preparing for the launch of sfCUBE.com
preparing for the launch of sfCUBE.com
preparing for the launch of sfCUBE.com
Stay Tuned, sfCUBE is moving to an all new location Downtown.
Dylan Rosario, founder of fleeQ.com and resident entrepreneur with sfCUBE, here to report to the community. Yes, the rumor are true, sfCUBE (Dogpatch District) has closed its doors. Its a sad day.
There is a silver lining though, we have found a more flexible and accesible space (downsizing from the current 5000 sq/ft to a 4000 sq/ft facility). So sfCUBE will continue on with a stronger and more prosperous co-working incubation facility and great entrepreneurs who are the life blood of a good start-up community.
We are moving sfCUBE in to the SOMA district of Downtown San Francisco, in a great location only a few blocks from MySpace, ING, cNET, and dozens of great startups. Stay tuned for the details.
It was hard to move, but the building owner was asking too much for the space on our month to month lease. We have a solid new space, and much more affordable. All so we can keep providing the low cost solutions for start ups that so many are demanding.
Unfortunately, the start-ups in the Potrero Hill and Dogpatch area, didn’t move in quick enough for us to justify such a large facility ( memories of my marketing professor saying to me a dozen time “location location location” ). We hope that you will come visit us in our new diggs, and join in the opportunity to meet all the great start ups who are relocating with us.
Contact us directly if your interested in joining the incubator, or if you wish to sponsor events at the new 4000 sq, ft events and conference center.
We want to thank all who were part of sfCUBE dogpatch and we look forward to seeing you again at the new diggs.
More on the location later in October.
Warmest regards,
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Dylan Rosario
sfCUBE – Founder
fleeQ.com – Founder
cell – 503.544.0955
Connect with us on your favorite social site:
http://www.meetup.com/sanfranciscocube/ – Meetup
http://www.linkedin.com/in/sfcube – LinkedIn
http://www.facebook.com/sfcube – Facebook
http://www.twitter.com/sfcube – Myspace
Hey, check it out we have a new website design! Looks great, and were updating more every few hours until its done!
We are off to a great start, with little more than 4 week under belt we have had a major entrepreneur event ( http://sfw2.startupweekend.com )under belt, and we have seed funded a small startup in the mobile space. With 5 different startups working out of the cube now we are well on our way to realizing a great service for the san francisco startup community.
We hope that you take the opportunity to come and visit our location and sit down for a free cup of cofee or attend one of the many events we have at our location. 790 Tennessee St San Francisco 94107.
Speakers
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Xochi BirchSpeaking: Friday evening
Topic: Entrepreneurship
Bio: Xochi Birch is now focusing on her first business, Birthday Alarm, which will be launching under another brand Zuno.com later this year. Tell me more
Birthday Alarm was launched in 2001 and today has over 50 million users worldwide.
Xochi Birch co-founded Bebo in 2005 focusing on the operational and financial aspects of the company. She served as President for Bebo until November 2007 after which her role changed to Chief Community Officer. The new role allowed her to focus on what she believed was the foundation of the business. Bebo was sold to AOL in 2008.
Xochi graduated from St. Mary’s College, California with a BSc in Business Administration and Economics. She then developed computer systems for insurance companies for 9 years. In 1999, after the birth of her first child, she co-founded Internet companies moving from a technical role to focus on the operational aspects of the business.
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Jessica LivingstonSpeaking: Friday evening
Topic: Entrepreneurship
Bio: Jessica Livingston is a founding partner at Y-Combinator, a seed-stage venture firm based in Mountain View, CA. Tell me more
She is the author of Founders at Work, a collection of interviews with founders about the early days of their startups. Previously, she was vice president of marketing at investment bank Adams Harkness. In addition to her work with startups at Y Combinator, Livingston organizes Startup School (www.startupschool.org).
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Dan MartellSpeaking: Friday evening
Topic: Building Web Properties That Convert
Bio: Dan Martell is an angel investor and co-founder of Flowtown. He skydives and snowboards and believes running is among the secrets to a fruitful life. Tell me more
An award-winning entrepreneur, at 25, Dan formed his first start-up, Spheric Technologies Inc., and watched it grow by an average of 152% per year before he sold the company in mid-2008. An award winning Entrepreneur, Dan recently co-founded Flowtown, a company focused on providing web-based tools that allow small businesses to measure their online marketing efforts. As an informal angel investor, he is active in advising entrepreneurs using metric-based marketing tactics to gain market adoption. Martell is a board member of Propel ICT and also volunteers his time working with youth battling addictions at Portage NB. He is passionately involved in facilitating micro-lending to entrepreneurs in developing countries through the non-profit, Kiva.org.
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Shanna TellermanSpeaking: Friday evening
Topic: Entrepreneurship
Bio: Shanna Tellerman is the Founder and CEO of Sim Ops Studios, Inc., a spin-off company from Carnegie Mellon University. Tell me more
Sim Ops is developing the comprehensive independent game development solution, Wild Pockets; a free web-based 3D game engine with a built-in transaction system and distribution network. Shanna has overseen operations, development, fund raising, and strategic relationships since the formation of Sim Ops. She has over seven years of experience working in the video game and emerging serious games industry with a focus on breaking down the barriers for creative development in 3D environments. Graduating with a Masters degree in Entertainment Technology from Carnegie Mellon University in May 2005, she was hired by the University to continue development and to investigate commercialization opportunities for the technology that formed the foundation of Sim Ops Studios. Shanna has experience in a variety of roles including her initial involvement as visionary, product manager and designer, focused on user-centered design and research in game development, through to her current role as CEO focused on all levels execution in the company from the product roadmap to business development. In 2004, Ms. Tellerman had the opportunity to work for Electronic Arts on The Sims 2, the sequel to the best-selling PC game ever. She has also researched and co-authored the paper titled “Emergent Stories in Massively Multiplayer Online Games: Using Improvisational Techniques to Design for Emotional Impact,” (International Conference on Entertainment Computing, 2004). She received her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts and a Minor in Multi-Media Production from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003.
