StartPad Countdown Series

Startup Security: Hacking and Compliance in a Web 2.0 World

zzelinski — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:47:35 -0500

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This month Damon Cortesi of Sevicron Security presents the most effective ways to plug the most common holes found in web services. Learn about XSS, SQL injection, and why you should care about these things now instead of later.

What: StartPad Countdown 2 -- Startup Security: Hacking and Compliance in a Web 2.0 World
Who: Damon Cortesi, Sevicron Security
When: 6:00 pm, Tuesday November 25th, 2008
Where: StartPad offices -- 811 First Avenue, Suite 480, Seattle, WA 98104
Cost: Free!

Pizza and drinks will be served.

About the presenter: Damon Cortesi has been a professional security consultant for the past six years. Prior to that, he had fun as a Systems and Security Admin on a network with absolutely no firewalls. At the present time, he is currently busy building his own security startup as well as a couple of side projects.

(Patent Pending)

zzelinski — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:38:28 -0500

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It all starts with an idea. Many successful startups begin when a passionate entrepreneur conceives of a brilliant idea. Many unsuccessful startups fail when the entrepreneur does not succeed at converting that idea into a profitable business. Successfully turning that brilliant idea into a profitable business is the art of entrepreneurship.

This month Adam Philipp of Axios Law Group will deal with the process of protecting an idea for your business. In particular how to protect your idea with intellectual property tools (patent/trade secret options).

What: StartPad Countdown 3 -- (Patent Pending)
Who: Adam Philipp, Axios Law Group
When: 6:00 pm, Tuesday October 28th, 2008
Where: StartPad offices -- 811 First Avenue, Suite 480, Seattle, WA 98104
Cost: Free!

Pizza and drinks will be served.

About the presenter: Mr. Philipp has been involved in the prosecution of patent applications in the computer science, electrical devices and related fields since 1998 and with Internet and technology related law since 1995. He also counsels clients on patent portfolio strategy, patentability and infringement matters. His varied practical experiences range from distributed object oriented programming to kernel-level memory management. His area of emphasis covers a wide variety of patent, trademark and trade secret issues, with particular focus on network and security related technologies. Typical clients of Mr. Philipp's are software and technology companies as well as related inventors.

StartPad Countdown 3 - (Patent Pending)

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Challenges In Forming A New Venture

zzelinski — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:03:01 -0500

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This month, StartPad presents a talk by Parag Gheewala of Wilson Sonsini. Parag addresses the most common issues he encounters when representing entrepreneurs. Follow along as the fictional "Andre" forms an idea, quits his job, and hires people in to his new company. It's like a top 10 list of traps to avoid.

What: StartPad Countdown 4 -- Challenges In Forming A New Venture
Who: Parag Gheewala
When: 6:00 pm, Tuesday September 23rd, 2008
Where: StartPad offices -- 811 First Avenue, Suite 480, Seattle, WA 98104
Cost: Free!

Pizza and drinks will be served.

About the presenter: Parag Gheewala chairs the technology transactions practice in the Seattle office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. The technology transactions practice specializes in domestic and international business transactions driven by the use or acquisition of rights in technology and intellectual property.

StartPad Countdown 4 - Challenges In Forming A New Venture

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The App Engine That Google Built

zzelinski — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:44:02 -0500

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This month, StartPad presents a talk by Mano Marks, a Developer Programs Engineer at Google. Google App Engine lets you run your web applications on Google's infrastructure. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow. With App Engine, there are no servers to maintain: You just upload your application, and it's ready to serve your users. In this talk, Mano Marks will go over the basics of Google App Engine, and walk through creating a sample application.

What: StartPad Countdown 5 -- The App Engine That Google Built
Who: Mano Marks
When: 6:00 pm, Tuesday August 26th, 2008
Where: StartPad offices -- 811 First Avenue, Suite 480, Seattle, WA 98104
Cost: Free!

Pizza and drinks will be served.

About the presenter: Mano Marks is a Developer Programs Engineer at Google, where he helps developers work with Google Geo products, particularly KML. Mano has a MIMS degree from UC Berkeley’s School of Information, and has a history of working in social service non-profits.

StartPad Countdown 5 - The App Engine That Google Built

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The code used in Mano's example can be found by starting here and working your way through the rest of the "Getting Started" tutorial.

Google held an all-day Seattle Hack-a-Thon on Thursday, Aug 28, two days after Countdown #5. Material from the hack-a-thon can be downloaded from this Google Code site.

