Welcome to StartupPOP's 18th Tech Startup Pitch Event & Networking with Demos at General Provision in downtown Fort Lauderdale! This is our first Fort Lauderdale event! $15 per person online.  At the door, the event is $25. If you are interested in DEMO'ing your tech at one of our tables or buying a table as a sponsor during the event, please see DEMO info below.  Click here for a short video intro about this event on Youtube.  

SUP-X:The Startup Expo: 
StartupPOP is happy to announce that it has partnered with SUP-X: The StartUp Expo, a two day, international startup and early-stage conference that will be held at the Broward Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale on March 6-7, 2017.  

WHO: Investors, Entrepreneurs, Start-Ups, Tech Community, Angel Investors, Tech Mentors, Venture Capital EXECs who have an interest in Real Estate Tech, MGRs, SPONSORS (see below). 

WHAT: A Tech Startup Pitch Event with networking. Our intention is to assist local tech start-ups to pitch their tech product or service. A tech start-up can be looking for a variety of things like seed capital, tech partners, business partners, advisers, mentors or business leads. Attendees are welcome to stay and network after-words. We are going to have several speakers to be announced prior to the pitch event. 

DEMO DAY: This is a great opportunity for both companies pitching and for companies that have pitched before to set up your tech, product, service on a table so you can meet directly with INVESTORS, CUSTOMERS and interested parties.  Sign up right here.

WHEN: February 22nd (Wednesday), 7 PM to 9:45 PM.   The Demo Day starts as early as 6pm.  The networking and pitch event starts at 7pm. If you are setting up a DEMO DAY table, please come as early as 6pm. 

WHERE: General Provision,  525 Northwest 1st Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 

HOW MUCH:  
$15 - Payment in advance (RSVP here on eventbrite) 
$25 - At the door with no RSVP. 
$99 - For half a demo/sponsor table. 
$199 - For a full demo/sponsor table. 
$0 - No additional fees to pitch.

INCLUDES: Soft Drinks and Light Snacks. 

PARKING: No cost. 

THE FORMAT: Between 5 and 10 local tech start-ups will be given up to 3 minutes (no pitch deck) to pitch their concept or product/service.  There is networking before and after the event. Pitching companies can provide a short, no more than 4 pages of power point or PDFs, which we will display on a screen. There will be a panel of successful entrepreneurs and investors who will be at the event. This panel will have a few moments to ask a few questions following each pitch. 

PITCH DECK REQUIREMENT:  We need to review either your pitch deck or executive summary to be chosen to pitch. We are requiring participants to fill out a 1 to 4 page mini pitch deck. This mini pitch deck will be used for both pitching and for interested investors. This is required!  Our limit is 4 pages! Remember this is a 3 minute pitch. The pitch deck must be landscape and a PDF file. You can go to this link here to review an example pitch deck.  If you are interested in Pitching you can contact us at dan@startuppop.com.  Please send us at least name of company, what you are pitching, and preferably your mini pitch deck.  Please give us a couple days to respond if you are interested in pitching. 

The start-up companies pitching have up to 3 minutes to answer 5 common questions about their business: 

What is their product/service?  
What is their business model?  
Size of the Market they serve?  
How do they get to market or get traction?  
What are they here looking for? Capital, Partners, Advisers, etc.. 

PANEL MEMBERS: We typically have a mix of investors, and startup experts sit on our panel.  Each event may have a different set of experts. Potential Advisers, Mentors and Audience members will be asked to approach start-ups of interest after the event. We will list the companies which will pitch as we approach the pitch date.  

