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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">Startup Weekend #PDXSW</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2010-11-12T17:30:00" datetime="2010-11-12T17:30:00">Friday, November 12, 2010 at 5:30pm</time> through <time class="dtend dt-end" title="2010-11-14T21:00:00" datetime="2010-11-14T21:00:00">Sunday, November 14, 2010 at 9pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202391600'><span class='fn org p-name'>NedSpace Old Town</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">117 NW 5th Ave. Suite 210</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">OR</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97209</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=117%20NW%205th%20Ave.%20Suite%20210,%20Portland%20OR%2097209%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media contacts: Michael Coates, <a href="mailto:mcoates@startupweekend.org">mcoates@startupweekend.org</a>, 503.780.3945 Startup Weekend Portland set for November 12-14</p> <p>Part of Startup Weekend, worldwide organization funded by the Kauffman Foundation, the Portland event supports startup development over a 54-hour weekend marathon.</p> <p>Portland, OR – October 12, 2010 – Kicking off Global Entrepreneur Week, Startup Weekend Portland is open to entrepreneurs, developers, marketing folks, students, lawyers, angel investors, and anyone who wishes to spend an intense and intensely fun weekend building a team to start a new company.</p> <p>Under the guidance and encouragement of business leaders, mentors and investors, attendees pitch their business ideas on Friday evening. The most viable ideas are chosen and teams begin to form organically. Over the weekend, teams are coached, guided and taught by members of the startup community to produce a working business model by Sunday. All teams present to a panel of judges, comprised of leaders within the local entrepreneurial community, and a winner is chosen.</p> <p>Register by going to the web site. Ticket prices are $75 for members of the business community and $40 for students.</p> <p>Notable companies who have emerged from Portland are CPusage, Mugasha Get Gathered, Life Grant, Startup River, and TreasuRecycle.</p> <p>Startup Weekend is a non-profit, global organization supported by funding from the Kauffman Foundation. Startup Weekend events are currently held in over 100 cities in over 30 countries with new cities added every month. One event which created worldwide interest was Startup Weekend in Tel Aviv, Israel for Israelis and Palestinians. The two groups coming together and cooperating to build businesses created a positive buzz around the globe and especially in the Middle East.</p> <p>Global Entrepreneurship Week runs from November 15 – 21 and will host 40,000 events in 100 countries involving 10,000,000 people.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://portland.startupweekend.org">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>