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Angel Oregon: Investment Prize Winners

Sustainability Track:  OsoEco

Consumer Track:  END Outdoor

High Tech Track: Revelation

Overall Winner: END Outdoor

Angel Oregon: elevator pitch winners

The latest news from Angel Oregon: of the companies that did elevator pitches, the audience voted, and 3 of the presenters came back to the stage and got 5 minutes to talk more.

The winners were:

- GadgetTrak  Theft avoidance and recover software for iPods, cell phones, laptops
- Trellis Earth Environmentally friendly plastics
- UV Cleaning Systems Uses UV radiation to eliminate biological & chemical contaminants in air and water

Beaver Barcamp Definitely a Success

I missed the Friday evening part, but was in Corvallis yesterday (Saturday) for the first Beaver Barcamp, co-organized by John Sechrest and Tim Budd.  I don't know the official count, but we started with more than 60 people at 9am, and lots more arrived through the morning.  It was a great event that pulled in quite a lot of the Corvallis techno crowd, not to mention a few of us from Portland, and even a few from Eugene.

The OSU Kelly Engineering Center was a great venue - plenty of space.  There were lots of interesting programs ranging from  the very technical to building community to entrepreneurial topics like mine on raising angel money.  (I also replayed my Ignite Portland 5-minute presentation on How to Create an Investor Pitch).

I took a few photos -- you can see four of them on Flickr tagged as Beaver BarCamp (or just go to my Beaver Barcamp photo set at Flickr

Kudos to John and Tim for an excellent first Beaver Bar Camp.  (And I hope John's voice has recovered!)  I look forward to #2!

Ignite Portland 2

Ignite Portland 2 was another Ignite success -- filling the Bagdad Theater with 750 people.  Check out the videos at the Ignite Portland site. The Silicon Florist has a good sampling of reactions.

Startup Weekend Coming to Portland

May 24-26 is Startup Weekend Portland.  So what is Startup Weekend?  Here's the definition from their website:

Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of small business entrepreneurs to build a community and company in a weekend.

The founders decide what to make as a team, and earn an equal share of stock in the developed business. Attendees are responsible for bringing the desire and passion to the project and walk out of the room with a brand new business, in a short 54 hours. Sound intense? It is.

Start to finish (or at least to initial release?) in 54 hours.  Read about the Seattle Startup Weekend that created Skillbit on the front page of the Startup Weekend site.

Ignite Portland in The Oregonian

The Oregonian featured Ignite Portland in the Living section on Saturday.  For more info, see the Ignite Portland website.  Ignite Portland 2 is Feb. 5 at the Bagdad Theater.

Ignite Portland was a Blast!

Ignite Portland, last Thursday evening, was a blast. 

  - 18 presentations
  - Each was 5 minutes
     ... enforced by having 20 slides that auto-forwarded every 15 seconds

Lots of variety.  Great networking.  Excellent food and drink (even if the beer did run out a bit early!)

If you weren't able to make it, or would like to see some of the 5-minute pitches again, there's some great video posted here (full disclosure: it includes my presentation on "How to Create an Investor Pitch"; presentation #2).  And check out the Ignite Portland website at http://www.igniteportland.com .  And Silicon Florist lists quite a few posts/comments on the event.  The idea is to make this a quarterly event, so stay tuned to the Ignite Portland website for another go a this in January.