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The Startpad Countdown series is sponsored by:

This month, StartPad presents a talk by Jeff Barr, Amazon’s senior web services evangelist. He will talk about Amazon's line of scalable, on-demand web services:

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
• Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
• Amazon Simple DB
• How developers can use these service to build scalable, cost-efficient applications and businesses

What: StartPad Countdown 8 -- Amazon Web Services and You
Who: Jeff Barr, Amazon
When: 6:00 pm, Tueday May 27th, 2008
Where: StartPad offices -- 811 First Avenue, Suite 480, Seattle, WA 98104
Cost: Free!

Food and drink to be provided.

About the presenter: Jeff Barr is a Senior Web Services Evangelist for Amazon. He is focused on furthering awareness of web services and inspiring developers to create innovative applications using Amazon Web Services. Barr meets regularly with developers throughout the U.S. and abroad to introduce Amazon Web Services' expanding platform and showcase businesses that currently utilize the program's services.

There are only 30 seats available for this free event!

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StartPad has just moved into our new space on First Avenue. We now have 20 people working out of our new offices. So, it's time to get back to the speaker series we started last November.

We're calling our lecture series StartPad Countdown. We're going to be offering a mix of both business and technical topics for the Seattle startup and software development communities.

The Startpad Countdown series is sponsored by:

This month, it's a business related talk by Craig Sherman of Wilson Sonsini. His talk will answer some common questions:

• What sort of company structure do I need (sole proprietorship, LLC, partnership, S-corp, C-corp, ...)?
• Many companies get into trouble having the wrong structure, or not keeping good records - this can bite you later and be VERY EXPENSIVE to fix. Craig will tell you know what you need to be doing and when.
• How expensive is it to do this? Do I need to be a corporation? Do I WANT to be a corporation?
• Some attorneys will help startups out by charging lower fees when companies are younger and have little (or no) cash. How does that work? What can I expect?

What: StartPad Countdown 9 -- Corporate Structures, Common Problems
Who: Craig Sherman, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
When: 6:00 pm, Tueday April 29th, 2008
Where: StartPad offices -- 811 First Avenue, Suite 480, Seattle, WA 98104
Cost: Free!

Food and drink to be provided.

About the presenter: Craig Sherman is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he focuses on corporate and securities laws, representing companies, venture capital firms, and investments banks in private placements and public offerings. Craig also has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, technology licensing, and domestic and international joint ventures.

There are only 30 seats available for this free event!

Faves.com (a Seattle social bookmarking website) just released a new widget which I'm now using on StartPad.org.  The cool things about it are:

I recently helped a friend of mine set up a business website for her condo rental business on Kauai. The website is pretty simple, needing just a single main page to describe her property, provide her contact information, and display a calendar for it's availability.

It worked out pretty well, but took quite a bit longer than you'd think. Here's the basic task list:

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• Office furniture (desk, chair, whiteboard)
• Internet Access (wired and wireless)
• Shared Conference Rooms
• Kitchen
• 24-7 Secure Office Access
• Color laser printer
• Shared phone and fax
• Weekly brownbag mixer for tenants (Thursdays at noon)
• The company of other software developers like you!