BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20091101T020000 RDATE:20091101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100202T063515Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100211T203000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100211T173000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100202T063515Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100202T064749Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250458271 DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, Febuary 11th\, 2010\n\n5:30pm - 8:30pm\n\nLocation : Renaissance on the Riverfront\n136 SW Washington Ave.\nCorvallis\, Ore gon 97333\n\nRSVP Here\n\n$5 for SAO members or students\, and $15 for n on-members\n\n\nIncludes finger food and no-host bar\n\nAGENDA:\n\n5:30 - 6:15: Business Networking Time with finger food\, no host bar\n6:15 - 6:25: 30-Second Mic (give us your technology business elevator pitch!!)\ n6:45 Program: Co-Working in Oregon\n\nPROGRAM:\n\nCo-working is a growi ng movement around the United States and across the world. As more peopl e work from home or work while they are traveling or are in the midst of a rapid startup cycle\, they find that they can be more effective and m ore productive by gathering together to work. Starting with projects lik e the Hat Factory in San Francisco\, co-working sites have bloomed. Ther e are several co-working facilities in the Nortwest\, some which are exp anding to multiple cities and some that focus on specific audiences or m arkets. The February SAO meeting will be a panel discussion by three Ore gon co-working entrepreneurs: Jeff Jimmerson from Madison Avenue Collect ive in Corvallis\, Josh Friedman from Ned Space in Portland and Rick Tur oczy from Portland Innovation Experiment.\n\nJeff Jimerson\, founder of the Madison Ave. Collective (http://www.madcollective.com/)\n\nMadison A ve. Collective (the MAC) is a shared office and studio space located in downtown Corvallis\, 72 steps west of Starbucks on the corner of 5th str eet and—you guessed it—Madison Ave. After three months of heavy remo deling\, Jeff opened the space on 08/08/08 with a "\;nice people wan ted"\; Craigslist ad.\n\nToday\, twelve creative and tech profession als call the MAC home for their respective small businesses.\n\nRick Tur oczy\, founder of Silicon Florist (http://siliconflorist.com/)\n\nRick T uroczy has been working in high-tech marketing communications jobs in th e Portland area for the past 15 years. Out of pure dumb luck\, he happen ed to sit up in bed at 2 AM one night in August 2007 with the inspiratio n to start Silicon Florist\, a blog about Portland startups in the Web\, Mobile\, and Open Source scenes.\n\nSince then\, he’s chatted with Th e Oregonian a bunch of times\, appeared on local television and radio\, made a brief appearance on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer\, garnered bylin es in The New York Times\, spoken at numerous events\, been selected as a runner up for the Portland Business Journal’s “40 under 40\,” la unched a startup incubator with the help of Wieden+Kennedy\, and co-prod uced a groundbreaking Web-based telethon called 30 hour day.\n\nAll beca use of a blog. Weird.\n\nJosh Friedman\, co-founder of NedSpace (http:// www.nedspace.com/)\n\nJosh Friedman is the co-founder of NedSpace\, a pr ovider of co-working facilities for entrepreneurs and startups. NedSpace is designed to be the place where entrepreneurs go to build and grow th eir businesses. Along with his business partner Mark Grimes\, NedSpace h as itself grown quickly into two locations from its launch in early 2009 . The goal is to open 10 more locations throughout the US in 2010\, and eventually to have a NedSpace in every city with a startup ecosystem.\n\ nJosh serves on the Board of Starve Ups\, a Portland-based entrepreneuri al organization and the Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum Advisory Board. He ho lds a B.S. degree in speech communication from Oregon State University. Aside from helping entrepreneurs grow their companies\, you might find h im rock climbing\, skiing\, cycling\, brewing beer or generally causing trouble along with his dog Ace.\n\nTags: sao\, co-working\, corvallis\n\ nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250458271 URL:http://www.sao.corvallis.or.us/drupal/node/155 SUMMARY:SAO Corvallis Febuary Tech Pub: Co-Working in Oregon LOCATION:Renaissance on the Riverfront: 136 SW Washington Ave.\, Corvalli s Oregon 97333 US SEQUENCE:3 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR