Boulder StartUp Meetup
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Hear a founder present their startup, and ask questions & provide feedback so they can learn from your experience. Network with entrepreneurs, your peers, your target clients, your tribe, and learn from an experienced entrepreneur who will share their story and advice based on their own unique experiences. Come to be part of this great entrepreneurial culture!
Agenda:
5:30 Meet and Greet/Networking
6:00 Introduction
6:10 Startup Entrepreneur Pitch: Bryant Mason Founder The Urban Farm Company
6:30 Entrepreneur Presentation and Wisdom Tips: Luke Barrington, PhD Director New Products at DigitalGlobe
7:00 Member Introductions & Announcements
7:30 Adjourn
7:30-8PM Networking
Entrepreneur Presentation: Luke Barrington
Luke Barrington is an entrepreneur and thought leader in machine learning, crowdsourcing and online engineering. At DigitalGlobe he leads the Product Management teams that bring new geospatial solutions to online mapping portals, geospatial app developers and humanitarian organizations. Luke was founder and CTO of Tomnod, and founder and CTO of Music Search, Inc. He received his Ph.D. from University of California, San Diego and B.Eng. from University College Dublin. Luke says, “Every day DigitalGlobe collects over 4,000,000 square kilometers of high resolution imagery, complete with super-spectral information. This creates immense opportunity not only to see the globe but to understand it. With Geospatial Big Data (GBD) analytics, we connect our entire archive to a collection of analytic tools, algorithms and workflows, all in a scalable and secure cloud-based environment.” Listen to Luke's TEDx talk ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQh-_OTdICM ).
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Startup Pitch: Bryant Mason
The Urban Farm Company
The Urban Farm Co. (urbanfarmcolorado.com (http://www.urbanfarmcolorado.com/)) is Boulder start-up with a mission to make it as easy as possible for people to grow their own fresh, healthy, sustainable food right in their backyard. We install raised bed organic vegetable gardens for homeowners and businesses using a great soil mix and simple gardening method that makes is easy for beginner gardeners to grow a lot of food in a small space. After someone gets a garden, we provide extensive help and education throughout the season to ensure new gardeners are successful.
Personal Bio
Bryant Mason is the founder of The Urban Farm Co, a group of passionate gardeners with a mission of making it simple to grow your own fresh healthy food right in your backyard. Bryant is inspired by the power of fresh organic produce in cities, and it’s ability to address many of our most pressing social and environmental challenges. His goal is to teach people how to “feed their inner farmer”, even in small spaces in their backyard. In addition to running his business, Bryant is the “chief gardening officer” for Forest City Stapleton, and is a self-taught Front Range urban vegetable grower and soil guru.
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