Lighting Round – May Edition

Entrepreneurs Unpluggd

May 6th 6pm – The Entrepreners Unpluggd: Startup Lightning Round is a monthly event where members of the startup community share their wisdom, thoughts, and experiences in a fast paced format. Tonight’s four guests are Todd Jones (Every Last Morsel); Amanda Yang (Clear the Path); Chris Campbell (Lakeshore Branding & GreenWerks) and Paddy Srinivasan (Opstera).

Tix: $10 (advance); $15 (regular ticket); $20 (@ door)

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5/6/13 – 5/6/13

6p-9p

The Entrepreners Unpluggd: Startup Lightning Round is a monthly event where members of the startup community share their wisdom, thoughts, and experiences in a fast paced format. Our goal is to learn from each others’ experiences founding and building great Chicago startups.

Each event features 5 startup founders speaking candidly for 7 minutes or less on topics like marketing, making first hires, best practices for SEO and SEM, and what they wish they had done differently.

Entrepreneurs Unpluggd is partnering with talented area entrepreneurs to make this event the place for entrepreneurs to learn from and inspire each other in a TED talk style.

Interested in speaking? Click here to apply!

Speakers

Todd Jones

Todd Jones is the founder of Every Last Morsel, a community marketplace that let’s you shop for fresh-off-the-vine produce right from your neighbor’s backyard. Literally.

Amanda Yang

Founder of Clear the Path, a brand that promotes safe and stylish cycling for commuters and endurance athletes. She enjoys running, biking, swimming and making people look and feel their best on the inside and out.

Chris Campbell

Described as reasonably handsome, wicked smart and a darn good problem solver. Insatiable curiosity towards life with a passion for traveling and learning. Chaser of dreams and endless summers. Speaker of multiple languages. Entrepreneur. Hustler. Life Hacker. Vagabond.

Paddy Srinivasan

Paddy Srinivasan is the founder of Opstera – SaaS operations management startup recently acquired by Avanade (a Microsoft-Accenture company). At the time of acquisition, Opstera was the leader in SaaS operations analytics for PaaS cloud platforms. Prior to Opstera ,started, grew & exited Cumulux, an enterprise cloud management provider which was Microsoft’s “Global Cloud Partner of the Year” in 2010 and 2011. Paddy invests in early stage startups in the SaaS and sports media domains and is an advisor for a few startups in Chicago and Seattle.