Unlimited Potential
Unlimited Potential

Also coming up:

Software Freedom Day 2010
11am-5pm, 19 Sep 2010
Victoria University, Pipitea Campus (close to the Railway Station and good transport links)

Co-Founder Match-making: Next Week

When: 5.30-8pm, Thursday 9 September 2010
Where: The Loft Cafe & Bar, Synchealth Gym, Gilmer Tce. Access via Level 4, Whitcoulls Building, 312 Lambton Quay (lifts at rear of bookshop close off at 6pm sharp)
RSVP: http://up.org.nz/events/bright_ideas_co_founder_match_making_event

With only one week until the Co-founder Match-making event, places are filling up fast!

Interested in start-ups and entrepreneurship? Are you a finder, minder or grinder? Apply your skills and make a new business fly. Unlimited Potential and Grow Wellington bring you the Co-founder Match-making event!

Come along and meet Bright Ideas Challenge finalists from the ICT stream. We'll shout you a drink and facilitate introductions to help build teams to go forward to the next stage. We welcome software developers, web designers and database specialists plus people with experience in technology start-up strategy, marketing or finance or anyone with a great tech idea that needs to build a start-up team.

We are very pleased to announce that Minimonos co-founder and respected serial tech entrepreneur Melissa Clark-Reynolds will be joining us to inspire with a talk about building a dream team.

If this sounds like you don't delay - RSVP now!


Start-up Saturday
Official UP Event

Heads up! Start-up Saturday will be a half day workshop on start-up strategy aimed at pre-funding stage businesses and an opportunity to mingle and learn from others already active in the tech start-up community.

Join teams from the Bright Ideas Challenge in a facilitated session with tech entrepreneurs Dave Moskovitz (chairman Webfund), Bowen Pan (ex Spark Challenge) and Paul Spence (CEO iWantMyName) plus presentations from the CreativeHQ team. Put this one in your diary if you have team and are planning to take a software or web based product to market in the near future.

Startup 101 Topics:
  • What makes an entrepreneur?
  • What's Your Vision?
  • Bootstrap or Go For Funding?
  • How Do You Get Sales?
  • Are You Investor Ready?

When: Saturday 16th October 10am-3pm (note change of date)
Venue: TBC
RSVP: We only have room for ten teams. Expressions of interest to paul@up.org.nz