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Friday
, February 23
11:00am MST
Using Shopify to validate your business ideas and scale them up
Block One
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J Keitsu • Travis Lee
6:00pm MST
Startup Weekend
Colorado State University
Sunday
, February 25
5:00pm MST
Startup Week KICKOFF & CSU Startup Weekend Pitch Night
Innosphere
LIMITED
Monday
, February 26
8:30am MST
SBDC+Sage Office Hours: Free Confidential Consulting
Idea Lab @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
LIMITED
Open Coffee
Basecamp @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
LIMITED
9:00am MST
Coworking: Supercharge your business and have fun doing it
Basecamp @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
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Chrysta Bairre • Beth Buczynski • Logan Hale • Angel Kwiatkowski • Mark Nielsen
Secrets to attracting Angel Investors: Part 1 (Basic); VC Investing Terminology, How Much Do I Ask For?, What is My Valuation?
The Lyric
FILLING
Denichiro Otsuga • Dave Harris
Free Drop-In Coworking at Digital Workshop Center
Digital Workshop Center
10:00am MST
Food Popup: Fresh Start to Startup Week
Basecamp @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
LIMITED
How to Be A Part of The Downtown Artery
Downtown Artery
LIMITED
Faith Johnson • Maxwell Tretter
10:30am MST
Secrets to attracting Angel Investors: Part 2 (Intermediate); Setting Up Financial Statements & Believable ProFormas
The Lyric
FILLING
Denichiro Otsuga • Mike Bennett
11:00am MST
Portfolio Speed Dating
Downtown Artery
LIMITED
Faith Johnson
Movers & Shakers: Music Apps and Platforms
The Music District, Long Building: Upstairs West Wing
LIMITED
Kyle James Hauser • Steven Dourmashkin • Andrea Belita McKee • Tom Metz • Emily Satterlee
Ask Me Anything – Women Angels and Investors
Basecamp @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
LIMITED
Barbara Bauer • Margaret Burd
12:00pm MST
Licensing Your Artwork
Idea Lab @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
FULL
Jill MacKay
Top six ways businesses get into trouble (and what you can do to avoid them)
Downtown Artery
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Mike OConnell
1:00pm MST
Podcast or Nodcast? Engaging Podcasts for Startup Success
The Music District, Long Building: Upstairs West Wing
FILLING
Vanessa Pagan
1:30pm MST
Value of Mentoring and Being Mentored
Basecamp @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
FULL
Renee Walkup
Creatives: Write Your One Page Business Plan
Classroom @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
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Kathy Stewart
Successful Leadership Tools for Arts Executive Directors
Idea Lab @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
LIMITED
Emelie Borello
Business Resources at The Library
Downtown Artery
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Anne Macdonald • Jack Dorr • Sarah Scobey • Molly Thompson
2:00pm MST
Mentor Speed Dating
Basecamp @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
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Renee Walkup
3:00pm MST
FoCo Speaks Out
Downtown Artery
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Joe Somodi
Crazy sh** employees do and what you can do about it
Idea Lab @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
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Nikki Larchar
Peer Advisory - An Educational Demo
Basecamp @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
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Curt Bear
4:00pm MST
Food Popup: Time Out for Pie
Ginger & Baker
Sustainable & Attainable Housing Happy Hour
Downtown Artery
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5:30pm MST
Artspace Report
City of Fort Collins Lincoln Center
7:00pm MST
Blockchain Fort Collins Meetup
Innosphere
LIMITED
Aari Lotfipour
Tuesday
, February 27
8:30am MST
SBDC+Sage Office Hours: Free Confidential Consulting
Idea Lab @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
LIMITED
Open Coffee
Basecamp @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
LIMITED
9:00am MST
Food Popup: Pick me up at The Emporium
The Emporium
The Neuroscience of Conversation: What Every Entreprenuer Needs to Know
The Lyric
FULL
Ariana Friedlander
RVC Pitch Academy (Fundamentals)
The Lyric
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Denichiro Otsuga • Dave Harris • Cindy Skalicky
Free Drop-In Coworking at The Articulate
The Articulate
