David Weekly (founder of PBWorks) delivered a stellar and engaging presentation Wednesday night (12/02/09) at the latest StartUp SF (v2.2) to a crowded room. We were able to capture David’s presenting antics in video as well. In this post, there is a variety of information, including:

• Speaker Video & Presentation
• Charity
• Demo Companies
• Raffle Results

SPEAKER VIDEO & PRESENTATION

The full video of David giving his speech “Give Your Ideas Ex-Lax” is below:

David Weekly (PBWorks) Speaks at StartUp SF v2.2 from HighTechDad on Vimeo.

His presentation is available on SlideShare and is below:

CHARITY

Also, all of the ticket sales (over $400) has been donated to Toys For Tots!

DEMO COMPANIES

We also wish to thanks the various Demo Companies who introduced the audience to a variety of exciting products and services:

DoTogether – http://www.DoTogether.com

Do Together” is our mission. The web is growing and so are the choices we have. You can find lot of things only if you are good at searching with the right keywords or have the time to browse through endless search results. DoTogether lets you involve your friends to do things together, faster and better. Our collective wisdom at work. Deciding is much more than just finding something. There are design aspects to consider, convenience of a place or product, price/deals and most importantly our friend’s opinion about these things. All of that plays out in your DoTogether Showcase. Your Showcase presents your research to others so that they can benefit and arrive at quick decisions. So join us in this effort to make Social Recommendations more easy and creative.

Transactiv – http://www.transactiv.com

Transactiv is a new Cincinnati-based startup dedicated to enabling online commerce for businesses of all sizes. Founded by a team of experienced professionals from SAP, Microsoft, and i2, Transactiv addresses a fundamental need in online commerce to effectively connect millions of products and businesses online.

Klout – http://www.Klout.com

Klout is the standard for measuring online influence. We track over 5 million users across Twitter and other social sites to understand who the most influential people are. Our proprietary social analysis engine identifies key influencers for any topic. The Klout API is used by over 100 companies for targeting, customer service, filtering and engagement. Klout.com is the premier location for individuals to track and manage their personal influence.

GridDynamics – http://www.griddynamics.com

Grid Dynamics is the global leader in scaling mission-critical systems. We help customers architect, design and deliver business systems that handle peak loads, scale on demand and always stay up. Using the latest advances in grid and cloud computing, our customers turn monolithic applications into scalable services and static, underutilized server clusters into virtualized compute clouds. The results: better performance, higher availability, faster time-to-market and lower operational costs.

RAFFLE RESULTS

Everyone who left a business card not only will receive a $120 voucher (not a gift certificate) for the Microsoft Employee online store. This will allow you to buy Microsoft products at Employee prices! Look for information on that coming in a few weeks.

We also raffled off 2 Xbox 360 games! The winners are below:

• Gears of War = Thuy Pham from eNovalink
  
• PGR4 = Caitlin Taylor Gilmour
  

Congratulations to both of those winners!

Be sure to bookmark StartUp SF as we plan on having more exciting events in 2010!

As if hearing David Weekly of PBWorks and Hacker Dojo isn’t enough, we added 4 great Demo Companies (Klout, DoTogether, Transactive & GridDynamics).

Date: Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Time: 6-9pm
Location: Microsoft, 835 Market Street, Suite 700 in San Francisco
Price: $10 online in advance / $20 at the door
Note: Food & Drinks included – You must be 21 years or older to attend

Well to give you yet ANOTHER reason to attend, both of the sponsors of StartUp SF (Microsoft and GoGrid) are giving away some items at the event!

From GoGrid

Every startup is looking for ways to save money from the beginning. Buying IT infrastructure should not be one of those things that you spend money on. Using Cloud Infrastructure instead will eliminate your CapEx and help you spend just what you have to on your IT. If you are at this event and talk to a GoGrid representative, they will outfit you with a $100 Service Credit for a new GoGrid Account. With that credit, you can spin up a few GoGrid servers for a few weeks!

