Starting up like the Notorious B.I.G

"You Only Launch Once"

Danny will take the audience through the background of speek and getting from startup idea to $3mm+ in funding, hundreds of thousands of users and the recent launch out of beta. Attendees will learn how to take their idea from a concept to a reality and learn tactical, pragmatic, applicable details along the way.

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Danny Boice is the Co-Founder & CTO of Speek (http://www.speek.com/)- a 500 Startups (http://www.500.co/) funded startup that let's users do conference calls (http://www.speek.com/) with a simple link ( http://speek.com/YourName ) rather than using phone numbers and PINs. A serial entrepreneur and executive, Danny started his career as a software engineer working for startups like Network Solutions and MusicMaker.com in the 90's. Danny founded his first company, Jaxara in the early 2000s (exited via acquisition). Danny attended Harvard and is a frequent speaker and guest contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Fast Company and Pando Daily as an expert on startups, product, technology and user experience. He was recently named a Tech Titan by Washingtonian Magazine. You can find Danny on Twitter @DannyBoice (https://speekinc.atlassian.net/wiki/www.twitter.com/DannyBoice) or LinkedIn here (http://www.linkedin.com/in/dboice).

Sponsor:

Rutgers Business School Alumni Association (http://www.rbsaa.org/)

Schedule:

6:30 - 7:00: Pizza & Networking (room 308)
7:00 - 8:00 Speaker with Q&A

8:00 - Until you want to leave: Networking