Venture Capital Unplugged: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

zzelinski — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:47:26 -0500

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This month, StartPad presents a discussion guided by Bill Bryant, currently a venture partner with DFJ and Appian. Here's your opportunity to learn *EVERYTHING* you need to understand about venture capital in one informative, entertaining evening. Get behind the curtain and leave with a better understanding of what venture capital is all about, including whether your startup should target this source of funding and how best to go about that. No question is off limits so come prepared with your list of issues that you want to have addressed.

What: StartPad Countdown 6 -- Venture Capital Unplugged: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Who: Bill Bryant
When: 6:00 pm, Tuesday July 22th, 2008
Where: StartPad offices -- 811 First Avenue, Suite 480, Seattle, WA 98104
Cost: Free!

Pizza and drinks will be served.

About the presenter: Over the past 20 years, Bill has been involved as a founder, senior executive, investor and Board member in over 25 successful startups, spanning software, Internet, digital media and mobile. Companies where he has been instrumentally involved include Visio, Netbot, Qpass, Medio, Mixxer (each of which he helped found), Corbis, Getty Images, Isilon Systems, Loudeye, Cascadia Capital, Throw, Singing Fish, Exchange Applications, HandsOn, Headbone, Jabber, Teamplate. Current involvements include blist, LiquidPlanner, Widgetbucks, mInfo, Limeade, Conenza, Sensors in Motion, Shelfari, ACL Services and Winshuttle. Bill has raised over $175M in venture capital for the companies he's been involved with, is a personal investor in over 15 leading venture funds, and has been a venture partner with three VC firms, including Atlas Ventures, DFJ (current) and Appian (current).

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Extreme Makeover, Web Edition

zzelinski — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:40:25 -0500

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The Startpad Countdown series is sponsored by:

This month, StartPad presents a talk by Roy Leban, Director of User Experience at Sampa, regarding their complete user interface redesign.

What: StartPad Countdown 7 -- Extreme Makeover, Web Edition
Who: Roy Leban, Sampa
When: 6:00 pm, Tuesday June 24th, 2008
Where: StartPad offices -- 811 First Avenue, Suite 480, Seattle, WA 98104
Cost: Free!

Pizza and drinks will be served.

There will not be an nPost pub crawl after this Countdown event, but look forward to future collaborations!

About the presenter: Roy's mission at Sampa is to enable millions of people to share their lives in ways they couldn't before, by providing them with a web service that is both easy to use and powerful. An expert at both usability and software development, Roy came to Sampa from DreamBox Learning, where he was instrumental in building an innovative educational content development and delivery platform from the ground up.He's written a short post about the talk on his blog.

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Attendees:

Zachary Zelinski, StartPad
Mike Koss, StartPad
Buzz Bruggeman ActiveWords
Carl Heinrichs
Stephen Brady
Akhlaq Khatri
Rakesh Malik
Dan Kenney, Kenney Technologies, LLC
Michael Stein, SageListings
Kotpal
Evan Jacobs
Colin Meyer, MarketOutsider.com
Mei Brill
Theodore Nordsieck
Lincoln Ritter
Jusin Martenstein, Meet at the Pig / Six Hour Startup
Matt Scoble, Experticity
Cory Schruth
Josh Rutherford
John Feiler
Sean Quinlan
Frank Paterra
Sally Vilardi
Glenn McQuiston
Brian DeWeese, The 6th Republic
Greg Whelan
Mason Boswell
Matthew Plant
Ryan Maloney, Atlas Networks
Amir Khella
Yi Qiang
Mark McLaren mcbuzz.com
Nancy McManus
Michael Brodesky
Kyle Mulka - ScrapWalls
Sunny Chou
Libby Tucker
Dave Sampson
Christine Saunders
Jesse Spaulding - BlogRize
Nathan McFarland - CastingWords
Jordan Mitchell - Others Online
Stephen Dagadakis
David Hegarty
Vijay Sundaram

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Amazon Web Services and You

zzelinski — Fri, 02 May 2008 19:49:08 -0500

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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!

Pizza and drinks will be served.

All attendees are invited to join the nPost Pub Crawl leaving from our offices immediately following the talk.

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.

