STAR TEC IDEA Camp
Friday, May 7th
Location: St. Petersburg College Collaborative Labs
13805 58th St. N., Clearwater, FL 33760
Do you have an innovative technology, product or process in the early stages of development? Would you like to work with industry experts and coaches to create a winning product pitch and value proposition for your technology concept? Then register to participate in STAR Technology Enterprise Center’s IDEA Camp 2010. This collaborative event will help inventors, entrepreneurs and small businesses refine their “90 second elevator pitch” and effectively communicate their product’s competitive attributes.
Only 15 technology concepts will be accepted for this year's Camp. Click here to apply.
For more information about IDEA Camp, including sponsorship opportunities, click here.
STAR TEC
TEC Talk
Date: Tuesday, March 9, 9:00 a.m.
Location: Synovus Bank, 4488 W Boy Scout Blvd, Tampa
Special Guest: Ken Evans (IdeaField Co-Working |Linkedin) on Coworking
Leveraging the power of community is critical to the success of your business, but if you are a small business or newly minted founder of a start-up, finding and utilizing those ad-hoc resources can be a challenge. Over the past decade Coworking has emerged as both a work style as well as a means of community building that is focused on the needs of freelancers, developers and early stage entrepreneurs. With close to a hundred fulltime Coworking spots and hundreds of informal Coworking events held in people homes, coffee shops or libraries, Coworking has become a new force in the economic landscape. In cooperation with STAR TEC and other anchor tenants, IdeaField Coworking provides Tampa Bay’s creative and tech community with flexible office space, conference rooms, WiFi, great coffee and grass roots learning opportunities to help freelancers, founders and new venture founders work, collaborate, create and grow.
Plus upcoming events, networking, breakfast, and introducing new TEC Talk partner Tampa SCORE!
To register, visit www.tectalk.eventbrite.com.
Pinellas County Business Development Center
Intellectual Property Law: Patents & Trademarks
2010 Dates: 1/27, 4/28, 7/28, 10/27 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Location: 13805 58th St. N., Suite 1-200, Clearwater, FL 33760
Join Tom Toner and Suzi Marteny, P.A.'s for a lively discussion about the best ways to legally protect your good name, creative ideas, innovative products, and hard work through patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets.
For more information visit www.pced.org/entrepreneurs to register
Cost: $20
February 24, 2010 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Location: Quorum Hotel, 700 Westshore Blvd, Tampa, FL 33609
You're invited to join fellow high-tech entrepreneurs at the Emerging Companies Network event. This is a unique opportunity to meet, discuss, and share ideas with other emerging companies as well as business leaders and sources of financing. Dave Felman, Shareholder at Hill Ward Henderson, will be the featured speaker. He will be discussing startegies in negotiating venture capital ideas. Complimentary appetizers and a cash bar will be available.
Contact Kimberly Wander at kwander@tbtf.org 813-341-8283 and register at http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=e3aec899-7665-4b4c-b8e7-75de7d6c832e
Cost: All High-Tech Entrepreneur and Sources of Capital are Complimentary
Service Providers or other are $35 for non-members and $25 for TBTF members
Pinellas County Business Development Center
Quickbooks
2010 Dates: 3/11, 5/13, 7/8, 9/9 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Location: 13805 58th St. N., Suite 1-200, Clearwater, FL 33760
Discover what Quickbooks can do to help you manage your bookkeeping system. Learn to set up your chart of accounts and pay bills.
For more information visit www.pced.org/entrepreneurs to register
Cost: $40
Pinellas County Business Development Center
Business Plans
2010 Dates: 3/18, 5/20, 7/15, 9/16, 11/18 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Location: 13805 58th St. N., Suite 1-200, Clearwater, FL 33760
If you need to write a business plan or test the feasibility of a business venture this seminar is for you. You will receive an easy to follow workbook, several templates, and professional advice to help you through the process.
For more information visit www.pced.org/entrepreneurs to register
Cost: $ 20
Pinellas County Business Development Center
Tech Venture
April 15-16, 2010
1st Day - 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.; 2nd Day - 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: 13805 58th St. N., Suite 1-200, Clearwater, FL 33760
TechVenture is a mentoring and peer-to-peer training program created by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to help early stage entrepreneurs build their ideas into successful business ventures. TechVenture strives to connect technology entrepreneurs to the best resources available in our community.
For more information visit www.pced.org/entrepreneurs to register
Cost: $199
Pinellas County Business Development Center
Pinellas County Small Business Lending Fair
August 19, 2010 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Location: 13805 58th St. N., Suite 1-200, Clearwater, FL 33760
This event offers business owners the opportunity to talk one-on-one with more than twenty different active small business lenders in one place. Discover the lending option that is right for your business. Participating lending representatives and agents will be charged $50 for exhibiting at the Lending Fair.
For more information visit www.pced.org/entrepreneurs to register
Cost: No charge
Tampa Bay Technology Forum
Emerging Companies Network