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Pitch Your Peers #2 – Camarillo – April 17

Pitch to your Peers allows you to pitch your idea or company to our community with the purpose of getting invaluable feedback.

It is a great opportunity to prepare before you pitch to investors, potential co-founders, strategic business partners, clients, or any other audience.

We will try to give you advice and insight into what your intended audience may connect with or be concerned with.

The event also allows for you to build relationships with potential mentors, investors, clients, users, and more. Half the event will be reserved for people scheduling ahead. Half the event will be open to anyone in attendance to step up to the mic. We want to give everyone a chance to pitch. Especially, if they find their courage after watching others go first.

Before and after the event we will have time for informal networking.

This is an ongoing series we are holding each month with Pharos Center for Innovation in Camarillo. Be sure to check them out: https://www.pharoscenter.com/

 

RSVP Here:

https://www.meetup.com/805startups/events/248914273/

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Meetup of Meetups – Camarillo – Thursday Feb 22

With so many great local communities in the area, it can be hard to find the time to check them all out.

That’s why we’ve teamed up with various meetup groups to organize a “Meetup of Meetups” in Camarillo.

Join us on Thursday, February 22nd at Pharos Center to meet like-minded people, discover new passions, and learn about cool Ventura County communities you’ve been missing out on!

 

RSVP here (free event):

https://www.meetup.com/805startups/events/247947444/

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Female Entrepreneurship Meetup – Westlake Village – Monday March 5

This is an ongoing series of events throughout 2018 that will highlight inspirational women from our community. We hope to encourage women to build relationships with one another in order to share their experiences pursuing their career or business, find peer support, and to become more active in the communities around them. All are welcome. Be sure to bring a friend to this free event!

If you would like to nominate a woman to be a speaker at a future event, please contact us with their name and why they inspire you. You can email Gary at Gary@805startups.com with your nomination.

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Schedule:

5:50
Refreshments served and Introductions of all people in the room and open networking.

6:30pm
Welcome speech

A word from our sponsor
And intro to speaker #1

6:45pm
Speaker #1

7:30pm
Speaker #2

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If you would like to sponsor this event, please contact gary@805startups.com

 

RSVP here (free event):

https://www.meetup.com/805startups/events/xjcljpyxfbhb/

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A call to our women members and the men that want to support them

Late in 2017 an amazing group of our women members worked with 805 Startups to launch a new event designed to highlight inspirational women in the region.

The Female Entrepreneurship Meetup saw a successful start in its first two events with a combined attendance of over 100 people, largely made up of women.

It is no secret that there is a lack of diversity and representation of women in the worlds of entrepreneurship, technology, and startups.  That is why all of us were so excited to see a couple events that flipped the usual balance of genders in attendance.

We want to build on that momentum and have officially launched this event as a monthly series.  You can view the entire schedule on our meetup page.

Our goals are to help women connect with each other for support and motivation, to highlight exceptional women that less experienced women can look up to for inspiration, to provide a platform that encourages women to speak honestly about the unique hardships they face in growing a business or career, and to help move the needle closer to the middle in regards to a more diverse and balanced melting pot of persons represented at our events, in tech, in entrepreneurship, and in startups.

Please help us achieve these goals by attending this series of events and do all you can to invite the women in your life to attend with you. This series of events, like almost all of our events, is free. So, no excuses to stay home!

Now that you understand how important this is to us, I am extremely excited to announce our first Female Entrepreneurship Meet Up of the year is this coming Monday!

February 5th from 6pm to 8pm at Hub101 in Westlake Village.

Our first speaker is Nikki Jahanforouz, the Executive Producer and Director Of Content Development at Golden Voice.

For those of you that might not recognize the name, Golden Voice, they are behind festivals like Coachella, Firefly, Stagecoach, FYF, and the recent one-off Desert Trip.  Oh, they also produce about a million concerts and tours around the world.

Nikki is an incredible person that has led an amazing life. She has worked very hard to achieve her success. That success has been a struggle at times due to the well known “boys club” that exists in the film, television, and music industries she has been a part of.

We have no doubt that you will enjoy hearing from her and speaking with her about all things entrepreneurship, career development, film, television, and music.

We look forward to see you all on Monday! Remember, we need your support to make this series a success.

RSVP Here:

https://www.meetup.com/805startups/events/246724812/

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VIP Lunch #24 – Conejo Valley – Friday March 30

This is invite only for our PLATINUM MEMBERS and special high profile guests.

Food and drink are provided.

We provide a platform to build new relationships in an authentic manner. It’s a more intimate and casual setting that has led to many amazing friendships and opportunities between those in attendance.

Location will be revealed to our PLATINUM MEMBERS. It will take place in Agoura Hills.

You can expect to meet startup founders, high skilled talent, government officials, investors, domain experts, educators, and corporate leaders in a casual and intimate setting.

Many of our attendees have gone on to build supportive relationships to aid in the growth of a business or a career. Many have created their own meetups to help each other develop new skills.

As a PLATINUM MEMBER you get a number of extra benefits.

For example: Not only do you gain access to this monthly lunch, you may make requests for 805 Startups to invite key people and companies in order to facilitate introductions and deeper relationships.

Become a PLATINUM MEMBER here:

https://www.805startups.com/membership-account-2/membership-checkout/?level=5

See you soon!

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Female Entrepreneurship Meet Up – Westlake Village – Mon Feb 5

This is an ongoing series of events throughout 2018 that will highlight inspirational women from our community.

