Dress is casual. Cocktails and light hors d’oeuvres will be served.

Parking in the Chase building garage will be $1 after 5 PM. When: Thursday, February 4, 2010 from 5:30 to 8:30 PM Where: The Rotunda at Chase Tower, 2200 Ross Avenue in Dallas How: Click here to register online

Cost to attend:  $0, but advance registration is required

Event Contact:
Tiffany Sefton, Programs and Events Manager, TechAmerica Texas
469.619.8015
tiffany.sefton@techamerica.org

As an entrepreneur you have often heard about the elevator pitch. There is more to pitching than 30 second pitches. It is critical for entrepreneurs to sell their ideas and products to customers and investors. Can you effectively communicate the value of your products and ideas? Do you know what does it take to sell to a CEO? What are the things that investors want to hear? Our panel of experts will share what works and what does not work.

Learn the rules for Effective Pitching with:
* Jeff Crilley, an Emmy award winning communication expert
* Laurence Briggs, President of InvestIn Forum, Private Investor Network
* JR Atkins, Sales specialist and social media speaker

Date: Jan 28, 5.30pm.
Location: Company|Dallas, Floor 2, 1701 N Collins Blvd, Richardson TX 75080.
Cost: $20 including Food and refreshments.
Registration: Register here – limited seating.

About Jeff Crilley:
Jeff Crilley retired from TV news after 25 years in the business to start the country’s first “all journalist” PR firm. During his career he made hundreds of national news appearances including CNN, CNN Headline News, FOX News, The Discovery Channel, Good Morning America and The CBS Early Show.

He has been recognized by his peers with dozens of national and regional awards including the Emmy, the National Headliners Award,the Edward R. Murrow Award, the Thurgood Marshall Award and in 2004 was named by the Texas Associated Press, “The Best TV Reporter in the state.”

Already this year the DFW startup community has a lot to look forward to with StartupWeekend coming back and the launch of the new seed-stage incubator, TechWildcatters.

In order to get yourself pumped up for a new year of startups and entrepreneurship, I highly recommend watching ALL the awesome videos from This Week In Startups and Mixergy.

From their email:

The overall startup climate is improving, but it’s still too hard for young companies to get exposure. Finding the right investors and getting access to the media is as challenging as it every was. It’s time to democratize access and address this problem head on. We can change this together.

Today, we’re launching the Founder Showcase, where any Member can showcase their business on TheFunded.com. Once a quarter, TheFunded.com will invite ten early-stage companies with the most Member votes to an event where they can pitch in front of an audience of leading entrepreneurs, media, and investors for free. Best of all, the inaugural Showcase event is just days away in January.

- http://www.thefunded.com/showcase

Get a Complete Set of Founder-friendly Legal Docs
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TheFunded has produced founder-friendly versions of every legal document necessary to launch a new startup. These documents were carefully written from scratch to keep founders in control of the companies that they create.

* Please help by sharing these documents with anyone that you know who is launching a startup, and borrow some of the founder protections for your own company from the Certificate of Incorporation.

– http://www.docstoc.com/docs/12233422 - Bylaws
– http://www.docstoc.com/docs/12233427 - Certificate of Incorporation
– http://www.docstoc.com/docs/12233434 - Initial Stockholder Consent
– http://www.docstoc.com/docs/12233436 - Invention Assignment Agreement
– http://www.docstoc.com/docs/12233437 - Restricted Stock Purchase Agreement
– http://www.docstoc.com/docs/12233430 - Indemnification Agreement
– http://www.docstoc.com/docs/12233432 - Initial Board Consent
– http://www.docstoc.com/docs/12233420 - Action by Incorporator
– http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10303638 - Plain Preferred Term Sheet

* Taken from an email sent to me as a TheFunded.com member

• New Feature: Auto-tagged tweets!

  We’re happy to announce that we’ve implemented a handy new auto-tagging feature that is live now on TweetSaver!

  As a convenience for our users, we’ve auto-tagged all of your tweets that contain a hashtag. When you log in, you should see the following on the right side of your screen:

  

  As you can see, you can easily set the feature to remain on, or turn it off. There is also a convenient link to toggle the hashtags in the view. If you have a lot of hashtags (like me) this will allow you to quickly view only the tags you’ve created within the TweetSaver system.

  We hope you enjoy this new feature and always we love getting your feedback!

• Announcing 7-day free trials!

  Love to try before you buy?

  Well, that’s the feedback we’ve been getting from a lot of you! We may have been a bit high on our own supply in thinking it would be easy for potential customers to see the intrinsic value of our service.

  So, in the spirit of openness, the ever-present freemium model, and letting you get your feet wet, we’re happy to announce that a 7-day free trial option is now available when you sign up for TweetSaver.

  Hopefully, this will let you kick the tires enough to see that we’re offering something pretty cool and a service you would find useful.

  Enjoy!

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  Important note! When signing up for a trial account, it is similar to our Tweetblast plan in that we will send out a tweet on your behalf. This tweet will say, “I’m backing up, searching, and tagging my tweets with http://tweetsaver.com, shouldn’t you?” If you prefer not to have this tweet sent out from your account, you will need to sign up for a paid subscription.

I haven’t posted much recently because I’ve been head down working on getting a new app out the door. I’m happy to announce that we (Squeejee) have launch TweetSaver.com!

TweetSaver is a service that allows Twitter users to back up, tag, search and share their tweets quickly and easily. Currently, search.twitter.com only allows people to search the most recent 6 days of tweet history. If a user goes to a twitter.com profile there are 3200 tweets accessible if you’re willing to manually page through all of them. If you want something easy to use or access to older tweets you’ve been out of luck until now.

TweetSaver will grab a user’s 3200 most recent tweets as well as all of their mentions, direct messages and favorites. We’ll then back up new tweets on a regular basis. Once we’ve synced a user’s account they can then search all the way back through their history and see results broken down by status updates, mentions, DMs and favorites. If a user tags tweets, they can also search and view tweets by tag.

If you come across an old tweet you want to share, we make it easy to send a tweet out to your tweetstream, Facebook, Tumblr or just about any other social sharing/bookmarking service.

Check out TweetSaver.com and give it a go!