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“Standpoint (Standpoint.com)”:http://www.standpoint.com/ is a place where you can build and organize a list of things you believe, and find others who share your point of view. You build a profile page by adding the things you believe to it or by taking a stand on claims created by others. If you want, you can add reasons and links to your beliefs to help others decide if it is something they believe too. We believe that sharing your beliefs is a powerful way to both make yourself heard and find new and interesting people.

With time Standpoint becomes a collaborative encyclopedia of opinion–a database of resources from across the web collectively organized (tagged) by belief. You can go to Standpoint to learn about any claim or belief in the world by looking at the reasons and evidence that others have given.

“Standpoint (Standpoint.com)”:http://www.standpoint.com/ launches today.

*Justin Smith* has been a young internet entrepreneur since 1995. In 1997, he co-founded MyDesktop Network, which was later acquired by Internet.com in 1999. He graduated from Stanford University in 2004, where he was a Mayfield Fellow. He now lives in Palo Alto and is an avid college football fan. Justin founded Standpoint with Gentry Underwood in October 2005.

*Gentry Underwood* is a designer and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in information architecture and soft-product design, both in commercial and research sectors. Gentry graduated from Stanford’s Symbolics System program in 1999, has a master’s degree in counseling from Santa Clara, and is presently on leave from a PhD program in community development at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College. He’s an avid photographer, enjoys making documentary films, and has a passionate interest in epistemology and belief systems.

*What:* A forum for young entrepreneurs to showcase their upcoming or new products to influential representatives from newspapers, popular blogs, progressive companies, universities, and venture capitalist firms. This event is invite only for attendees.
*When:* January 28, 2006, 1–3pm
*Where:* Stanford University
*Why:* This is a free event as we want exposure/attention for young entrepreneurs making a difference. Also, people should NOT have to pay $500 to find these companies like other events: “UNDER THE RADAR | Consumer Technology”:http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaID=102744

h3. Confirmed Presenters, Products

* “LicketyShip (E27 – LicketyShip.)”:/misc/licketyship
* “Flagr (E27 – Flagr.)”:/misc/flagr
* “Standpoint (E27 – Standpoint.)”:/misc/standpoint
* “Box.net (E27 – Box.net)”:/misc/boxnet
* “Billmonk.com (E27 – Billmonk.)”:/misc/billmonk
* “Skobee.com (E27 – Skobee.)”:/misc/skobee
* “InFreeda (E27 – InFreeda.)”:/misc/infreeda
* “NeuroSky (E27 – NeuroSky.)”:/misc/neurosky
* and more…

h3. Attendee List (invite only)

* “Techcrunch”:http://www.techcrunch.com
* “eHub”:http://www.emilychang.com/go/ehub
* “Sequoia”:http://www.sequoiacap.com
* “DFJ”:http://www.dfj.com
* “eBay”:http://www.ebay.com
* “Microsoft”:http://www.microsoft.com
* and more…

h3. Event Sponsors

“HFG Consulting, LLC”:http://www.hfgconsulting.com/, “SDForum”:http://www.sdforum.org/, “BASES”:http://bases.stanford.edu/.

We are currently looking for 1 more young entrepreneur to present their new product at this event. If you think you have a cool idea that people should hear about, and are interested in some exposure, please send an email with your background information, your business plan, and (if you already have a website set up) the website URL to the event coordinator, Shivani Sopory (shivanisopory =at= hfgconsulting =dot= com).

Johnny Liu is the Chief of Corporate Communications at “NeuroSky (NeuroSky.com)”:http://www.neurosky.com, a SiliconValley based startup focused on consumer brainwave technology. He is also a professional writer of seven years for a mess of different publications, primarily in culture, technology and gaming. He has produced television, orchestrated photoshoots, and has sat on the other side of the table, with appearances on CNN Headline News, G4TechTV, and KRON4.

“NeuroSky (NeuroSky.com)”:http://www.neurosky.com has created the world’s first consumer-minded neural device. This technology unlocks new fields of applications such as monitoring biofeedback for wellness/awareness as well as new forms of interactive entertainment and professional usage.

