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Startup Weekend Set For Nov. 21-23 In Lexington

Posted by Jason Falls on Nov-11-2008

Lexington, KentuckyImage via WikipediaWhile in Lexington, Ky., recently to present to the Lexington Ad Club, Nick Huhn and I met Brian Raney of ApaxSoftware who is actively involved in something very interesting and exciting called Startup Weekend. It is a national event that brings together the smartest and most creative people in multiple industries (web design, engineering, software, marketing, medicine, art, etc.) to share ideas and launch companies in the course of 54 hours.  By Sunday evening each of the self-selected groups will present their alpha version company to the rest of the attendees which will include local political leaders, multi-million dollar company founders and more.

The event minimizes formal structure to allow for maximum creativity, conversation, and productivity.  It will be coming to Lexington for the first time November 21-23, and will be held at Whitehall Classroom Building on UK’s campus.  The cost is $40 for the weekend and includes food and a T-shirt.

You can sign up here.

RSVP and get more information from the Facebook event here - http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/event.php?eid=33516827207

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Louisville Technology Acronym Bee Calls For Teams, Sponsors

Posted by Jason Falls

Louisville Technology Acronym BeeOkay, how many of you can honestly say that having a technology-based, quiz bowl type competition to raise money for a good cause wouldn’t be fun? The 2008 Louisville Technology Acronym Bee is coming up on Thursday, October 23rd at the Mellwood Arts Center and the call for participants and sponsor donations is out. The bee is presented by and is a fund-raiser for the National Center for Family Literacy, a national non-profit headquartered here in Louisville.

Think spelling bee, only being asked what obscure technology acronyms mean. (All you geeks will be down with the bee. If you don’t consider yourself a geek, your IT guys and gals will totally dig this.) The winning team gets the LTAB Champion Trophy Cup, prizes and significant bragging rights. Louisville Geek Dinner will never be the same. Plus the event is an entertaining, fun time.

The donation levels include:

$550 – Silver Sponsor (One team of three people compete.)
$1,200 – Gold Sponsor (Two teams of three people compete and two tables for 10 more people at the event.)
$2,500 – Platinum Sponsor (Three teams of three people compete with three tables for 15 others at the event.)
$5000 – Title Sponsor (Teams of three competitive teams negotiable, tables for 30 attendees at event.)

Everyone gets food, beverages and participants get T-shirts. There are all sorts of other benefits for the levels of sponsorship. To find out more or to sign up as a team or sponsor, call or email Andrea Peters at NCFL at (502) 584-1133 ext. 131 or apeters – at – famlit.org. There is no official deadline, but there are a limited number of teams available, so sign up soon.

The event is the NCFL’s only local fund-raising activity. NCFL is a national non-profit uniquely focused on literacy support and programming for multiple generations. Their work has pioneered a family-centric approach to education reform. To date, the six-year-old event has raised nearly $80,000 to support the organization. Learn more about them on their website or their blog.

Disclosure: NCFL is a client of Jason Falls’s agency, Doe-Anderson.

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