A Community-Owned Event

Involve the Community

Reach out to the community
Get feedback from their target constituency
Define new goals to help the startup community in Seattle as a whole be more successful
Leverage standing in the community, organizational infrastructure, revenue, sponsor base, leadership, and right vision to double value to the community.
Internalize the feedback from the community

Advisors

Have a rotating group of actual start-up founders act in some sort of advisory committee so that NWEN doesn't skew completely towards service providers


Create a Founder’s Forum

Have an environment for founders to get together with other founders who are going through, or have gone through, similar challenges to myself.
Have an event where everyone gets to sit down with angels and VCs alike.
Get more VCs next time around.
Let Alliance of Angels sponsor

Create An Alternative Event

Have members of the community who are actual entrepreneurs create an alternative to ESIF and NWEN.
Get a few sponsors and run our own event (by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs) and do this without charging the start-ups.