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Attendees:

Zachary Zelinski, StartPad
Sarah Novotny, Blue Gecko
Alex DeNeui, DocVerse
Krishnan Subramanian, Freelancer, Strategist and Blogger
Joe Hruska, RescueTime
John Bito, Right Sized Media
Nick Karnik, VideoMailz
Kunal Mahajan, VideoMailz
Sid Palaparthi, VideoMailz
Buzz Bruggeman, ActiveWords
Theodore Nordsieck
Scott Blanksteen
John Walling
Mike Harrington, Picnik
Justin Huff, Picnik
Mike Koss, StartPad
Porter Bayne, Ameritocracy
James Peterson, Ameritocracy
Cesar Alvarez, XLCSS
Mayur Kamat, 5Degreez
Matthew Plant, CruisingSOFTWARE
Dan Taylor, Destination360
Cory Toedebusch
William Lai
Brian Dorsey, Noonhat
Craig Hajduk
Andrew Feldman
Kate Walling, Secret Ingredients
Mason Boswell
Hsu Ken Ooi
Brian Ma
Ian Smith
Akhlaq Khatri
Dominic Canterbury
Carolynn Duncan, FundingUniverse.com
Ram A
Richard Mcaniff
Carl Heinrichs
Mark Swardstrom, Right Sized Media
Willy Chataigner, yousport.com
Daevid Vincent, yousport.com
Neil Martin, yousport.com
Michael T. Halligan - BitPusher, LLC
Mamtha Banerjee - InvestmentYogi Inc.
Krishna Kotipalli (KOTPAL)
Nathan Kaiser, nPost
Michael Hoisie
Gordon Hempton

Those on the waitlist are invited to attend -- standing room only!

Waitlist:

Cliff Rudolph cerudolph@psfinc.com
Stephen Brady
Brady Forrest, O'Reilly Radar
Kate Ronkainen
Mei Brill
David Hayes
Brian Livingston, WindowsSecrets.com
Rakesh Malik
Shannon Swift
Wes Maldonado, Pivotal Labs
Satyen Choudhury
Jeremy Przasnyski
Adam Hanig
Tony Lael, CoreConnex.Com
Sandy Jones-Kaminski, BellaDomain
Gene Hsu
Karim Varela, i-booze.com
Nancy McManus, BizBuzz
Brian DeWeese, The 6th Republic
Zach Hale, Mavenry

Corporate Structures, Common Problems

zzelinski — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:53:25 -0500

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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.

If you have any questions, you can contact Craig Sherman at csherman@wsgr.com

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Attendees:

Zachary Zelinski, StartPad
Mike Koss, StartPad
Benjamin Krueger, KaizenCraft
Scott Blanksteen, Qpass
Akhlaq Khatri
Evan Jacobs
Eric Veal, Letter A
Buzz Bruggeman ActiveWords
Brad Zeitner
Jim Roberts
Andrew Feldman
Frank Paterra
Aaron Mohrman
Ali Daniali
Carolynn Duncan, FundingUniverse.com
Don Okonny, Sagamy
John Walling
Theodore Nordsieck
Francis Du
Edmond Yu
Sean Quinlan
Michael T. Halligan
Shalen C.
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Jordan Schwartz
Mohit Srivastava
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Open Social, Open House

zzelinski — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:56:07 -0500

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We're having an Open house and our first developer presentation:

Monday, November 19th at 6pm

StartPad.org Offices

119 S Main, Suite 410
Seattle, WA 98104
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6:00 pm: Welcome/Food and Drink
6:30 pm: Tech Talk
8:00 pm: Networking/Socializing

RSVP Here

Sorry - we're at capacity for this event (thanks, everyone!).

StartPad.org Open House

Our goal at StartPad.org, is to foster community support for Seattle software development startups. Since there's nothing like being in the same place to get people talking, we offer month-to-month office space in Pioneer Square. We have 3 companies working out of StartPad today (Faves, RightSized Media, and PageForest). We're looking for compatible startups to join us. This is a great chance to get your team out of your garage and into a high-energy environment with like-minded developers and entrepreneurs.

At just $300 per person per month and a minimum 2 month commitment, you can have a great place to work, and access to other developers working on the same kind of problems you're facing.

Open Social

OpenSocial is a new API developed at Google to integrate third-party applications into social networking platforms. We'll hear from two developers who have been working with Open Social from the earliest release to talk about what's working and what's not, and where the API will be extended in the future.

What can you do with OpenSocial?
Who hosts OpenSocial applications?

API Summary
Comparison of Facebook API (capabilities checkllist)
How to monetize your application.
What can't you do?
Future API additions.
Security issues (background on cross-site scripting restrictions?)
Spreading your application
- Application Directories

Presenters:

Adam Loving - creator of popular Facebook application Zuckerbucks.
Vellore Vetrivelkumaran -Vetri's startup, Chronus, has been working with Open Social for several weeks before the public launch.