The event features keynote speaker Chris Capdevila, Tumalo resident and VentureBox mentor. Capdevila is an entrepreneur, investor, and active board member in several technology startups.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 25, 2012
TIME: 4:30p trolley departure, 5p Networking, 6p Presenters begin
WHERE: Sisters, Bronco Billy’s
COST: $15 for EDCO/OEN Members, $25 for Non-Members
TRANSPORTATION: Bend Trolly (FREE for the first 30 riders that call 541-388-3236 to reserve a spot).
Hit the road with EDCO and experience three early stage companies from Sisters present to an expert panel.
Register: http://www.edcoinfo.com/events/events-calendar/default.aspx
Three of Sister’s Finest Early Stage Presenters:
Angeline’s Bakery specializes in healthy food that tastes great! Always something for everyone, the company strives to meet everyone’s dietary challenges using fresh unique ingredients!
Sporting Innovations is a product development company that designs and markets new products for the shooting sports market. The company’s principal product, aimed at 25+ million hunters and gun enthusiasts, is a patent-pending innovation in a market unchanged in 100 years. The company seeks 750K in a convertible note, with a quick ramp-up.
Created by a cyclist searching for greater comfort and protection, SweatHawg is a helmet liner that absorbs ten times its weight in water. It provides protection from dripping sweat and sunscreen, sunlight through helmet vents, and wind in cooler climates. The best thing about SweatHawg? No dork factor as it remains unseen in your helmet.
Three expert panelists:
Keynote speaker Chris Capdevila joins the panel to provide his expertise. Capdevila was the Founder and CEO of LogicalApps, which he led from inception to become the leading provider of automated business controls monitoring and enforcement solutions. Capdevila bootstrapped the company for the first 5 years of growth, doubling revenues every year. In 2005, he raised $14M from Sequoia Capital and Mission Ventures.
Capdevila grew the company to over $25M in revenues and in November 2007 sold the company to Oracle Corporation. Capdevila graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with a bachelor’s degree in Economics and was named Software Entrepreneur of the Year in 2005 by the Southern California Software Council.
Shelley Gunton is an experienced entrepreneur, chaired the 2011 Angel Oregon Conference, is the current chair of OEN and the executive director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at PSU.
Alan Holzman is a Sisters resident, chairs the Sisters Planning Commission and spent 17 years in the computer software industry, including Intel.
