Sprout Up is a free monthly event for forward-thinking Toronto area entrepreneurs to gather and mind-meld. A great chance for startups around the city to get friendly, discuss current trends, and network in a casual, open, and focused setting. Attendees will walk away with new insights, new friends and actionable ideas for their businesses.

Join us on February 17th for the first Sprout Up of 2010! The theme is avoiding legal mistakes at your startup. Guest speaker Rob Hyndman will be talking about "The 5 biggest legal mistakes you won't make if you listen to this presentation." You'll also hear from new local startups about their businesses.

Event details:
Date: Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Time: 6pm-9pm
Place: The Pilot, 22 Cumberland St, Yorkville

Guest Speaker:
Rob Hyndman, Hyndman Law

Participating startups:
Clip Mobile, Endloop Inc., Vestiigo

You can follow conversations about the event and connect with attendees beforehand by following the #SproutUpTO event page on Sprouter. For more information contact Erin at [masked].

Join us & be a part of our Sprout Up! It's going to be a fabulous night of invaluable insights, new & old friends, & of course your lovely hosts from Sprouter (www.sprouter.com).

Rob Hyndman bio:

Rob Hyndman is a technology business lawyer practicing in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Prior to starting Hyndman | Law, Rob practiced in New York, Budapest and Toronto with two of Canada’s largest law firms. He also acted as VP and General Counsel to Hotline Communications, one of the original P2P networking software companies. Rob has counseled on a broad spectrum of mandates from complex mergers and acquisitions of technology and other companies to routine e-commerce and internet law matters and technology contracts. He has advised public and private companies, established businesses and start-ups, Canadian and foreign companies, developers and users of technology, and both old and new economy businesses.
Rob is also a co-founder of the mesh conference, Canada’s Web Conference, a conference that started in 2006 to help draw attention to the terrific web community in Toronto. mesh is held every year in the spring and has sold out now two years running.