We hope to encourage women to build relationships with one another in order to share their experiences building their career or business, find peer support, and to become more active in the communities around them. All are welcome. Be sure to bring a friend to this free event!

RSVP here:

https://www.meetup.com/805startups/events/246724812/

 

Speaker #1
Nikki Jahanforouz
Executive Producer / Director Of Content Development at Golden Voice

Speaker #2
Hector G. Diaz discussing Fundamentals of Digital Marketing

 

Schedule:

5:50
Refreshments served

6pm
Welcome speech

6:05pm
A word from our sponsor
And intro to speaker #1

6:15
Speaker #1

6:35
Intro to speaker #2

6:55
Introductions of all people in the room and open networking.

 

If you would like to nominate a woman to be a speaker at a future event, please contact us with their name and why they inspire you:

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VIP Lunch #22 – Conejo Valley – Fri Jan 26

This is invite only for our PLATINUM MEMBERS and special high profile guests.

Food and drink are provided.

We provide a platform to build new relationships in an authentic manner. It’s a more intimate and casual setting that has led to many amazing friendships and opportunities between those in attendance.

Location will be revealed to our PLATINUM MEMBERS. It will take place in Agoura Hills.

You can expect to meet startup founders, high skilled talent, government officials, investors, domain experts, educators, and corporate leaders in a casual and intimate setting.

Many of our attendees have gone on to build supportive relationships to aid in the growth of a business or a career. Many have created their own meetups to help each other develop new skills. ——–

As a PLATINUM MEMBER you get a number of extra benefits.

For example: Not only do you gain access to this monthly lunch, you may make requests for 805 Startups to invite key people and companies in order to facilitate introductions and deeper relationships.

Become a PLATINUM MEMBER here:

Membership Checkout

See you soon!

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Investing in Startups and Crypto (Bitcoin)! – Wed Jan 24 – Thousand Oaks

Come join us for a fireside chat with David Siemer. David is a General Partner at LA’s most active venture capital firm, Wavemaker Partners. He is also one of the world’s experts in cryptocurrency and blockchain.

Alon Goren, the founder of 805 Startups and also a Venture Partner at Wavemaker Partners will be the one interviewing David. It’ll be a great a time!

RSVP here:
https://www.meetup.com/805startups/events/245841966/edit/

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VIP Lunch #21 – Conejo Valley – Dec 15

This is invite only for our PLATINUM MEMBERS and special high profile guests.

Food and drink are provided.

We provide a platform to build new relationships in an authentic manner. It’s a more intimate and casual setting that has led to many amazing friendships and opportunities between those in attendance.

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As a PLATINUM MEMBER you get a number of extra benefits.

For example: Not only do you gain access to this monthly lunch, you may make requests for 805 Startups to invite key people and companies in order to facilitate introductions and deeper relationships.

Become a PLATINUM MEMBER here:

https://www.805startups.com/membership-account-2/membership-checkout/?level=5

See you soon!

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November 16, 2017 – Newsletter Mailing

805 Startups Joins Summit to Help Strategize the City of Camarillo’s Future
A newly formed Economic Summit brought together an amazing group of people (big shout out to Erick and Bryan Went of Matter Labs for being amazing leaders in our startup ecosystem!) from the community within the city and the surrounding region with the explicit goal of taking a new approach to how the city grows and overcomes ongoing challenges created by being adverse to change for so long.

It was really refreshing to deal with both city leadership, like Dave Norman and Tom Fox, and independent consultants, The Natelson Dale Group, that are so self aware of the problem of trying to solve Information Era problems with Industrial Era tactics.

The first summit meeting we attended this week was very exciting because the questions did not start and end with, “What do you want to see in our city?” or any other “What” question.

The focus of the meeting was largely on the question of “Why?”  Which is something 805 Startups and our most respected partners prioritize above all else.

The answer to “why” should be what guides every strategy and decision made. It should be what provides context around how you evaluate and apply the results of the actions you take. It should be what drives you to learn and grow more effectively.

We really want to take a moment to applaud the City of Camarillo for taking a big step forward to grow their city in a prosperous manner for the long term.

It is an honor to be placed in this role for another wonderful city in our region. The City of Thousand Oaks being the first to include us (another great city focused on modernizing without losing their culture).

We look forward to working together with these cities to bolster our shared economies by growing startup ecosystems across the region.

Don’t Miss Tomorrow’s VIP Lunch!
Join us and about 40 of our guests for lunch on November 17th in Agoura Hills from12pm to 2pm.

Our monthly VIP Lunch is for our PLATINUM MEMBERS and a select guest list of high profile people that we invite the surrounding community.

The guests are chosen with the goal of supporting our members. Often, these invitations are sent at the request of our members.

The location changes every month to allow us to explore our community.

Food and drinks are provided.

Upgrade Your Membership Now To Get Invited »

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To end our 2017 run of events right we need your support at our final Investor/Startup/Job Fair.  With your participation on our expo floor, we can do that!

Showcase what makes your company great to attract investors, new hires, strategic partners, and new customers.

Every exhibitor can request to meet one on one with investors.  Three exhibitors will be selected to pitch to a group of investors.

Use this code for 30% off the exhibitor fee:  805vip30
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Build relationships with amazing mentors and peers to help you achieve your dreams.

Sit in on three panels with Fifteen incredible speakers.

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