Orlando Entrepreneurs

5 Week Leadership Series with Tech Founder Sam Tarell
2019-03-21 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Halifax) | StarterStudio, 101 S Garland Ave #108, Orlando, FL, 32801, us
Join us for this 5 Week Series and be prepared to lead a movement!
The 5 Leadership Lessons:1. Stop Being a Statistic – How Authenticity Builds Leadership2. Who the Bleep Am I? – Unlock Your Confidence and Grow Your Leadership3. Radical Ownership – Have Authority Over Yourself and Your Environment4. Emotional Intelligence – How to Scale Empathy and Impact the World5. Millennial Leadership – How to Inspire Others and Influence Meaningful Change
Who is Sam Tarell:Sam Tarell is 24 year old CEO of two purpose driven businesses. He personally oversees over 100 staff members nation wide and thousands of clients every year. Sam will personally share his story of overcoming homelessness as a child and how he was able to build a national brand without any funding. Sam’s story is one of self-rejection, fear, failure and through that eventually love. Don’t let your mask define you.

FREE COWORKING DAY @Downtown
2019-03-20 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Halifax), 2019-02-20 09:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | StarterStudio Downtown, 101 South Garland Avenue Suite 108, Orlando, FL, 32801, us
Join us every 3rd Wednesday of the month for FREE Coworking Day! Whether you are an aspiring business owner, entrepreneur, remote worker, or just want to leave the office for a day, we want to invite you into our space and community.

1 Million Cups - Orlando Weekly Meetup
2019-03-20 08:00 - 10:00 (America/Halifax), 2019-03-13 08:00 - 10:00 (America/Halifax), 2019-03-06 08:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York), 2019-02-27 08:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York), 2019-02-20 08:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York) | Rollins College, Bush Auditorium, E Fairbanks Ave, Winter Park,, FL, us
If you love & support entrepreneurship and small business, there’s no better place to be on Wednesday mornings! Participate in our “Guppy Tank”, with the best coffee and breakfast pastries in the world served! Everything is FREE (including the parking)!
Created by the Kaufmann Foundation (one of the largest philanthropic, entrepreneurial & venture capital organizations in the world), we host a weekly educational meetup, where entrepreneurs educate us about their business ideas for 6 minutes, and we educate them with our wisdom for 20. It is the most valuable use of your time, if you’re interested in learning about how to be successful with your business, available in Central Florida. Why?
1) Network weekly with our audience of seasoned entrepreneurs, investors & service providers;
2) Learn from their questions & comments;
3) Listen to the latest business (& tech!) ideas to come out of Central Florida; and,
4) You never know who you’ll meet at our events – potential partners, vendors, advisors, employees, suppliers and/or investors.
Keep up-to-date with our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/1millioncupsOrlando/) & our YouTube account ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBrciZBkRTGz-Hy41n1HCDQ ). If you love entrepreneurship, this is one Orlando event you cannot miss!
Networking starts at 8:00a, presentations start at 9:00a. See you this Wednesday!

APPLY TODAY: StarterStudio Seed Accelerator
2019-03-19 12:00 - 2019-03-26 23:59 (America/Halifax) | StarterStudio, 101 S Garland Ave #108, Orlando, FL, 32801, us
APPLY: https://www.starterstudio.org/programs/accelerators/
This is a six-month, part-time mentorship-led accelerator focused on early stage growth, capturing market share and getting tech companies investment-ready. Our nonprofit fund tied directly to our Seed Stage Accelerator invests between $25,000 and $225,000 in each of the companies accepted into the program. The amount invested is dependent on the company reaching crucial milestones as determined by a panel of key partners, mentors, and our board. Companies accepted into the program will have access to programming and been-there-done-that mentors that will drive their success. The program culminates with a day-long Investor Showcase, drawing investors from across the Eastern seaboard and beyond. Seed Stage Accelerator was created to help young companies poised for a step-change in their growth to cross the perilous gap in funding often seen at this stage. We help them to attract funding beyond the friends, family, and a credit card or three that sustained them in the earliest stages, as well as rapidly mature their management teams for the rapid growth ahead. Hint: many of the teams accepted in Seed Stage Accelerator started their startup journey in our Ideation Stage Accelerator program. Admittance to the program is highly competitive. Ready to launch a hockey-stick of growth? Accelerate with us.
Contact Casey@StarterStudio.org with any questions!

