Community Events

Have a great idea? Want to start a company? Have you started a company but want to broaden your skill set? Join the Master of Science in Entrepreneurship team at the UW Foster School of Business for an informative session where you’ll learn about the details and benefits of this one-year, full-time master’s program.

Register at: https://foster.radiusbycampusmgmt.com/ssc/eform/EMc03Mx68720x6700tB4.ssc

If you aren’t available on this date, please reach out to us directly at msentre@uw.edu and we will be happy to set up a time to talk one on one.

Discover more at www.foster.uw.edu/startup

Kick off 2020 by learning Vue.js (https://vuejs.org/). Vue is a popular Javascript framework that’s powerful and easy to learn. Join us on January 23rd, and we’ll build an app together. Be sure to bring a laptop and your enthusiasm for web development!

If you get stuck, we’ll have mentors to help you break through. We’ll also have a room full of awesome folks like you. Grab some pizza, make a new friend, and code!

Oh yeah, don’t forget to bring a project you’re working on. If you finish the Vue app early, we’ll help you make progress on your own project. (If you don’t have a project, we can suggest one for you. It’s a critical step to lock in what you’ve learned so far!)

Vue is a hot technology with tons of demand in the job market and ample uses as part of your freelancing toolkit. Start your year of right by joining us to add Vue to your toolkit!

Join us for an interactive workshop with seasoned startup operator and angel investor Kirby Winfield and Josh Williams from Seattle Bank. They will discuss trends in startup financing, angel investing and venture capital, as well as answer any questions you may have.

Kirby is currently the Founding General Partner at Ascend.vc, a pre-seed stage venture fund investing in marketplace, e-commerce/DTC, and “smart SaaS”/AI startups in the Pacific Northwest. He is also an Investor in Residence at AI2, a research and engineering facility dedicated to the field of artificial intelligence.

Early in his career, Kirby was a founding team member and operating executive at back-to-back tech IPOs, with Go2Net (GNET) and Marchex (MCHX). He is also a two-time venture capital-backed CEO, with AdXpose (DFJ, Ignition) acquired by comScore (SCOR), and most recently Dwellable (Maveron, VersionOne) acquired by HomeAway (AWAY).

Kirby has invested in dozens of technology startups, and served as a Board Director of the real estate CRM platform Sharper Agent (sold to LEDR/Z), and the in-store customer experience platform Spectrio (sold to Bertram Capital).

He currently serves as a Board Director at Bean Box, the premier Direct to Consumer gourmet coffee gift and subscription brand, and Keepe, the leading vetted, on-demand contractor network for property managers. Other notable investments include Wrench, Crowd Cow, Visual Vocal, Attunely, Inspo, Adaptilab, Stackery and Blume.

Kirby serves as Board Chair at Special Olympics of Washington, where he helped bring the 2018 Special Olympics USA Games to Seattle. He is a Board Member at the University of Washington’s Haring Center Capital Campaign, and Board Advisor at the Friendship Circle of Washington. In his free time, Kirby coaches youth sports, and enjoys running, tennis, and traveling with his wife, son and daughter.

Josh Williams is Chief Banking Officer at Seattle Bank, a boutique bank focused on the needs of individuals, family offices, businesses, business owners, and community organizations in the Pacific Northwest.

Building a company of the future does not happen by accident. No matter how early you are in your business, you want to build a strong culture from the beginning. Join La’Kita Williams, founder of CoCreate Work, who will share the steps you can take to build strong team communication, collaboration, and stay connected as you scale. While there is no single strategy for creating a successful culture, there are concrete steps you can take to build a better company on purpose.

Topics:
– The five key components of building an inclusive and effective company culture
– How to put purpose to work in your business to provide vision and alignment
– Why you should move beyond traditional company values and use a different strategy
– How these strategies help you attract and build a purpose-driven team

La’Kita Williams:
La’Kita is the founder of CoCreate Work, a consultancy that helps small businesses, startups, and emerging companies build transformational culture through executive coaching, accelerated leadership development, and culture strategy. CoCreate Work is on a mission is to help purpose-driven leaders build businesses of the future.

Format:
Fundamentals for Startups is a weekly one-hour lecture series featuring notable experts who share startup-related information, experience, and insights with our entrepreneurial community. From raising capital to scaling to exit strategies, these seasoned guest speakers deliver valuable content designed to help startups and entrepreneurs thrive. Lectures are typically 30-40 mins, followed by open Q&A.

Each lecture is filmed, live streamed and archived on CoMotion’s Startup Training Videos page.

