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The PNW’s Premiere Monthly Events
You'll Experience the Northwest’s largest and most fun monthly tech community and recruiting events:
- New Tech Portland
- New Tech Workshop
- New Tech Eastside
- New Tech Seattle – Diversity in Tech
- New Tech Tacoma
- New Tech Job Fair
Monday November 19, 2018
New Tech PDX
5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
WeWork Pioneer Place
700 SW Fifth Avenue Portland OR 97204
Join us for NewTech PDX on the 3rd Monday of every month. Portland has one of the most vibrant tech communities in the country, and the more we support our tech ecosystem, the more we’ll all experience and create together!
Join us to learn about the cool and amazing technologies being developed by Portland companies. Event volunteers are welcome! Let us know if you’d like to volunteer.
5:30 pm
Doors Open / Get to know your community
7:00 pm
Event Begins!
Community Announcements: Events, Jobs, etc. (20 seconds/ea)
8:30 pm
After-Party in the bar at Portland City Grill
New Tech Mergers and Acquisitions Workshop
How to Maximize Value in Selling Your Business
Thursday November 29, 2018
5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
at Summit Law, 315 Fifth Avenue South, Suite 1000. Seattle, WA 98104
Join us for an exclusive intimate panel with your peers! Dave Parker, of Seven Peaks and 6 Month Startup will moderate a panel of experts from Bader Martin and Summit Law to help you get answers to your pressing legal, financial and business operations questions around getting acquired or acquiring companies. Setting your company up now to be positioned properly for a sale will help you when it matters most.
Who should attend:
- Founders
- Employees with equity
- People planning to start a company
- CEO’s, COO’s and CFO’s wanting to connect with peers, mentors and advisors
- Anyone interested in this topic
Discover inside information on:
- Getting your business ready for sale
- Potential changes to current business structure
- Forms of transaction: stock, cash, notes, asset sale, allocation
- How to get organized and prepare for an M&A event
- What first-time sellers (and buyers) wish they had known before selling (or buying)
- Understanding deal terms and the market
- The impact of outstanding state tax issues
- How to evaluate alternative deal structures
- How to properly manage the due diligence process
- How to maximize enterprise value by knowing the priorities of the stakeholders
- How to build your all-star M&A execution team
- How to manage risks and surprises
If you’re in the Scale Up stage of your startup and haven’t yet sold a company, this workshop is for you. When you get some significant traction you’ll start getting inbound inquiries on potential transactions – only 11% of those inquiries actually close. Selling your company is a process and requires preparation.
During this workshop you’ll receive invaluable insights, tips and advice to avoid common pitfalls Founders, Leaders, HR Directors, and Strategy and Finance Directors encounter on the journey of selling your company.
Take advantage of this opportunity to create a solid plan for having your business strategy, structure, processes and people where they need to be before you sell your company.
When you understand the buyer’s perspective, you can proactively take action to maximize your value, streamline due diligence and avoid problems at the negotiating table.
When you’re selling your privately held business it’s important to remember that the sale is a process, not simply a transaction. And perhaps surprisingly, that process can take years if you want to maximize the value. It’s never too early to start.
So, what should you be thinking about and doing now?
Join us to learn about the legal, financial and business considerations that can make your company more attractive to a potential buyer. Things like whether you have the right entity structure, the optimal accounting and reporting systems, and how you need to prepare on the revenue and operating side of your business.
AGENDA
5:00 Doors Open & Networking
6:00 – 7:30 Panel Discussion featuring experts from Bader Martin and Summit Law
7:30 – 8:00 Networking
We’ll be in an intimate format for a collaborative discussion and to give you personalized help and advice. You’ll walk away with actionable ways to improve your business and valuable connections.
Tuesday December 4, 2018
5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Ticket Information Below
Note that YOU MUST REGISTER HERE.
THERE ARE NO SALES AT THE DOOR.
eBay
One Bellevue Center
411-108th Avenue NE, Bellevue, WA
5th Floor | Pike Place Event Room
5:30 pm
Doors open, get to know your community!
6:30 pm
Event begins
Community connections
Community shoutouts
Company presentations:
Jargonaut presented by Joseph Casebeer – Jargonaut is a multilingual subject glossary. It offers lists of vocabulary translations for subjects like Mathematics, Physics, Art, and Music in Languages like Japanese, English and French.
