Broward County serves up two interesting events Tuesday night, in this information that comes courtesy of Miami Startup Digest:
20-Year Anniversary of the SmartPhone - SFTA Event
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 @ 5:00PM | Citrix Systems, 851 W. Cypress Creek Road, Fort Lauderdale, FL
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the first SmartPhone, the Simon, which was developed by IBM in South Florida! This area is also driving many of the latest mobility developments at companies like Motorola, Citrix, RIM, AuthenTec (recently acquired by Apple), Foxconn, 3C Interactive, OpenPeak, Modernizing Medicine and many others.
Join Chris Fleck, VP of Mobility Solutions at Citrix, as he moderates this all-star panel:
John Sculley – Former CEO of Apple and South Florida Tech Investor
Jamie Borras – Former SVP of Research at Motorola and developer of PushToTalk
Scott Moody – Founder of AuthenTec, recently acquired by Apple
Jerry Merckel – Led the initial Simon SmartPhone concept and strategy at IBM
Crowd Funding: Has funding your start up just gotten easier?($30-35)
Tuesday, September 25 @ 6:30PM | Nova Southeastern University, Sales Institute Conference Center Room 3000, H. Carl DeSantis Building, Davie, FL
In March of this year Congress passed the JOBS Act, which President Obama signed into law. The Act makes it easier for small companies to solicit investors with the goal of creating a more robust market for smaller companies. Will these new rules do that? Will quick money create long term issues?
At this event you can hear what the investment community has to say with a panel of experts:
Les Croland, Partner, Edwards Wildman
Casey A. Swercheck, Associate, Florida Growth Fund, Hamilton Lane
Maurice Lopes, Founder and CEO, EarlyShares.com
Albert B. Maggio, Jr., (Moderator) Of Counsel to Carey Rodriguez Greenberg & O’Keefe LLP
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