BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3035618:Event:5827 DTSTAMP:20120215T115715Z SUMMARY:SAO Corvallis Febuary Tech Pub: Co-Working in Oregon DESCRIPTION:Thursday, Febuary 11th, 2010\n\n5:30pm - 8:30pm\n\nLocatio n: Renaissance on the Riverfront\n136 SW Washington Ave.\nCorvallis, O regon 97333\n\nRSVP Here\n\n$5 for SAO members or students, and $15 fo r non-members\n\n\nIncludes finger food and no-host bar\n\nAGENDA:\n\n 5:30 - 6:15: Business Networking Time with finger food, no host bar\n6 :15 - 6:25: 30-Second Mic (give us your technology business elevator p itch!!)\n6:45 Program: Co-Working in Oregon\n\nPROGRAM:\n\nCo-working is a growing movement around the United States and across the world. A s more people work from home or work while they are traveling or are i n the midst of a rapid startup cycle, they find that they can be more effective and more productive by gathering together to work. Starting with projects like the Hat Factory in San Francisco, co-working sites have bloomed. There are several co-working facilities in the Nortwest, some which are expanding to multiple cities and some that focus on sp ecific audiences or markets. The February SAO meeting will be a panel discussion by three Oregon co-working entrepreneurs: Jeff Jimmerson fr om Madison Avenue Collective in Corvallis, Josh Friedman from Ned Spac e in Portland and Rick Turoczy from Portland Innovation Experiment.\n\ nJeff Jimerson, founder of the Madison Ave. Collective (http://www.mad collective.com/)\n\nMadison Ave. Collective (the MAC) is a shared offi ce and studio space located in downtown Corvallis, 72 steps west of St arbucks on the corner of 5th street and—you guessed it—Madison Ave . After three months of heavy remodeling, Jeff opened the space on 08/ 08/08 with a \"nice people wanted\" Craigslist ad.\n\nToday, twelve cr eative and tech professionals call the MAC home for their respective s mall businesses.\n\nRick Turoczy, founder of Silicon Florist (http://s iliconflorist.com/)\n\nRick Turoczy has been working in high-tech mark eting communications jobs in the Portland area for the past 15 years. Out of pure dumb luck, he happened to sit up in bed at 2 AM one night in August 2007 with the inspiration to start Silicon Florist, a blog a bout Portland startups in the Web, Mobile, and Open Source scenes.\n\n Since then, he’s chatted with The Oregonian a bunch of times, appear ed on local television and radio, made a brief appearance on the NewsH our with Jim Lehrer, garnered bylines in The New York Times, spoken at numerous events, been selected as a runner up for the Portland Busine ss Journal’s “40 under 40,” launched a startup incubator with th e help of Wieden+Kennedy, and co-produced a groundbreaking Web-based t elethon called 30 hour day.\n\nAll because of a blog. Weird.\n\nJosh F riedman, co-founder of NedSpace (http://www.nedspace.com/)\n\nJosh Fri edman is the co-founder of NedSpace, a provider of co-working faciliti es for entrepreneurs and startups. NedSpace is designed to be the plac e where entrepreneurs go to build and grow their businesses. Along wit h his business partner Mark Grimes, NedSpace has itself grown quickly into two locations from its launch in early 2009. The goal is to open 10 more locations throughout the US in 2010, and eventually to have a NedSpace in every city with a startup ecosystem.\n\nJosh serves on the Board of Starve Ups, a Portland-based entrepreneurial organization an d the Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum Advisory Board. He holds a B.S. degre e in speech communication from Oregon State University. Aside from hel ping entrepreneurs grow their companies, you might find him rock climb ing, skiing, cycling, brewing beer or generally causing trouble along with his dog Ace.\n\nFor more information visit http://www.willamettei nnovators.com/events/sao-corvallis-febuary-tech-pub DTSTART:20100212T013000Z DTEND:20100212T043000Z CATEGORIES:social, event LOCATION:Renaissance on the Riverfront WEBSITE:http://www.sao.corvallis.or.us/drupal/node/155 URL:http://www.sao.corvallis.or.us/drupal/node/155 CONTACT: ORGANIZER:SAO Corvallis ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://api.ning.com:80/files/zaKh6yndI5PnA eTY3XvTIq4G52jch0vLLSNdzpVrH1hMGGXyU-tQS-8ZEydrnCa1ov1OK6r2I1EQdQlaZ-M l6vWD*OyjQCOx/NedSpaceinPortlandOregon.jpg ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Matt Rio pelle":http://www.willametteinnovators.com/profile/MattRiopelle ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Brian We ldon":http://www.willametteinnovators.com/profile/BrianWeldon ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Donna Mc Master":http://www.willametteinnovators.com/profile/DonnaMcMaster ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Jeff Jim erson":http://www.willametteinnovators.com/profile/JeffJimerson ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Danielle Anthony":http://www.willametteinnovators.com/profile/DanielleAnthony ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Wendy Ki ncade":http://www.willametteinnovators.com/profile/WendyKincade ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Rebecca Badger":http://www.willametteinnovators.com/profile/RebeccaBadger ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Michael Laport":http://www.willametteinnovators.com/profile/MichaelLaport ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="John Sec hrest":http://www.willametteinnovators.com/profile/JohnSechrest ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Jason Pr othero":http://www.willametteinnovators.com/profile/JasonProthero ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Randy L loyd":http://www.willametteinnovators.com/profile/RandyLloyd ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Aruna K umar":http://www.willametteinnovators.com/profile/ArunaKumar END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR