Presentations Tonight at 7PM
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Presentations will begin at 7pm. Below is a list of the order teams will present in:
Take it Healthy – 1

TravelDice – 2
Smart & Trendy – 3

Keynot.es – 4

Jim RogersSpeaking: Sunday evening
Topic: From startup to Fortune 500
Bio: Jim brings over 15 years of professional experience to i2E. He has been a small business operator, an internal consultant and has worked for both national and global Fortune 500 corporations.
Jim has held management positions throughout these organizations, including roles in operations, corporate finance, marketing, strategic planning, and business development. His areas of focus include helping small businesses obtain government assistance, identifying market opportunities, maximizing operational efficiencies and designing process guidelines and benchmarks. His clients include companies in the computer software, advance materials, aerospace, and construction industries.
Daniel Mercer Speaking: Sunday afternoon
Topic:
Bio: With a background in community development, banking, venture capital and consulting, Daniel Mercer serves as COOP Ale Works’ financial and operational strategist.
He has led investment due diligence on more than 450 startup and expansion companies during his career and specializes in technology transfer, strategy development, tax credit and capital structures, financial modeling and operations management. Mr. Mercer’s investment experience, totaling more than $60 million among over two dozen companies, allowed him to lead COOP’s successful business planning and pursuit of capital, and he continues to guide COOP through its rapid growth. He is an outspoken critic (and sometimes, proponent) of economic and education policies, earned a BSB in Economics from Oklahoma City University and is a graduate of the Federal Reserve Bank’s Community Development Lending School.
J.D. Merryweather Speaking: Saturday afternoon
Topic:
Bio: An architectural and corporate photographer, J.D. Merryweather has become a fixture in Oklahoma City’s business, arts and culinary communities.
Mr. Merryweather’s leadership brought instant credibility to the COOP team in the restaurant and entertainment communities. His untiring labor has resulted in a successful marketing campaign and unprecedented growth in a very demanding and competitive industry. In addition to his marketing efforts with COOP, J.D. maintains a diverse client base and his professional work has appeared in over 125 major publications including Architectural Record, Esquire, Interior Design, The Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The London Financial Times and German GQ. J.D. attended Brooks Institute of Photographic Arts, Science, and Business in Santa Barbara, California and earned a Media Communications degree from Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Piyush Patel Speaking: Saturday afternoon
Topic:
Bio: Patel founded Digital-Tutors, a division of PL Studios, Inc. and leading innovator of interactive learning solutions in 2003. Today, PL Studios, Inc.
and Digital-Tutors maintains a client list which includes top companies, government agencies, academic institutions, and studios from across the globe. Over the past decade, Patel has had the opportunity to teach artists at Electronic Arts, assist in product visualization at Motorola, develop educational curriculum for the University of Michigan, and work with software developers such as Autodesk, Pixar, Next Limit, Pixologic, Softimage, and Adobe. Patel is a 2008 Autodesk Maya Master and the award-winning training solutions developed by Patel and the team of instructors at Digital-Tutors are aiding artists and creative professionals in the creation of next generation Feature Films, Commercials, Video Games, and Visual Effects.
Michael Smith Speaking: Sunday afternoon
Topic:
Bio: Michael Smith is the Principal of Oxygen for Organizations, an organization that creates growth opportunities for people and the organizations that nurture them so that men and women discover and optimize their own unique gifts and talents in the context of group success.
Smith has a wide range of experience coaching leaders, especially CEOs, executives and business owners of medium to small businesses as well as the leaders of not-for-profit organizations. Smith began his career at Gemini Industries in 1975, and soon be became President of the $8 million dollar company in 1989 and assumed the title of CEO in 1994. By 2003 the company had $35 million in sales, 150 employees and 5 physical locations, doing business virtually in every state in the U.S. Smith sold his majority equity position in Gemini Industries, now an employee-owned company, to it's team members.

