HelpSocial: Lessons Learned From Startup to Shutdown

San Antonio startups and investors: join us for a day of presentations and panel discussions where we present lessons learned from our startup journey with HelpSocial.

Founders will learn from our mistakes and successes so they can avoid unnecessary failures and grow their businesses faster.

Investors will be able to use HelpSocial as a case study for guiding future investments and as a set of examples to use with their portfolio companies when faced with similar challenges.

A light breakfast, catered lunch and happy hour will be provided for attendees. Please register below so we can get a head-count for food and drinks.

8:00 - 8:30 - Coffee, pastries and networking.

8:30 - 8:45 - Welcome & Announcement - Charles Woodin, CEO of Geekdom.

8:45 - 9:15 - HelpSocial: What Happened? Lessons learned in recognizing assumptions, biases, and unconscious beliefs, and testing them. - Matt Wilbanks, HelpSocial Co-Founder and CEO.

9:30 - 10:15 - Deciding to sell or deciding to shut down: How to do all the hard things that go along with hard decisions. - Graham Weston, CEO of Weston Ventures, Chad Keck, CEO and Co-Founder of Promotor.io, and Matt Wilbanks, CEO and Co-Founder of HelpSocial.

10:30 - 11:15 - Stress Management, Depression and Mental Health. - Lorenzo Gomez, CEO of Geekdom Media and author of books The Cilantro Diaries and Tafolla Toro, and HelpSocial co-founders Robert Collazo and Matt Wilbanks.

11:30 - 12:15 - Catered lunch and panel discussion: Are you managing your team well? - HelpSocial employees Rachel Romoff, Jacob Schofield and Hector Leal, led by Dax Moreno, Chief Talent Office for Tech Talent Central.

12:30 - 1:15 - Partnerships, Outsourced Sales & Channel Sales - Good Strategies And Bad. - Don Douglas, Sr. Managing Director at Geekdom Fund, Kenan Rappuchi, CEO of Sellerant, and Matt Wilbanks, Co-Founder and CEO of HelpSocial.

1:30 - 2:15 - Product Development: Distributed Teams, Best And Worst Practices - HelpSocial Co-Founder and CTO, Robert Collazo, and Sr. Developer and Dev Team Lead, Jacob Schofield.

2:30 - 3:15 - How to have a family and startup. Is it possible or is it oil and water? - Henry Sauer, Founder and Principal at Inflection Point Navigators, and Erin Wilbanks, Director of Strategic Recruiting at HEB.

3:30 - 4:15 - Key Lessons Learned From Starting Up And Shutting Down. - HelpSocial co-founders, Robert Collazo and Matt Wilbanks.

4:30 - 5:00 - Startups: Is It All Worth It? - Matt Wilbanks, Co-Founder and CEO of HelpSocial.

5:00 - 7:00 Networking Happy Hour