StartupBus:Accelerate
NYC 2012

Saturday, December 15, 2012
10am-4pm
Alley NYC
500 7th Ave, 17th Fl

This is not a hackathon or a competition; it is a rare chance to meet the community behind The StartupBus, to network with other people interested in startups, and to share knowledge, get advice, and learn from the experiences of others.

The Event


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The event will follow a fluid agenda in an unconference-like fashion, and topics of discussion will be decided upon by participants for multiple sessions. Topics could include:
  • Crafting a pitch
  • Finding investors and funding
  • How design can make or break your startup
  • Business models
  • Revenue generation
  • User acquisition
  • Being lean
  • Testing (user profiling, A/B, market research)
  • Finding collaborators
  • Demoing and “Demo Driven Development”
  • Marketing
Lunch will be served during the session. Proceeds from ticket sales go towards the New York City StartupBus for 2013. Facilitators listed are not guaranteed to attend, and all facilitators may not be listed.

Facilitators

Jessica Barnett is currently a Project Manager at Medivo. She was a buspreneur on StartupBus Miami 2011, and Co-Conductor StartupBus Florida 2012.
Mike Caprio has been a software engineer and database developer since 1997 and has solved problems and contributed to the vision and direction of companies ranging from mid-size businesses to enterprise Fortune 50. He is a New York City conductor for StartupBus and was a winner in the StartupBus 2011 competition. Mike also helped bring the International Space Apps Challenge to NYC in 2012, and frequently lends his expertise and consulting skills to entrepreneurs all over the world.
Nate Cooper is an author and teacher. Through his private coaching firm, Nate leads corporate training (NBC, GAP) and private consulting sessions on technology and content strategy. He has lead discussion sections on digital media at the University of California Santa Cruz and was a workshop trainer and event coordinator for staff and customers at Apple Inc. He’s been building websites since 1997 and has maintained a WordPress blog since 2005. He is currently writing a comic book introduction to website basics for No Starch Press.
Kevin Galligan has been hacking since he was 8, and has been coding and running developer teams in NYC for over 10 years. He is currently president of Touch Lab, an Android development shop building apps for companies big and small. 2012 StartupBus finalist with Adventeur!
Jonathan Gottfried is a Developer Evangelist at Twilio and one of the organizers of the Hacker Union. He loves to help people build amazing apps and learn something new in the process. Before joining Twilio, Jon worked as a consulting web developer for various startups and public companies and even co-founded his own small startup Lemonade Stand, which was a Semi-Finalist in the 2011 StartupBus competition at SXSW. Jon is a hackathon veteran, competing in more hackathons than the number of years he’s been alive and winning a good portion of them. He loves talking about cooking, robots, hacker culture, and Star Wars.
Du Hoang is the Interactive Art Director at CalorieCount.com, and a Startupbus alum. He is both a designer and hacker, and thinks the most interesting thing about technology is the area where code and design come together.
Francisco Hui is a User Experience designer with a background in consumer trends research and analysis.
Igor Lebovic is head of the CalorieCount.com team at About.com. Boston conductor for StartupBus and winning team StartupBus 2011 @TripMedi
Harlie Levine is a freelance developer and StartupBus 2012 finalist on team Adventeur.
Andrew Pinzler works in a Product Management & Business Development role for BBC Worldwide (hit him up for Doctor Who swag) and makes quirky foursquare apps in his free time (e.g LampSquare).

Sponsors

Many thanks to our awesome sponsors!

About StartupBus

YOU AND A TEAM OF STRANGERS, ON A BUS TRAVELING AT 60 MILES PER HOUR, HAVE 72 HOURS TO CONCEIVE, BUILD, AND LAUNCH A STARTUP

StartupBus is an invitation-only community of hackers (coders), hustlers (marketeers) and hipsters (designers) passionate about startups. We are best known for our annual competition where we bring new people into our community, building and selling a product on a bus that’s traveling 60 miles an hour towards Austin and Paris.