| With the addition of startup sales expert Kelley Boyd of Think Experience, the panel for the May Ultra Light event on Sales for Startups has been finalized (special thanks to Nancy Rielle, Deborah Jackson, and Nina Sutton for their ongoing help nominating fantastic women panelists). A few special guests may be announced between now and the event. As of now, there are 10 Pitch and 59 Early Bird tickets left. Grab yours now! I think we’ve hit on a workable formula for compelling events in cities outside of New York, using video simulcasting. Ultra Light Startups is already one of the biggest monthly startup events in Boston and Toronto and both chapters are growing quickly. We’re ready to expand further. If you know well-connected startup community organizers in other East-coast cities (Philadelphia, Baltimore, DC, Atlanta, Miami, ??) who might be interested in running an Ultra Light Startups chapter there, send them my way. It’s a great opportunity for networking, personal brand building, and profit… You can now sponsor Ultra Light Startups in any individual city or the entire network. The two sponsorship plans are tuned for local professional service providers (web design/development agencies, PR firms, office space providers, etc) and national brands looking to reach startups across the country (world?). Sponsorship revenue is split with local chapter organizers. Contact me if interested.
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Ultra Light Startups - Sales for Startups Thursday, May 12 - 6:30pm EST This event will help you develop and implement a sales strategy for your startup. Panelists include (alphabetic order): Please note: - In New York, this event will be held at Microsoft . Ticket sales close at 3pm EST the day of the event (or when they sell out online). Note that there are seven ways to get in free.
- In Boston, this event will be held at WorkBar Boston and admission is free.
- The event is also broadcast via live video stream. Viewing the video stream is free.
Ultra Light Calendar April 21 - Microsoft BizSpark is sponsoring and organizing AzureCamp to accelerate your startup by leveraging the cloud. Join us for the finale of the 1.5 day Azure Camp when startups and ISVs will present their solutions and compete for a $3,000 cash prize. The target audience are startups and ISVs currently planning, or already working to extend their solution to the cloud and leveraging technologies such as .NET, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, etc. (blog post). I’ll be giving a talk on “the ultra light startup” and will be one of the pitch contest judges. May 5 - The Pitching Well is hosting a Networking and Elevator Pitch Party. The Pitching Well is a collection of financial communities centered around live financial presentation pitches. The event is for C-level executives and entrepreneurs who give financial presentations. This is mostly an informal event where entrepreneurs will network over a beer. Additionally, anyone can give a 60 second video pitch promoting their business and it will appear on the Pitching Well. The $10 admission is waived for anyone mentioning Ultra Light Startups at the door.
Ultra Light Community The top User Experience groups in NYC are partnering up to present the first-annual juried User Experience Awards as part of this year’s Internet Week. Ultra Light Startups is proud to be one of the sponsors of this event. The User Experience Awards is a juried contest featuring 8 top experts from the field where the top entrants can win both fame and fortune- $1000 cash, a trophy and press. The goal of the event is to help educate technologists about good user experience and promote its value in creating a winning product or service in today’s crowded tech marketplace. Submission starts April 15 and is free, easy, and open to anyone. Go to UserExperienceAwards.com to learn more and apply to get your startup fame & fortune- there’s only a one-month window for submissions! If you’ve got accomplishments to share or hear interesting startup/bootstrapping news, be sure to share it on the Ultra Light Facebook or LinkedIn group. If you do, I’ll re-post it here the following week (and be sure to cite you, of course). If I mention you or your organization in this newsletter, it would be especially nice if you could share this newsletter on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn (see buttons/links above).
I hope to see you at an Ultra Light Startups or partner event soon! Best regards,
Graham | 
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