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RSVP today at http://birminghamstartupweekend2008.eventbrite.com/ so we can order the right amount of food for Friday’s kick-off sessions.

Agenda for Birmingham weekends

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Friday, May 2, 2008

Time	Facilitator	Topic	Location
6:00p – 6:30p	Organizers	Registration / Dinner (pizza)	Innovation Depot lobby/atrium
6:30p – 7:30p	Curtis Palmer, et al.	Kickoff / Orientation / Elevator pitches / Presentation techniques	Main Conference Room
7:30p – 8:30p	Shawn Pearson	Market validation / Competitive landscape / Marketing	Main Conference Room
8:30p until	Teams	Apply training to business ideas	Assigned work spaces

Saturday, May 3, 2008

Time	Facilitator	Topic	Location
8:00a – 11:00a	Teams	Apply training to business ideas	Assigned work spaces
11:00a – Noon	Organizers	Individual team reviews; as a group	Main Conference Room
Noon – 1:00p		Lunch on your own
1:00p – 3:30p	Burr & Forman, LLP partners	Intellectual Property (Vincent), Choice of Entity (Walthall), and Equity Issues (Moseley)	Main Conference Room
3:30p until	Teams	Apply training to business ideas	Assigned work spaces

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Time	Facilitator	Topic	Location
1:00p – 1:45p	Scott McFarland	Monetization and revenue models	Main Conference Room
1:45p – 2:30p	TBD	Funding and Capitalization	Main Conference Room
2:30p – 3:30p	Teams	Preparation for team reviews	Assigned work spaces
3:30p – 4:30p	Organizers	Individual team reviews; as a group	Main Conference Room
4:30p – 6:30p	Teams	Apply training to business ideas / Dinner on your own	Assigned work spaces
6:30p – 8:00p	Organizers	Individual team reviews; private sessions	Main Conference Room
8:00p until	Teams	Apply training to business ideas	Assigned work spaces

Friday, May 9, 2008

Time	Facilitator	Topic	Location
6:00p – 6:30p	Organizers	Registration / Dinner (pizza)	Innovation Depot Lobby/Atrium
6:30p – 7:00p	Curtis Palmer, et al.	Kickoff / Orientation / Equity Discussion	Main Conference Room
7:30p – 9:00p	Companies	Elevator Pitches and Presentations to Developers	Main Conference Room
9:00p until	Teams	Developers make their team selections and begin their projects	Assigned work spaces

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Time	Facilitator	Topic	Location
8:00a – 11:00a	Teams	Development continues	Assigned work spaces
11:00a – Noon	Organizers	Individual team reviews	Main Conference Room
Noon – 1:00p		Lunch on your own
1:00p – 6:00p	Teams	Apply training to business ideas	Assigned work spaces
6:00p – 7:30p	Organizers	Individual team reviews	Main Conference Room
7:30p – until	Teams	Apply training to business ideas	Assigned work spaces

Sunday, May 11, 2008  (Be good to your Mother today)

Time	Facilitator	Topic	Location
As needed	Teams	Development continues	Off Property

Monday, May 12, 2008 … invitation-only

Time	Facilitator	Topic	Location
5:00p – 6:00p	Burr & Forman, LLP	Registration	Top Floor of Wachovia Tower
6:00p – 7:00p	Organizers	Team Presentations; Questions from Panel	Ballroom
7:00p – 7:30p	Organizers	Tabulation of Votes, followed by Announcement of Winning Team	Ballroom

Busy Month Ahead for Tech in Birmingham

As noted here, the next 4 weekends will be very busy here in Birmingham:

1. BarCampBirmingham returns for its 2nd rendition (this Saturday!!)
2. TechBirmingham Ecycling Day comes back online to receive your unused electronics
3. Birmingham Startup’s Business Development weekend allows entrepreneurs to fine tune their business ideas
4. Birmingham Startup’s Implementation Competition weekend allows developers to join a startup and compete head-to-head to see who can build the most complete product/business over the course of one weekend

From “Barn Raising” to “Barn Storming” in Birmingham

If our first effort was a “barn raising”, then this next event will be a “barn storming” giving the chance for multiple companies to be formed as part of a friendly competiton between teams to create the most exciting (and functional) Internet-based company by the end of the second weekend. Burr & Forman will hold a reception on the Monday following our weekends for all participants where the competing teams will make presentations and demos. A vote by the attendees will determine the winner.

The event provides a forum for individuals with web-based business ideas to compete and receive extensive guidance on how to build their business over the course of the first weekend. Selected teams who successfully complete the business development weekend are then connected with developers (web design, graphic artists, etc) who will compete to build a functional beta website over the following weekend. To register/apply for this event, please sign up on the www.BirminghamStartup.com website and join the ’start a startup weekend’ group.

Gather your friends and peers… sign up here and invite others to join this exciting project!!!