He started up event planning group Showtime with a fellow Villanova alum, and then spent 18 years building up the business before merging it with Sparks in 2005.
Microsoft hosts a mega start-up event.
DHL donated a van last year, Unilever have provided sponsorship for Wecyclers to collect their packaging, and the project recently won $55,000 through the Pitch for Lagos start-up event.
The other day, Mr. Moore went to a start-up event to learn about "quick exits" — valley talk for cashing out of your company while you still can — where executives from large tech companies coached young entrepreneurs on how to sell their nascent start-ups.
Tara Tiger Brown was agape at a start-up event: "Imagine for a second what your reaction might be if you went to a panel to hear from other women about their experiences doing a tech start-up and a VC, the person that funds start-ups, told you that she thinks that women should work on things they are naturally gifted at, and she believes shopping is one of them".
And, the fact that Mike Butcher would even organize and have a panel of this nature at a major start-up event says a lot in itself.
And he recalls that a start-up event in the gung-ho late 1990s "would have been full-on insanity – with crazy ideas and ridiculous valuations.
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At the Ivy Oasis How to Build a Strong Start-Up event at Columbia University several speakers made this clear.
So far, he said, StartOut events have felt less cutthroat — more collaborative and collegial — than other start-up events he had attended.
Mambo.com, a start-up events-planning Web service in Menlo Park, Calif., for example, hired a longtime Internet recruiter last spring before it even thought about hiring a vice president for business development, according to Madeline Schroeder, Mambo's chief executive.