Founders Talk: Jim Gale - Who Wants to Change the World?
2019-03-18 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Halifax) | StarterStudio, 101 S Garland Ave #108, Orlando, FL, 32801, us
Who is Jim Gale?Jim Gale Is an entrepreneur and inventor who has worked as an eco-village developer in Costa Rica for the past 12 years. He’s now back in the US to promote sustainable systems, Edible Landscapes and FOOD GROWING EVERYWHERE!Jim has researched and developed a franchise model with global intentions. The Franchise will promote the use of sustainable technology and sell locally growing produce, focusing on high value cash crops like microgreens, along with solar, wind and water systems.

4 WEEK Starter Bootcamp @ Downtown
2019-03-15 13:00 - 17:00 (America/Halifax), 2019-03-08 13:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York), 2019-03-01 13:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | StarterStudio Downtown, 101 South Garland Avenue Suite 108, Orlando, FL, 32801, us
Don’t wait another day to launch your startup! Sign up for our 4 week bootcamp to learn how to build a lean business that serves customers well. Whether a new technology or an existing business seeking to expand, the lean approach will help you to focus, innovate, and build value-first solutions. Plus, building in community is ALWAYS more fun.
P.S. This is a great way to get introduced to our team, mentors, community and accelerators!
Please email Casey at Casey@StarterStudio.org if you are interested in participating.

Orlando Open Coffee Club
2019-03-12 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Halifax), 2019-02-26 09:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York), 2019-02-12 09:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York), 2019-01-29 09:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York) | Catalyst Spaces, 1 South Orange Avenue Suite 502, Orlando, FL, us
Orlando Open Coffee Club is about good coffee, entrepreneurs, ideas, and conversation. We believe that when entrepreneurs, startups, creatives, freelancers, and those associated with them meet, collisions of ideas lead to great things happening. Every two weeks join us and enjoy complimentary coffee and bagels while we discuss the latest community news and upcoming events and network in Orlando’s newest coworking space, Catalyst.

3 Week Founder Bootcamp @Downtown
2019-03-11 17:00 - 20:00 (America/Halifax) | StarterStudio Downtown, 101 South Garland Avenue Suite 108, Orlando, FL, 32801, us
Don’t wait another day to launch your startup! Sign up for our 3 week bootcamp to learn how to build a lean business that serves customers well. Whether a new technology or an existing business seeking to expand, the lean approach will help you to focus, innovate, and build value-first solutions. Plus, building in community is ALWAYS more fun.
P.S. This is a great way to get introduced to our team, mentors, community and accelerators!
Please email Casey at Casey@StarterStudio.org if you are interested in participating.

LinkedIn for Startups w/ Josh Wilson @ Downtown
2019-03-06 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | StarterStudio Downtown, 101 South Garland Avenue Suite 108, Orlando, FL, 32801, us
LinkedIn for StartupsWhat are you are looking for capital or for clients LinkedIn is a great place to find both. How do you do it? That’s what we will go over in our open discussion conversation about LinkedIn.
We will go over the basics of how to use LinkedIn, how to grow your network, and how to sell digitally…
And then we will have fun optimizing if you of your profiles live!
Connect with me on LinkedIn prior to the event:https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuabrucewilson
Who is Josh Wilson?My name is Josh Wilson. I am an entrepreneur specializing in connecting, advising, and developing fellow entrepreneurs.
My mission is simple, to save the world from the pending employee apocalypse. What I teach is a lifestyle shift that in my opinion must be embraced. The world in which we live requires constant evolution from us all. Through actionable strategy and an ever-growing network of investors and entrepreneurs, I have had much success in helping people and businesses getting started and achieving higher levels of success. My work is spread over numerous platforms. I host three different podcasts shows, advise startups and investments groups, and I am the founder of an agency helping entrepreneurs find capital and customers.

