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Founders Network Hosts Inaugural fnDemo Startup Competition

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 20, 2013

Founders Network (http://www.foundersnetwork.com), a peer mentorship organization that includes more than 350 tech startup “founders helping founders,” today announced the inaugural fnDemo, a virtual tech startup pitch competition featuring more than 30 of the network’s member startups.

Starting today, the participating Founders Network members from Silicon Valley, LA, New York and around the world will virtually pitch their startups to leading investors, media and fans who can vote for their favorites. Two categories of winners will be announced when voting concludes this Friday, May 24 at 12pm PDT: 1) the fnDemo Champ who generates the most social shares via the Fandrop platform and 2) the Judges’ Pick who earns the most votes from a panel of 10 judges representing leading angel and venture capital investors.

“fnDemo showcases not only the Founders Network members that make up our committed network of tech startup founders, but also the collective power of our peer mentorship community,” said Kevin Holmes, Founder & CEO of Founders Network. “We are excited to see such an impressive set of members participating in the inaugural contest and to have the support of such an esteemed panel of judges from the venture capital and angel investor community.”

Powered by viral marketing platform Fandrop, fnDemo offers Founders Network members the opportunity to gain recognition and attention for their innovative startups across industries ranging from education and entertainment to real estate and retail.

“We are thrilled to be working with Founders Network on an event that will help game-changing new companies get the awareness and accolades they deserve,” said Ken Zi Wang, Co-Founder & CEO of Fandrop and a member of Founders Network. “Without Founders Network, and the advice and support of its accomplished members, Fandrop would not be where it is today. We are honored to be able to give back to the community by serving as the technology partner for the inaugural fnDemo.”

Founded in 2011, Founders Network helps members efficiently solve startup problems through a private member site while building long-term, trusted relationships through in-person meetings in San Francisco / Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and New York City. All members are vetted through an approval process that only admits experienced founders who expressly commit to the success of the group. For more information, please visit http://www.foundersnetwork.com.

Participating investors:

Howard Hartenbaum, August Capital; Stephanie Palmeri, SoftTech VC; Ben Parr, DominateFund; Laurel Touby; Gil Penchina; Marlon Nichols, Intel Capital; Ben Narasin, Triple Point Capital; Arif Janmohamed, Lightspeed Ventures and Rishi Taparia, Matrix Partners.

Participating startups:

AbbeyPost, AHHHA, aMAP.to, BlogMutt, built.io, Cloudability, Dealingers, Dishcrawl, EEME, Etceter, Fiverun, Fleksy, Good.Co, GradFly, Graphdat, HungryGlobetrotter, Indiloop, Karma Store, Merxz, MyFit3D, Pogoseat, Relevance, RentHackr, RivalMe Trivia, Samepage.io, Sher.ly, SportsLab, Spreeify, Turnyp, Venturocket, Vuact.

Sponsors and Partners:

First Republic Bank, Guderson Dettmer, SoftLayer, BWK New York Public Relations, Betts Recruiting, Fandrop, VerbFactory.

About fnDemo

Hosted by Founders Network, a peer mentorship organization of more than 350 tech startup “founders helping founders,” fnDemo is a virtual tech startup pitch competition for leading investors, media and prospective customers and employees. Powered by viral marketing platform Fandrop, fnDemo enables Founders Network members to present their startups and lets fans and judges — representing angel and venture capital investors — vote for their favorite companies. For more information, please visit fnDemo.







Venture Capital: Pritzker Group hosts Venture panel for Brown Students – Nov 14, 2013

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Business RadioX

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Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) January 10, 2014

On January 7, 2014, co-hosts Lee Kantor and Stone Payton of Results Matter Radio on Business RadioX® sat down with Elan Amram from CrowdFundBeat and David Lilenfeld from SterlingFunder to discuss the recent rise of crowdfunding.

Elan Amram is Founder and CEO at SchmoozBiz, a social networking destination devoted to the crowdfunding community. As a contributor to CrowdFundBeat, Amram is also involved in the CrowdFunding USA Conference & Expo, happening in Atlanta May 1-2, 2014. According to Amram, “CrowdFunding USA provides the participants with the unique opportunity to discuss the current state of the industry, to learn from experts in venture capital, business angel and crowdfunding fields, to network and find new partnerships.”

Also in the studio was David Lilenfeld, Co-Founder and CEO of SterlingFunder, an Atlanta-based equity and debt crowdfunding portal with an innovative approach to connecting startup companies seeking capital with qualified investors. As a lawyer, investor and entrepreneur, Lilenfeld recognizes the enormous effect crowdfunding will have on businesses and individual investors across the country and eventually the world. Explained Lilenfeld, “When The JOBS Act – which makes equity-based crowdfunding legal in the United States – became law, I began planning a way to help match passionate, smart entrepreneurs with intelligent, growth-minded investors in a union that has been unduly burdensome to make before crowdfunding.”

To learn more about crowdfunding, the upcoming Conference & Expo and these featured guests, listen to the complete interview on Results Matter Radio.

About Burr & Forman’s Results Matter Radio: http://resultsmatterradio.businessradiox.com/

Brought to you by Burr & Forman LLP, Results Matter Radio brings you pertinent business information and real life solutions to help drive desired results – whatever your business may be. We interview Business Leaders and Trusted Advisors about the most important issues in Commercial Real Estate, International Commerce, Healthcare, Family Business, Corporate Litigation, Finance, Philanthropy, Estate Planning, and more.

