Ignition - Austin with SD|2020

Microsoft StartupZone, The TechSet and Austin's Startup District present "Ignition", an event to commemorate the launch of Microsoft BizSpark, a new program for those who contribute to a dynamic ecosystem to help startups flourish.

7:00 - 7:15pm -- Networking
7:15 - 9:00pm -- SD|2020 Startup Pitching
9:00 - 10:00pm -- Cocktails and Networking 

SD|2020 - We're bringing together the best early-stage startups in Texas - 20 slides, 20 seconds each slide, on the 20th of this month. **think you're one of the best, and we don't know about you? email us

Pitching at SD|2020:
BizSpark
Piryx
Minggl
Gendai Games
QikCom
Ringlight
OtherInBox
RUWT? Sports
GAMEWAGER
TechRanchAustin

In attandance:
Rudder
Nectar
DailyMile
Volunteer Spot
Bet Arcade
Moximity
turn2live
SnapPages
FriendOrFollow
Saltlick Labs

Join Stephanie Agresta, Brian Solis, Austin entrepreneurs, the BizSpark team and partners for this event from 7-10pm with free drinks and hors d'oeuvres. Plus, you will have the opportunity to meet some of the most influential technologists around -- all at The Speakeasy!

Don't live in Austin? No problem - plan to join us in one of our other cities:

December 4, 2008 – Silicon Valley

December 10, 2008 – Los Angeles

 

