Find Co-Founders, Advisers & Investors

Come along for an exciting, dynamic and inspiring entrepreneurial event where you can network and have a drink with like-minded Entrepreneurs and Startup Founders from around the world.

Michael Clouser (aka "Spaghetti") will be our guest speaker. Michael is making a special guest appearance from the other side of the pond and will be delivering a short talk on building startup teams and early stage strategies for them. Michael was formerly a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, Lecturer of Technology Entrepreneurship in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh where he taught the infamous Informatics Entrepreneurship that produced more than a few startups. Michael is an entrepreneur himself and loves all things startup. His first real venture was an online hospitality company in the early days of the internet circa 1994, which exited to a large player in 1996. Michael then went on to CEO Student Agencies Incorporated, which is affiliated with Cornell University. Under his guidance, the organization incubated student-led startups such as CourseInfo (Blackboard) and The Globe went that went through Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), and Jump! that was sold to Microsoft. A power networker, Michael has connective hubs in Silicon Valley, New York City, Austin, Seattle, Orlando, Ithaca, Chicago and Pittsburgh in the USA, as well as Victoria and Vancouver, BC in Canada; Shanghai, Beijing in China; Edinburgh,Glasgow and London in the UK. He earned the BS and MBA from Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and Johnson Graduate School of Management, and worked the MSc/PhD (Entrepreneurship and Innovation) at the University of Edinburgh's Business School.

We hope you can join us for this special night. You can meet awesome people to help you build your startup or find an awesome startup to join as a CoFounder, Investor, Mentor, Adviser or Intern.

Share your war stories, gain information on funding opportunities and discover ways to increase your chances of startup success.

You will also have an opportunity to Get Up and Pitch for three minutes to tell the group what your idea is and ask what you are looking for in terms of cofounders, funding or support.

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Agenda

18:30 Check-In and Networking

19:00 Presentation from Michael Clouser, Startup Guy and Entrepreneurship and Innovation Educator

19:30 'Get up and Pitch' and Ask for CoFounders, Advice or Funding

20:00 Meetup Melee (talk to potential cofounders, people you can help)

21:30 End of Meetup

Bring a friend!

See you soon

The League of Entrepreneurs Edinburgh Meetup Team

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About the organisers of The League of Entrepreneurs Edinburgh

The League of Entrepreneurs Edinburgh was CoFounded in April 2015 by Michael Clouser and James Shoemark

Michael Clouser (https://ca.linkedin.com/in/michaelrclouser)is a Serial Entrepreneur and CoFounder himself.

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A former venture capitalist in the US, Mike was also with the Edinburgh-Stanford Link and co-founded the Edinburgh Entrepreneurship Club (E-Club). He also organizes and coordinates the Scotland-Silicon Valley Link.

James Shoemark (https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jamesshoemark)is the CoFounder/CEO at the The Startup Race (http://thestartuprace.com/) where entrepreneurs get investment without having to pitch or write a business plan.

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He runs the High Fliers CEO Peer mentoring (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/discover-how-a-mastermind-group-can-massively-increase-your-business-success-tickets-18774989499)group and educates Startup Founders in Lean and Customer Development via the Heroic Entrepreneurs Open Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/HeroicEntrepreneurs/).

Jane Darkes (https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/jane-darkes/8/6a4/19a) is a marketeer with 18 years experience both B2B and B2C. She has worked both client and agency side.

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For the last 8 years she has worked in Financial but is keen to break out and do some marketing consultancy and help some start ups find, keep and grow their target audience/customers. Jane is curious and loves to learn new skills and keep her finger on the pulse of innovation and technology; having recently completing her Google Squared Digital Marketing Course.

Check out her profile and recommendations on Linked in : https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/jane-darkes/8/6a4/19a To find out more about her, see her short film on You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVRrvqBxHZ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVRrvqBxHZQ)

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Help us form strong CoFounding Teams in Edinburgh by providing beer and pizza to motivate more entrepreneurs to come along to our events :-)

You can then:

• Display your company banner and literature at our events

• Pitch your services to all the Entrepreneurs in the room

• Be recommended to our online community

• Follow up with potential customers

• Sign more business

Please email james@thestartuprace.com today to discuss it further