Paul Burkett will lead a discussion on Pre-Selling. Come learn how it can help your startup and be ready to discuss what you are working on. This is a great opportunity for startup entrepreneurs to learn how to pre-sell software solutions to your prospective clients even before you build your product!

Come judge the Text A Lawyer Battle Royal! Katia v. Kevin You decide who pitches in June to the crowd of silicon valley investors!

The Text A Lawyer co-founder team is preparing for an investor demo day event in the bay area in early June. We're looking to discern who should handle pitching and who should handle Q&A. We're planning to record things so we can replay all your helpful feedback (internal use only, promise).

We are going to follow the time format precisely: 10 minutes -- introduction

5 minutes -- Katia will pitch

10 minutes -- Katia's Q/A session

5 minutes -- Kevin will pitch

10 minutes -- Kevin's Q/A session

10 minutes -- Katia and Kevin will leave the room for the judges (you) to deliberate. Yes, we'll leave the recording on so we can listen later but we're hoping you can speak freely an honestly. -- We can take some tough love.

10 minutes -- We'll quickly tally the votes and announce who's doing what in at the Batchery.com demo day next month. Share a drink and snack with us - we'll stay around to chat.

TOTAL: 1 hour of your time means the world to us!

To show our appreciation we'll provide BEER/soda/water and chips/candy/hummus/celery type of refreshments and light snacks. Please email [email protected] to confirm (so we know how much food/drinks to purchase).

Thank you, K2 (Kevin and Katia)

The Cloud’s business model allows your organization to leverage existing infrastructure and platform investments for greater convenience, but developing a secure Cloud strategy involves numerous considerations and planning. Join us for this free webinar on October 29th, 2014 at 11am PT where we we will explore Microsoft Azure and Cloud Security.

Having a lot of data isn’t a bad thing—as long as you don’t let it bog down your sales team. Join this panel and learn how companies are achieving better sales performance through big data and technology.

Interested in meeting with people who want to cooperate, discuss, share perspectives and support each other while they work on building a SaaS business?

If so, please join us for a drink and discussion and let us know:

What are you working on?
What have you learned?
What do you need help with?

Thanks.

Ps. They serve food, coffee, tea, beer, drinks, etc. So no outside food please.

Hacking a SaaS: A Practical Guide to Understanding Attackers and Defending Against Them

In this talk, we will delve into the mindset of an attacker and explore the vulnerabilities they exploit in SaaS systems. We will cover the following topics:

What motivates hackers to target SaaS systems (5%) How hackers conduct reconnaissance on SaaS systems (50%) The anatomy of exploit chains (40%) Strategies for defending against attacks (5%) Our goal is to provide a practical guide to understanding attackers and defending against them. We will share lots of hacker tips and tricks, and provide plenty of quiz moments to train your intuition. Our focus will be on vulnerabilities that hackers actually care about, rather than theoretical ones. All of our examples will be based on real-world exploit chains, and we will explore multiple vulnerabilities chained together to create media-news-headline-worthy outcomes. By the end of this talk, you will have a better understanding of how attackers think and operate, and you will be better equipped to defend against their attacks.

Our January host and sponsor is Solutional Inc, and the talk will take place in their Portland office at 301 SE 2nd Ave.

Please RSVP here if you are planning to attend.

This is a monthly event of OWASP's Portland chapter.

Member Thang Tran will lead a discussion on how sending more time on Customer Discovery can help you save money, time and energy.

Interested in meeting with people who want to cooperate, discuss, share perspectives and support each other while they work on building a SaaS business.

If so, please join us for a drink and discussion. Let us know:

What Are You Working On?
What Did You Learn?
What Do You Need Help With?

I'm working on having someone lead the discussion on a relevant topic. Stay tuned for details.

Mario Raia will be presenting his strategies around pricing new tech products keeping in mind that we're primarily focused on business to business SaaS applications. This should be a great presentation and discussion!

Interested in meeting with people who want to cooperate, discuss, share perspectives and support each other while they work on building a SaaS business?

If so, please join us for a drink and discussion and let us know:

What are you working on? What have you learned? What do you need help with?

Getting up to speed in OpenStack can be challenging. Whether you're just getting involved or trying to find the deepest details on a given project, where to start is not obvious. Vern Hart (Director of Delivery at Solinea) will cover the landscape of training options available, as well providing a roundup of the best sources of OpenStack information out there. He'll also give some guidance on interacting with the community and how best to leverage the knowledge of the thousands of brilliant developers available via mailing list or IRC.