Take Your Story Somewhere
www.therollplay.comThe Roll Play (www.therollplay.com) is a new web system to allow students, writers, and others to build stories collectively with other members by assuming the role of a character of their own making.
The members in effect make a “rolling” play or even a debate. The site is up and running with new differentiating functionality coming out weekly.

A visual local guide that lets you find dishes, not just restaurants.
http://foodspotting.net/foodspotting was formed over a weekend at Startup Weekend San Francisco with Women 2.0. They were offered $5k seed funding by an Angel Investor in the crowd.
They will also have free workspace offered to them by Dylan Rossario at sfCUBE. They are set to be huge!

In a sticky situation?
http://www.escapemydate.com/The popular vote winner! This team was amazing and created a fully functional project in just 2 days! Keep your eye on this team to see what keeps coming! They were also the winners of a one-month tenure at PlugandPlayTechCenter!
Know the People you Know
http://www.learnthatname.com/Introducing the first mobile app to help LinkedIn users memorize people within their network. iPhone and Palm Pre users can use this app as an effective name memorization technique packaged in an entertaining mobile game.

Sustainable Jewelry
http://sulusso.comSulusso\'s featured designers all have one thing in common - a commitment to social and environmental responsibility. We offer the best selection of beautiful jewelry made with recycled metals, conflict-free diamonds and ethically sourced gems.
a nudge in the right direction
http://www.99nudges.com/a nudge in the right direction

84 People Are Now Connected From Our 1st Event
http://eventhash.com/Events are everywhere but connections get lost. event#hash brings together and matches people to connect. Tweet your event tag or start at eventhash.com on your computer or phone and connect with people at your location.
Find what you’re seeking and seek to be found at eventhash.com.
Feeding the Community Year Round
http://www.localfood365.com/For what you’d guess to be a techie crowd, a very un-techie startup — a company that would build greenhouses on currently vacant land to grow food that would be sold and consumed locally.
Unlike a farmer’s market or urban garden, the greenhouse and hydroponics would allow year-ground growing in large quantities, and the distribution method would be through wholesalers versus direct to the public. The idea has good PR potential, because the idea of keeping more food dollars circulating locally versus shipping food in from elsewhere is a newsworthy concept.
Your rewards are waiting
http://joemetric.com/JoeMetric™ leverages smart phone technology to gather consumer opinions when and where they matter most. Our highly interactive interface makes it simple and affordable for organizations to develop and distribute customized surveys.
Consumers are constantly on the move and JoeMetric™ is there alongside them every step of the way.

Clearwish is an interactive service that allows a user to create, grow and share their wish lists wi
www.clearwish.comClearwish is an interactive service that allows a user to create, grow and share their wish lists with family and friends.
Find love in 140 characers or less
http://140match.com/Twitter matchmaking. The site would basically parse your tweets and the tweets of those you follow (plus the tweets of those THEY follow) for keywords to make matches.
If you tweet about your poodle a lot, there just may be some other dog lovers out there among your extended Twitter universe. This concept was a crowd-pleaser, the team seemed to think their big challenge was Twitter’s rules on usage of their API.

Would you like to go on a fun date with your partner?
Sparknight.comYou tell us about you and your significant other, then we set you up with a surprise date night! We\'ll tell you about your first stop and reveal the rest of the night from there.

Effortlessly assemble what your readers really want to hear.
www.skribit.comSkribit is a user-generated content suggestion application for blogs.

Kill Your Neighbor
http://gpsassassins.com/Very cool iPhone app in development that yep, you guessed it, will involve using GPS to locate and then assassinate other players [in the game, obviously].

An End to Parking Tickets
http://tixsux.com/Never forget to move your car again. Send us a date and time. We\'ll call with a reminder.