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whurley * Miles Abernathy, Asst. Pixel Pusher, 399Retouch Photo Retouching & Restoration Website: http://399Retouch.com Stephanie Agresta, Founder, InternetGeekGirl Website: http://www.stephanieagresta.com Blog: http://www.internetgeekgirl.com Daniel Aguilar Atif Ali, President & CEO, AVA Capital Management Lyssa Allen Website: http://www.lyssawrites.com Blog: http://www.thisislifeinaustin.com Scott Allen, Entrepreneurs Guide, About.com Website: http://entrepreneurs.about.com Blog: http://thevirtualhandshake.com David Altounian, President/COO, Motion Computing Website: www.motioncomputing.com Colin Anawaty, Founder, Saltlick Labs Website: http://saltlicklabs.com Blog: http://saltlicklabs.com/blog Valerie Andersen, owner, AlgebraAnswers, MagSak Website: http://algebraanswers.com, http://magsak.com Michelle Arriaga John Arrow, Entrepreneur Brett Bachman, Founder, Growth Acceleration Partners Website: http://www.growthaccelerationpartners.com Joshua Baer Kristina Bagge, Office Manager, Saltlick Labs Website: http://saltlicklabs.com Blog: http://saltlicklabs.com/blog Rajiv Bala Ramesh Balan, Founder and CEO, Inspherion Corporation Website: http://www.inspherion.net Chris Baldenhofer Karen Bantuveris Scott Bellware, Development Director, Minggl Website: http://minggl.com Blog: http://blog.scottbellware.com Jeremy Bencken, Co-founder, BuzzStream Website: http://www.buzzstream.com Blog: http://www.buzzstream.com/blog Alan Bickerstaff, Partner, Andrews Kurth LLP Website: http://www.andrewskurth.com Kim Bissell Kevin Blanchard, Computer Security Engineer Website: http://www.kevinblanchard.com Shawn Bohrer Silona Bonewald, Founder, LEAGUEOFTECHVOTERS.ORG Website: http://LEAGUEOFTECHVOTERS.ORG Blog: http://LEAGUEOFTECHVOTERS.ORG Jill Bostur, SXSW Website: http://sxsw.com Kristy Bowden Dustin Bradley adrienne breaux, owner, Design + Stuff Website: http://adriennebreaux.com Blog: http://allthingsaustindesign.com Jamie Brettle Ashley Brown, Brilliant Magazine Don K. Brown Michael Brown, partner/ cofounder, myturf Website: http://myturfads.com Peter Brown Brown Kim Brushaber, Business Development Manager, Modis Website: http://www.modis.com Amy Bryant, Co-founder, Thinkwell, Thinkwell Website: http://www.thinkwell.com Blake Burris, Founder, Corazon Labs Inc. Website: http://www.corazonlabs.com Brian Buser, Marketing Director, Minggl Website: http://www.minggl.com Leugim Bustelo Jim Butler, Manager, Creative Industries Development, City of Austin Website: http://ci.austin.tx.us Denise Caceres, Project Manager, Austin Market Research Damon Cali Michael Calkins Patrick Callahan, Student, Texas MBA Anthony Edw. J Campbell, Patent and Trademark Attorney, Campbell @ Law palo chalupka, CTO, Thinkwell Website: http://www.thinkwell.com Johann Chiang bradley childs, software engineer, IBM Marcus Chugh, Sr. Brand Manager, Dell, Inc. Website: http://www.dell.com/smb Damon Clinkscales, Janitor, SnapTweet Website: http://snaptweet.com/ Blog: http://damonc.com/ Dustin Coates Website: http://dcoates.com Matt Cohen, CEO, OneSpot Website: http://onespot.com Blog: http://seeitwork.onespot.com Sarah Cooke Carrie Cox Dean Cruse, VP Marketing, FiveRuns Website: http://www.fiveruns.com Blog: http://blog.fiveruns.com tom cuthbert, Founder, Click Forensics Website: http://www.clickforensics.com Nikhil Daftary, Co-Founder, Turn2Live Website: www.turn2live.com Hayes Davis, Founder, Appozite Website: http://www.appozite.com Blog: http://hayesdavis.net James Davis Charley Dean Lucy Dean, regional account manager, Diamond IT Services Website: http://diamonditservices.com Leslie Denson Dee Dee Dial Joshua Dilworth Blog: http://joshdilworth.com Andrew Donoho, Principal, Donoho Design Group Website: http://www.DDG.com Blog: http://www.DDG.com/~awd/blog/ Sara Dornsife Nick Ducoff Lori Durham Charles Dykes, Agency Principal, @vibe media Website: http://www.atvibe.com Blog: http://www.beforethewalls.com Kevin Dykes, Agency Principal, @vibe media Website: http://www.atvibe.com Blog: