Adam Chavez

Just got out of the CEO Leadership meeting. No, we’re not a bunch of people who think we’re CEO’s - it stands for Collegiate Entrepreneur’s Organization. Pretty clever, eh?

We are still hashing out all the details for the kickoff Web Startup/CEO meeting, but it will basically be as follows:

When:

Oct 23 at 7pm

Where:

BYU, in the (Talmage Building) TMCB auditorium 1170.

What:

See below

Who:

Entrepreneurs, angel investors, and anybody who’s interested in entrepreneurship in or around BYU.

A note from the guys at the Web Startup Group (Matt Smith, Sam Curren, Brian Whitmer, and Devlin Daley):

Meeting Format

The overriding emphasis will be on interesting, relevant information quickly
disseminated. It should have punch. We feel that shorter is better. The officially organized portion of the meeting will be between 30-45 minutes.

A typical meeting has three parts:
1. BizTech
2. Fast Pitch
3. Group Gab

Two BizTech talks, 1-3 Fast Pitches. The open Group Gab (with food) is left open ended so
that everyone can mingle for as long as they like.

BizTech

These talks will be 15 minutes in length.
They will be on topics technical in nature while emphasizing how the technology can be
applied to business, or how it affects startups.

Some possible topics:
• Amazon Web Services/App Engine
• Android/iPhone
• What’s happening with the browser and javascript performance: v8/tracemonkey/
squirrelfish
• Hybrid applications betwen web & desktop (Prism, Fluid, chrome, air (dynamic
language:desktop lua & adobe, rubycocoa, pycocoa)
• How to hire good employees (what to look for in a marketer, developer etc.)
• Facebook/OpenSocial application development
• Ajax vs. Flash/Flex The state of Ajax — what you can do and what you can’t
• Making your website mashable (amenable to greasemonkey, and mashing up with
other services)
• Leveraging LinkedIn/Facebook
• Making usable applications

Fast Pitch

Fast Pitches are short 5-minute mini pitches made to the whole group. The idea being
you an pitch an idea, something you need feedback on or if you are looking for
collaborators. Five minutes means they’ve got to be to the point. These can be startup
ideas, or, like a tech talk by a techie looking for how to make money off a tech idea.

Group Gab

Group gab is designed to facilitate networking, but also to find birds of a feather. Anyone
wishing to talk about a specific topic, whatever it may be, writes the topic on a 8 1/2 x 11″
piece of paper. They then have one minute at the microphone describing what the topic is,
why others may be interested etc. The meeting MC then basically assigns that “idea” a
location in the hall to congregate. The paper is taped to the assigned wall and after all the
ideas have been announced, the formal portion of the meeting is completed. Everyone can
grab some grub and then participate in the self-forming groups.

After that, there will be food and a little bit of time to talk, have some pizza and drinks, and get to know other tech entrepreneurs in the area.