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Archive for January, 2008
Scott Kveton will demo Vidoop- a login solution designed to function without traditional passwords and improve security.
Scott Kveton is a digital identity promoter and open source advocate. Scott has worked at Amazon, RuleSpace.com and JanRain as
well as founded the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University. Working closely with projects like Mozilla, Linux, Drupal and Apache led Scott down the identity path and to JanRain in mid-2006. Scott was named to Red Herring’s list of ‘25 Titans in waiting’ in early 2007 and ‘InformationWeek’s Change Agents’ in December 2005. Scott speaks publicly about identity and open source, is an avid gardener and is also Internet-ordained performing weddings for family and friends.
Ray King, founder of several successful technology ventures, will be speaking on how he started, grew and eventually sold his companies.
Ray King has spent the better part of his career in the software business, first, writing software for Architects and Engineers with his first company - Semaphore, Inc. which he sold in 2000. Ray than co-founded SnapNames which was acquired in 2007. Ray’s current venture, AboutUs, a wiki containing information about websites and other community created topics/information, is consistently ranked among the Alexa top 2,000 websites.
Matt Tucker and Bill Lynch of Jive Software will be speaking on how they successfully bootrapped Jive Software into one of the industry leaders in collaboration and productivity software.
Matt & Bill founded Jive Software in 2001 which has since become one of the Northwests fastest growing in most awarded companies. In 2007 Jive received $15 million in funding from Sequoia Capital and Jive’s Clearspace X was recently named the Best
Community Platform by the InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards. Clients include Sun, IBM, Oracle, Amazon.com, ESPN, Lucas Films, Sony, GE, Kraft Foods, NASA, Electronic Arts and many others.
Jive Software delivers “social productivity” software that brings together employees, partners and customers into a unified collaboration system so they can create better products, faster processes and improved relationships.
Startupalooza is an interactive forum for the Portland tech startup community. It’s where you can find out about cool tech startups, learn from successful tech entrepreneurs and meet local tech-business people. The event features discussions, presentations, demonstrations and networking allowing participants to share, learn and connect in a candid, no-BS environment.
Startupalooza was started because I thought it would be cool to find out about all the tech startups in Portland. There is a lot of really great stuff being created in spare rooms and coffee shops in this town.
Being a web entrepreneur myself, I also wanted to ask questions of and get advice from the successful technology entrepreneurs I kept hearing and reading about. I wanted the real scoop from the founders about how they started their companies and overcame challenges- not the rehearsed statements from the CEOs that I hear at a lot of conferences. I probably couldn’t get them to meet just me, but I figured that if I organized an event and a bunch of other people came, I could probably convince them to come and talk.
I’ve heard, “it’s not what you know, but who you know”. I’m not sure who I’m supposed to know, but whoever they are, I wanted an event where I could meet them too. Maybe they could help me get funded or find great business partners or find customers.
And I wanted it to be a very casual fun atmosphere, kind of like at Portland BarCamp*, so I can ask questions or chime in if someone asks a question I happen to know something about. And there should be pizza. Really good pizza.
I bet there are a lot of other people like me who would like to learn about cool local startups, get advice on how to start a successful tech business and meet the “right people”. It would be fun to get all of these people together in one room. To get people to come, I’ll need to get people to blog and Twitter about it. A catchy name would help. Startupalooza!
*[Disclaimer: Startupalooza is not affiliated with BarCamp but it’s free like BarCamp, and it’s at the same place as Portland BarCamp, and the same people are organizing it, and a lot of the same cool people will probably be there.]
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