Maya Rogers @Samurai Venture Summit

221 tech boom ’99 – ’10tax credit for QHTB

+370 companies

221 ’10 - the bubble burst…

hope grows from thegrassroots

www.facebook.com/wetwarewednesday

from one

• Software Developer & Tech Engineer の集まり

• 新しいアイデア交換• 毎月のイベント

came many

came many

• Celebration of startups & entrepreneurs• Open to all interested in tech

• Monthly pitches

http://www.meetup.com/Honolulu-New-Tech-Meetup/

• 54-hour simulation of entrepreneurship

• 2 years, sold out events at $100• 2 companies formed: Tealet, Aptly

http://honolulu.startupweekend.org/• 5-minute presentations, 20 slides,

15 sec. auto-advance

http://ignitehonolulu.com/

came manycame many

• Conference for Ruby on Rails programmers in Honolulu

• Key note speakers from around the world

http://www.aloharubyconf.com/index• Hackathon uses open data from

Honolulu gov’t to create apps• #1 Digital City & #1 Code for America

City

http://honolulu.startupweekend.org/

• Ideas Worth Spreading in 18-min or less

http://tedxhonolulu.org/

engagingthewholestack.

HackersinHawaii.com

AlohaStartups.com HTDC.org/InnovateHawaii

TechHui.com

community needs place...

came many

Invest. Mentor. Accelerate.

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Hawaii Accelerators:

Joint Demo Day = New Dealflow

#StartupParadise

#StartupParadise

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