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Danielle MorrillSpeaking: Friday evening
Topic: Entrepreneurship
Bio: Danielle is Director of Marketing for Twilio, a San Francisco based startup offering a platform-as-a-service for voice communications through their simple cloud telephony API. Tell me more
With 24 years of experience being scrappy, she has spent the past 10 years making it pay at businesses from startup to Fortune 500. Danielle is also Editor in Chief for Seattle 2.0, the premier destination for all things startup in the Pacific Northwest including the Startup Index, which lists over 300 startup companies and Seattle 2.0 TV. Find her on Twitter @DanielleMorrill
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Tina SeeligSpeaking: Friday evening
Topic: Entrepreneurship
Bio: Tina Seelig is the Executive Director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), the entrepreneurship center at Stanford University’s School of Engineering. Tell me more
Allright everyone! A HUGE congratulations is in order for Escape My Date and FoodSpotting! Escape My Date got a FREE one month tenure offered to them by PlugandPlayTechCenter where they will have access to amazing resources and immerse themselves in the startup world where they can grow quickly and successfully.
As a complete unknown, Foodspotting was actually invested in Sunday night shortly after their presentation by an angel investor who was present. Look for these guys in the news!
All of these teams were offered one month free at sfCUBE in San Francisco to continue their efforts!
Great job teams! You seriously rocked this weekend! Be sure to take advantage of the resources provided and KEEP WORKING on your projects!
See you call September 23rd back at sfCUBE starting at 6pm!
“In a sticky social situation?”Use escape my date to get out of it!
Website: http://www.escapemydate.com/
“HalfWrit.com is a social writing site for fiction writers who want to grow creatively through sharing and shaping short stories. Small peer circles provide framing for creative problems, moderation of content and quality, constructive feedback on work.”
Website: http://halfwrit.com/
“The smart reminder service that helps you network better.”
Website: http://professionalpoke.com/
“Your flat fee staffing partner. Ideal candidate. Easy, predictable, cheaper.”
Website: http://ultimatehire.com/
“A visual local guide that lets you find dishes, not just restaurants.”
Website: http://foodspotting.net/
“Live it. Write it. Share it.”
Website: http://40weeks.com/
“Know your footprint.”
Website: http://www.kulstof.com/
“Iz in ur pantry counting ur food stuffs.”
Website: http://inurpantry.com/
“Online code editing and sharing.”
Website: http://codesharehub.appspot.com/
“Redefining Luxury – Sustainable Luxury”
Website: http://stores.sulusso.com/StoreFront.bok
“Friends helping friends. Give and get the right gift.”
“Easily find faith based groups, places of worship and events in your local area.”
Website: http://flockpile.org/
“Claim and manage your user (brand) names.”
Website: http://www.netnyms.com/
Twitter: @netnyms
“Get the tools to mobilize your friends to volunteer.”
Website: http://www.igiveadamnnetwork.org/
“Twitter, at a glance.”
Website: http://twelescope.com/
Twitter: @twelescope
“Friendly, online, rapid kolaboration.”
Website: http://forkthis.net/
KaramaCompass (need logo)
Wardrobe Shuffle
“Life is too short to be stuck in the closet.”
@wardrobeshuffle
Geezer Alert (need logo)
Thank you to all the StartUp Weekend / Women 2.0 participants for making the event such a huge success. We hope that each and every one of the entrepreneurs/companies will take us up on our offer for a $0 move in special for the month of September 2009.
Special Congratulations to
FOODSPOTTING
the winners of the StartUp Weekend Prize
$5000 from Dan Martell and
Free Rent for a Year from sfCUBE !
Please contact us for details.Call 415.829.2228
or drop in Mon-Fri 8AM to 9PM Sat-Sun 9AM to 6PM
Download the Startup Weekend Women 2.0 One Pager Here
Artist Portraits of the Event by http://twitter.com/randschulman
From Marc Nager @ http://w2sf.startupweekend.org/2009/08/31/sunday-night-its-a-wrap/
AMAZING event!
18 startups, free space offered to EVERY team by sfCUBE, one month tenure at PlugandPlayTechCenter, $5k given to a team, startup discounts by Sun Startup Essentials, Free hosting by United Layer, Free software from Funding Road Map, Free Venture 360 reports, amazing legal advice from Cooley Godward Kronish, Free consulting from Trivium, free minutes (and food) from Twilio, discounted beer from Devils Canyon Brewing Company, Free energy drinks fromHiBall, huge support from SuperRewards, Orange, Free tickets to Startup Day 2009, amazing advice from experienced investors, evangelists, lawyers, ceo’s, VCs, etc, etc.
This event was an amazing event. Working with Women 2.0, we really accomplished our goal for this event: to help provide the networking, resources and incentives to get entrepreneurs going!
Check back Tuesday for a full update of all the companies! (if you have pictures, video, blog posts, please send to Marc!)
Time for some sleep.. Finally! Thank you for your support everyone! See you Wednesday, September 23rd for a re-cap at sfCUBE. Stay tuned for more info on that!