The easiest way to manage business finances
www.indinero.comEasy Business Finance Software, Simplified Small Business Accounting and Cash flow Accounting
We help you get better at interviews
http://bettertalking.com/Better talking allows you to hone your interview skills through sharing your responses to an automated stock interview with your friends, and gathering their feedback. See it action here:

What are you looking for?
www.marksmenus.comMarksMenus is a site that allows a user to upload menus of their favorite restaurants and to rate menu items. This enables other users to search where to eat using criteria like dish ingredients and menu items.
This way if you need to find the best vegan dishes in the city you can easily locate them and know where to go.

Music. Gather. Share
www.mugasha.comThe best way to listen to music online.
Eat, sort, and find recipies you actually like.
http://pickyplates.com/PickyPlates is a social recipe service built for the picky eater in all of us. Tell us the food you like and dislike and we will recommend recipes based on your food preferences.
Online Bidding Done Right
http://www.bidsie.com/We love to shop as much as you do. The current online auction process can be rough and unforgiving. It is filled with strangers selling products that may be bogus or at the very least not in the condition described.

Discover your relationships with Search results.
http://mysearchkick.com/Discover your relationships with Search results.

List - Swap - Donate Your Childs Neglected Toys.
http://www.toybintrader.com/Toy swap amungst parents.

Stop wasting the great contacts you make every day.
http://ming.ly/Your SocialCRM. Stop wasting the great contacts you make every day.

Tracking Opinions on Twitter.
www.twitrratr.comA twitter opinion tracking app. Discover what people are really saying on Twitter. With Twitrratr you can distinguish negative from positive tweets surrounding a brand, product, person or topic.

We Screen Your Candidates for the Price of The Craigslist Job Ad.
http://sayhired.com/a/indexWith SayHired, you off-load the boring and frustrating task of sorting and pre-screening candidates. We will post your jobs on the job boards of your choice, pre-screen candidates over the phone, and recommend the best ones for your position.
You pay only a small flat fee for the candidate you choose to interview.

Real Estate Communications Platform
http://uvestor.com/Uvestor Real Estate Software for Investors, Brokers, Realtors, Landlords and Title Companies.

Get your ducks in a row.
http://helloyaro.com/Yaro is a platform that gives you control over you social media presence by providing one location where you can manage the content you publish on your social networks.

For all the things you wish they\'d said
http://fakewhale.com/A hilarious twitter prank that tests some boundaries sure to make anyone flinch.
Customers tell you what they think
http://www.instantloop.com/Finally, a quick and simple way to find out what people think. Voicify calls your customers, friend, or team members with the questions you want answered.
It then displays the results in easy to read graphs to help you make better decisions about your business or personal life.

Social Commuting
http://submate.com/S
ubMate allows you to discover the familiar strangers you see every day in the subway, and potentially share a moment before, during or after your train trips ! SubMate will launch in New York, London and Paris before expanding to all major US and European cities.

Discovering Projects. Connecting People.
http://openaction.orgBasically, OpenAction maps organizations and individuals making a difference in order to foster great transparency, collaboration, and sharing of best practices.
We accomplish this by adding value to organizations that adopt an open data standard for reporting project information. The open standard allows project data (stories, photos, videos) to be mapped, linked to a timeline of progress, and disseminated to multiple locations including the organization's website, the ActionMap that aggregates projects to promote greater connectivity amongst organizations, the RSS Readers of their supporters (similar to how one subscribes to a blog), and Google Earth presentations. This maximizes the return on an organization's outreach because they can engage their existing supporters while connecting to new audiences and like-minded organizations. There is no need for retyping information, so that all of the content is current.

Meetlie helps people share knowledge with others in their area.
http://www.meetlie.com/If you\'re looking for advice or help with a problem, you can search by topic for people near you who can help

Informative Awakening
http://izaazu.com/A mobile app that lets you customize your morning. Looking for a way to organize a hectic life and wake up on the informative side of the bed? iZazzu will help you!

your media release hub
http://releaseq.com/Track your favorite upcoming releases: movies, books, music, and video games. Gives you a way to organize the overwhelming amount of information that is out there in a way that is relevant to you.
a better way for webcomics
http://www.higut.com/A website to help improve your web comic experience. A place where authors and viewers come together to help fuel and sustain the comic industry.