Jenny Life Presented by Chirag Pancholi – A life insurance app that uses modern technology to upgrade the way you buy life insurance. Within minutes (we know you’re time-starved) you can easily apply for life insurance from their smartphone or laptop. No health exams. No blood tests. No urine samples.
Tenta Browser presented by Jen McEwen – The browser that doesn’t sell you out. Tenta is a private & encrypted browser that protects your data instead of selling it.
8:00 pm
After-party at 520 Bar and Grill
Want to sponsor this event? Contact us!
Tuesday December 11, 2018
Diversity in Tech
In partnership with Diverse City
Welcome Cheryl Ingram as cohost!
5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
This month, join us to celebrate and empower diversity in the tech industry, discuss ways we can ensure there is full representation of all of us, and advance the conversation forward.
Our theme for this month is Diversity In Tech. It’s no secret, companies with more diversity, whether it’s racial, ethnic, or gender, perform better than those with less. We’re excited to invite you to learn about the difficulties, successes, and benefits of diversity in the tech industry, and what we can all do to ensure opportunities are available for all of us, and make diversity the standard, not the exception.
Note that YOU MUST REGISTER HERE.
THERE ARE NO SALES AT THE DOOR.
Ticket Information Below
We’ve Changed Locations!
thinkspace
1700 Westlake Ave N, Suite 200
Seattle, WA 98109
Find us on Lake Union with free parking
Check it out on the Map
6:00 pm
Doors open, get to know your community!
7:00 pm
Event begins
Community connections
Community shoutouts
Company presentations:
The Diversity Center of Seattle by Jean Craciun – Diversity Center of Washington
Intentionalist presented by Laura Clise – An online guide to intentional spending that supports small businesses and diverse local communities. We make it easy for you to find local restaurants, bars, gyms, shops, and more owned by women, people of color, veterans, LGBTQ, families, and differently abled people.
TAF (Technology Access Foundation) presented by Tyrone Cunningham – A nonprofit leader in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education. We use STEM as a tool for realizing social change and educational equality in communities of color and those with low income.
Amazon presented by Jasmine Farrar
8:30 pm
Want to sponsor this event? Contact us!
This Month’s Featured Non-Profit:
Wednesday January 9, 2019
5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Ticket Information Below
Court House Square
(formerly Post Hall – the room with blue and purple lights on the 4th floor NW corner of the post office)
1102 A St #450, Tacoma, WA 98402
Directions: From 705, take A Street Exit. The Post Office building will be located 2 blocks north on the left. It’s the room with the blue and purple lights if you’re looking at the building from A Street. Enter the building at the main post office A Street Entrance and then start walking to your left heading South. Take the South stairwell/elevator to 4th floor to The Ballroom.
5:30 pm
Doors open, get to know your community!
6:30 pm
Event begins
Community connections
Community shoutouts
Company Presentations:
TBA
8:00 pm
After-party at En Rama, 1102 A St Suite 220, Tacoma, WA 98402
Want to sponsor this event? Contact us!
Thursday – January 31, 2019
at Galvanize, 111 S Jackson St, Seattle, WA 98104
Parking Map
Want to have an employer recruiting table at this event?
Contact us at newtechjobfair.com
THIS IS YOUR KIND OF JOB FAIR!
If you’ve ever been to a New Tech Northwest event and experienced our vibrant community, then you already know that this is going to be a great job fair. Grab an early ticket!
You’ll benefit from meeting companies of all sizes hiring IT professionals, UX + UI designers, data scientists, front end developers, back end developers, graphic designers, database administrators, product managers, project managers, full stack engineers, mobile developers, Python programmers, JavaScript programmers, Ruby programmers, Java programmers, social media professionals, sales professionals, marketing professionals, and more.
Job fair ticket time slots indicate what time you can arrive. No matter which slot you sign up for, you can stay until the END of the event.
Agenda
4:00 PM – Registration Check-in begins – Event Opens; please come to registration at the hour you sign up for to ensure a flow of everyone getting in without having a long wait in line.
7:00 PM – Event Closes.
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