Boise Startup Week: Full Schedule

4:00pm MDT

Stories of Vision and Struggle from Early Stage Startup CEOs

Limited Capacity filling up

Topic: Story of the company’s journey

- Grinding to find product/ market fit and resonance

- Coping with stress and work/ life balance issues

- Finding the strength to persevere

- Stories of funding challenges. Bootstrap, Angel investment, VC pursuit

Moderators

Jeff Ehlers

VP, CoEfficient Services

Chapter Director of Startup Grind Boise. 3 time founder, having started companies in ecommerce, agtech, and financial services. Also interned in Silicon Valley and was CFO for a venture-backed Utah startup. Currently helps multiple startups through his outsourced accounting firm... Read More →

Speakers

Denise Dunlap

Jason Hausske

Founder, One4All

George Seybold

Founder, Talloo

Every day I seek to be unrealistic. I believe life itself is unrealistic. My very existence is as random, impossible and unrealistic as it gets. Only unrealistic people accomplish extraordinary things. I have accomplished great things, and I am not yet finished.

Ryan Vasso

Wednesday October 19, 2016 4:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
Trailhead Boise

Founders Track, Panel

11:00am MDT

Startup CEO Panel

Limited Capacity full
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Participants: CEOs of budding startups that are at least 1 year into the journey

Topic: Story of the company’s journey

- Grinding to find product/ market fit and resonance

- Coping with stress and work/ life balance issues

- Finding the strength to persevere

- Stories of funding challenges. Bootstrap, Angel investment, VC pursuit

- How we achieved product/ market fit to establish resonance/relevance & lift

- To pivot or not to pivot? How our initial vision changed and what we did to get there

- Overview of funding history and tips to getting funded

- How to cope with the stress trials & tribulations of life as a startup CEO

Moderators

Jeff Ehlers

VP, CoEfficient Services

Speakers

Clint Betts

CEO, Beehive Startups

Clint Betts is the founder, CEO, and executive editor of Beehive Startups. He is also the co-founder and Managing Director of StartStudio, host of the Beehive Podcast, and chairman of StartFEST. A Utah native, Clint still resides in the Beehive State with his wife and three kids... Read More →

Owen Fuller

Co-founder, Qzzr

Owen Fuller is the Co-founder and Chief Evangelist at Qzzr. He and his team help the world's best marketers and publishers get better traffic, leads, and insights through quizzes, polls, and lists. Their software platform has over 200,000 users, including top brands like ESPN... Read More →

Ryan Westwood

CEO, Simplus

Ryan Westwood is a serial entrepreneur and Inc 500 CEO who has successfully exited two companies. He is currently CEO of Simplus. Ryan is a bestselling author with the recent release of his book, The Five Characteristics Of A Successful Entrepreneur, set to release beginning of March... Read More →

Thursday October 20, 2016 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Trailhead Boise

Founders Track, Panel

1:00pm MDT

VC Panel

Limited Capacity filling up

Topic: What are the qualities you (as a VC) look for in a strong founding/ leadership team?

Moderators

Raino Zoller

Executive Director, Trailhead

Trailhead Executive Director

Speakers

Jack Boren

Epic Ventures

Garrett Goldberg

Bee Partners

Garrett Goldberg is a Principal at Bee Partners, a pre-Seed stage venture capital firm focused on supporting passionate Founders with deep market insights. He focuses on identifying Founders and startups servicing enterprises and enabling new marketplaces. He actively seeks investments in frontier technologies (drones, AI... Read More →

Jerry Henley

Len Jordan

Managing Partner, Madrona Venture Group

Len joined Madrona in January 2010. He is interested in analytics systems that radically transform economics for big industries, and consumer products that change the way we see, hear, feel and sense life. “There are some amazing companies developing systems that could dramatically... Read More →

Thursday October 20, 2016 1:00pm - 2:00pm MDT
Trailhead Boise

Founders Track, Business, Panel, Professional