Dan OwenSpeaking: Wednesday morning
Topic: Speaking on Startup Law
Bio: Dan Owen was raised in Rutherford, New Jersey and received his Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the University of Dayton.
He has lived in the Dallas area since 1972 when he was hired as a fundraiser for the Dallas PBS outlet, KERA-TV 13. In 1974 he obtained the FCC license for 90.1 FM, which is now the leading non-commercial news and public affairs station in the Dallas market. Dan joined Spectradyne, Inc. in its formative stage as its fifth employee in 1975 where he developed the SpectraVisionTM hotel pay-per-view television programming format. He led the expansion of the SpectraVisionTM movie system to 700,000 hotel guest rooms in five countries, negotiated chain agreements with Marriott, Hyatt, Hilton and Sheraton hotels, and helped develop and market successful add-on services such as free-to-the-guest cable channels and Video Checkout. He joined the Spectradyne Inc. board of directors in 1986 and participated in deliberations during an attempted hostile takeover and subsequent $453 million LBO of the company with Hicks & Haas and the Robert Bass Group. After the buyout Dan became Chief Operating Officer of the company and led an accelerated expansion effort, growing the company 40% in 18 months, facilitating its sale to investor Marvin Davis for $635 million.
Eric EngineerSpeaking: Friday evening
Topic: Venture Capital / Mentor / Panelist
Bio: Eric Engineer is a Senior Associate at Sevin Rosen Funds -- a Dallas-based early-stage Venture Capital firm with a 28-year history of teaming with innovative entrepreneurs to build world-class technology companies.
Eric is focused on early-stage investments in Media, and Information Technology. He works closely with the Boards of several Sevin Rosen portfolio companies--including Invodo (e-commerce video syndication) and FourthWall Media (interactive applications and advanced advertising for TV). Eric has a breadth of operational experiences in technology-related product management, development, marketing, and sales. At Microsoft, he held a variety of roles, including Product Manager for the suite of Windows Mobile developer tools, Product Planner for the Windows CE and Windows XP Embedded operating systems, Associate Account Manager calling on enterprise software customers, and Program Manager Intern for Hotmail. Prior to Microsoft, he worked at Trilogy Software, where he served as a Technical Sales Consultant focused on the automotive industry. Eric sits on the Board of Directors for TeXchange Dallas and is a regular participant/speaker for other local technology entrepreneurship organizations. Eric earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and a Masters in Computer Science from Rice University, where he also earned his Bachelors (cum laude) in Computer Science and Management Studies.
Alexander MuseBio: Alexander is a serial entrepreneur with more than a decade of startup experience. Alexander’s day job is with Big in Japan, where his team builds cool applications for mobile devices, including ShopSavvy built for Google’s open source Android platform.
In 2007 he sold Fancast to Comcast Interactive and is an active investor and contributor in several companies including SpringStage, Architel, ServiceGuy and WhiteBox. Previously, he was founder and CEO of LayerOne, a venture capital-backed telecommunications infrastructure company he started in the late 1990’s. Alexander has been involved in several organizations including the Entrepreneurs Foundation of North Texas (EFNT), the Young Entrepreneurs Organization (YEO), the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), IEEE, The Open Management Consortium, DFW Entrepreneur Network, OnStartups, Start-Up Phase Forum and Startup Ventures Links. Finally, Alexander is actively involved with the BarCamp movement (and associated programs including iPhoneDevCamp and AndroidDevCamp) having attended events on three continents and seven cities. BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. Alexander is available for Speaking engagements. Check out his Pictures , Facebook Profile, LinkedIn Profile, Wikipedia entry, Twitter Profile and his Upcoming Events. You can also learn more about him on FriendFeed, Spock, Delicious, SecondBrain, and Naymz.
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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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!
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Another call to help these guys out! Take 20 seconds to support your comrades deep in the startup trenches here at #swdallas!
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=6TeWGJDD6_2fGOdVpiYDlCfw_3d_3d
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As Day 2 winds down, the caffeine is still running, and everyone’s minds are starting to numb after being hard at work all day.
It’s only 10:05pm and things are still going strong… these teams are serious. I cant wait to see what happens tomorrow.
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OpenWishlists
MeetupSports
ActivePub
1FTPclient
HaveUseenThis
Legal 24/7
PickyPlates
WoopraiPhoneDevs
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Description: MEETUPSPORTS™ is a web application that gives anyone who wants to play any sport the ability to find other people to play it with–it makes games happen. MeetupSports locates similarly-skilled players near each other who are available to play a sport, locates them via the web or smartphone, bringing them together.
Find their website here: http://meetupsports.com
Follow them on Twitter: @meetupsports
Description: 1FTP will allow you to: Store all your FTP credentials in one place. Use a single login for access to all of your FTP accounts. Easily share access with others, without sharing your FTP passwords.
Find their website here: http://www.1ftpclient.com/
Follow them on Twitter: @1ftpclient
Description: PickyPlates is a recipe service that learns what food you like and dislike based on your favorite ingredients. You tell PickyPlates what ingredients you like and dislike and we learn about your food preferences and recommend recipes based on your favorite ingredients.
Find their website here: http://pickyplates.com/
Follow them on Twitter: @pickyplates
Open Wishlist
Description: Making wish lists easy to share.
Find their website here: http://openwishlists.org/
Follow them on Twitter: @openwishlists
ActivePub
Description: Collaborative Scientific Review
Find their website here: http://activepublication.com/
Follow them on Twitter: @activepub
Woopra iPhone Dev Team
Description: As part of StartUp Weekend, development has begun on an iPhone native Woopra app. Chris McCall is currently developing the model. Cesar is creating views in preparation of developing the controllers. Mike is already making great progress developing UI elements. Prototypes are being tested and I hope to post screen shots of everyone’s individual work.
Find their blog here: http://woopraiphone.wordpress.com/
Follow them on Twitter: @woopraiphonedev
DriveLegal 24/7
Description: DriveLegal 24/7 is a software compliance management program that enables trucking companies to monitor drivers. The goal of the company is to develop a program that reduces the amount of time administrative time to ensure each driver is in compliance and a way to stream line the proces
Find their website here: http://drivelegal247.com/
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Help your fellow Startup Weekender’s develop their future! The team working on MeetupSports is working hard to finalize their strategy and get some feedback. Take this super short, 10 questions survey to help a startup out!
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=gHctvu9f4_2fplFGDAUErasA_3d_3d
Find their website here: http://meetupsports.com
Follow them on Twitter: @meetupsports
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Dan Owen from HO2 Partners speaks about startup financing, lean startups, and how important it is to test & find your consumers as early as possible for as little as possible.
Click the “launch” button above, or here.
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