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FounderCon 2015

Sunday, October 18th - Tuesday, October 20th

Boulder, Co


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#FOUNDERCON IS COMING


After some deliberation and elimination of potential sites like Cannes, Fiji and Palau, we've settled on the best location to showcase the Techstars network, re-connect the family and offer an otherworldly experience -- Boulder, CO! 


Techstars FounderCon 2015 will be held at the Boulder Theater and the Boulderado Hotel with breakouts at various offices and venues. 


Have questions? Email jacqueline.hughes@techstars.com

 

 

Download the Techstars FounderCon Mobile App for iOS or Android!

 

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FounderCon Schedule


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Starting your own business and picking the right niche in no time

Schedule

Sun, October 18th


3:00 - 6:00

Registration @ Boulder Theater



The day we've all been waiting for

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Credits:

3:00 - 4:30

Techstars FounderCon Hike with Local Angels


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4:30 - 6:00

CU Alumni + CU Students Mixer


6:00 

Doors Open @ the Boulder Theater


6:30 - 7:00

Welcome To FounderCon!

 


Gold Shirt Ceremony and Kick Off

David Brown, Managing Partner, Techstars

David Cohen, Managing Partner, Techstars

7:00 - 10:30 

Opening Party 

Legitimate Front & Royal Pains

Mon, October 19th


8:30 - 9:30 

Breakfast with MobileDay


The day we've all been waiting for

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Credits:

9:30 - 10:45

Opening Keynotes

 

Welcome (with Sprint)

 

How to Partner With/Sell to a Larger Tech Company (with Facebook)

 

Fireside Chat

 

 

 

 

Priti Youssef Choksi, Director of Corporate Development, Facebook

 

Mark Solon, Managing Partner, Techstars 

Ralph Terkowitz, ABS Capital Partners

11:00 - 11:45

 


11:00 - 11:45


 

11:00 - 11:45


11:00 - 11:45

 

 11:00 - 11:45

Success Stories

 


Culture Fit: Your Startup is Dead Without it


 

Retail - How to Take Your Product to Market


Understandng Burnout


Techstars Product Founder Feedback Sessions 

Raj Aggarwal, CEO, Localytics 

Paul Berberian, CEO, Sphero

 

Natalie Baumgartner, Founder + Chief Psychologist, RoundPegg


Mike Stone, CEO, Makerskit


Brandon West, SendGrid


Techstars Staff

12:00 - 1:30

Food trailer lunch! 


1:30 - 2:15

 

 



1:30 - 2:15

 

 

1:30 - 2:15

 

 

1:30 - 2:15



1:30 - 2:15 


The Lack of Diversity in Tech Sucks...and it's Hurting Your Company!

 



How to Create a Round Closing Deck 

 

Finding Funding – Tough Lessons Learned on the VC trail

 

Technology, Creativity & Data: How to Tell Your Story, Engage Your Audience and Gain Valuable Data from Interactive Video


Birds of a Feather - Sales

Jenny Fielding, Managing Director, Techstars

Lucy Sanders, CEO and Co-Founder, NCWIT

Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group

Carly Gloge, CEO and Co-Founder, Ubooly 

 

 Daniel Kador, Co-Founder, Keen IO

 

 Dipul Patel, Co-Founder and CEO, ecovent

 

 

Erika Trautman, CEO and Founder, Rapt Media




Rami Essaid, Co-Founder and CEO of Distil Networks

2:30 - 3:15




2:30 - 3:15


2:30 - 3:15


2:30 - 3:15


2:30 - 3:15

M&A and Investments AMA with Mike Marquez from Code Advisors and Morado Venture Partners


The Art of Survival is a Story that Never Ends

 

Engineering Evolution


Building a Badass Outbound Sales Team


Birds of a Feather - Being a CEO, What Does That Mean?

Michael Marquez, Partner, CODE Advisor

 



Mick Hagen, CEO and Founder, Mainframe 

 

Henry Cipolla, CTO and Founder, Localytics 


Nick Persico, Co-Founder, Smart Host 


David Mandell, Co-Founder and CEO of PivotDesk

 3:30 - 4:15


3:30 - 4:15

 

 


3:30 - 4:15

 

 

3:30 - 4:15



3:30 - 4:15

Debt and the Art of Non-dilutive Financing 

 

Our Startup Almost Died Twice and Why I'm Excited for the Third Time to Come :)

 


Misunderstood: How (and Why) I Hacked My Identity on the Internet


How to Sell Your B2B Product: Five Tactical Steps that You can Use Today to Triple Your Sales


Birds of a Feather - Hardware

Charlie Kelly, Managing Director, SVB


Sherman Lee, CEO and Co-Founder, Good Audience

 

 

