We have a great line-up for our upcoming ERT in SF again. IT'S FREE! We love you, but PLEASE RSVP on EventBrite too:
http://ertmockup2launch.eventbrite.com On the Deck:
Michael Heuga, Partner at Pillsbury
Tom Finerty, founder of YourGardenShow
Ronald Mannak, founder of IUpToys and Yobble
Monty Venkersammy, founder of AppGoGo
Bring your geek/founder/entrepreneur friends!
Michael Heuga,...
[read more] We have a great line-up for our upcoming ERT in SF again. IT'S FREE! We love you, but PLEASE RSVP on EventBrite too:
http://ertmockup2launch.eventbrite.com On the Deck:
Michael Heuga, Partner at Pillsbury
Tom Finerty, founder of YourGardenShow
Ronald Mannak, founder of IUpToys and Yobble
Monty Venkersammy, founder of AppGoGo
Bring your geek/founder/entrepreneur friends!
Michael Heuga, Partner at Pillsbury. Michael will talk about some common IP mistakes made by entrepreneurs that he has seen over the years, so that we can avoid them! The discussion will include issues such as neglecting to secure IP properly, neglecting available patent or trade secret protections, product and domain name concerns, and outsourcing considerations. His bio is here:
http://www.pillsburylaw.com/index.cfm?pageid=15&itemid=20702.
Tom Finerty, founder of YourGardenShow. When Tom came to speak at ERT in July 2009, there was not one line of code written for YGS, when their site was still just a dream, full of promise with the team thinking - "Hey, this is going to be fun!" YGS went live in May 2010. Tom will share with you what happened, what they ended up building and why and what he has learned thus far. Tom was an accomplished film producer for PBS, he won an Emmy Award with one of his documentary films and had produced a music video for Michael Jackson and Michael Jordan.
Ronald Mannak, founder of IUpToys
http://venturebeatprofiles.com/company/profile/1uptoys-bv and Yobble (iPhone, iPad apps in stealth mode) iUptoys creates motion controlled music toys and games like the V-Beat AirDrums and V-Beat AirGuitar, Amazon's #1 best selling music toys that received the perfect 5/5 average user rating. 1upToys also created bChamp Beatbox, the #1 best selling iPhone app that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak demonstrated on YouTube.
Monty Venkersammy, founder of AppGoGo, a messaging platform for social media apps and games. It's so needed now that Facebook in pulling the rug under so many social apps and games on FB. It's underlining implication is to help apps capitalize on its user base and thereby create much better monetization returns. Monte was VP of Sales/BizDev at Kelkea (acquired by Trendmicro), previously he was founder/CEO of Webvision, which raised $75M, and Above Commerce which rasied $2.5M.
Agenda:
6:00 - 7:00 Check in, relax/eat/drink/schmoozing
7:00 - 8:45 Mike, Tom, Ronald and Monte - talk/demo/Q&A
8:45 and on, more schmoozing
This event is kindly sponsored by our wonderful friends at Pillsbury Law Firm
http://pillsburylaw.com/. They offer all sorts of programs to assist entrepreneurs. Check them out or contact Benjamin Wiles,
benjamin.wiles@pillsburylaw.com.
From,
Shirley Lin, with all our ERT folks
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