http://BeforetheWalls.com Sam Eder, Director of Marketing, Small World Labs Website: http://smallworldlabs.com Blog: http://smallworldlabs.com/blog C. John Ellison, President, Austin National Financial Solutions, LLC Website: http://www.anfpartner.com Lou Ellman, Founder/CEO, RoyaltyZone Website: http://www.royaltyzone.com Blog: http://royaltyzone.com/blog Eric Engineer, Senior Associate, Sevin Rosen Funds Website: http://www.srfunds.com Bill Erickson, Wordpress Consultant, The Creative Space Website: http://www.thecreativespace.org Blog: http://www.billerickson.net Rebecca Ewing Dorian Facio, IT Purchasing Manager, Harte-Hanks Website: http://harte-hanks.com Selena Faulkner Wesley Faulkner, Product Development Engineer 2, AMD Website: http://www.amdlive.com Blog: http://twitter.com/wesley83 James Felle, District Sales Manager, Centripitel Website: www.centripitel.com James Felle, Sales, Centripitel Website: www.centripitel.com Robert Felps, VP/Consultant, Third Rock Website: http://www.thirdrock.com Rennie Filler, Social Media Consultant, austin 2.0 Website: http://www.austin20.biz Blog: http://www.austin20.biz Mary Firme, Marketing and Communications, VolunteerSpot Website: http://www.volunteerspot.com Blog: http://blog.volunteerspot.com Kyle Flaherty Blog: http://www.engageinpr.com Vicki Flaugher, CEO Website: http://smartwomanguides.com Hugh Forrest, Event Director, SXSW Website: http://www.sxsw.com/interactive Royal Frasier, Economic Development & Emerging Technology Intern, City of Austin Website: www.austinisit.com Lynn Frazier, Accounting/Collections, Trade Technologies, Inc Website: http://www.tradetechnologies.com/ Annie Frierson, Program Manager, RISE Website: http://www.riseaustin.org Benjamin Friesen, Graphic Designer, B.A.FRIESEN Design Website: http://www.bafriesen.com Michael Funk Dewey Gaedcke, CEO, Minggl Website: http://www.minggl.com giovanni gallucci, social media ninja, viewzi Website: http://viewzi.com Blog: http://theagencyblog.com chad garven Erik Garven Matt Genovese, Founder, door64.com Website: http://door64.com George Giannukos Website: http://www.gamewager.net Robert Gilbreath, GM, Gradware Website: http://www.gradware.com Jonathan Gilliam Website: http://www.oneaccordpartners.com Blog: http://bdprofessional.wordpress.com Tammy Lynn Gilmore, Press + Publicity, SXSW Interactive Website: http://http://www.sxsw.com/interactive Blog: http://http://www.sxsw.com/interactive Michael Girard, Vice President, SuperPoints Network Website: http://www.superpoints.com KARLA GIVENS, EVENT COORDINATOR, THE BELMONT Website: http://WWW.THEBELMONTAUSTIN.COM Richard Glassbrook, CTO, Zasta Tech-Know Group Kristine Gloria Steve Golab Julie Gomoll, CEO, LaunchPad Coworking Website: http://launchpadcoworking.com Blog: http://blog.launchpadcoworking.com Robert Goodman, Programmer, IBM Lyn Graft, Founder, CLUB E Network Website: http://www.clubenetwork.com Ricardo Guerrero Tetyana Gyunter, Marketing COnsultant, SHAARP Ventures Website: http://shaarpventures.com Tim Hahn, director emerging media, latinworks Michael Hattrup Tom Hemenway Ray Hernandez, Co-Founder . Creative Genius, My Baby Our Baby Website: http://www.mybabyourbaby.com Blog: http://www.stoodio.com Josh Hintze Ross Hobbie Ross Hobbie Diana Holford, Managing Director, Jones Lang LaSalle Joel Hoskins, Technical Consultant, Technology Leaders Website: http://www.joelhoskins.com Rick Houlihan, CTO, Gamewager Website: http://www.gamewager.net Eugene Hsu, Manager of Performance Marketing and Analytics, Challenge Online Games Website: http://challengegames.com Joachim Hubele Tom Humphries, 360 Signs Website: http://www.360signs.com Andrew Hunter Matthew Hunter, VP Marketing, Attention Ventures Website: http://www.attentionventures.com Dane Hurtubise, Co-Founder, Startup District Website: http://startupdistrict.com Blog: http://imdane.com Terry Hutchens, Director, VR Mergers & Acquisitions Website: http://www.vrtexascapital.com Marcus Irven, VP Development, Minggl Website: http://minggl.com Anand Iyer, Evangelist, Microsoft