“InFreeda (InFreeda.com)”:http://infreeda.com/ is revolutionizing the directory assistance market by offering corporations and consumers free 411 by dialing 1-800-411-METRO. The service is advertiser supported through short brand messages and pay-per-call connection fees to local advertisers. The transparency of data allows advertisements to be highly targeted by business category request, location and even general population demographic sets.

h3. “Founding Team (InFreeda.com – Founding Team.)”:http://infreeda.com/infreeda.php?page=founders

h4. Alec Andronikov

Alec is currently focusing on strategic accounts and business development. Prior to that he worked in Syndicated & Leveraged Finance, focusing on Technology, Media and Telecom within the Investment Bank at JPMorgan Chase in New York City. Mr. Andronikov’s experience involved high yield bond and loan financings with a specific focus on media, directory publishing companies and RBOCs. Mr. Andronikov earned a double major of BA in Economics and BS in Business Administration at the Haas School of Business from the University of California, Berkeley, where he graduated Cum Laude.

h4. Derek Merrill

Derek is focused on sales and business development efforts for inFreeDA. Prior to inFreeDA he worked at Big Sky Partners, a private equity firm in San Francisco, actively leading business development for the Payment Solutions unit. Mr. Merrill earned a BA in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, entering the university as Gates Millennium Scholar, Presidential Scholar Nominee, and a National Merit Scholar Commended Student.

h4. Alexey Bulavin

Alexey is currently working in Mergers & Acquisitions within the Investment Bank at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Bulavin is responsible for developing the business and financial model for inFreeDA. Mr. Bulavin earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree from UNSW, Australia. During his final year of undergraduate studies, Mr. Bulavin studied entrepreneurship and management at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley, and completed requirements of a custom-tailored, two-semester international exchange program.

Wondering what your friends are up to this weekend? Wanna get some co-workers together for a happy hour? Trying to find tonight’s hot spot?

“Skobee (Skobee.com)”:http://www.skobee.com/ can help.

h3. The best way to plan social gatherings

Skobee is developing a planning and scheduling service for everyday events—events like “drinks after work” or “dinner next week.” These types of events occur often in our daily lives and are typically organized via email or instant messaging.

However, these technologies fall short because they do not accommodate the numerous changes and iterative nature of planning everyday events. A few friends organizing a dinner date or even two colleagues attempting to arrange a lunch meeting often run into the limitations of email as replies back and forth quickly become unmanageable.

Furthermore, when the scheduled time approaches, recalling the details of the event from the black hole that is most people’s inbox proves difficult and valuable information like directions, reservations, or friends’ opinions is absent. As a result, even these relatively small gatherings of three to five people are often too big to plan via email alone and currently there is no Web application that addresses this need.

Skobee not only enhances the current email experience by putting all the relevant data at the user’s fingertips, but Skobee will become the tool of choice when planning any type of gathering via the Web, email, IM, or mobile phone.

h3. Founding Team

The Skobee team represents some of the earliest employees from Plumtree Software, a publicly traded enterprise software company that was recently acquired by BEA. This proven team has been working together closely for the past five to eight years, building high quality Web applications deployed to over 10 million licensed seats, including a number of Fortune 500 companies such as Ford Motor Co., Procter & Gamble, and Boeing.

We want to ease the strains of finances on friendships. Do you feel like you’re always leaking money to your friends? Do the tensions run high between housemates whenever bills are due? Does the unpleasantness of dividing restaurant bills make you want to bury your head under the tablecloth? Do you scribble IOUs which you intend to pay but quickly forget?

That’s where we come in. Our patent-pending technology makes it super-easy for you to tell us about bills using your cell phone or web browser, and then we do all the work of figuring who owes whom how much. This service is absolutely free.

h3. Gaurav Oberoi, Co-founder and Developer

Gaurav designed and programmed the “BillMonk (Billmonk.com)”:http://billmonk.com backend—the guts of the system.

At “Amazon.com (Amazon.com)”:http://amazon.com, Gaurav wrote core components of the browse services that are responsible for categorizing every item at Amazon so that they can be searched, browsed and therefore sold on the Amazon website. These services are highly available, self-correcting and process millions of products a day in real-time.

Before Amazon, Gaurav spent two years writing middle-tier software for an energy trading and transportation company. There he designed a graphical programming language, and built a scalable architecture on which thousands of its compiled applications can be run simultaneously. Gaurav is an alumnus of Rice University.

h3. Chuck Groom, Co-founder and Developer

Chuck designed the bulk of the BillMonk user interface and maintains the physical system infrastructure.

During his two years at Amazon.com, Chuck spearheaded the vision and design for the next generation of catalog metadata services (“what kind-of-thing is this? what can we infer about it?”) which got him thinking a lot about knowledge representation, statistics, data mining, and highly available and massive repositories. He presented a series of these proposals to Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, and ultimately received sign-off. He also whipped to A-to-z Guarantee service into shape, making it easier for customers to use, fairer to 3rd party merchants, and highly transparent to internal business teams.