START HERE: Lean Startup Workshop @ Downtown
2019-03-04 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | StarterStudio Downtown, 101 South Garland Avenue Suite 108, Orlando, FL, 32801, us
Starting in 2019, we will be offering a once a month crash course to starting up a business!
Whether a new tech company, idea or existing business, join us to learn how to start and grow your company the LEAN way.

TAB | #RiseUpOrlando
2019-02-28 17:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Celine Orlando, 22 S Magnolia Ave, Orlando, FL, 32801, us
Join us this month as we come together and celebrate the City of Orlando being chosen as one of the stops on the Rise of the Rest Road Trip!This contest which is focused on highlighting startup activity outside of Silicon Valley will award $100,000 to the winning startup.
Learn more and submit your startup here:https://www.events.revolution.com/
So we challenge you to #RiseUpOrlando and join us for a celebration of our local tech community and let’s come together to showcase why Orlando is a startup destination and why the spotlight should be on us.
We will have some special guest speakers who will provide insight and real-world advice on the journey to becoming a successful startup and as always we will be picking up the TAB for attendees thanks to our great partners and sponsors.
It’s time to step up and #RiseUpOrlando, let’s show the rest of the country why Orlando deserves to be recognized.
About Rise of the Rest:We invest catalytic capital in the most promising seed stage companies located outside of Silicon Valley, New York City and Boston. The ROTR Seed Fund is backed by a group of iconic entrepreneurs, executives and investors.
Link to apply for $100,000 prizehttps://riseoftherest.submittable.com/submit
#RiseUpOrlando #RiseOfRest #techandbeers

Growing a Sustainable Business Through Customer Journey Mapping
2019-02-28 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | StarterStudio, 101 S Garland Ave #108, Orlando, FL, 32801, us
Growing a Sustainable Business Through Customer Journey Mapping
This 40-minute interactive educational presentation teaches entrepreneurs how to builda foundation for growth by focusing on the customer’s experience and expectations. Theultimate goal being to develop advocates on the back end that believe in yourproduct/service and want other to share in the same experience they did.What attendees will learn is…• What is needed to build a foundation for success?• What is Customer Journey Mapping?• What are the benefits to both the company and the customer?• What are the 5 foundational components of Journey Mapping?• What is the difference between MACRO and MICRO Journey Views?• What is the Purpose behind Journey Mapping?

From LinkedIn to Landing Page @Downtown
2019-02-27 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | StarterStudio, 101 S Garland Ave #108, Orlando, FL, 32801, us
This workshop is for the business owner looking for the next platform with under priced attention. I view LinkedIn as Instagram and YouTube from 5 years ago. I’ll show you everything you need to know about strategically creating content to brand yourself/company to convert business organically through having an optimized LinkedIn Profile.
Justin Nguyen:I am the son of Vietnamese Refugees and LinkedIn’s Campus Editor for the University of Central Florida, my content is viewed over 65,000 times each month. I help companies turn their LinkedIn Profiles into Landing Pages to generate warm leads for business.

Pitch Night @ StarterStudio Downtown
2019-02-26 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | StarterStudio Downtown, 101 S Garland Ave, Suite 108, Orlando, FL, us
Hello Orlando entrepreneurs!
Join us for a fun night of pitches from some of Orlando’s most exciting startups! There will be light food and refreshments and time for networking before the event.
Here’s the rundown:6:00pm: Doors open for networking, light food and drinks6:45pm: Pitching kickoff8:00pm: Event wrap up
Interested in pitching your awesome startup to the local community? Email casey@starterstudio.org for more details!