Corp. Website: http://Artificialignorance.net Ajaye Jackson Don Jarrell, President, Digital Thinking Inc Alex Jones, Coordinator, Refresh Austin Website: http://www.RefreshAustin.org Blog: http://www.silverspider.com jenn jorth Ryan Joy, Web Developer, Powered, Inc. Website: http://atxryan.com Jason Kapler Nina Karpouzes, Operations Manager, Higher Ground Financial Melissa Kelso Kalli Kemp Ryan Kennedy Jim Kerr, President, ARC Business Development Website: http://www.arcbdev.com Blog: http://www.arcbdev.com Raunak Khandelwal, CEO, ChaiONE Website: http://www.chaione.com Blog: http://www.websitesinhouston.com Greg Kimmy Merlyn Kimmy Katie King, South By Southwest Website: http://sxsw.com/interactive Tiffany Kleypas Alex Kollitz, President, ezprintsite.com Website: http://www.ezprintsite.com Eugueny Kontsevoy, Founder/CTO, Pikluk LLC Website: http://www.pikluk.com Kelly Korevec, dailymile Website: http://www.dailymile.com Brian Kotlyar Kevin Koym, Partner, Tech Ranch Austin Website: http://techranchaustin.com Blog: http://techranchaustin.com kevin koym Kathryn Krastin, Silent Witness Oral History Project Linsey Krauss Jeremy Kraybill, Principal, Pop Fifty Media Website: http://popfifty.com Philip Kromer Website: http://infochimps.org Blog: http://blog.infochimps.org Naveed Lalani Jonas Lamis, Partner, Tech Ranch Austin Website: http://techranchaustin.com Blog: http://techranchaustin.com Kathryn Lamis Andre LaMothe, CEO / Chief Scientist, Nurve Networks LLC Website: www.xgamestation.com John Land, VP Software & Systems Development, Redbird Flight Simulations, Inc Website: http://www.redbirdflight.com Kristin Landgraf, Information Architect, razorfish Joseph Langeway Mark Lassoff, VP/Founder, Internet Broadcasting Group Website: http://www.internetbroadcastinggroup.com Blog: http://www.internetbroadcastinggroup.com Eric Lau EJ Lawless William Leake, The Bad Things are all my Fault, Apogee Search = Austin Search Engine Marketing Website: http://www.apogee-search.com Blog: http://www.apogee-search.com/Blog/ Jonq Lebkowsky, Principal, Social Web Strategies Website: http://socialwebstrategies.com Blog: http://weblogsky.com David lee, user ex designer, FG Squared Website: http://www.fg2.com Blog: djteknokid.blogspot.com Robert Little, Chief Marketing Officer, Renew Data Corp. Website: http://www.renewdata.com Clint Locklin korye logan Albert Lopez Sherry Lowry, Founder/CEO, The Lowry Group Website: http://www.SherryLowry.com Guy MacNeill Jackie Maffucci Erin Maher, Vice President, Cohn & Wolfe Website: http://www.cohnwolfe.com Rafael Marquez, The Big Sexy, Big Sexy Media Website: http://www.bigsexymedia.com Blog: http://www.goforthseo.com Thomas Marriott, Founder, GAMEWAGER Website: www.gamewager.net Blog: blog.gamewager.net adolfo martinez Brian Massey, Conversion Scientist, Conversion Sciences Website: http://conversion-sciences.com Blog: http://conversionscientist.com Paul May, CEO, BuzzStream Website: http://www.buzzstream.com Blog: http://www.buzzstream.com/blog Seth Mazow Johnny McGee Dan Medlin, Director of Recruiting Services, HigherOut Website: http://www.higherout.com Aashish Mehta, CEO, Co-Founder, Medarwin Website: http://medarwin.com John Erik Metcalf, Conjunctured / Startup District Website: http://think27.com Blog: http://blog.think27.com Jaweed Metz Zachary Metzner joseph miller Blog: http://twitter.com/jos3ph Andrew Mills, Chief Technology Officer, qcue Website: http://www.qcue.net Maricruz Molina Martin Montero KATE MORGAN Jacob Mullins, Partner Development Manager, Microsoft Michael Murphy, Local Business Development Manager, Microsoft Website: http://www.mslocalbiz.com Ron Murray Thomas Myer Trent N Greg Narag, Business Development / Account Manager, Internet Broadcasting Group Website: http://www.internetbroadcastinggroup.com Ravi Narayan, Executive, The Gold Standards Group Website: http://www.goldstandardsgroup.com Arvind Narayanan, Research Assistant, UT Austin Website: http://watchuwant.tv Blog: http://33bits.org/ Marc Nathan, Director of Entrepreneur Development, IT Sector, Houston