Layla Shaikley, Co-Founder, WISE Systems



Bubba Page, CEO and Founder, Quotadeck 



Ping Wang, Director, Techstars
Ryan Kuder, MD, Techstars
Jenny Fielding, MD, Techstars

4:30 - 6:00

Fun Experiences! Choose your own adventure:


Appy Hour and Beer Tasting With Localytics


Banjo Billys Bus Tours


Casual Hike to Boulder Lookout Point 


Chautauqua Hike 


Press Play: Apps, Drinks, and Vintage Arcade Games


6:00 - 8:00

Group Dinners


6:00 - 8:00



8:00 - 8:00 

Hardware Dinner and Meetup with Sphero and Brewbot


AdTech | FraudTech | MarTech - Dinner / Drinks


8:00 - 10:00

Two Bit Circus Sponsored by Sprint


10:00 - 12:00

Werewolf hosted by SoftLayer


Tues, October 20th


9:00 - 5:00

BizDevDay (See who is coming below!)


The day we've all been waiting for

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Credits:

8:00 - 10:00



9:00 - 9:45

Open Coffee



Birds of a Feather - Female Founders




Julia Jacobson, Founder/CEO, NMRKT
Jag Gill, Co-Founder, Sundar, Inc

10:00 - 10:45

 

10:00 - 10:45

 


 

10:00 - 10:45


10:00 - 10:45



10:00 - 10:45

TBD

 

#givefirst: The Difference Between Leadership and Management

 


Panel - Entrepreneurship and Parenthood


Closing Time - Breaking Through and Closing Your Deals


Birds of a Feather - CTOs

Katie Rae, Mentor, Techstars

 

Stephen Riley, CEO and Co-Founder, Stabilitas

 

 


Jaymn Edis, CEO and Co-Founder, Dash

 

Dave Drach, VP of Partnerships, Techstars

Kevin Tapply, VP and Biz Dev, Techstars

11:00 - 11:45

 

 

 

 11:00 - 11:45

 

11:00 - 11:45

 


11:00 - 11:45





11:00 - 11:45

 

 

 

 

Success Stories

 

 

 

Hiring is Hard! What  We've Learned, What Worked For Us, What Didn't

 

How To Sell Your Company When You're Totally Fucked


Growing From $200k to $7mm ARR in 18 Months Taught Us These 7 Tips to Running a Healthy SaaS Startup


Birds of a Feather - Marketing / Digital Advertising

Moisey Uretsky, Co-Founder, Digital Ocean  

Rami Essaid, CEO & Co-Founder, Distil Networks

 


Moritz Plassnig, CEO & Co-Founder, Codeship

 

Alex Schiff, Product Manager, Occipital



 

Kyle Poter, CEO, SalesLoft




Ben Carcio, ‎CEO of Promoboxx

Dan Pratt, Founder & COO at AdHawk

 

 

12:00 - 1:15 

Lunch


1:30 - 2:15

 


1:30 - 2:15

 


1:30 - 2:15

 

 

1:30 - 2:15

 


1:30 - 2:15 


Increase Your Chances of Success by 65% in 7 Steps


Scale Your Software Development Process While Scaling Your Team

 

Panel: So You've Built a Series B Gas Powered Race Car and Investors All Want Teslas

 

Be a Celebrity Yor Your Startup

 

 

Birds of a Feather - Bootstrapping

Nicole Glaros, Partner, Techstars Ventures

 

 

Florian Motlik, CTO, Codeship 

 


Mat Elis, CEO and Founder, Cloudability


 

Jordan Fliegel, Jordan Fliegel, Founder, President & Chairman, CoachUp  


Paul Reinarz, CEO and Co-Founder of Rezora

2:30 - 3:15


2:30 - 3:15


 

 2:30 - 3:15

 

 

 

 2:30 - 3:15



2:30 - 3:15

 Fear

 

What Happens After You Get Acquired?


 

 To Move or Not to Move - Considerations to Take When You're Thinking About Relocating Your Startup 


Techstars Product Founder Feedback Sessions

 

An Audience Conversation on the Role of Government in Supporting Entrepreneurship

John Guydon, CEO, Lassy Project 

 

Clement Cazalot, CEO and Co-Founder, docTrackr

 

 Morgan Linton, Co-Founder, Fashion Metric




Techstars Staff 

 

David Calone, CEO, Jove Partners

3:45 - 4:30

What's Next for Techstars



4:30 - 6:00

Swag Swap Happy Hour 


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Saturday, october 17th at 8:00 PM


PRE-FOUNDERCON fun!


Coming into town early? Don't Miss CABIN FEVER WITH ARI NEWMANN

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18TH starting at 6:00 PM


FOUNDERCON 2015 WELCOME & opening party 

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 19TH - all day!


