University of Colorado - Startup2Student

It's happening March 12, 2009, 5:30-7:30p at CSEL in the Enginering Center at CU Boulder.

Startup2Student is a collaboration between the University of Colorado and the Boulder and Denver early stage entrepreneurial community. It's sponsored by Boulder.me, Boulder's web site for technology startups.

The goal is to introduce students interested in summer programming internships or jobs with early stage companies in the Boulder/Denver area to these companies, as well as to introduce the students to some young people who have chosen a career and life path of entreprenurship.

Here's the agenda for March 12, 2009. It's chill and casual.

5:30 PM - Welcome and introduction

5:35 PM - Stories and Perspective: Very brief stories of these young founders and their entrepreneurial life path

     - Casey Schorr (24) of Printfection

     - Krista Paul (30) from TravelFli

     - Jeff Powers (26) from Occipital

     - Josh Fraser (24) from EventVue

6:00 - Brief welcomes from participating companies.

     Note: The students have asked that we have no HR people present, so we have invited only founders/CEOs of these companies to represent them.

     - Jud Valeski (Founder, CTO) of Gnip

          -Gnip is seeking "drive to learn new concepts, ability to logically deduce relationships between software components, Ruby, Java, Python base language skills"

     - Josh Fraser (Founder, Co-CEO) of EventVue

          - EventVue is seeking PHP and JavaScript developers for a summer internship.

     - Dan King (Founder, CEO) of ReadyTalk

          - ReadyTalk is seeking Java, C, and C++ programmers, but anyone with a passion for coding who wants to learn these languages is OK too.

     - Casey Schorr (Founder, CEO) of Printfection

          - Printfection is seeking <TBD>.

     - David Cohen (Founder, CEO ) of TechStars

          - TechStars is seeking PHP, Ruby on Rails, and Javascript/CSS developers to work with their portfolio companies this summer as interns.

     - Kellie Peterson of Name.com

          - Name.com is seeking <TBD>.

     - Kent Dickson and Scott Musson (Sr Dir of Software) from Tendril Networks.

          - Tendril is seeking Java, Flex, Spring, Hibernate.  Also Embedded C.

6:30 - 7:30

     Informal networking for possible job opportunities (summer internships, part time, full time, etc).

7:30 - END

After the event, each participating company has agreed to set "drop in hours" for CU students who want to come hang out at their company, learn more, work with their software developers, etc. Again, these times are very informal. Students who'd like to attend should simply email the contact listed for each company below.

Post event "Drop in Hours"

Gnip - March 16 - 11am - noon - contact Jud@Gnip.com to RSVP.

ReadyTalk - March 17 - 3pm to 5pm - contact nicole.jones@readytalk.com to RSVP.

Gnip - March 18 - 130pm - 230pm - contact Jud@Gnip.com to RSVP.

Tendril Networks - March 18 - 300pm - 500pm - contact kdickson@tendrilinc.com to RSVP.