Boulder StartUp Meetup

Learn from an experienced entrepreneur who will share their story and the wisdom gained from their own unique journey. Hear a founder pitch their startup, and provide feedback so they can learn from your experience. Network with entrepreneurs, your peers, your target clients, your tribe.

Come to be part of this great entrepreneurial culture!

Agenda:

5:30 PM Meet & Greet / Networking

6:00 Introduction

6:10 Startup Entrepreneur Pitch

6:30 Keynote Presentation and Wisdom Tips

7:00 Member Introductions & Announcements

7:15 Adjourn

7:15 to 8:00 Networking

A special note of thanks to our sponsors, Niche Workspaces and Upslope Brewing!

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Keynote Speaker - Victoria Kindred Keziah

Victoria Kindred Keziah is a twenty-five year strategist with a proven history of building businesses from the bottom up. She began her career in the New York advertising world as a strategic planner and market researcher. She then co-founded and built one of the world’s first boutique brand strategy firms, Kindred Keziah Inc., which grew to house three divisions — Consumer Insights, Brand Strategy, and New Product Innovation — with offices in Boulder and New York and a roster of Fortune 500 clients. In 2005 she sold Kindred Keziah to senior management, who rebranded the firm as Egg Strategy.

Since that time, she has devoted her work to sustainable and social innovation exclusively, providing brand and business strategy for clients in circular economics, renewable energy, educational reform, health care, environmental conservation and, through her work with Savory Institute, regenerative agriculture. She views this as the greatest work of our time: healing the land and our relationship to it.

Victoria holds an MS in the emerging science of Biomimicry, the emulation of nature’s genius in human designs, systems, and strategies. She brings her understanding of natural systems to the rollout of Land to Market at Savory, the world’s first verified regenerative sourcing solution. She lives with her family in Boulder, where she spends every possible moment in the great outdoors.

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Pitch Presenter - Nevzeta Pitic, Save Sarajevo

Nevzeta (Nev) Pitic was born and raised in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She left her country in 1994 just few months before war was over. During 4 long years of war, she learned a great deal about how to survive. Besides snipers and bombing, getting through cold winters was one of the hardest parts of surviving in the siege of Sarajevo; there was no heat, water or power, people had only one meal per day and there was not enough warm clothing to go around.

Twenty-Four years after the war there are still many citizens of Sarajevo, including Nev’s sister and her daughter, who are not able to provide basic necessities like food, clothing and shelter. They do not have the chance to work and earn a salary as industry is damaged and jobs are scarce.

Now living in Boulder, Nev has founded SaveSarajevo, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide basic necessities to Sarajevans struggling under post-war conditions. The organization aims to:

• Raise awareness of the extreme poverty left in the wake of the Siege
of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War
• Utilize the Boulder Mountain Repair facility for fixing unused jackets
• Deliver unused and repaired outdoor clothing to those in need
• Raise money to further help families who need basic necessities like
food, shelter and warm clothes