9:00 AM - BREAKFAST 

 

9:30 AM - MORNING KEYNOTE 

 

11:00 AM - SESSIONS (talks, PANELS, & birds of a feather sessions) 

 

12:00 PM - FOOD TRUCK LUNCH OUTSIDE THE BOULDER THEATER

 

1:30 PM - SESSIONS (TALKS, PANELS, & BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSIONS) 

 

2:30 PM - SESSIONS (TALKS, PANELS, & BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSIONS)

 

3:30 PM - SESSIONS (TALKS, PANELS, & BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSIONS)  

 

4:30 PM - FUN EXPERIENCES TRACK (TRIVIA, BEER TASTING, AFTERNOON HIKE)

 

6:00 PM - GROUP DINNERS 

 

8:00 PM - two bits circus at the boulder Theater

 

10:00 PM - DJS

 

11:00 PM - Werewolf 

 

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Tuesday, October 20th Ends at 6:00 PM

 

8:00 AM - Breakfast


10:00 AM - SESSIONS (TALKS, PANELS, & BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSIONS)


11:00 AM - SESSIONS (TALKS, PANELS, & BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSIONS)


12:00 PM - Lunch


1:30 PM - SESSIONS (TALKS, PANELS, & BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSIONS)


2:30 PM - SESSIONS (TALKS, PANELS, & BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSIONS)


3:30 PM - final keynote - "What's next"


4:30 PM - Swag Swap Happy Hour

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Who's Coming to BizDevDay?


Target, Adobe, Box Software, Cornerstone, Facebook, Google, GroupM, Groupon, Slack, Squarespace, Stripe, Walmart Labs, Audible, Experian, Iterate Studios, Sabre, Spotify, Ricoh, Pepsi, Etsy, Samsung


GoPro, PCH, Salesforce, Pandora, Optimizely, Bazaarvoice, Lowes, Ask.com, Homeaway, Qualcomm, Silicon Valley Bank, Softlayer, SendGrid, Microsoft, Atlassian, Deloitte, Sprint, Mattel, Yahoo, Publicis

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wHERE TO STAY - HOTEL ROOM DISCOUNTS

 

All of the hotels below are within walking distance of the Boulder Theater. We may have some additional budget friendly options available soon, but in the meantime here's what we have available. Please book at one of the options below or wait until we release more rooms at one of our hotel partners. If you have any questions about flights or hotels, just email Jacqueline Hughes and she'll help you out - jacqueline.hughes@techstars.com. Thanks!  


Need help planning your trip? Get your flight booked using Pana (TS Boulder 2014). 

 

St Julien Hotel - http://www.stjulien.com/

 

The beautiful St Julien Hotel is located six blocks from the Boulder Theater and is available at a $276 per night discounted rate for a room with either one King bed or two Queen beds.


To grab a room at our discounted rate, contact their reservation department at 1-877-303-0900 or by email at sjreservations@stjulien.com and let them know that you're with Techstars.  

 

Hotel Boulderado - http://boulderado.com/

 

The historic Hotel Boulderado  is located just one block from the Boulder Theater and is available at a $215 (one Queen bed) or $231 (two Queen beds) per night.

 

To grab a room at the discounted rate, contact their reservation department at 1-800-433-4344 or by email at reservations@boulderado.com and use booking ID 17519. ***Note - our hotel block expires on September 18th. 

 

Boulder University Inn - http://www.boulderuniversityinn.com/


This budget friendly option is 1/2 a mile from the Boulder Theater and is avaible at $99 (one King Bed) or $117 (two Queen beds) per night.


To grab a room at this property, contact their reservation department at 303-417-1700 and let them know you are with Techstars. 

 We'll have some additional budget friendly options available soon, but in the meantime here's what we have available. Please book at one of the options below or wait until we release more rooms at one of our hotel partners. If you have any questions about flights or hotels, just email Jacqueline Hughes and she'll help you out - jacqueline.hughes@techstars.com. Thanks!  

 

St Julian Hotel - http://www.stjulien.com/


The beautiful St Julian Hotel is located six blocks from the Boulder Theater and is available at a $276 per night discounted rate for a room with either one King bed or two Queen beds.

To grab a room at our discounted rate, contact their reservation department at 1-877-303-0900 or by email at sjreservations@stjulien.com and let them know that you're with Techstars.  

 

Hotel Boulderado - http://boulderado.com/

 

The historic Hotel Boulderado  is located just one block from the Boulder Theater and is available at a $215 (one King bed) or $231 (two Queen beds) per night.

 

To grab a room at the discounted rate, contact their reservation department at 1-800-433-4344 or by email at reservations@boulderado.com and use booking ID 17519. 



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