PAST PITCHING COMPANIES:
Here is a list of some of the companies which participated in the past tech start-up pitch events: adFroogle, Aerobyte, ActivePark, Apparition Mobile, Apollonix, Apretaste, Avila Stores, Aqua TV, ArrestSOS, BCD Software, beTen, BitChase, BYL Network, caddyDRONE, Counsel On The Go, DealCoachPro, DL Alert Pro, Donkies.co, EastOutWith.me, eCalypse, Edamoli, Elemental Dynamics EmergentHealthcare, EvictionsPro, Everyware, Frelp, Friendly Reminders, GameMerce, Game Masters Solutions, Gatha, Glince, Global Boat Works, GPS for Piano, Go Grab, HeadyFoods, Greet, Gyfu, Hello Show, iGoTrackr, iLumenfi, Instabitts,Jeditronix, Jinglz, Kanyu,Know My Town, Liquidbricks, LunchMoney, MedBeam, Mission Tuition, MobiDox, Mrecruit, MyLoop, Neuromore, @NOW, nXus, Pickk, Pragras, Previte, Prom.ly, Prototype, Puppy Play Dates, House, Referrizer, Revolve, Roizo, Shmoozfest, Seyopa, Sierra Lifestyle, Inc., Simplifyed & VerityIQ, SKY H2O, Smitz Laboratories Corp, Slurpits Living Biofilter, SociallyBuzz, Stand4, STAX, Sygnol Analytics, Take Up Code, TapNSell, TGL Film, The Go App, The Animal Social Network, Tinker University, TightTalk Electronics, ToneLive, TruVisibility, Tudor Ice Company, uRemix, UseMyBenefits.com, Vivarena, Young Makers Lab, Well Done Wood, Who Ya Got, Wiki Beach Real Estate, Worthy, Zeekah and others.

SPONSORS: If you are a SERVICE BUSINESS like a BIG WEB AGENCY, A LAW FIRM, A STARTUP CONSULTANT, ACCOUNTING, an INSURANCE PROVIDER, BROKER/DEALER or just LOVE THIS EVENT and want to support us fully and get the chance to have a booth/table or stand up and give an overview of your services, you can buy small to large SPONSORSHIPS.  To get a full table will cost $199 or a half table is $99 to display your stuff!  Larger sponsorships are available. All the participants involved in StartupPOP are for-profit businesses. While we are a for-profit businesses, we are still a group dedicated to enabling tech start-ups to get mentoring, guidance and capital (if necessary) they need in order get start started and get to revenue. So sponsoring is a way to give back to the community and help us grow the economy! Sponsors will get great exposure to the tech startup community and will be mentioned often in person, in emails and online! We can offer you a table, banner ad and let you get up and pitch your service or offering. Please contact us at sponsors@startuppop.com for more information about sponsoring StartupPOP events!  Thank you for caring about the Startup Community! 

SUP-X: The Startup Expo is a two day, international startup and early-stage conference that will be held at the Broward Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale on March 6-7, 2017.  SUP-X: The StartUp Expo (http://sup-x.org)  is the largest startup conference in South Florida and one of the largest in the country. In addition to panels and speeches on topics that are relevant to entrepreneurs and investors alike, SUP-X features a startup competition with $50,000 in cash prizes (1st=$25,000, 2nd=$15,000 and 3rd=$10,000).  Additionally, 50 startups from throughout North America are selected as semi-finalists and receive a free booth to exhibit alongside corporate exhibitors.  This is a fantastic opportunity for these 50 startup exhibitors to meet potential investors, partners, employees and others over the course of the two day event.  As part of our partnership with SUP-X, StartupPoP has arranged that the winner of our January pitch event will receive one of those 50 booths and be placed into the semi-finals.  A summary of SUP-X is below and more information can be found on their website, including additional information about their startup competition.   

NEED COWORKING SPACE IN FORT LAUDERDALE? 
General Provision is a great coworking space in Fort Lauderdale.  Please contact Grant Stemler at grant@generalprovision.com for more info or go to generalprovision.com.

ARE YOU PAYING TOO MUCH FOR CREDIT CARD SERVICES? 
Finally, if you are looking for Credit Card Services for your startup or would like to have your Merchant Card Service fees analyzed for a lower rate, please contact our sponsor CardConnect by calling or emailing Robert Orkin at 561 289-4652 or email merprocess@gmail.com!

Check out my books "NAMES" & "PITCH" both available for sale both online and at the event! 
Click here if you want to buy Names: How To Name Your Startup Venture in paperback. Click here if you want to buy NAMES as an eBook only from Gumroad. On CreateSpace and On Amazon.

RSVP today and we will see you at the next event! 

Dan Gudema 
Founder - StartupPOP 
dan@startuppop.com 

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