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By Jennifer Cabala
StartupDay was this Saturday and it was an incredible community success. It had great buzz that was picked up from Portland’s Silicon Florist to the nationally syndicated Read Write Web. I say it was a community success because while Seattle 2.0 and our team organized it, without our incredible speakers, sponsors, advisors and attendees it wouldn’t have been such a positive experience for so many people.More than 400 people came to the Meydenbauer Center on Saturday to hear 15 talks by successful entrepreneurs about different aspects of building a startup from scratch.
Running parallel to the talks, was the advisory room where attendees could meet one on one with investors, entrepreneurs, lawyers, accountants and marketing specialists. More than 50 people volunteered their time to advise new entrepreneurs.
Talks and Slides
The morning kicked of with a energetic talk from Dave McClure on why not to do a Startup, and ended with a final talk from Ben Elowitz. We will be posting all of the videos over the next few weeks, but for now you can check out all of the slides on SlideShare.
Photos
I just uploaded another 60 pictures to our Facebook page. If you have pictures from the event you want to share just let us know, we would love to add them to the gallery.Blog Posts
We also had some great blog posts about the event in addition to Silicon Florist and Read Write Web.
Speaker and Posterous Co-Founder Garry Tan expanded on his talk “Hate, Ship, Love”
Speaker and Co-founder of Cozi Jan Miksovky blogged about his answer to the most common question he gets asked by entrepreneurs.
Memetales Founder Maya Bisneer had her own take on “Why not to do a Startup”
Lawyer and blogger Bill Carleton gave his own recap of StartupDay.
Twitter
We had a strong stream on Twitter with a lot of the speakers highlights.
If you want to hear more from our speakers you can follow them all easily using tweepml.
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Thanks again to everyone who made StartupDay a success. I look forward to seeing you all next year!