About Business RadioX®:

BusinessRadioX® interviews dozens of innovative entrepreneurs and successful leaders each week. Its mission is to help local businesses Get The Word Out about the important work they’re doing for their market, their community, and their profession. With a pro-business slant and a long-form interview format, guests don’t have to worry about being ambushed or talking in “sound bites.” Guests have enough time to tell their whole story and to share their insights and experience without interruptions. BusinessRadioX® hosts are business professionals interviewing their peers, drilling down on the critical issues, and delivering practical information to an engaged business audience. Business topics that are frequently covered include: Law, Finance, Healthcare, Technology, Trade Shows, B2B Marketing, Venture Capital, Training and Development and other issues impacting the business community. For more information, visit: http://www.businessradiox.com.







Rogue Valley Microdevices Hosts iGrant Competition for MEMS and Microsystem Technologies

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Medford, Oregon (PRWEB) July 02, 2013

Rogue Valley Microdevices, a MEMS foundry service provider, and Sustainable Valley Technology Group are hosting the iGrant Competition for MEMS and microsystem technologies. Designed to help researchers with brilliant ideas see those ideas through to a finished product, the 2013 Sustainable Valley iGrant is a technology innovation grant to help researchers, entrepreneurs and engineers bring new technology or technology-based businesses to life.

“The iGrant has been setup for technology start-ups, researchers, entrepreneurs, and university spin outs,” said Rogue Valley’s founder and CEO Jessica Gomez. iGrant applications are open to teams that are in the process of building technology start-up companies or developing new MEMS, nanotechnology or biomedical technologies.

The mission of the iGrant is to foster technology and business growth. Bringing new technology to market is difficult and the iGrant was designed to help individuals with good ideas see those ideas through to completion by providing funding, business support, equipment, facilities and expert consultation.

“We are primarily focusing on MEMS, semiconductor devices, microelectronics, biomedical, nanotechnology, and wafer fabrication technologies,” Gomez added.

Deadline to apply is July 20th, 2013. More information can be found here: http://www.svtg.org/igrant-technology-grant. To register, please go to: http://www.svtg.org/igrant-registration-form.

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About Rogue Valley Microdevices

Specializing in MEMS and biomedical device fabrication, Rogue Valley Microdevices is a full service MEMS foundry that combines state-of-the-art process modules with the engineering experience and expertise to seamlessly go from custom design to device manufacturing. With our extensive list of process capabilities, all front-end processing is performed in house. Maintaining all MEMS process capabilities in house enables us to decrease manufacturing lead-times while improving device yield and performance.

Rogue Valley Microdevices offers over 50 unique MEMS manufacturing and thin film processes to support our worldwide customer base. Our MEMS and thin film processes are designed to handle silicon wafer substrates, as well as a variety of other material such as quartz, glass and aluminum nitride wafers. Our goal is to minimize process development time, keeping your cost and lead-time to a minimum. We have extensive MEMS manufacturing experience and understand how important it is to have a robust and repeatable process.

Rogue Valley Microdevices is based in beautiful Southern Oregon. We supply services to customers with a wide variety of applications, including those in MEMS, semiconductors, biotechnology and nanotechnology. To contact us, please go to: http://www.roguevalleymicro.com/contact.php.

About Sustainable Valley Technology Group

Sustainable Valley Technology Group is a unique economic development initiative founded in July 2010 to create a more prosperous economy in Southern Oregon. Sustainable Valley is an independent 501c3 non-profit organization focused on supporting emerging industries commonly not funded by traditional VC and angel investors. Sustainable Valley manages an advanced business accelerator to support the growth of innovative, start-up companies in Southern Oregon. Sustainable Valley receives funding or donations from the Business Oregon, Jackson County, Medford Urban Renewal Agency, Meyer Memorial Trust, the Oregon Community Foundation and other foundations, agencies and businesses. For more information, contact Heather Stafford, Executive Director of Sustainable Valley, 541-414-0000, heather(at)svtg(dot)org or Melissa Stiles, Marketing, 541-779-0569, melissa(at)svtg(dot)org. More information can also be found at: http://www.svtg.org/about-us.







Business Idea Factory Hosts Public Domain Teleconference

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(PRWEB) April 28, 2005

The Business Idea Factory — a website devoted to providing little-known but profitable business ideas to it’s members — hosted it’s first teleconference on Monday, April 25 at 9:00 PM ET. The teleconference call was attend by Business Idea Factory members. 500 lines were available for members to call in and attend.

A recording of the teleconference was made and is available to all current and new members at http://www.businessideafactory.com

Topics covered in the teleconference included:


How to find profitable niche markets.

How to locate public domain works to sell to these markets.

How to create a sellable product.

How to get public domain books for free.

How to perform a copyright search online.

How to find Public Domain works to complement an existing business.

How to create high priced derivitive products.

How to market republished public domain works.

Technical considerations to republishing public domain works.

The call lasted 90 minutes with the last 30 minutes devoted to questions from the participants. The teleconference was hosted by Angela Smith and James Jones. James said, “We opened up the lines to questions from participants and I ended up revealing all my closely held secrets to profiting from public domain work. I answered questions until I was horse but it was a lot of fun.”

An audio recording of the teleconference is available for free to all current and new members at http://www.businessideafactory.com

For additional information contact: http://www.businessideafactory.com

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