From Microsoft

First, there will be a raffle for some Microsoft Xbox Games. We will collect your contact info (Name, Address, email, etc.) and have a drawing on-site!

Second, Attendees who provide their business cards or contact information with: Full Name, Company Name, Physical and Email Addresses will receive a voucher* to purchase up to $120 in merchandise at the Microsoft eCompany store. This is a great opportunity to do some holiday shopping at Microsoft employee prices! For example, you can buy Windows 7 for the same price that a Microsoft Employee would get!

* The voucher is not a gift certificate.

Registration

Tickets are on sale now. $10 online and $20 at the door. You can register here or fill in the form below.

Hope to see you there!

It’s been a few months since our last Startup SF where Loic Le Meur was the guest speaker. I’m pleased to announce that we have a new StartUp SF (version 2.2) coming on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009. And for your learning pleasure we have none other than David Weekly, founder of PBWorks (“online collaboration that just works” – formerly PBWiki) and Founding Director of Hacker Dojo (a community center for hackers & thinkers to meet, discuss, learn and create).

David’s presentation is titled “Give Your Ideas Ex-Lax“. Just the title alone is intriguing! He describes the theme as “you should find an uncomfortably quick way to launch your idea and iterate on it instead of building grand designs.”

Ticket orders are now on-sale! Scroll down for info.

As with every StartUp SF, our goal is to help startups begin, grow and become successful. The format is simple, for an hour, you network with technology peers, entrepreneurs, VCs, and other like-minded professionals, then you hear short “elevator pitches” from a few select Demo Companies. After the pitches, a Guest Speaker gives you first-hand experience on the Do’s and Don’ts of kick-starting your startup. Once the speaker has finished, there is a Question & Answer session and then more time for networking. We provide food, drink and engaging conversation.

About David Weekly

David Weekly started PBwiki (now PBWorks) back in 2003. His background is in engineering with a BS in Computer Science from Stanford where he was a President Scholar and a finalist in the ACM International Programming Competition. He is also the Founding Director of Hacker Dojo which is a non-profit community center designed to provide programmers in the San Francisco Bay Area a place to collaborate and innovate. Hacker Dojo continues to gain success and traction.

David is particularly appropriate for being a speaker for StartUp SF, as is outlined in this ValleyWag article titled “Everybody’s stalking: Accidental entrepreneur David Weekly sets a new record for startup failure“. From development to launch to being “TechCrunched” to receiving a Cease & Desist, just 12 days!

How to Order Tickets

Tickets are now on sale. They are $10 online and $20 at the door.

You can also register online on Eventbrite here.

Demo Companies

Demo companies at StartUp SF get 5-10 minutes of “open mic” time to give their company’s elevator pitch, as well as demo tables where they can showcase their product or service.

This page will be updated shortly with Demo Company information so check back!

More About the Event

At the event, you will hear some tips and tricks from a successful startup, find a good crowd, demos of some thought-provoking leading-edge products and drinks and light snacks.

You will leave better connected and educated AND with the following gifts from us:

• $100 GoGrid service credit which enables you to deploy, scale and load balance Cloud server networks instantaneously – More info about GoGrid
• Microsoft BizSpark will be providing information on how startups can save $10,000 in licensing fees with their program. Info at BizSpark

Bring yourself and your technology friends to meet likeminded, future-looking folks who may become your next colleague, customer, vendor or competitor.

Thanks to all who attended our most recent StartUp SF v2.1 on 6/4/09. We had well over 100 attendees who heard Seesmic’s Loic Le Meur speak about “How to Launch a Product with your Community.” We also raised about $580 for GreenPeace which is fantastic!

Loic’s presentation is available on SlideShare but you can view it below as well. (Thanks to Dennis Mojado for recording and sharing the audio.)

Also, if you want to listen to just the audio, it is broken up into 3 sections:

• StartUp SF Introduction (Demo companies)

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We hope to see you at future StartUp SF events. If you have suggestions for speakers, topics or demo companies, please feel free to leave a comment or fill out the Contact Form.

