SAO Corvallis Chapter

Welcome to the SAO Corvallis Chapter website!

What's On Tap:

Thursday, Febuary 11th, 2010

5:30pm - 8:30pm

Location: Renaissance on the Riverfront
136 SW Washington Ave.
Corvallis, Oregon 97333

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RSVP TO: SAO by emailing sao-coordinator [AT] corvallis.sao.or.us or on the Willamette Innovators Network

$5 for SAO members or students, and $15 for non-members


Includes finger food and no-host bar

AGENDA:

5:30 - 6:15: Business Networking Time with finger food, no host bar
6:15 - 6:25: 30-Second Mic (give us your technology business elevator pitch!!)
6:45 Program: Co-Working in Oregon

PROGRAM:

Co-working is a growing movement around the United States and across the world. As more people work from home or work while they are traveling or are in the midst of a rapid startup cycle, they find that they can be more effective and more productive by gathering together to work. Starting with projects like the Hat Factory in San Francisco, co-working sites have bloomed. There are several co-working facilities in the Nortwest, some which are expanding to multiple cities and some that focus on specific audiences or markets. The February SAO meeting will be a panel discussion by three Oregon co-working entrepreneurs: Jeff Jimmerson from Madison Avenue Collective in Corvallis, Josh Friedman from Ned Space in Portland and Rick Turoczy from Portland Innovation Experiment.

Jeff Jimerson, founder of the Madison Ave. Collective (http://www.madcollective.com/)

Madison Ave. Collective (the MAC) is a shared office and studio space located in downtown Corvallis, 72 steps west of Starbucks on the corner of 5th street and—you guessed it—Madison Ave. After three months of heavy remodeling, Jeff opened the space on 08/08/08 with a "nice people wanted" Craigslist ad.

Today, twelve creative and tech professionals call the MAC home for their respective small businesses.

Rick Turoczy, founder of Silicon Florist (http://siliconflorist.com/)

Rick Turoczy has been working in high-tech marketing communications jobs in the Portland area for the past 15 years. Out of pure dumb luck, he happened to sit up in bed at 2 AM one night in August 2007 with the inspiration to start Silicon Florist, a blog about Portland startups in the Web, Mobile, and Open Source scenes.

Since then, he’s chatted with The Oregonian a bunch of times, appeared on local television and radio, made a brief appearance on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, garnered bylines in The New York Times, spoken at numerous events, been selected as a runner up for the Portland Business Journal’s “40 under 40,” launched a startup incubator with the help of Wieden+Kennedy, and co-produced a groundbreaking Web-based telethon called 30 hour day.

All because of a blog. Weird.

You can reach Rick most easily as @turoczy on Twitter or contact him at siliconflorist@gmail.com.

Josh Friedman, co-founder of NedSpace (http://www.nedspace.com/)

Josh Friedman is the co-founder of NedSpace, a provider of co-working facilities for entrepreneurs and startups. NedSpace is designed to be the place where entrepreneurs go to build and grow their businesses. Along with his business partner Mark Grimes, NedSpace has itself grown quickly into two locations from its launch in early 2009. The goal is to open 10 more locations throughout the US in 2010, and eventually to have a NedSpace in every city with a startup ecosystem.

Prior to starting NedSpace, Josh co-founded Eleven Wireless, an on-demand software company late in 2001 building a cloud-based system for managing guest broadband offerings in the hospitality industry. He led the business as CEO for five years, taking the company from a fleeting idea to raising just under $2 million in angel and VC investment and well over $1 million in revenue. Josh remains on the Board of Directors and is actively involved in the company.

Before starting Eleven, Josh created the business development organization at Tripwire, focusing the firm on distribution of its existing product to operating system and server companies. Later, he took Tripwire’s first new product to market, managing all aspects of the product line, marketing, and P&L. While at Tripwire, Josh was responsible for building and managing relationships with companies including Sun Microsystems, Compaq, Red Hat, Caldera Systems, and Covalent Technologies.

Josh began his career at Intel where, in addition to cultivating relationships with startup companies to drive demand for Intel products, he crafted and executed marketing programs to expand existing markets, and helped to grow Intel’s newly created server products group.

Josh serves on the Board of Starve Ups, a Portland-based entrepreneurial organization and the Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum Advisory Board. He holds a B.S. degree in speech communication from Oregon State University. Aside from helping entrepreneurs grow their companies, you might find him rock climbing, skiing, cycling, brewing beer or generally causing trouble along with his dog Ace.

SAO CORVALLIS:

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SAO EUGENE:

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