Chuck was active in technical recruiting, personally interviewing over 200 candidates. Before Amazon, Chuck spent three years at Blue Mug, Inc creating applications and user interfaces for cell phones and a variety of prototype handheld devices. Chuck is an alumnus of Swarthmore College.

“Box.net (Box.net)”:http://box.net/ was founded in the fall of 2004 and launched in 2005 with the purpose of providing users with a low-cost, easy to use online storage solution.

In a series of surveys of randomly selected consumers, we
found that a shockingly low number of people rated storing, sharing, and retrieving data as “fun,” “exhilarating,” or even “easy and kind of nice to do.” “Box.net (Box.net)”:http://box.net/ hopes to change all that.

Box.net currently has 4,000 paying subscribers, and is
about to relaunch its premium service with both free and pay options. Box.net is funded by angel investors consisting of a group of Seattle businessmen and Mark Cuban.

h3. Box.net Team

*Aaron Levie* spent his high school years developing internet-based businesses. While studying business at the University of Southern California, Aaron founded Box.net with the help of a few high school friends in Seattle. Aaron is currently on leave from USC, and is CEO of Box.net. Aaron’s responsibilities include
design, product development, marketing, and business development.

*Dylan Smith* grew up studying mathematics and biology. At Duke University he became interested in business and studied economics, as well as markets and management. While there, he founded Box.net with some friends from high school (in Seattle). Dylan is currently taking a leave of
absence from Duke, and is CFO of Box.net. His responsibilities include sales, marketing, accounting, and business development.

For the past 10 years, the #1 complaint among internet shoppers has been “Lack of instant gratification.” Unlike shopping in regular stores, e-commerce sites cannot give the buyer a product immediately after he or she buys it. The buyer must wait, in some cases, up to 7-10 days for a shipment to arrive

“LicketyShip (Licketyship.com)”:http://licketyship.com/ has solved this problem.

By setting up relationships with retail partners, LicketyShip scans inventories of local stores. Its patent-pending software sorts available products by geography. When a customer buys a product, LicketyShip locates the item in a store close to the buyer, and a LicketyShip Courier delivers the product in 2 to 4 hours from the time of purchase.

Since products come from around the corner, and not from across the country, LicketyShip can deliver the same day for about the same price as an overnight delivery!

“LicketyShip (Licketyship.com)”:http://licketyship.com/ was founded in Fall of 2004 in cooperation between researchers and software engineers at Yale University and the University of Notre Dame. LicketyShip was recently “named a Top 5 Startup of 2005 by Fortune Magazine”:http://www.licketyship.com/press/987213981273.htm.

Find a killer burrito place? Stumble upon an awesome party? Flag it, tag it, and share its location with your friends at “Flagr (Flagr.com)”:http://flagr.com, directly from your cell phone or home computer. At “Flagr.com (Flagr.com)”:http://flagr.com, you can share all your favorite venues, broadcast your most recently visited locations, exchange mobile media, plan events, and find new things to do in the real world. Flagr provides a refreshing incentive to venture out and experience something new.

h3. The Team

*Matt Colyer* – A self proclaimed tinkerer who has been involved with the web since the days of Netscape 1.0. Matt is currently a junior at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering who is taking a semester leave to participate in Y Combinator’s Winter Founders program. When not near a computer he can be found running, taking pictures or playing soccer.

*David Wurtz* – A serial entrepreneur, David spends most of his time conjuring up and launching startups. In high school, David co-founded a web design firm with Cole, and since has been involved in numerous other ventures. He dabbles in programming, web design and digital photography. David is also a junior at Olin College of Engineering.

*Cole Poelker* – Cole was recruited as employee number two (Lead Designer / Developer) for an interactive start-up Productorials, Inc. while a freshman in college, and earned himself some awards for his Flash Work, most notably Macromedia Site of the Day 03.05.05. He’s a photographer (“www.colerise.com (Colerise.com)”:http://www.colerise.com/) and studied film and entrepreneurship at Emerson.

*Whats going on:* A small group of passionate entrepreneurs talking about leading business and technology ideas.
*Date:* Sunday, January 22nd at 2pm.
*Location:* Blue Chalk Cafe, 630 Ramona St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Directions

_Limited to 20 people._ RSVP Here

One thing we will do at the social:

A traditional “offline” company needs help. Groups will take that company and figure out ways to improve the customer experience, new ideas for marketing, and how they can improve their web presence. Groups need to come up with solutions that are
somewhat feasible and realistic for the company to implement.
The company won’t be revealed until right before people split into teams.
*Hint*: Everyone is familiar with the company and it relates to good times.