Category: Speaking
Doejo and SeedCon 2011’s Fast-Pitch entrepreneurial competition
November 14th, 2011 in Doejo Stuff, Speaking, Events
We love entrepreneurial competitions here at Doejo. What’s more American than tech start-ups contending for venture capital funding in one of the greatest business schools in the country?
This Thursday, Doejo will be co-sponsoring the SeedCon 2011 Fast-Pitch competition at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Conference. Phil Tadros will also be one of the judges of the contest pitting eight idea-stage start-up’s against each other vying for more than $70,000 worth of start-up-friendly prizes on November 17 and 18.
Speakers at the event include Matt Moog, CEO of Viewpoints; Brad Flora, founder & CEO of NowSpots; Jim Dugan, co-founder & CEO of OCA Ventures; Karin O’Conner, founder & president of Perimeter Advisors; Bryan Johnson, founder & CEO of Braintree; Jason Fried, co-founder and president of 37signals; and a Keynote address by Steven Kaplan, Neubauer Family Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the Uof C Booth School, among other conversations. View the full agenda here.
In an effort to celebrate Chicago-based entrepreneurship and venture capital while promoting the next great Groupon-caliber idea, SeedCon rates submissions on product-market fit, feasibility, and creativity and innovation. You can check out the video submissions here.
Along with Phil, judging the Fast-Pitch contest will be Built in Chicago founder, Matt Moog; Technori & SPARK Chicago co-founder, Seth Kravitz; Excelerate Labs co-founder & SEO, Troy Henikoff; New World Ventures partner, Adam C. Koopersmith; Techweek President, Jonathan Pasky; and essentially, a 'who’s who' of Chicago tech mavens.
The following concepts will be voted on at the Fast-Pitch competition:
- OKCopay - a medical comparison engine that removes the mystery of pricing for patients, while improving reimbursement rates for providers.
- VenueForest - an online marketplace that makes it easy for event planners to discover and book the right venue space.
- SnuggleCloud - a personal space for long distance couples, a platform of communication.
- TalkChalk - a platform that enables all stakeholders of the education process the ability communicate safely and effectively through Facebook, both during/after school.
- HireBrite - a resource for top undergraduate and graduate students seeking internship and full-time opportunities at promising startups.
- Webils - a low cost user-friendly Software-as-a-Service intellectual eLearning and webinar solution.
- Stork Stack - a subscription-based startup focused on the baby/toddler market.
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John Scribe |
“I Am Not a Pirate: Filesharing and the Music Industry”
October 12th, 2011 in Doejo Stuff, Speaking, Events
Our own Phil Tadros is moderating a panel discussion at Columbia College today (hurry: 623 S. Wabash Ave., Hokin Lecture Hall at 4 p.m.) entitled “I Am Not a Pirate: Filesharing and the Music Industry” for Chicago Ideas Week. The event is powered by Hydroshare and iamnotapirate.com.
At the intersection of musicians, industry entrepreneurs, techies and music consumers, this panel will focus on the “impacts and advantages of filesharing and how it’s redefining the ever changing landscape of the music industry.” Since the panelists cover such a wide range of perspectives on this topic, we complied short profiles of them each below. Check ‘em out.
Trevis Milton, Context Strategy Director, Translation LLC.
http://translationllc.com/
Trevis Milton has past been the media director of Starcom Worldwide overseeing strategic media planning for Disney Interactive Studios, among a slew of other ad accounts--and is currently the context strategy director for New York-based ad agency, Translation, LLC which has worked on accounts like: transitioning the New York Nets into their new home of Brooklyn, New York; remixing State Farm’s iconic “Like a good neighbor” jingle; and is at the helm of Jay-Z’s business partnerships (HP, Coke, Reebok, Microsoft, etc); among other endeavors.
Lara Phillips, Chicago Hip Hop Connects
http://chicagohiphopconnects.com/
Lara Phillips is the Founder of Chicago Hip Hop Connects with the mission of connecting Chicago’s Hip Hop community―working on making Chicago a hip hop destination for industry professionals seeking to launch their careers. At Chicago Hip Hop Connects she focuses on web design, search engine optimization, online marketing, social media and event planning in the music industry.
Michael Roffman, President/Editor-in-Chief, Consequence of Sound
http://consequenceofsound.net/about/
Consequence of Sound is a New York and Chicago-based online music publication, reporting on the latest in global music industry news and highlights highly anticipated music festivals around the world via ConsequenseofSound.net. Michael Roffman is the president and editor in chief of this music webzine with about a million visitors a month.