Thanks to all who attended StartUp SF v1.3 on September 10th, 2008. This was by far the largest turnout that we have had to date. Over 100 people enjoyed the food, drink and engaging content coming from the attendees, demo companies and guest speaker. Also, all proceeds from this event are donated to a different non-profit charity. For SUSF v1.3, we raised around $600 for Doctors Without Borders so thanks to all who bought a ticket and attended.

To quickly recap, StartUp SF v1.3 had:

• Scott Nazarian, principal designer from frog design discuss how to understand, evaluate and choose designers
• Lee Diamond from StartUpAgents give an introduction to his matching service that helps companies and talent meet and engage
• Kord Campbell from <splunk> talk about taking the pain out of IT stat crunching
• Justin Thorp from ClearSpring show how to create, distribute, track and monetize widgets

Presentation Download >> Scott’s vibrant presentation is available for download here [pdf document].

The next StartUp SF will be within the next 2 months. If you are interested in being a demo company or a speaker, please fill out this form.

This event is hosted by:

• Orrick – a global law firm
• GoGrid – providing cloud hosting services with Windows/Linux/Load Balancing
• ServePath – managed hosting and colocation services

StartUp SF v1.2 is a wrap and another successful meetup is under our belts. For those who attended, we hope that you walked away with some new PR ideas for your war chest. For those who were unable to attend, hopefully this post will give you a bit of what you missed.

Brian Solis, of PR 2.0 and Bub.blicio.us, presentation on “Conversational PR for Start-ups” was well received by all. Much of the information that he covered is included in his eBook, “The Essential Guide to Social Media“. Further information can be found in his article titled “PR Tips for Startups – Director’s Cut“.

During the event, I tried to Twitter some quick highlights and points from his presentation which can be tracked via Twitter hashtags (#startupsf) here. (By the way, it’s HelpaReporter.com which is fantastic!)

Also on hand were several demo companies:

Mosio Project – http://www.mosioproject.com – “Mosio is a mobile question and answer community enabling you to text any question from your phone and have it answered by real people. Harnessing the power of helpful people, mobile technologies and the internet, Mosio gives users access to information anywhere.”

Nirvino – http://www.nirvino.com – “Nirvino is, simply, the easiest way to find great wine. Our innovative technology combines wine reviews and ratings from print, online, and broadcast wine critics into one score. Get all of the information you need to make an informed purchasing decision with just one click. If the Nirvino Rating says a wine is great, look no further!”

Inveneo – http://www.inveneo.org – “Inveneo is a non-profit social enterprise whose mission is to get the tools of ICT into the hands of organizations and people who need them most: those in remote and rural communities in the developing world.”

Over $500 was raised from the sale of tickets to StartUp SF for Inveneo. Each StartUp SF event donates all proceeds to charity.

Bub.blicio.us not only photographed and covered the event, they taped an interview with iJustine as well.

The ServePath Flickr photostream has a few more photos as well. Be sure to also join the StartUp SF Facebook Group.

Attendees also received:

• $100 GoGrid service credit which enables you to deploy, scale and load balance server networks instantaneously – More info about GoGrid
• Orrick’s Startup Kit CD which includes legal documents critical to every startup Venture – More info about Orrick

The next StartUp SF is planned for early September 2008. We hope we will see more of you there then!

Thank you all for making StartUp SF’s inaugural event a dramatic success! We were extremely happy with the turnout and the response to the event.

Jonathan Cobb’s (CTO and Founder of Kiptronic) presentation is available as a PDF download here.

Also be sure to visit the companies who had demo tables:Triggit, Askpedia, and MotivePath.

More photos from the event are on the ServePath Flickr photostream.

This event was co-hosted by Orrick and ServePath (makers of GoGrid). If your company is interested in having a demo table, speaking or being a media sponsor, please use the Contact page to submit your information.