Startup Grind Seattle Hosts Joe Wallin, Partner (Davis Wright Tremaine LLP)

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Joe Wallin, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

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Joe Wallin, a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine, has been a startup lawyer and advisor to startups in Seattle since the late 1990s. He has seen and been involved in hundreds of millions of dollars of financing and hundreds of deals. You will find very few lawyers who have the passion and dedication to startup founders that Joe possesses. Selected to "Washington Super Lawyers," 2011-2013. He is the founder and editor of http://StartupLawBlog.com , a widely read resource on startup legal issues that shares invaluable insights to founders.

Joe will be sharing some of those invaluable insights with all of the Grinders in Seattle. Bring your notepads and questions to learn what is important when starting a company.

He has been published in the Wall St. Journal, PandoDaily, GeekWire, and quoted in various other tech media outlets around the country. Joe is a member of the Angel Capital Association's public policy advisory committee and is a fan of the latest Jobs Act to help support crowdfunding.

In addition to being a startup attorney, Joe has also co-created and co-founder Startup Trivia Daily, an iPhone and Android and web game.

Joe grew up in Mill Creek, where he worked at the golf club cleaning clubs and golf carts, shagging balls off the range, in exchange for some free golf. He delivered pizzas to put himself through college at the UW and then went Seattle University Law School and NYU Law School.

You can read more about Joe at http://startuplawblog.com/joewallin

Agenda

6:00 Networking and Food
7:00 Fireside Chat
8:00 Networking

Hosted By Mike Grabham, Seattle Chapter Director

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Michael is optimistic, genuine and a problem solver. He is a product guy that focuses on uses and revenue. He loves starting companies and enjoys the collaboration with smart people to figure out how to create value for a customer. He has been lucky enough to start a few companies, raise capital and see the hard work payoff. Michael enjoys the experiences you must go through to get a company into a growth mode and see its first service/product create revenue. Currently he is working on an platform to help the homeless in the US, that has yet to be released to the public and is the Creative Services Director for Portent.com (http://www.portent.com), a FULL service internet marketing agency. You can visit his blog at michaelgrabham.com (http://www.michaelgrabham.com) or follow him on twitter @grabmike
Email: Mike@startupgrind.com | Twitter: @mike grabham

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