Find nearby volunteer opportunities
http://www.snapimpact.org/SnapImpact is a guerrilla, open-source, nonprofit startup with the goal of using tech to make doing good easy. We started out with the idea of building an iPhone app that would show you places to volunteer nearby and have since added a FaceBook app, a WordPress plugin, and the SnapImpact.org website.
Windows Mobile, Android, and other forms are in the works! We’re based in Boulder, Colorado, and everyone involved are volunteers. There is no gain, only glory. Want to help us do more? Check out the Help SnapImpact link below. We’re a Component Fund of The Community Foundation, which means we are a 501(c)3 and we would not be able to be successful without their support.
Invite the Web to Your Next Event
http://eventstart.com/EventStart allows you to go from an event idea to a vibrant community in less time than you ever imagined. Do you need a top-notch event registration page? Events are completely free if you don't charge for tickets.
If you do charge for tickets, we charge a small fee for each ticket you sell.

isit? Yes it is!
http://qleeq.comQleeQ provides Credibility Ranking of data with a product called isit? utilizing various reliable and authorized information sources along with analyzing phrases semantically
http://www.pockettales.com/
Pocket Tales is an online social reading game aimed at 7-12 years old. The objective is to level-up by reading books and completing activities like taking quizzes, playing games, rating books, and recommending books to friends. And probably the biggest news of all - we were recently selected to the Microsoft Business Accelerator Competition at SXSW.
We are one of eight teams competing in the entertainment category. http://sxsw.com/interactive/accelerator/finalists

http://www.friendmosaic.com/
We make awesome mosaics of your Twitter profile picture using the pictures of your friends and followers.
Adam DaniBio: Adam is a financial professional with vast experience. Having worked with one of the top Financial Advisory groups in the country, his clients have included everyone from entrepreneurs just starting their company to Fortune 500 executives.
His team at Wachovia securities was listed by Baron's magazine as the #1 Financial Advisory group in Oklahoma. He now has a consulting business that helps people who have been victims of fraudulent investment advice recover their lost money.
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Presentations will begin at 7pm. Below is a list of the order teams will present in:
Take it Healthy – 1

TravelDice – 2
Smart & Trendy – 3

Keynot.es – 4

Posted by Startup Weekend Crew
Last night we heard 21 different pitches and we narrowed the field down to 4 teams. Here is a brief description of each team below:
1.) TravelDice – They are working on a service for travelers to search for flights based on price and travel dates. A user might search for a flight departing June 1 and returning June 7 and might cap their budget at $300. The search results would then display a list of random cities from lowest price to highest price from the airport of origin. This would be perfect for travelers willing to take a spontaneous trip without having to specify their destination initially. They are working on launching TravelDice, (@traveldice) creating their social community and working on hacking up some travel API’s.
2.) Keynot.es – The team is working on tagging conferences, speakers and attendees then matching them up. A user could be one of three types, a conference, an attendee, or a speaker. For example a Startup Weekend event that was listed on the site would be tagged as #entrepreneurial, #startup, #startupweekend. A user could tag themselves with similar tags and be paired up with that event. Potential speakers could be identified in a similar fashion and contacted via the event organizer to see if they would be willing to be the keynote. (@gokeynotes)

3.) Take it Healthy – Goal is to create options for busy families to pick up healthy meals for their family. They are working on tackling the problem of people making unhealthy meal choices based on time crunches. The goal is to tap into existing infrastructure from local restaurants on their slow nights and provide them with more customers on those days seeking healthy options.