Light refreshments will be served. These lectures are open to the public and you do not have to be currently affiliated with the UW or a startup to join, but please pre-register. We hope to see you there!

If you are going to pitch investors, it is worth practicing your pitch. For the Seattle Angel Conference, there are 3 rounds of pitching for the participating companies. The Pitch deconstruction is a great opportunity to get feedback on your business pitch. Everyone who comes will have a chance to make a 1 minute pitch (without slides). The audience will select 4 companies to make 3 minute pitch (with slides). Each of those 4 pitches will get detailed feedback from active investors who are participating in the Seattle Angel Conference process.

This is a great way to learn more about how different companies engage in pitching, and how the investors respond to that pitch.

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.

Learn how to gain traction for your startup as we meet and interview Geeman Yip the founder of BitTitan. His startup has grown from 0 to over 100 employees today all from scratch!

Cofounders Connect is about connecting startup cofounders to the resources they need within our local Seattle community. We have everyone from veteran Angel Investors, Venture Capitalists and Serial Entrepreneurs to first time entrepreneurs attending our events. During our event we have a 2 hour networking session and in between a 30 minute Q/A panel discussion with our featured guests as well as an after party!

At the end of the event our attendees name, preferred method of contact, who they’d like to connect with and what they do is blasted out to our members. We also reach out to every guest who attends after to further facilitate and enhance everyone’s startup journey.

Questions, ideas or feedback? Call Vlad at:[masked]

Meet your fellow members before the event here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cofoundersconnect/

——— Attend the Event to ———

1) Meet and network with fellow co-founders who already have traction.

2) Learn how to get more clients for your startup and take it to the next level from entrepreneurs with proven track records. Geeman Yip is a veteran entrepreneur in our community.

3) Learn what other co-founders have done to gain traction Attire: Business Casual (which means you can wear jeans and a t-shirt if you want! 🙂 )

Schedule Start: 5:00 pm: Networking and Food 6:00 pm: Speakers & QA sessions 6:30 pm – 7:00 pm: Drinks and More networking

Address: 500 Mercer St, Seattle, WA 98109

Special Thanks To: Brett Greene, Rand Fishkin, Peter Chee, Red Russak, Jasper Kuria, Tim Kitchen, Amyr Haq Sponsored By: Logic Inbound Atlas Workbase and BitTitan

Join us to meet with business and community leaders who have volunteered their time as mentors to the Bunker Labs community!
About this Event
If you’re thinking about entrepreneurship or already have your own venture, you won’t want to miss this event.

This event is part of Bunker Brews, a monthly meetup where the Bunker Labs community, including veterans, military spouses, and civilians, comes together to network with subject matter experts, investors, thought leaders, and more in an environment focused on growth and development.

This event is for you if…

1. You’re interested in meeting more like-minded, action-oriented entrepreneurs in a fun, casual setting.

2. You’re interested in getting involved in the local entrepreneur community.

3. You’d like to learn more about companies being created by veterans in our community

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bunker-brews-seattle-veterans-in-residence-mentorship-and-bunker-brews-tickets-85965734827

Technology has been driving innovation and changing the landscape in the enterprise space over the last decade, and founders with deep technical backgrounds are in a unique position to create products and teams that bring unique differentiation to the market. Tim Chen sees a set of common errors that first-time founders often make. In this talk, Tim will discuss these mistakes and how to navigate them while sharing his journey as a founder, investor and mentor.

Timothy Chen:
Tim is currently SVP of Engineering at Tendermint. He previously served as the CEO of Hyperpilot (funded by Bessemer, NEA, DHVC) that later exited to Cloudera in 2018. At Cloudera, Tim was leading ML enterprise platform engineering and helping product and sales activities to sell into Fortune 500 companies. Before Hyperpilot, Tim was 10th employee at Mesosphere and worked at VMWare, Microsoft, and several other startups. Timothy also angel invests in pre-seed to seed-stage enterprise companies.

Format:
Fundamentals for Startups is a weekly one-hour lecture series featuring notable experts who share startup-related information, experience, and insights with our entrepreneurial community. From raising capital to scaling to exit strategies, these seasoned guest speakers deliver valuable content designed to help startups and entrepreneurs thrive. Lectures are typically 30-40 mins, followed by open Q&A.

Each lecture is filmed, live streamed and archived on CoMotion’s Startup Training Videos page.

Light refreshments will be served. These lectures are open to the public and you do not have to be currently affiliated with the UW or a startup to join, but please pre-register. We hope to see you there!