Vern Hart is the Director of Delivery at Solinea. He is a proven consultant specializing in open infrastructure and helping customers adopting new infrastructure architectures and solutions. Vern has over 20 years of systems administration experience. Prior to Solinea, He was CTO at three separate companies including his own which eventually merged with their largest competitor. Most recently Vern was Director of Support Operations and Training at Morphlabs where he was instrumental in the migration of Morphlabs onto OpenStack from Eucalyptus. He has proven success in both systems development and engineering roles.

Dinner & drinks provided.

Please note our gracious hosts code of conduct: https://docs.puppetlabs.com/community/community_guidelines.html#event-code-of-conduct

Join Gemalto, SheerID and Avangate on Wednesday, November 18th at Irving Street Kitchen to connect with other local software and SaaS folks for discussions around everything from how to get started creating online revenue flows to improving your already existing online selling experience to increase revenue and help clients make smart decisions that deepen relationships with existing customers.

Space is limited, so RSVP today!

The Conference on Preservation Excellence has emerged as the premier conference specifically designed to meet the needs of in-house e-discovery professionals. Build your career by arming with skills and strategic thinking to take your role to the next level. Receive expertise on the latest developments in law and technology so you can adapt your organization’s policies to stay ahead of the curve. Obtain real-world expertise and work samples so you can enhance your e-discovery processes to reduce risk for your organization.

Don't ignore the power of outbound. Whether you're looking to validate your idea, get your first paying customers, or grow to the next level of revenue, an outbound approach can help you get there. And it can be done efficiently. I'll show you how we did it for CartHook to get our first customers, and how we still use it today to grow. Then we'll dig into how you can use it for your situation right away.

Bio: Jordan Gal is the co-founder and CEO of CartHook.com @carthook, an abandoned cart email app for ecommerce shops. He also hosts the BootstrappedWeb podcast and the CartHook podcast.

Datadog, PagerDuty, and Cloudability are headed to Portland on Wednesday, Feb 6 for an evening of tech talks, bites, and beers at Cloudability HQ. Learn how you can increase your visibility into critical systems, infect your organization with humane ops, and use Cloudability’s new integration with Datadog APM to balance performance and cost optimization.

Got a great idea? Need an app for it? It can be daunting, but it's easier than you think.

Get a $50 discount by sharing this event on social media. Details below!

Early Bird Tickets: $369 Tickets After March 31st: $449

In this 3 hour workshop I'll work through how to get your product off the ground and launch it into a market.

I'll spend the first 2 hours walking through how to develop the product with a live example:

• The Idea.
• Product Mockup
• MVP Development
• Product Launch!

The 3rd hour will be used for questions / stories.

This workshop is ideal for the following businesses:

• Small businesses needing an app for their service
• Entrepreneurs with an app idea for a new business
• Businesses/entrepreneurs needing a website
• Businesses needing an app for their own needs

Don't fit into those categories but still want to build an app? No worries. You'll still find this workshop valuable.

About Jordan

Jordan is a software developer with over 10 years of software development experience. He's currently freelancing as part of his own company Damn Good Technology that provides IT consulting and development services to medium and small businesses.

You can find out more about him at https://damngood.tech

Discount Details

Either share this even page or the posts from @damngoodtek related to this event to get $50 off ticket price. Simply create a screenshot of the post, email it to [email protected] with the subject "SaaS app discount" and receive a code for the discount.

IMPORTANT: This must be done before purchase. If you do it after purchase I'll do my best to refud you the lost amount but I can't guarantee it.

Do you have a SaaS site that you run? Then you should come to our event! We are entrepreneurs who run and/or manage small software as a service businesses.

Your app can be written in any language we welcome all technical abilities, programming languages, and business stages.

The important thing is that you have passion for technology and are interested in hanging out with other like-minded folk.

We meet on the 4th Wednesday of every month at the Green Dragon in SE Portland.

This is a new group, so volunteers and suggestions are welcome.

You know the pain: there are so many features you want to build and bugs you want to fix, but there's not enough time to do it all. How should you prioritize? How can you align your product roadmap with your business goals?

We've all wasted time and money building things that nobody wanted, and we've neglected features and UX improvements that could've made a difference. The question is, how do we know what's the optimal way to use our development hours?

These are some of the topics we'll probably discuss:

• Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) framework to align features with business goals

• Scrum, Agile and Kanban frameworks to prioritize issues and manage dev teams

• How to incorporate user feedback into our product roadmap

• How to manage remote teams effectively

• The Lean way of testing assumptions to avoid building things that nobody wants

We're looking forward to sharing what I've learned from my mistakes building Billy, and learning from your experiences as well.

Coffee, tea and draft beer will be provided. Come hang out with other SaaS founders and share your story!