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DealHacks May 14th – Palo Alto [SOLD OUT]

admin — Thu, 01 May 2008 02:13:59 +0000

Update: event is **SOLD OUT**. Please join us next time.

STIRR Brings Back the Startup Mixer for 2008 with a Twist.

Join other founding teams for STIRR’s first Startup Mixer of 2008.

STIRR Celebrates It’s 3rd year with a twist on the FounderHacks series. This time we bring you two of the best early stage investors and a terrific founder for contrast in ‘Deal Hacks’. Each speaker will be sharing personal stories from the the investment side of the fence.

If you haven’t joined us before, STIRR brings together founding teams of startups to connect and forge relationships. (This isn’t a pitch session and please don’t attend if your only goal is to find funding.) We feature great short-talks from notable founders, investors, and key thought leaders around the globe. This isn’t a sit-down event.

On Stage:

Adeo Ressi, The Funded

Adeo is a serial entrepreneur. His most recent project The Funded still creates quite a stir on Sand Hill Road. Before The Funded, Adeo founded and sold casual gaming site Game Trust to RealNetworks. Adeo also serves on the board of the X Prize Foundation. More about The Funded and the 9 months of mystery after it’s launch in this article from Wired.

Jeff Clavier, SoftTechVC (Jeff is on the Right) – Photo courtesy of Brian Solis

Jeff Clavier is one of the most prolofic investors in Web 2.0, with over 40 deals executed in the last 4 years. After investing as a business angel for over 3 years, Jeff launched his $12M seed fund at the
TechCrunch40 conference in Sept 2007. He has since invested in 18 startups in social media, communities, search and discovering, gaming and advertising. A (too) frequent speaker at industry conferences, Jeff works and lives in Palo Alto with his wife and 2 children, and can be followed on twitter at twitter.com/JeffClavier.

Rob Hayes, FirstRoundCapital (Rob is on the left) – Photo courtesy of Duncan Davidson

Rob joined First Round Capital in 2006. Since joining he has led investments in companies including Mint.com, Xobni, and Get Satisfaction. Rob came to First Round Capital from Omidyar Network where he was their first venture investor. He led most of Omidyar Network’s initial venture capital deals and later built and ran the technology investing group.

This event kicks off STIRR’s 3rd year. We’re celebrating by returning to the site that reignited the Bay Area demo+mixer scene back in early 2006: Bistro 412 (formerly F&A’s). The venue has a beautiful back patio and we’ve reserved the whole space just for STIRR and we’ll be feeding everyone as usual.

Tickets:

http://dealhacks.eventbrite.com

Who should attend?

* Founding Teams of high-growth Internet, Mobile, Enterprise, Software related BioTech and Cleantech
* VCs
* Qualified Angels
* Top level engineering talent
* Press (must qualify for pass: press@stirr.net)

Some of the ticket, venue and food cost have been graciously underwritten by:

Sun Microsystems
http://www.sun.com/startup

Tickets for the event:

http://dealhacks.eventbrite.com

Founders Mixer 2.3 Wrapup

admin — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:33:40 +0000

The presenters:

	Buxfer, Ashwin Bharambe, Founder Buxfer an online shared alternative to Quicken.
	Criteo, Jean-Baptiste Rudelle, CEO A real-time personalized recommendation engine.
	Metaweb, Jamie Taylor, Minister of Information Freebase.com a home to a global knowledge base.
	Wrike, Andrew Filev, Founder Wrike.com marries web and e-mail, so you can easily work with your peers on plans and get things done.

The guest host for 2.3:

Rafe Needleman, Editor at Large

To keep STIRR events free for the entrepreneurs and the presenters, STIRR relies on generous sponsors. This month’s sponsor was Sun Microsystems and their Startup Essentials program. More about Sun and the Startup Essentials program at the end of this article.

The wrapups:

Salim Makes Good – Hundreds of Entrepreneurs now non-thirsty
Bubblicious on 2.3 “… the premiere monthly tech event” (blush)
Webware on Freebase and 2.3

The photos:

Mixer 2.3 Exclusive Sponsor:

STIRR thrives through great sponsors. Mixer 2.3 was sponsored by Sun Microsystems, and their Sun Startup Essentials Program. Sun announced Solaris Express, Developer Edition. the first release of a free new distribution based on the OpenSolaris project, providing developers with an integrated environment optimized for developing Solaris, Java, and Web 2.0-based applications on commodity desktop and laptop hardware. Sun also helps simplify development and speed deployment of secure Web-based applications and services with easy access to an AMP — Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python — stack recently optimized for the Solaris 10 OS. And the Sun Startup Essentials Program includes new features to help startup companies conserve cash, accelerate their development cycle on Solaris, Linux or Windows, and speed time to market. The program, which already provided discounts up to 60% on its enterprise-grade servers, was expanded to add Sun’s storage products at discounts of up to 70%, as well as free email support from Sun’s technical experts, and easy access to Sun’s free software. You can sign-up for Sun Startup Essentials here.

More Sun Startup Essentials details:

Free software – get popular opensource infrastructure software, such as Apache, MySQL, Perl, PHP, postgres, Tomcat, etc.—all optimized for the Solaris operating system, and all free and ready to download.
Discounted servers – get deep discounts on CoolThreads servers, x64 servers featuring AMD Opteron processors, and x64 and SPARC workstations.
Discounted storage – get deep discounts on Sun StorageTek network and direct attached storage appliances, plus a Storage Area Network and Direct Attach Storage product enabling startups to start small and add capacity as needed
Startups Ask Sun – get answers to your questions about architecture or Sun products and technologies from Sun engineering experts.

Mixer 2.4 is April 11st

If your company or a startup that you know is ready to launch and would like to present please see: http://www.stirr.net/apply/presenters

Founder’s Mixer 1.8

admin — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:38:00 +0000