DJ Sean Alvarez, Swank Society Radio, We Love Soul
http://www.djseanalvarez.com/
http://seanalvarez.podomatic.com/
DJ Sean Alvarez is considered one of Chicago’s finest and top ranking DJ’s and hosts the Podcast, “Present & Future with Sean Alvarez,” with influential interviews mixed with soul and jazz music from various genres and eras. As a DJ he has played internationally alongside some of the most recognizable names in dance music. Sean believes that the DJ serves as a channel and has a sacred responsibility of providing people with good music. He can also be heard on Swank Society Radio and can be seen performing with local soul music network, We Love Soul.
Alex Katz, Founder, Katz Company
www.katz-company.com
http://columbiachronicle.com/music-in-good-company/
Musician Alex Katz is Katz Company’s founder and lead singer and describes his music as “variety pop” dabbling in a variety of sounds like hip-hop and R&B. This Columbia College grad headlined the main stage at Columbia’s outdoor festival, Manifest in 2010. Katz Company has been touted for their use of social media to connect to their fans and market themselves.
Terrence "Hustle Simmons" Randolph, Chicago Representative
http://thehustlesimmons.com/
Terrence "Hustle Simmons" defines himself as a marketing guru who has paved his own way, making a name for himself in the music, fashion and nightlife industries. While he was a marketing major at the Illinois Institute of Art Chicago he threw creative collaboration parities where he invited artists, performers, designers and musicians to showcase themselves in an loft party setting. He parlayed the connections he’s made planning events and his social media skills into his own company, now called Hustle Simmons.
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John Scribe |
Doejo and Technori host Chicago Media Social Sept. 9
August 30th, 2011 in Doejo Stuff, Speaking, Events
Doejo and Technori are excited to be hosting Chicago Media Social―a celebration of hyper-local media publications coming together to discuss the future of media in the ever-burgeoning digital age. And do we have some fantastic Chicago-centric speakers lined up!
Our goal is to represent Chicago’s wide-range of media publications from print and digital publication realms. Representing hyper-local community reporting are speakers Andrew Huff, editor and publisher of Chicago webzine Gapers Block; Chuck Sudo, editor of local news and culture blog Chicagoist; Mara Shalhoup, editor of alternative newsweekly the Chicago Reader; Jimmy Greenfield, community manager for the Chicago Tribune’s ChicagoNow blog network; Frank Gruber, founder and CEO of tech news webzine Tech Cocktail; and Val Chulamorkodt, the co-founder and editorial director of local entrepreneurial bastion Technori. Our keynote speaker―author of @MayorEmanuel, founder of mobile literary project CellStories, creator of the Chicago Mayoral Scorecard and founder of the former Punk Planet magazine―Dan Sinker will be hosting a Q&A forum at the end of the night. You can read more about our speaker line-up and get a rundown of the schedule here.
Doejo’s new Lakeview studio space at 3128 N. Broadway (above Wilde Bar & Restaurant) will play host to Chicago Media Social, organized by our event planning partners Galaist. Speakers will begin the night at 7 p.m. but attendees are encouraged to come at 6 p.m. to nosh on snacks, sip cocktails and mingle with new friends. After the keynote forum, drinks will be served by our sponsors Skyy Vodka and Perrier while Green Mill Lounge-resident jazz band Sabertooth Quartet plays.
While it’s a private event we invited local reporters, editors and publishers to join us as well as students from Chicago’s leading journalism schools such as Northwestern University’s Medill School, Columbia College Chicago, Loyola University, DePaul University, and others. The after party, in partnership with Tech Cocktail and Tech Week, will be open to the public and $10 at the door (or $5 for Tech Week participants) at 11 p.m.
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John Scribe |
SXSW 2011 Interactive - Accelerator: TinyVox.com
July 14th, 2011 in iPhone/iPad, Speaking
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Philip Founder & CEO |
I Suck At Public Speaking
July 13th, 2011 in Doejo Stuff, Ideas, Speaking
I often get invited to speak at universities and conferences, i.e. University of Chicago, Indiana, Columbia, Techcocktail, etc.
My life is not that scripted --I really just wing everything. So for me to have an agenda, or an outline, or notes, or even a computer with God forbid a PowerPoint is not only rare, it's never.
Sometimes I do a great job and other times I have failed my audience. I'm surprised when I bomb a speaking engagement, but the few people that do reach out and really appreciate my unconventional approach and point of views.
I hate one-sided conversations and I do not consider myself a theatrical performer. I probably never got into reading books because of this long winded one-sided conversation. I mean, who wants to listen to someone for such a long time without a little back and fourth? Sure a good story maybe, but a book? No thank you. I do love people who read them, the knowledge they share and the actual book itself - especially when used. You can feel the life that was held and high beamed into it. I do not like to script a performance. I'm a pro at being underprepared and cranking out amazing results.
Shut up Phil.
I need to prepare more, it will only help what I'm naturally priding myself on and I have amazing people to help me with my homework.
Q&A's will still be my favorite, one-on-ones I love and boardroom meetings kick ass. :)
See you all at Techweek Chicago!
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Philip Founder & CEO |