Seattle, Washington

August 8, 2012

What is Startup Riot? It's one day with thirty startups presenting for 3 minutes each and then answering questions for 3 minutes. Audience members get to help pick the top three winners. Plus it's affordable to attend and we make sure only the right people get in the room (sorry, no non-sponsoring service providers). What's not to like?
Be a Part of It
Applications to attend and present are open now. Once you're registered, you can apply to get some mentoring advice in our mentoring lottery. Note that registration rates double on July 30th and end on August 3rd!
Venue
We'll be at Showbox SoDo for our Seattle career fair and day long extravaganza!

Want to get there in style? Uber is giving new users free rides to or from the venue. Already a Uber user? You'll get 50% off on your trips that start or stop at Startup Riot. Go in style!
Keynote Speakers
Andrew Hyde has a passion for community, writing, travel and startups. He has founded three startups (two failed, one sold and his new focus is on travel). With roots in freelancing and design, he can hold a conversation about best interface practices as well as how to build cabins with hand tools. He is also a
marathoner, Ironman competitor, blogger and event organizer. He started Ignite Boulder, TEDxBoulder, Startup Weekend, a food/tech/music conference boco and once spent a flight making a stupid tshirt site that every VC in the world has seen. Most recently he wrote a book named This Book is About Travel which reached the #1 sales slot for iBooks and Amazon’s travel sections.
Jon Crawford is the founder and CEO of Storenvy, a 10-person venture-backed startup in San Francisco. With a background in engineering and design, Jon ran a web development shop in Kansas City, MO, before being struck with the unnecessary pain of setting up online stores. He spends his days jumping
between product, engineering and "CEO stuff" while trying to talk to customers as much as possible. He is passionate about making complex things simple, transparent, and accessible. His current objective is to turn regular people into successful online merchants via Storenvy.

Jon has been a contributor to the Ruby on Rails source code and other open source projects. He lives across the street from the "Full House house" on Alamo Square Park in San Francisco with his wife, daughter, and little white dog, Stella.

Agenda
7:30 am - doors open for presenting startups and sponsors
8:30 am - attendee check-in and networking
9:30 am - introduction
10:00 am - first keynote and Q&A
10:45 am - 1st pitch block (10 startups present for 3 minutes and answer questions for 3 minutes)
11:45 am - lunch chaos
networking & demos for those who return early from lunch
1:00 pm - 2nd pitch block (10 startups present for 3 minutes and answer questions for 3 minutes)
2:00 pm - networking & demos
2:45 pm - second keynote and Q&A
3:30 pm - 3rd pitch block (10 startups present for 3 minutes and answer questions for 3 minutes)
4:30 pm - wrap-up, voting, & prizes!
5:00 pm - after-party
7:00 pm - go home and get ready for Startup Riot SHOW Atlanta 2013!
Sponsors
Premier
Gold
Silver
Media / In-Kind
Prizes
1st place startup - 5.0 hours of investor meetings + $5,100 in services
2nd place startup - 5.0 hours of investor meetings + $3,100 in services 3rd place startup - 5.0 hours of investor meetings + $3,100 in services All Attendees
  • Preferred pricing for AcuityComplete from AcuityCFO (typically 10% off)
Still working on the prizes, but check out the prizes we had last time.
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