FILLING
9:30am MST
Resilience in Business - Panel Discussion: Stories of overcoming adversity in business. Listen to their remarkable survival stories from Hurricane Irma and Maria
Basecamp @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
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Charisse Bowen • Shey Evans • Darryl Flanders • Kristin Frazer • Akeem Lennard • Lenette Lewis
10:00am MST
Start or grow a profitable food business
The Lyric
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Sari Kimbell
Social Media ~ More Than Just Posting
Downtown Artery
FULL
10:15am MST
From Ideas to a Business: Establishing Your Competitive Advantage: How your culture and investment philosophy defines your strategic competitive advantage
Innosphere
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Bud Michael
11:00am MST
PitchNo.CO - Preliminary Round 1
Spaces
Chris Radliff • Jana Sanchez
12:00pm MST
Plug In: Be Part of City of Fort Collins Arts and Public Arts Programs
Idea Lab @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
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Peggy Lyle • Liz Good • Vincent Kitch • Ellen Martin • Jeanne Shoaff
Intro to Self-Publishing through the Library
Old Town Library
Anne Macdonald
1099 Workers: How to minimize your risk and save money in the long run
Downtown Artery
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Nikki Larchar • Tina Todd
The Top Things Startups Need to Know about Intellectual Property
Basecamp @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
LIMITED
Molly Kocialski • Dana Stangel
1:00pm MST
Voice & Visuals: Demystifying the Branding Process
The Articulate
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Emily Day • Becca Verna
PitchNo.CO - Preliminary Round 2
Spaces
Chris Radliff • Jana Sanchez
1:30pm MST
Arting up Theatre: New Territories and Emerging Forms
Downtown Artery
LIMITED
Natalie Scarlett • Nick Holland • Jesse Nyander • Cori Storb • Amanda Berg Wilson
2:00pm MST
Interdisciplinary Improv in Action
The Music District, Sisters Building: Living Room
LIMITED
Alia Goldfarb • Chris Bates • Heather Johnson • Kristin McMahon • Renee Walkup • Mark Sloniker
PitchNo.CO - Preliminary Round 3
Spaces
Chris Radliff • Jana Sanchez
2:30pm MST
Building your Digital Presence: What's hot & not
The Articulate
FULL
Derrick Kuhn • Nate Shugrue
3:00pm MST
Arting up the Scene: Cultural Migrations
Downtown Artery
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Amy Cervenan • Ren Burke • Patrick Edmiston • Natalie Scarlett • Zach Yendra
Top Tips For Securing New Customers
Basecamp @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
FILLING
Renee Walkup
Business Model Canvas Workshop
Idea Lab @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
FILLING
Charisse Bowen
3:30pm MST
How to Get Better Digital Ad Design
The Articulate
FULL
Bryan Gaspord
4:00pm MST
Food Popup: What Rhymes with Tuesday?
The Articulate
FILLING
"How Do I Talk About What I Do?"
Basecamp @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
FILLING
Kristin McMahon
5:00pm MST
Pack the F*ck^ng Room!
Downtown Artery
LIMITED
Kyle Eustice • Ben DeSoto • Sara Durnil • Tim Massa • Caitlin McQueen
Pricing 101: How not to be broke
The Articulate
FULL
Mike OConnell
5:30pm MST
NoCo Food Cluster Annual Meeting
Innosphere
LIMITED
Sari Kimbell
6:00pm MST
Music Mixer Happy Hour
Downtown Artery
LIMITED
Fort Collins Internet Professionals Meetup: Prototyping as a Mindset
Newton Software
Rebecca Gilmore • Ron Zasadskinzi • Jens Nikolaus
Wednesday
, February 28
5:45am MST
Project FTC - #freefitness in Fort Collins for EVERYONE
Old Town Square
Hans Tishmack
8:30am MST
Open Coffee
Basecamp @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
LIMITED
9:00am MST
1 Million Cups
Basecamp @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
LIMITED
Nathalie Rachline • Lu Cordova • Phil Weiser
Free Drop-In Coworking at Music District
The Music District - Long Building (coworking)
LIMITED
10:00am MST
CANCELED! Food Popup: Million Dollar Morning
Basecamp @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
FULL
Meetings that people WANT to attend
Cohere
FULL
Carrie Bennett
Thinking like an Entrepreneur~Mindset in Public Leadership
Idea Lab @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
FULL
Sam Houghteling • Mary Atchison • Dawn DeTienne • Tom Donnelly • Wade Troxell
10:30am MST
Arting up Musicals and Opera: New Tools, New Contexts, New Opportunities
Downtown Artery
LIMITED
Chimney Choir • Michael Kirkpatrick • Jack Rogers • DJ Spooky
