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Startup America Partnership Regions To Send 8 Startups To Demo

The Startup America partnership and their 26 regional partnerships have announced a contest to send 8 lucky, and good, startups to the DEMO conference in Santa Clara CA this fall. All 8 winning startups will receive free travel and free entry into the conference, which as one of the premiere startup events in the country, is a pretty expensive ticket.

Four of the Startups will receive showcase space in the DEMO pavilions the other four Startups will get to pitch on the DEMO main stage. Companies that have become household names like E*Trade and TiVO have presented on the DEMO main stage. Even our good friends at Rawporter have experienced the DEMO stage.

Startup evangelist, and our good friend Nick Tippmann provided some of the official video coverage at DEMO’s spring event this year.

“We’re incredibly excited to collaborate with DEMO and our regions to send startups to launch at this renowned event,” said Scott Case, CEO, Startup America Partnership. “You only need to look at a list of DEMO alumni to see what a game-changer it is for any startup focused on growth.”

“The Startup America Regional contest will allow incredible companies that may not have had DEMO on their radar to compete with the most plugged-in Silicon Valley startups out there,” said Neal Silverman, EVP and general manager at DEMO. “We can’t wait to review the submissions from startups headquartered in places like Tennessee, Texas and Iowa, all of which have robust startup ecosystems that people may not be aware of.”

The contest is only open to registered Startup America members. At DEMO Spring 2012, Startup America members TourWrist, ZBoard, and Jumala all won DEMO God Awards, with TourWrist winning the grand prize: the People’s Choice Award.

“TourWrist’s DEMO experience really highlights the best of our progressive, supportive society,” said Charles Armstrong, founder and CEO of TourWrist. “From a DEMO presenting scholarship and support from Startup America to the audience–bestowed People’s Choice honor and IDG’s $1M media award, our humble startup has been given an incredible chance at success. All startups out there thinking about launching at DEMO should enter this contest immediately!”

Linkage:

To sign up for the contest click here

To enter you need to be a member of Startup America

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North Carolina Is So Bad Ass They’re Having Two Startup North Carolina Launch Parties August 20th

North Carolina is a great state with three thriving areas for startups, business and commerce as a whole. They are “The Triangle” in Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, “The Triad” Greensboro/Winston Salem/High Point and Charlotte “The Queen City”. The Triangle has a thriving startup community anchored by their biotech corridor and Research Park. The Triad is an area built on old money and Tobacco and has seen a recent up-tick in startups and entrepreneurship. Charlotte is booming thanks to mainstays like Bank Of America and Wells Fargo (previously Wachovia). Charlotte has great startups, like our friends at RawPorter.

So if you’ve been wondering, like I have, what’s taking them so long to sync up with Startup America, well that wait is over.

Startup North Carolina, the Startup America Partnership region for NC, will officially fire up on August 20th with not one but two launch parties. The Triangle region will be spearheaded by Triangle Startup Weekend’s founder Mital Patel. Patel was actually referred to Startup America by ExitEvent’s Joe Procipio. Procipio had been interested in developing the Startup North Carolina region but timing constraints made it impossible to give as much as he wanted to. Procipio explains how he helped lay the groundwork for Startup North Carolin and for Patel in this blog post.

The Charlotte are will kick off on August 20th with their own launch party. That area will be led by Adam Hill of Packard Place.

According to Procipio, both Hill and Patel will run the Startup North Carolina region similar to the way Startup DC is run.

Startup America lets each regional partnership run itself and each partnership gets out of it what they put into it. Startup North Carolina will take an approach much like Ignite and Startup Weekend. We’re sure that it will be a very active regional partnership. In fact Procipio reports that Patel is already setting up a Uservoice automated system so that participants from across the state can help vote for things that Startup North Carolina will focus on.

While we’re sure that their will be some competition between both sides of the chapter (by design most likely) together they will solidify North Carolina’s position in the startup eco-system in the US. As they say when the tide rises, all the ships sale.

Startup America offers great benefits to their member base across the country. They focus on growth potential startups that will eventually lead to more job creation, commerce and a positive contribution to the American economy. Did we mention it’s free to join?

Linkage:

Check out Procipio’s post here

Here’s a link to Startup America

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Steve Case To Keynote Startup Hawaii Event August 2

AOL co-founder, and current Startup America partnership Chairman Steve Case is heading to Hawaii next week. He’s not going for vacation though, he’s going as the keynote speaker of the “Accelerating Hawaii’s Startup Innovation” event.

Accelerating Hawaii’s Startup Innovation is being held next Thursday August 2nd at the Sheraton Waikiki from 9:00am-4:00pm. The cost is just $35.

Steve Case will be the features speaker with the topic “Igniting A Startup Revolution” which will be hosted by Howard Dicus. Case will discuss his work as Chairman of the Startup America Partnership. He’ll also talk about how the JOBS act will open up more opportunity for startups and entrepreneurs. Finally he’ll discuss how the innovative entrepreneurs that he works with are building disruptive companies.

