Earlier this week we announced we were part of only seven teams selected for the Manos Accelerator this fall. It is a three month program that will connect our company to mentors and networks that will help us move to the next stage. We are very excited about it and wanted to share what we have been up to this week.
Monday
Our team names were published in the San Jose Mercury News.
Mary Grove is director of Global Entrepreneurship Outreach where she leads Google for Entrepreneurs
Sam Liccardo, San Jose City Councouncilmember
Manos celebratory dinner at SP2
Tuesday
Darlene Crane, Executive Director at the Alliance for Community Development
Rudy Garcia, a SVP & Manager from Community Bank of the Bay
Hilda Ramirez from Got2BSocial
Derek Beckmann, a partner at NL Ventures
Wednesday
Wednesday was a big day, where our teams were revealed to the world at the Manos/Google kickoff event.
Our moment in the spotlight
This is our Manos cohort
Smiling and talking were too things we did non-stop Wednesday night
Thursday
Tony Lopez is the Director of Site Management, Worldwide Online Stores at Apple
Mahesh Bhatia, managing director at Evalueserve: an industry pioneer in global delivery of technology-enriched research and analytics services.
Friday
Miles and Tamiko Rast from Rasteroids Design offered design and usability help