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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">OEN PubTalk™ - Life in an Incubator</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2012-02-08T17:00:00" datetime="2012-02-08T17:00:00">Wednesday, February 8, 2012 from 5</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2012-02-08T19:00:00" datetime="2012-02-08T19:00:00">7pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202390088'><span class='fn org p-name'>Backspace</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">115 NW 5th Ave</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=115%20NW%205th%20Ave,%20Portland%20OR%2097209%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>Incubators. That word seems to be all the rage right now, but what really happens within these start up incubators? Do they help companies become successful or at least get over certain challenges? What type of companies and people find the incubator experience to be a positive? Are there downfalls to going through the experience?</p> <p>Come to OEN's February PubTalk and hear from the companies that have just completed the local incubator sessions at PIE (<a href="http://www.piepdx.com">http://www.piepdx.com</a>), OTBC (<a href="http://otbc.org">http://otbc.org</a>) and the Portland Seed Fund (<a href="http://portlandseedfund.com">http://portlandseedfund.com</a>). It is sure to be an engaging evening filled with Q&A with the panelists.</p> <p>Moderator Pinky Gonzales -Bio:<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/pinkygonzales">http://www.linkedin.com/in/pinkygonzales</a></p> <p>Panelist PDX Seed Fund Company - Viziify - Todd Silverstein, CEO and Cofounder Vizify showcases the best of you by creating a highly visual, interactive profile based on the sites and services you already use. <a href="http://vizify.com/">http://vizify.com/</a></p> <p>OTBC - SheerID - CEO Jake Weatherly For companies who currently offer or would like to offer discounts to groups like college students, association members, active-duty and veteran military personnel, government employees, etc., SheerID instantly establishes that your customer qualifies for the discount they are attempting to redeem. The SheerID verification platform ensures that your exclusive offers are only used by a verified member of the targeted group. It all happens instantly, quietly and without fraud. This means that you can freely offer any type of special promotions or discounts to your target market and it will be protected while keeping your customer experience seamless in your online shopping cart. For more information, go to <a href="http://www.sheerid.com">www.sheerid.com</a>.</p> <p>PIE - Revisu - CEO Brad Heller Revisu allows designers to effortlessly share Photoshop, Illustrator, and other design files for their clients to review, comment, and approve--whether they have the right software or not. <a href="http://revisu.com">http://revisu.com</a></p> <hr> <p>5 Minute Pitch Companies - Both from the Portland State Business Accelerator</p> <p>Tellagence - Matt Hixson - Co-founder and CEO Tellagence develops and markets predictive social analytics software that gives companies insights on behaviors such as how people will share a message across a community or how individuals within the community will respond to a call to action. Understanding these behaviors are critical to any organization being able to optimize and measure their use of social networks for business objectives such as shaping brand perception, increasing awareness or lead generation.</p> <p>Sight Line Applications - Jordan Holt - CTO SightLine Applications, LLC produces embedded video stabilization, object tracking, and image enhancement systems well-suited for airborne and ground video applications which demand high performance in a small, light, low-power package. SightLine systems reduce operator workload and increase situational awareness in surveillance and security applications. They are designed specifically to work on unmanned vehicles where low latency feedback to a camera gimbal system is critical. <a href="http://www.sightlineapplications.com">www.sightlineapplications.com</a></p> <p>Member Special: Pre-Register and Save OEN members can save by pre-registering online. Online registration for this event closes Wednesday, February 8th at 2:00 pm. Please register at the door after that time, no discounts will be applied.</p> <p>Become a 5-Minute Pitch Company PubTalk is a lively forum where very early-stage entrepreneurs from any industry get a chance to test their company pitch in front of an audience of their peers. Presenters and attendees alike, learn from the challenging questions, which test the presenting entrepreneur’s business model. Companies who would like to apply to present at an upcoming PubTalk can apply here: <a href="http://www.oen.org/5_minute_pitch.aspx">http://www.oen.org/5_minute_pitch.aspx</a></p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://www.oen.org/events.aspx?id=255">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>