The other topics for the one day conference include:

Building an Ecosystem: Hawaii’s Support Stories, moderated by HTDC
Short overviews showcasing how local organizations are helping to ignite innovation in Hawaii, featuring Steve Sue, Lemonade Alley; Paul Quintiliani, Kamehameha Schools Endowment; Barry Weinman and Omar Sultan, UPSIDE Fund; Andrew Betz, HiTIP; and Bee Leng Chua, HiBEAM.

Impact of Accelerators on Local Ecosystems, moderated by HSDC
Mainland accelerator managers discuss how startup accelerators can impact a local economy, featuring George Kellerman, 500 Startups; Jennifer Judge, Global Accelerator Network; Amanda Chocko, Start Garden; Sam Teller, Launchpad LA; and Donna Harris, Startup America Partnership.

Startups to Watch: Hawaii’s Next Generation of Businesses, moderated by Startup Hawaii
Short stories highlighting the efforts of Hawaii’s modern crop of game-changing startups, featuring Holland Wood, Ikehu Natural; Ace Lee, NoJuice; Jason Cutinella, Nella Media Group; Hoala Greevy, Undefeated Games; and Ryan Esaki, Ukulele Underground.

Innovation Expo Networking Lunch, sponsored by HiBEAM
Speakers, panel participants, and examples of Hawaii’s startup ecosystem host
conversations on how we can all work to enhance local startup potential.

Corporate Collaboration: Developing Partnerships to Enhance Our Startup Ecosystem, moderated by Donna Harris of Startup America
Steve Case joins a panel of corporate and startup CEOs to discuss how business can help build, grow, and support our local startup economy, featuring:
• Art Ushijima, President, The Queen’s Health System
• Kevin Miyashiro, Founder/President, TeraSys Technologies
• Mark Dunkerley, President & CEO, Hawaiian Airlines
• Tina Fitch, Founder, ezRez Software (now Switchfly.com)
• Richard Rosenblum, President & CEO, Hawaiian Electric Company
• Darius Monsef, Founder & CEO, ColourLovers.com and CreativeMarket

After the speakers there will be a networking event that is sponsored by the Hawaii Angels who are celebrating their 10th year of funding innovation in Hawaii.

For more information or to get tickets for this great event click here

Linkage:

Startup America Partnership

Startup Hawaii

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Follow Friday: The Startup America Partnership

Here at nibletz.com as the voice of startups “everywhere else” we are very proud and active members in the Startup America partnership. The organization was set up under the Obama administration and is spearheaded by Chairman Steve Case the founder of America Online and Revolution along with CEO Scott Case (no relation) who was the founding CTO of Priceline.com

In addition to setting up networks, and events, the Startup America partnership provides tons of resources to forward thinking startup founders who’s ultimate goal is to contribute to the fabric of America by adding more companies and more jobs across the country.

Each of Startup America’s regional partners holds their own events and the organization itself sponsors national events, webinars, conferences and meet ups. In fact Startup America is partnering with Startup Rockon for events at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions later this summer to promote startups and entrepreneurship.

As for benefits, there are literally thousands of dollars in benefits available to Startup America members, and joining Startup America is absolutely free with no strings attached. Everything from free books, discounted books, to legal services and even airline tickets from American Airlines are offered at deep discounts exclusively for Startup America members.

We wanted to start something up for Follow Friday. As someone who speaks on the ins and outs of Twitter regularly, traditional #FF follow Friday is really not that effective, so we’ll feature startups, entrepreneurs, startup founders and startup resources every Friday. To kick that feature off here is the complete list of Startup America regions to follow on Twitter.

Startup America
Startup California
Startup New Hampshire
Startup Virginia
Startup Colorado
Startup Connecticut
Startup Florida
Startup Hawaii
Startup Illinois
Startup Iowa
Startup Kentucky
Startup Kansas
Startup Massachusetts
Startup Maryland
Startup Michigan
Startup Missouri
Startup Montana
Startup Nebraska
Startup Rhode Island
Startup Texas
Startup Tennessee
Startup Vermont
Startup Washington
Startup Puerto Rico
Startup DC
Startup Indiana

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Puerto Rico Joins the Startup America Partnership

Startup America added their 26th regional partnership on Tuesday with Puerto Rico. Startup Puerto Rico kicked off in true Startup America fashion with a networking party for entrepreneurs across the island held at Universidad Interamericana, Recinto Metropolitano in San Juan.

“Puerto Ricans want to develop their own country on their own terms,” said Startup Puerto Rico representative Richard Vazquez. “Startup America encourages Puerto Ricans to develop the country by creating more jobs and kick-starting our local economy.”

The partnership between Startup Puerto Rico and Startup America will give entrepreneurs and startups on the island access to the same benefits that Startup America members have on the mainland. In addition, Startup America membership is free, and you didn’t have to attend the launch event to sign up, you can simply click the link below.

Startup America offers free educational webinars, free benefits from partners including indiegogo, American Express, Intuit and plenty of others. The member portal on the Startup America website shows every member what the current benefits are.

They also regularly hold contests which have included a trip to attend the Super Bowl with Startup America CEO Scott Case and a trip to the Kentucky Derby.

Startup America is chaired by AOL co-founer Steve Case (no relation to Scott Case) and with Puerto Rico, now has 26 regional partnerships.

Linkage:

Startup Puerto Rico

Startup America

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