Dallas Startup Week

An educational event celebrating the DART Rail Line
Sponsored by DART, IDA Ireland Whiskey, and ZeroLogic

Attendees will play party games to learn the following DART Rail Line essentials:

• How to identify their own home station and the home station of others. 
• The route lines, where they go, and how to plan a route
• How to buy and activate a ticket via GoPass
• Compare DART fares to fares around the world

Also in attendance will be 6 DART Ambassadors who will be there to listen to your feedback about how to improve DART. They'll also share teasers of what's ahead as DART continues to expand the DART light rail.

The event's first hour (6-7) will include free samples of IDA Ireland Irish Whiskey. In conjunction with the North Texas Irish Festival at Fair Park this weekend, the line for drinks will be named the Green Line. The Green Line on the DART Rail services Fair Park...the more you know!

For more interesting take-aways like that one and a grand ole time, come out tonight to DART Game Night.

7 minute talks from the Dallas startup community about innovating for real estate.

ULI presents FlashTalks: The Future of Work (in order of speaking)

• Taffie Poston (Living Office): How We Work is Changing
• Aasiya Haroon Haq (Guidrr): 7 Key Things to Know about Future of Work
• Katie Jo Whisenant (Alt+Co Launch): Creative Spaces
• Jeffrey Eiting (CBRE Media & Technology Group): The Real Estate Needs of Startups
• Chirag Gupta (NoD): Collaborative Space Design

7 minute talks from the Dallas startup community about innovating for real estate

ULI presents FlashTalks: Innovating for Real Estate (in order of speaking)

• John Adolph (Parqer): Selling into the Retail Vertical
• Saruabh Gupta (CoHopping.com): The Sharing Economy
• Brandon Castillo (ASH+LIME Strategies)
• Christopher Haley (Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project)
• Matt Alexander (Need)
• Daniel Black (Glass Media): Innovating for Real Estate and Retail

Please join us for the DSW edition of our monthly event Waffle Wednesday 

Come enjoy free waffles and coffee courtesy of the Fort Work community.

Feel free to stay afterwards for a free day of coworking.  

Join us as we launch a vibrant discussion about the sharing economy and 
collaborative consumption space to the Dallas startup community. How will these 
movements impact Dallas? What can each of us do to participate? We’ll hear 
from those already involved in the movement in our North Texas community as 
well as leaders in the international ecosystem. 

Started just a few years ago as a peer-to-peer blogger movement to discuss 
changes in our business landscape, Ouishare has mushroomed to 60 cities, 
in 32 countries with more than 12,000 in its international ecosystem. Hear 
firsthand from Francesa Pick, one of the leaders of the international movement, 
about the inspiring Ouishare story of how young people with passion and ideas 
have come together to impact our world. Participate in the discussion, debate 
around topics that drive the sharing and collaborative economy such as open 
source and maker movements; platform business models; open governance and 
open currency systems. You’ll also hear from San Francisco based sharing 
economy activist Chelsea Rustum about her new book, "A Shareable Life,” a 
story of how the idea underlying the collaborative consumption space can 
change how to think about our daily life and values. 

Local coworking leaders Chirag Gupta and Oren Salomon will discuss how 
coworking and sharing go together and local startup CEO Aassia Haq will 
discuss why the sharing economy space in Texas – and around the world – is 
poised for explosive growth.

The Startup Sticker Party is a celebration of swag. 

We will be coating the entire facade of our 9th floor bar with stickers from startups. 

We invite our guests to bring stickers, t-shirts, hoodies, whatever swag you got to give away. 

Immediately following the event is Product Hunt Dallas Happy Hour #1

Both are free events open to the public. 

Product Hunt Dallas #1 kicks off on March 4th at Fort Work, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Join us for a fun night discussing what you're working on and new products in the wild. 

Dallas Fort Work -- 8th Floor at Alto 211 (211 North Ervay St. Dallas, TX) is the spot for a night of product talk and demos. Product Hunt Dallas has arrived!

Seating is limited, so RSVP now and don't miss out!

This is the first event of its kind.  

Free money for startups.  

A fresh look for investors, a deeper engagement for fans and a fun time for all.  

Event Details  

1. Application is open until February 26, 2015 to all North Texas Startups  
2. $2,000 winner-take-all cash prize (gift of Seed Sumo)  
3. 5 teams will be invited to a finals event held at: 
Fort Work [8th Floor, 211 N Ervay St, DALLAS, TX 75201]
THURSDAY March 5, 2015: 6-9 PM  
(part of Dallas Startup Week)

 

Competition Rules  

1. Each team will pitch once in three successive rounds of increasing duration:15 seconds, 60 seconds, 240 seconds 

2. Each pitch round will be scored as the average of the three highest judges' scores on a scale of 1-10. [Ex: Pitch Score: 9.0, Judge 1 Score: 3.5, Judge 2 Score: 8.0, Judge 3 Score: 9.0, Judge 4 Score: 10.0] 

3. The four event judges are: Molly Cain (Tech Wildcatters), Mike Sarimsakci (Alto Tech Fund), Steve Tinkle (Seed Sumo) and Trey Gibson (Spotio)

4. After the final pitch and judge scoring for each team, the audience will be allowed 300 seconds of Q&A 

5.  The Q&A will then be scored by the audience, accepting votes from the public via Twitter on a scale of 1-10, one vote per user by tweeting with the following format:  "@fortwork @seedsumo @startup_handle #DPP 10.0" for 180 seconds 

6. Whichever teams scores the highest total between the 3 pitches and Q&A (all four weighted equally) wins the $2,000 cash prize. 

 ALL ATTENDESS: PLEASE PURCHSE A TICKET VIA EVENTBRITE https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fort-work-presents-dallas-pitch-prize-tickets-15746738920

ALL STARTUP APPLICANTS: PLEASE APPLY HERE: https://oren2.typeform.com/to/QjVtOT 

UT Dallas has a wide range of talented inventors in science and technology. Join us to learn more about how the cutting edge resarch of UT Dallas faculty and students is being turned into commercially viable innovations, bringing benefit, economic activity and jbos to our region. As UT Dallas pushes toward Tier 1, this workshop will explain how inventions and technologies developed by the UTD community can be accessed by those outside of the university. Inventors, business leaders and investors all benefit when partnerships are formed. This workshop will provide and opportunity for community members, investors and entrepreneurs to:

• Collaborate with UTD in connection with its start-up activity
• Learn how to access technologies available for licensing
• Hear from several faculty and PhD students as they share their experiences with venture development

Questions? Contact Melissa Palmer, Program Manager, Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, UT Dallas, melissa.palmer@utdallas.edu

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