Technology Center Website: http://www.houstontech.org Brandon Navarro Patrick Navarro Kevin Newton Myra Nguyen, Account/Project Management, Urban 10 [interactive] Website: http://urban10.com/ Nikhil Nilakantan, Founder & CEO, Social Span Media LLC Website: http://www.socialspan.com Tarun Nimmagadda, Co-Founder, Marigo Holdings Website: http://marigoholdings.com Blog: http://marigoholdings.com James Norris Website: http://jnorris.org Lisa Novak, Sr HR Director, Renew Data Corp. Website: http://www.renewdata.com Shawn O'Keefe, SXSW Interactive Festival Producer, South by Southwest, Inc Website: http://sxsw.com/interactive Robert Oczos, IT res Website: http://www.itres.pl Erica OGrady, CXO, Peanut Butter Media Blog: http://reinventingerica.com Pam Oneal scott owens Scott Owens, Do Stuff Media Website: http://Do512.com Blog: http://DoStuffMedia.com Danielle Painer Aakash Parekh Becky Parker Laura Parkinson, EVENT PLANNER, High Beam Events Website: http://highbeamevents.com Shannon Parsells Corey Pauley Corey Pavletich Derek Pavlicek, Texas Ventures Website: http://www.TexasVentures.org Trieu Pham, VP of Engineering, ProspX Trey Philips Website: http://www.treyp.com Mark Phillip, CEO/Founder, RUWT? Sports Website: http://ruwtsports.com Arvin Poole, Entrepreneur, SHAARP Ventures Website: http://www.shaarpventures.com Sarah Porten, Product Marketing Manager, Freescale Website: www.freescale.com Mario Pulido Anthony Pynes Luis Quiroga Carter Rabasa, MBA student, McCombs Website: http://cubanlinks.org Blog: http://cubanlinks.org/blog Padmanabhan Raghunandhan, CEO, 7explore Inc Website: http://www.7explore.com Jayaraman Raghuraman, Consultant, Endeavour Software Technologies Website: http://techendeavour.com Archana Ramachandran, Campus Ambassador, Radar.net/Tiny Pictures Website: http://radar.net/people/ArchRam Blog: http://aramachandran.wordpress.com/ Ben Ramirez, International Program Manager, City of Austin Victor Ramon, Co-Founder & CTO, Studeous, Inc. Website: http://www.studeous.com Blog: http://blog.studeous.com Dusty Reagan Website: http://conjunctured.com Blog: http://dustyreagan.com Christian Reed, Partner, East West Alternative Assets Elliott Reep Don Rehwaldt Adeline Rem, Creator, ARTSYer LLC Website: http://ARTSYer,com Jer Rem Ray Renteria, Chief Blogger, Robot Central Website: http://RobotCentral.com Blog: http://RobotCentral.com Alvin Richter, Senior Analyst, Higher Ground Financial Eve Richter, Emerging Technologies Coordinator, City of Austin Website: http://austinisit.org Mickey Ristroph, Co-founder, Marigo Holdings, LLC Website: http://marigoholdings.com/ Rob Roberts, Sr Applications Manager, Borland j rod Will Rodenbusch John Rodriguez, Marketing/ PR, SXSW Website: http://www.SXSW.com Blog: http://www.linkedin.com/in/johncharlesrodriguez Will Roman Blog: http://willroman.com Brian Romanko, President, FocalPop Website: http://www.focalpop.com Blog: http://blog.focalpop.com Benn Rosales, Founder, AgentGenius.com Website: http://agentgenius.com Lani Rosales, New Media Director, AgentGenius.com Website: http://agentgenius.com Nikhil Roy, Founder & CEO, Rudder.com Website: http://rudder.com greg rust charlie sanders Steve Sanderson, VP of Development & Technology, FIveRuns Website: http://fiveruns.com Blog: http://blog.fiveruns.com Nirav Savjani Clinton Schaff Clinton Schaff, Sr. Director, Marketing & Communications, Mouth Watering Media LLC / JamsBio.com Website: http://jamsbio.com Blog: http://clintschaff.wordpress.com Joy Seago, Technology Consultant, Mission IT Website: http://www.missionitservices.com Juan Sequeda, Semantic Web Austin Website: http://www.juansequeda.com Blog: http://juansequeda.blogspot.com Tom Serres, CEO, Piryx Inc Website: http://www.piryx.com Blog: http://www.realpolitix.com james Setaro Website: http://thenationalchampion.com Uday Sharma, Software Engineer Website: http://www.facebook.com/people/Uday_Sharma/635205106 keith sharp, co-owner, pegasus 9 productions Website: http://pegasus9productions@yahoo.com Stormy Shippy Jessica Shortall, Operations