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title: 'Portland Ten Lunch 2.0 Features Livepitches and Late Lunch'
date: '2009-08-27T11:13:13-07:00'
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# Portland Ten Lunch 2.0 Features Livepitches and Late Lunch

Yesterday, [Portland Ten](http://www.portlandten.com/), [Stoel Rives](http://www.stoel.com/), [FundingUniverse](http://www.fundinguniverse.com/), and [NedSpace](http://nedspace.com/) sponsored the first Lunch 2.0 to feature another event, livepitching.

Turns out, there was another unintentional first. No lunch, or rather late lunch.

I’ll take the blame here for not realizing in advance our hosts had ordered the pizza to arrive *after* the livepitching, rather than at noon. Unfortunately, [several](http://twitter.com/mindwarm/statuses/3563248871) [people](http://twitter.com/samkeen/statuses/3563830065) [left](http://twitter.com/manimal/statuses/3563947458) [hungry](http://twitter.com/teknotus/statuses/3562530582), and I know you can’t all take a full two hours away from work for lunch.

Apologies. Ryan, of [eROI](http://eroi.com) our [host](http://siliconflorist.com/2009/08/15/lunch-20-erm-201-eroi/) in September and upstairs neighbor of NedSpace, assured me that he will have lunch ready to go well before noon.

Luckily, I think [Backspace](http://www.backspace.bz/) benefited, so let’s just say we were stimulating the local economy.

Anyway, those who stayed for the livepitching got a unique chance to see elevator-style pitches from entrepreneurs as well as feedback from a seasoned panel of experts including Brock Blake from [FundingUniverse](http://www.fundinguniverse.com/), Ashleigh Williams from Willamette Venture Group, Eric Pozzo from [Oregon Angel Fund](http://www.oregonangelfund.com/), Todd Bauman from [Stoel Rives](http://www.stoel.com/), and Carolynn Duncan from [Portland Ten](http://www.portlandten.com/).

Congrats to all five companies that pitched and to [JourneyGym](http://journeygym.com/) the lucky company selected by the panel to receive the prize pack of startup professional services from Stoel Rives, FundingUniverse, and Portland Ten. Carolynn has more [details](http://www.portlandten.com/2009/08/27/recap-on-lunch-20-founders-social/) over at Portland Ten.

![Networking at Lunch 2.0, who knew?](https://i0.wp.com/siliconflorist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/dsc059751-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225)

Since I spent the better part of an hour manning the door to let people into the building, I don’t have much to recap, and I didn’t get a full list of the five companies who pitched. I’ll update once I get that list.

*Update: The other companies presenting were: [Bright Neighbor](http://www.brightneighbor.com/), [BioAlgene](http://bioalgene.com/), [SpiritWorks Software](http://productivity-software.com/), and [Optical Specialists](http://www.opticalspecialists.com/).*

By the time the food arrived and the pitching ended, people started the usual networking part of Lunch 2.0, and even though I couldn’t stick around to enjoy it, I think a fun time was had by all.

One last programming note, Portland Lunch 2.0 is running short of future hosts. Maybe Lunch 2.0 has run its course here in Portland, maybe I’m a lazy organizer, maybe it’s the economy or [Drew’s Cancer](http://blamedrewscancer.com/). All of the above?

Anyway, if you want to help out or have suggestions, drop a comment (or tweet @[jkuramot](http://twitter.com/jkuramot)). It’s [easy](../2009/08/15/2009/07/30/2009/06/27/2009/05/24/2009/05/24/2009/05/11/2008/11/11/how-to-lunch-20/) to do.

Maybe [Network Redux](http://networkredux.com/) will be interested. Did you notice they’re handing out [goodies](http://portland.beerandblog.com/2009/08/26/free-redux-win-hosting-for-life-at-beer-and-blog/) at Beer and Blog tomorrow?

**Don’t forget this Lunch 2.0, coming soon:**

- [September 16](http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4230647) at [eROI](http://eroi.com/)

Big thanks to all the past hosts.

*(Image courtesy [Carolynn Duncan](http://twitter.com/hundreddollar). Used with permission.)*