PitchNo.CO - SEMIFINALS
Spaces
Chris Radliff • Jana Sanchez
11:00am MST
Meet Techstars co-CEOs, David Brown & David Cohen
Basecamp @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
LIMITED
David Brown • David Cohen
11:30am MST
KRFC Live and Out to Lunch
The Music District, Sisters Building: Living Room
LIMITED
Brent Cowles • Liz Gaylor
12:00pm MST
Closer to the Vest: Crafting NDAs that Really Work
Innosphere
LIMITED
Kevin Cudney
1:00pm MST
Culinary Arts 101 - So You Want to Work in the Food Industry
Downtown Artery
LIMITED
Sari Kimbell • Menyhert Borocz • Toby Gadd • Rahshida Perez • Matt Smith • Trish O'Neill with The Cooking Studio • Andrew Webb • Jennifer Webb • Colin Westcott
PitchNo.CO - FINALS
Spaces
Chris Radliff • Jana Sanchez
2:00pm MST
State of the Cryptos
The Articulate
Aari Lotfipour • Jeffrey Abrams • Sasha Shtern • Erik Underwood • Erik Voorhees
2:30pm MST
Arting up Science: New Directions in Cross-Discipline Collaborations
Idea Lab @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
FULL
Denichiro Otsuga • Laura Pritchett • DJ Spooky • Wade Troxell
3:00pm MST
Food Popup: Tea Time and Cupcakes
Happy Lucky’s Teahouse
Cinematic Presentations Using Keynote
Downtown Artery
LIMITED
Robby Stout
FoCo Nonprofit Networking Group
Harmony Library
David Hayes
4:30pm MST
The (Mega) Software Meetup Happy Hour
Basecamp @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
6:00pm MST
Optics + Audio & the Electronic Experience
The Music District, Sisters Building: Living Room
LIMITED
Jess Reed • Nick Duarte • Ben Gondrez • Royce Hoffner • Nathan Renley • Taz Arguello • Ethan Lindhout
February's Fort Collins Artists' Community Hot Dish Event
Fort Collins Museum of Art
Peggy Lyle
A Case To Care - A Ottershop Happy Hour Benefiting the BVI and featuring Kristin Frazer of Trèfle Designs and her new Otterbox Case Launch
Otter Shop
LIMITED
Charisse Bowen • Kristin Frazer
7:00pm MST
Intro to Cognito and API Gateway
Innosphere
LIMITED
Wojciech Magda
8:00pm MST
Make More Art Battle FINAL ROUND
Downtown Artery
LIMITED
Maxwell Tretter
Thursday
, March 1
8:30am MST
SBDC+Sage Office Hours: Free Confidential Consulting
Idea Lab @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
LIMITED
Open Coffee
Basecamp @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
LIMITED
9:00am MST
Free Drop-In Coworking at Front Range Business Center Boardwalk Location
Front Range Business Center - Boardwalk Location
Free Drop-In Coworking at Office Evolution Fort Collins
Office Evolution Fort Collins
9:15am MST
Storytelling Pays as a Marketing Technique
The Lyric
FILLING
Nick Armstrong
10:00am MST
Alternative Fundraising: How equity crowdfunding can help you raise capital and create a stronger community around your business
Downtown Artery
FULL
Rob Burnett
10:15am MST
Negotiation and Conflict Management for Freelancers
The Lyric
FILLING
Nick Armstrong
10:30am MST
Selling your services without being sales-y
The Lyric
FILLING
Chrysta Bairre
Investor Relations
Innosphere
LIMITED
Aziza Sayed
12:00pm MST
Turn Your Art Practice Into An Art Business
Idea Lab @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
FULL
Amelia Caruso
Master Your Message: How Your Communication Adjusts as Your Startup Grows
Downtown Artery
FULL
Cindy Skalicky
Raising Capital for your company’s successful exit: How your Merger and acquisition strategies affect raising capital
Innosphere
LIMITED
PJ Williams
Guided Tours of CSU's Powerhouse Energy Campus
CSU's Powerhouse Energy Campus
1:00pm MST
City of Fort Collins Economic Health AMA
Basecamp @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
LIMITED
Josh Birks • Sean Carpenter • Shannon Hein • SeonAh Kendall • Patrick Rowe
1:30pm MST
The Current World of Illustration, Graphic Novels, Cartoons and Comics
Idea Lab @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
LIMITED
Mike the Baron • Greg Guler • Kendra Spanjer • Ward Sutton
7 Steps to a 7-Figure Income
Front Range Business Center - Boardwalk Location
FULL
Matt Meuli
Five Gestures of TRUST: Building a Customer Centric Business
Downtown Artery
FULL
Shelley Polansky
3:00pm MST
Arting up Festivals: Pumping Up the Festive and Keeping It Going
Downtown Artery
LIMITED
Natalie Scarlett • Amy Cervenan • Jan Iron • Jesse Nyander • Dulcie Willis
Building It: "Women Who Brew"
Innosphere
FILLING
Sari Kimbell • Lesley Brandt • Carol Cochran • Natalie DiSanto • Loren Matthews • Jennifer Seiwald • Twila Soles
4:00pm MST
Music Makers: Artisan Electronics and Digital DIY