4.) Smart & Trendy – This idea was pitched by a French exchange student who explained how expensive tailor made clothing is in France. The idea is to have local tailors take measurements then forward those on to tailors overseas to produce the clothing for less. Items are then shipped back to the customer.
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If you haven’t registered yet use the discount code “okcpass” on the registration page for a complimentary pass thanks to sponsors! The event starts at 5:30pm tonight and it should be a great one!
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Friday, March 5th: (Pitch ideas, Form Teams)
5:30pm: Doors open, meet and greet, discuss what would be interesting to build.
7:00 Pm: Pitches start!
Anyone can get up and pitch an idea. This is a self-selection process. People form teams around ideas that they think are interesting and would like to work on for the weekend. Ideally, you’d like a group between 5 and 10 people — but groups of 2 or as large as 10 are acceptable. Teams are not limited to working on web only applications. Generally, these make the most sense given the nature of the weekend and those who register. But if you really feel like working on that new cupcake business, go for it!
9:00pm: Vote on top ideas and form teams around those ideas based on interest and skill sets required to build the ideas. Teams solidify their concept and create an elevator pitch.
Midnight: Leave for home after brainstorming with team.
Saturday, March 6th: (Build Build Build!)
9:00am: Start development.
12:00pm: Lunch break.
9:00pm: Gut check on the product; basic prototype building; group get-together for drinks and to talk about the products everyone is working on.
Sunday, March 7th: (Build, Demo, Wrap Up)
9:00am: Get back to work on projects.
10:00am: By now, you should have a live splash page up with an email capture and a simple blog.
12:00pm: Projects are being developed, lunch
6:00pm: Sink or swim time for those looking for a weekend launch.
7:00pm: Presentations from each company. Talk about what worked, what didn’t, what could go better.
10:00pm: Wrap up and move out.
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If you look on the left side bar you will see that we have an amazing group of very talented and very successful local guys. Normally these guys are the Speakers whenever there is an Entrepreneur/Business event in or around Oklahoma.
Since Startup Weekend is about doing & not listening we decided that instead of having them as Speakers we would have them work side by side with each team. Help them formulate their strategies, help them look at funding sources, help them really get their mojo cranking. This weekend is all about doing and you get their input on your business ideas. Talk about adding value!
I think we will all be shocked at what is possible when you get 50-60 wickedly talented people together and have them crank out companies in 54 hours.
Are you going to be a part of it or just wish you had been? Sign up today and use “swokc” as a promo code to get $20 off your ticket.
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Startup Weekend OKC is right around the corner. We have an amazing group of Mentors to help our teams take their ideas to the next level. We also have a great group of Sponsors that are so excited to see what comes out of OKC in the first weekend of March.
People have been asking what the schedule is going to be. There is not a solid schedule in place other than it starts at 6:00 on Friday, March 5th. For a rundown of what a typical weekend looks like you can click here.
What all is included in your registration. Well you get 7 meals, access to great tools, and all the networking & team building you can stand over 54 hours.
If you have a conflicting event that weekend still consider coming to Startup Weekend. You will be working with your team all weekend so if something comes up and you need to leave for a while that is not a problem at all. We know birthday parties, basketball games, church, marathon training and backing up your hard drive are all things that are important as well. So don’t feel like you can’t be a part of Startup Weekend just becuase you have a conflict or two.
If you have any other questions shoot us an email: startupweekendokc@gmail.com
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The Oklahoma Dept. of Commerce is hosting its Oklahoma Entrepreneur’s Conference Feb. 23-24 in Norman, OK. This conference is coordinated by okstartup.com
Last year was the first year for this event and they had around 250 attendees and this year proves to be bigger & better.
Come learn firsthand about the entrepreneurship movement in Oklahoma. Gain knowledge about valuable resources, expand you network & hear from none other than Chris Brogan. You read that right, Chris Brogan author of Trust Agents & the President of New Marketing Labs, will be speaking to the group about getting the word out and how to market your venture in the media channels of today.
To find out more info & for a registration form click here
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Startup Weekend has held events all over the globe. Here are some highlight videos from other cities to see what is coming to OKC.
NYC, NY
Bay Area
Idaho
