Early Stage

Why is Portland an interesting place to create a startup?
How can we understand entrepreneurs and software engineers to be a new creative class?
What roles do story and performance play in the creation of an enterprise?

Following the true story of a group of aspiring startups in the Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE), in the context of Portland’s creative and technology ecosystem, KS12 presents Early Stage, a Video Sprint which starts a conversation on these topics and invites your participation.

Produced during the 2012 class of the Portland Incubator Experiment at Wieden + Kennedy.

Read more on www.earlystage.videosprint.net
Continue the conversation: #earlystage

Watch the full interviews here:

Michael Richardson Co-Founder & Technical Product Manager Urban Airship	Brad Feld Co-Founder & Managing Director Foundry Group	Amber Case Co-Founder & CEO Geoloqi
Andy Baio Organizer XOXO Festival	Renny Gleeson Global Director of Interactive Strategies Wieden + Kennedy	John Jay Global Executive Creative Director Wieden + Kennedy
Dave Yewman President Elevator Speech	Robin Jones COO Geoloqi	David Embree CEO Athletepath
Barb Stark Director of Culture Cloudability

Credits

Produced by KS12
Directed and edited by Gabriel Shalom
Designed and produced by Patrizia Kommerell
Production Assistant: Kris Cantrell
Second Camera: Jason Roark, Don’t Act Big
Music “Lamplighter” and “Acre Lux” by Campfires, © 2012 Jeff Walls

Featuring the 2012 PIE companies

Marshall Kirkpatrick, CEO, Little Bird
Michelle Rowley, Founder, Code Scouts
Gabriel Shalom, Creative Director, KS12
Trent Peterson, Founder, App Thwack
Aaron Raddon, CTO, Lytics
Kyle Banuelos, CEO, Stublisher

See the full Demo Day pitches

Little Bird
Code Scouts

KS12

App Thwack
Lytics
Stublisher