The Music District, Sisters Building: Rehearsal Rooms
FULL
Shane Zweygardt • Nick Duarte • Toby Hendricks • Tom Majeski • Brett Schreiber
Music Makers: Instruments and Custom Craftsmanship
The Music District, Sisters Building: Media Library
LIMITED
Kyle James Hauser • Mark "Rooster" Austin • Michael Bashkin • Jesse Bates • Adam Morford • Chuck Morrison • Jim Zdunek
She Leads: Women Leaders in the Boardroom and Beyond
Cohere
FULL
Chrysta Bairre
4:30pm MST
Improv for Business Professionals
Idea Lab @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
FILLING
Jessica MacMaster • Dulcie Willis
Connections to Capital
The Articulate
FILLING
Shannon Hein • John Berkhaussen • Gwen Bonilla • Karl Dakin • Lew Hagler • Greg Harrell • Lauren Kloock • DuWayne Peterson
5:30pm MST
Women Who Succeed Happy Hour
Scrumpy's Cider
6:00pm MST
How to Shape Your Sound
Downtown Artery
LIMITED
Maxwell Tretter
Sound & Vision Cinema: High Fidelity The Resurrection of Vinyl
The Music District, Sisters Building: Living Room
LIMITED
Virgil Dickerson • James McTernan
Virtual Reality in NoCo~Demo Night at FCMOD
Fort Collins Museum of Discovery
Friday
, March 2
8:30am MST
Open Coffee
Basecamp @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
LIMITED
9:00am MST
Navigating the New Frontier of Online and Social Media Advertising: Legal Pitfalls Artists Need to Know
Idea Lab @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
Donna Gonzales
Free Drop-In Coworking at Cohere
Cohere
9:30am MST
Secrets to attracting Angel Investors: Part 3 (Advanced) Behind the Scenes of Investment Due Diligence: how to get on the fast track and use investor diligence to drive value into your business
The Lyric
FULL
Denichiro Otsuga • Jacob Cordova
How to Code
Digital Workshop Center
FULL
Steve Armour • Rebecca Klein
10:00am MST
Musicians and Marketing (with Musicians *in* Marketing)
The Music District, Long Building: Upstairs West Wing
FILLING
Julie Sutter • Briana Harris • Ian Haygood • Tim Massa • Mary Merritt • Josh Rivera
There is no playbook: lessons from 3 local software startup founders
Basecamp @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
Ashley Colpaart • Derek Haynes • Seamus Nally • Sarnen Steinbarth
Bootstrapping Your Business
The Lyric
FULL
Denichiro Otsuga • Sue & Ray Krueger Koplin • Carmelo Mannino • Joshua Tabin
Podcasting @ KRFC
The Music District, Sisters Building: Living Room
FULL
Charles Joseph Kelly
10:30am MST
Arting up Your World: Perspectives on Collecting and Being Collected
Idea Lab @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
LIMITED
Lisa Hatchadoorian • Lynn Boland • Jennifer Davey • Gary Hixon • Erika Osborne
Overcome Imposter Syndrome
Cohere
FULL
Chrysta Bairre
11:00am MST
Food Popup: Pick Me up with The Lyric
The Lyric
LIMITED
11:30am MST
Lunch & Learn: Digital Marketing for Musicians
The Music District, Long Building: Upstairs West Wing
LIMITED
Briana Harris
12:00pm MST
How to Sell Your Artwork
Idea Lab @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
FULL
Don Overcash
CANCELED! Startup Resources Pitch Back
Basecamp @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
LIMITED
The First 7 Years: What I Wish I'd Known When I Started My Business
Cohere
FULL
Jeremy Green
Office hours with Blockchain CEOs
Downtown Artery
LIMITED
Aari Lotfipour • Alan Curtis
1:00pm MST
Profit with a Purpose @ New Belgium Brewery
New Belgium Brewing
Will Coffey
1:15pm MST
Title: 10 Startup Growth Hacks Marketing Agencies don’t want you to Know that can Save you Thousands of Dollars on Marketing
Innosphere
FULL
Nick Kullin
1:30pm MST
Revitalize Your Illustration Vocation
Cohere
FULL
Courtney Keller
2:00pm MST
Future Trends in the Food Industry
Idea Lab @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
FILLING
Sari Kimbell • Shane Anderson • Justin Caswell • Hayden Christensen • Ashley Colpaart • Rebecca Dunn • Michele Ostrander
3:00pm MST
Crypto Investing: Token Analysis
Downtown Artery
FILLING
Aari Lotfipour • Conner Herman
3:30pm MST
CANCELED! Food Popup: Take A Bite of the Future ~ of Food
Basecamp @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
FULL
4:00pm MST
Planning & Distributing Music Videos
The Music District, Long Building: Upstairs West Wing
LIMITED
Tomas Herrera • Davis Powers
6:00pm MST
First Friday STEAMfest and Gallery Reception
Basecamp @ The Carnegie Center for Creativity
LIMITED
Jenny Findlay • Jan Harrison • Peggy Lyle
First Friday Opening Reception Borrowed Light with The Social Animals
Downtown Artery
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