What do you need from the community?
- Ecosystem of peers? – opportunity to network easily
- Logistics – what steps to take to start a firm?
- Access to capital?
- Training – panel discussions, insightful and interactive interviews
- Access to potential partners/employees?
- Access to potential employers?
- Mentoring and directed events

What are the different venues out there right now?

Organizations
-  TiE-Seattle (http://seattle.tie.org)
-  NWEN (http://www.nwen.org)
-  NetIP (http://www.netipseattle.org)
-  NAAAP (http://seattle.naaap.org)

User Groups and Events
-  Mind Camp
-  Seattle Tech Startups
-  Ignite!
-  Meta group aggregators like BEAN, Meetup
-  BizNik
-  Lunch 2.0
-  UW Business Plan Competition
-  Foundread.com
-  asktheVC.com
-  techstars.org
-  startupschools.com
-  startuppingg.com
-  elance.com
-  rent-a-coder.com
-  SCORE (old CEOs, part of Small Business Initiatives

Books
-  The Entrereneur Guide’s to Business Law (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0324042914)

Description: Best practices for generating cash from your blog, podcast, or video podcast.

Session Organizer(s): Andru Edwards, anyone else?

Classification: Open Discussion

USuggest.com allow the bloggers to make some extra money through recommended products directly from within their blogs, and hopefully directing their readers to online retailers. As such, the respective blogger would receive a commission from any sales generated through referrals!

brian@dorseys.org

http://briandorsey.info

Description: The piecepack is to board games what a deck of cards is to card games:  a public domain set of components to design and play multiple games.  Come get your hands on several kinds of commercial and homebrew piecepacks, and discuss prototyping and designing games with them.  We’ll also talk about and demo the related game system Icehouse, and the rare and bizarre mechanical game system Orion, now in the public domain.  The session organizer has won awards for his piecepack game designs.

Session Organizer(s):  Ron Hale-Evans

Classification: Open Discussion

Description: Get your picture taken and drawn by a robot.

Session Organizer(s): Bre Pettis & Crew

Classification: Activity

Description: Potato, apple, pumpkin guns.

Session Organizer(s): Bre Pettis

Classification: Activity

Description: Activity and discussion to learn how to write compelling titles for website blogs and articles.

Session Organizer(s): Carlos del Rio

Classification: Activity, Open Discussion

Description: New web site.  Web exploration tool with a focus on K-8 educational content.

Session Organizer(s): Seaton Gras, Web Nav 360, LLC

Classification: Presentation

Description: Free form chat about technologies, strategies and ideas to promote online travel services.  Free italian panettone served.  Don’t miss it!

Session Organizer(s): Paolo Tosolini, Italy from the Insid

Classification: Freeform

Description: Have you ever tried to read that magnificent, cryptic book Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce and put it down after a few pages?  The Wake seems cryptic because it was a form of natural language data compression that’s poetic, beautiful, and packs a lot of meaning into a small space.  Come learn the secrets of how to read it from someone who’s made it all the way through.  There will be handouts of pages from the book, audio of master interpreters reading the Wake, and key reference books to share during our group dig.

Session Organizer(s): Ron Hale-Evans

Classification: Moderated Discussion