Cybersecurity Roundtable with Diriga and Infima @Downtown
2019-02-21 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | StarterStudio, 101 S Garland Ave #108, Orlando, FL, 32801, us
Cybersecurity is one of the hottest topics in tech right now. Bring your questions, interests and challenges to this insightful lunch talk and roundtable on cybersecurity. The teams of Diriga and Infima are joining together to educate our community.
Diriga Technologies Team:
Ray Bazzi, CEO and shareholder comes with over 25 years experience in the IT field. He is involved in building customer relationships, account management, problem solving and ultimately making sure clients goals are met and satisfied. Ray’s focus on customer relationships and problem solving plays a vital role in enhancing the customer experience. Ray takes pride in taking the time to truly understand the customer business and all the business processes in place.
Ed Cochran Senior IT engineer, has solid experience in supporting and installing clients’ hardware, connectivity, and application problems, as well as Cyber Security. He is a dedicated hard worker, professional, patient, flexible, and upbeat in supporting end users. He is also knowledgeable with installation, set-up, and maintenance.
Jake Miller Help Desk Manager and IT Support Engineer, Jake is very responsive, friendly and professional. He takes every customer’s issue seriously and is very good with understanding various IT environments. He has strong knowledge supporting many different IT Environments. He also has a strong understanding of Apple products as well as Android/iOS mobile devices.
Bill Rodriguez is one of Diriga’s System Administrators who makes use of his, server environment skills to provide onsite, remote, and back end service and support for various customers. Bill is familiar with many diverse environments and is capable of supporting both server and workstation level issues. Bill is also Diriga’s resident Apple expert.
Ryan Colbert comes with over 20 years experience in the legal IT field. He is involved in building complex networks and looking at every business process to determine if there is a better cheaper safer way to do it involving technology making sure clients goals are met and satisfied. Ryan focus on overall network architecture and problem solving plays provides customers with the highest level of technical expertise. Ryan’s experience in the legal field makes him an invaluable member of the Diriga team.
Alex (Alejandro) Cuellar Growing up and living in Central Florida, Alex calls Orlando home. His career has been building relationships and creating solutions for his clients. Alex uses a consultative non-salesy approach to truly understand the clients business needs. His goal is to provide the most cost effective, efficient solution for his clients. His strengths include communication, listening and high level of integrity. Alex’s core values align with those of Diriga’s and its founder Ray Bazzi. The top 4 being integrity, transparency, exceptional performance and personability.

Building A Cannabis Eco-System Through Technology
2019-02-20 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | CREDO Conduit, 1001 N Orange Ave, Orlando, FL, 32801, United States
We’re extremely excited to bring to you, Erik Range, CEO of Art420 speaking on the topic of “Building A Cannabis Eco-System Through Technology” on Wednesday, February 20, 2019 beginning at 6pm.
Eriks Bio:
Erik Range is the CEO of ART420 LLC. an ancillary cannabis businesswhich provides custom fine art created specifically for the industry. Healso serves as the Board Chair for the non profit organizationMinorities For Medical Marijuana which is a leading voice on publicpolicy, patient advocacy, business development and social justice issuesin the cannabis industry. In his role as Board Chair, Mr. Range’sefforts and assistance led to the successful inclusion of “diversitylanguage” in the bill to implement Florida’s Medical MarijuanaProgram. Through his boutique consulting firm, RGW Enterprises LLC.,Range provides a variety of advisory services to individuals, businessesand government entities entering/ expanding in the cannabis/ medicalmarijuana/ hemp industry.
Food is Sponsored By Kirkwood & Ashley Gardiner of Gardin Variety:
Gardin Variety Catering , LLC is a catering company that specialises in what is known as “Bahamian Fusion” – marrying traditional Bahamian cuisine, made from natural and organic ingredients, with other cultures. Our motto is: we won’t feed you and your family anything that we wouldn’t serve our own. We welcome any feedback and appreciate you allowing our family to dine with yours. Enjoy.
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OTAB | Orlando Tech Community Monthly Networking Event
2019-01-31 17:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | FL
