PickyPlates who won the 1st place prize of $1,000 2nd to OpenWishList who won $750 and 3rd to 1FTPclient who took home $250. Thank you to Alexander Muse and Ryan Roberts for sponsoring the prize!
Thank you to Gabriella Draney for the amazing summary of the presentations. Check her blog for full details!
What happened with the Woopra $5,000? The team behind the app did an amazing job and have formed a company called Black Eyed Apps and have earned not only the $5,000 prize, but their first client is Woopra as they will continue forward to finish up the app and start to take on other projects!
Check back for more updates and some awesome footage once it gets cut!
A huge thank you to our sponsors for making this to happen! Thank you Sun Startup Essentials, Woopra, BigInJapan, SpringStage, Microsoft, TechWildCatters, MIT Enterprise Forum, Wowrack, The Kauffman Foundation, and Twilio!