Consultant, Keen Guides Website: http://www.keenguides.org Kim Shrum, Client Development Executive, DLA Piper Elizabeth Sigal Miles Sims, VP, Product Strategy, Small World Labs Website: http://www.smallworldlabs.com Blog: http://www.communitymetrics.com Thom Singer Website: http://www.thomsinger.com Blog: http://www.thomsinger.blogspot.com Deepak Singh, BD Manager, Amazon Web Services Website: http://aws.amazon.com Blog: http://mndoci.com John Sirman, Technology Editor, Texas Bar Journal Roosevelt Sledge Aaron Manley Smith, Owner, Motorphilia Website: http://www.mototphilia.com Blog: http://blog.motorphilia.com Lowell Smith Brian Solis, PR 2.0 and Bub.blicio.us Website: http://www.future-works.com Blog: http://www.briansolis.com Jordan Soliz Bill Solominsky, National Event Rental Website: http://nationaleventrental.com Nikunj Somaiya, CFO, Rudder Website: http://www.rudder.com Jacob Soto, MobileME Specialist, Apple Computers Inc Blog: http://applechannel.net Frank Souders, Consultant, Digital Media Management Website: http://www.linkedin.com/in/franksouders Christopher St. John Blog: http://artofsystems.blogspot.com David Stafford, CEO, Metadata Labs Website: http://metadatalabs.com Blog: http://metadatalabs.com/blog Robert Starek, Notice Technologies Website: http://www.noticetechnologies.com Rico Starling, Cog, Bestline Communications Website: http://www.bestline.net Aimy Steadman, Pay Per Click Specialist, Leverage Marketing Website: http://www.leveragemarketing.net Katie Steigman Gregory Stewart Cody Stoltman, atxart Debby Stone, Brookside Technology Partners Website: http://brooksideus.com Leanna Surina, Business Development, High Beam Events Website: http://highbeamevents.com Cathy Swan Stephen Tarleton, SMB Marketing, Dell Website: http://www.dell.com/smb Brett Tarr, Internet Marketing Mentor, Northstar Ventures Website: http://www.northstarventures.com Steve Testone, Founder, SnapPages Website: http://snappages.com Blog: http://blog.snappages.com Danny Thomas Teofilo Tijerina, Executive Director, EDCO Ventures Website: http://www.edcoonline.org Brittany Todd, Porter Novelli Cesar Torres, Co-founder, Conjunctured Website: http://conjunctured.com Blog: http://c3sart.com Rafael Torres Victor Trac Blog: http://victortrac.com Tan Tran, Director of Web Development, Gendai Games Website: http://www.gendaigames.com Will Tran, Chief Technology Officer Website: http://www.qikcom.com Michael Trice, Writer, SXSWi Website: http://sxsw.com/interactive Blog: http://sxsw.com/interactive/screenburn Eric Tucker, President, Semperex, LLC Website: http://www.semperex.com/ Blog: http://www.erictucker.com/ Brian Upton Caroline Valentine, President, Valentine & Associates Website: http://valentineandassociates.com Chris Valentine Travis VanderZanden, CEO, QikCom Website: http://www.QikCom.com Blog: http://twitter.com/qikcom Aditya Vempaty, COO, Medarwin Website: http://medarwin.com Allen Walker Deirdre Walsh, Community & Social Media Manager, National Instruments Website: http://www.ni.com/community Blog: http://www.deirdre-walsh.com Victor Wang Michael Warjas, Account Director, OpSource Website: http://www.opsource.net Stephen Watt, Emerging Technologies, IBM Website: http://www.ibm.com Chris Weaver, President, Zome Networks, Inc. Danny Weidig, President, AcroVista Software Website: http://www.acrovista.com Ben Weiner, dailymile Website: http://www.dailymile.com John West, Community Technical Marketing, DVIW2 Website: http://www.linkedin.com/in/johntwest Steve Westmoreland, Vice President, Austin National Financial Solutions, LLC Website: http://www.anfpartner.com ashley white Doug Wick, Social Marketing Evangelist, Powered Website: http://powered.com Blog: http://wicksite.com Brandon Wiley, Founder, Ringlight Website: http://ringlight.us/ Blog: http://stepthreeprofit.com/ Jeanne Wilkinson, Pedley-Richard, Inc. Website: http://pedley-richard.com Cullen Wilson Janet wright, teacher, hutto isd Blog: http://read-n-write.com Rick Zemen Charles Zhang

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