Justin Kistner will be joining the Independent Technopreneur panel. Justin began his career as a freelance designer while still studying advertising at the University of Oregon. After several years of successful self-employment, Justin joined Nemo Design and brought his creative web development process and methodology to their growing interactive department. Today, Justin is an independent consultant and entrepreneur. He is working on his first book about corporate blogging, sits on the board of directors of Legion of Tech and authors Metafluence blog.
Seth and Craig are the founders of toonlet.com.
Toonlet makes free, fun, online tools that allow anyone to make webcomics in minutes, starring characters of their own creation!
Sarah Gilbert will be speaking on our Independent Technoprenuer Panel. After receiving her MBA from Wharton and spending a few years in the investment banking industry in New York, Sarah worked as an independent consultant to several technology startups, including Portland’s JanRain, in the areas of operations and strategy. Sarah started out her blogging-for-pay career writing for ParentDish and Slashfood- the foodie blog for geeks. She currently manages and edits several financial blogs for AOL’s Weblogs, Inc., including BloggingStocks, WalletPop, and Luxist, among others. She also co-founded and writes for UrbanMamas and her personal blog CafeMama.
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.
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