Tues, Nov 11 RMIUG mtg - "Starting an Internet/Software Company Today"


I'm excited to announce that we've added a third panelist for our meeting
this week -- Julian Gallow, an angel investor and experienced entrepreneur
will be joining the panel - details below.

I hope you'll join us for what should be a very interesting and dynamic
panel discussion. Hope to see you there!

Regards,

Dan Murray
dan@...

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The Tuesday, November 11th meeting of the Rocky Mountain Internet
Users Group (RMIUG) will feature a panel discussion called
"Starting an Internet/Software Company Today - Lessons from the Front
Lines." Despite the economy (or perhaps because of it) startups are still
charging along and some of them are even doing quite well. Sure, money is
harder to raise these days and deals are harder to land, but that doesn't
stop entrepreneurs from forging ahead with their ambitious plans.

Our panel will cover the Internet/software startup environment today. What
are the current challenges? What's working and what's not? What strategies
are being used on the front lines to go after that sometimes elusive
successful technology startup?

Justin White (justinw@...) is president and founder of Wellness
Business Systems which provides the wellness industry with business
management software to improve operations. He will be speaking about the
market factors he analyzed to come to the decision to build a company.
These are the same factors that anyone should probably consider, whether
starting their own entrepreneurial venture or joining someone else's.
Justin has been in the software industry since 1981, and his experience
covers a wide range of roles and responsibilities. He served as President
of his own consulting business building accounting systems in New York City,
as well as Chief Information Officer for a major corporation serving the
food industry. In addition, he held a number of managerial positions at
Microsoft including General Manager in the MSN division working on
Microsoft's experimental website, Sidewalk.com.

Patricia Hursh (Patricia@...) is president and founder
of Boulder-based SmartSearch Marketing, a company which manages paid search
engine advertising campaigns and educates clients on effective search
marketing programs. Patricia will be discussing her transition from
full-time employee at a Boulder area tech company to being her own boss in a
fast-moving Internet startup. Earlier in her career while at Qwest, she
transformed the corporate intranet into a source of interaction and
communication for more than fifty thousand employees located across thirteen
states. Then she worked at Microsoft, leading many of the company's
earliest successes in the area of online promotions and email marketing. As
a marketing consultant, Patricia started providing search engine promotion
services nearly five years ago when she realized that most of her clients
were so focused on looking for new customers, they were ignoring the people
already looking for them. Today, SmartSearch Marketing specializes in
performance-based advertising campaigns. Clients include businesses selling
products and services online as well as companies using the Web to acquire
leads, qualify prospects, educate people, or build a brand.

Julian Gallow (julian.gallow@...) is Investment Analyst
with Himmelblau Inc., a trading, consulting, and investment management
company. From his experience working with many technology startups,
he will share perspectives on startup issues such as raising investment
capital and the investor pitch, the role of a business plan and the
importance of the startup's management team. He recently served as
Executive Director of CTEK Angels, Colorado's largest angel investor
network, and is an active angel investor himself. Julian is the
founder of two technology companies, both of which he lead to
profitability. In addition, he holds an MS degree from the Graduate
School of Business at Stanford University.


URL's of interest:
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SmartSearch Marketing, http://www.smartsearchmarketing.com
Wellness Business Systems, http://www.thewellworks.com
Himmelblau Inc., http://himmelblau.biz


The meeting is Tuesday, November 11th from 7:00 - 9:00 pm (with
optional 6:30 pm start for refreshments and informal networking).
The meeting will be held at The National Center for Atmospheric
Research (NCAR) at 1850 Table Mesa Drive in Boulder. To get to
NCAR from the Boulder Turnpike (US 36) or Broadway (US 93), take
Table Mesa Drive west towards the mountains for approximately 2.5
miles into the foothills. NCAR is at the top of the hill. For
door-to-door driving directions, go to MapQuest
(http://www.mapquest.com/ ), click on Driving Directions, enter
your starting address, NCAR's address, and voila! Park in the NCAR
lot, go in the main door, and ask the guard to point you to meeting,
which is held in the main auditorium, right off the lobby. The
meeting is free and open to the public, but we may pass the hat to
help defray expenses.

Our meeting location seats about 120 people. That is usually enough
room to accommodate all attendees, but it's impossible for us to
predict how many people will show up for any given meeting. Seating
is always on a first-come, first serve basis, and in the event of
more attendees than seats, we won't be able to admit additional
people into the auditorium after all seats are filled.

Thanks to our two sponsors who help make RMIUG meetings happen:
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MicroStaff (www.microstaff.com) which provides Creative and
Technical Talent for Web, Interactive Media, Marketing
Communications and Software Development projects, is the sponsor
of food and beverages for RMIUG meetings.

ONEWARE (http://www.ONEWARE.com) -- a Colorado-based software
company that provides semi-custom web-based applications, sponsors
the RMIUG meeting minutes.


Consultants and companies are invited to bring Internet-related
Product information, brochures, and business cards which will be
displayed on an information table.

There are email mailing lists set up for this group. To subscribe or
unsubscribe, see http://www.rmiug.org/maillist.html You can also
reach the RMIUG "Executive" Committee at rmiug-comm@.... Our
web site is at http://www.rmiug.org/


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Please note that RMIUG is hosted at NCAR and we are their guests.
NCAR has security regulations in effect that we must follow in
order to use the facility. If any RMIUG attendee is unwilling to
follow these simple regulations, I would ask that he or she not
attend and instead read the minutes after the meeting.

Here are the NCAR security policies that must be followed:

1. No weapons.
2. Must sign in at front desk and provide name.
3. Cooperate with security folks including providing ID
if requested.
4. We are guests of NCAR so cooperation and courtesy are
expected when dealing with NCAR staff.

If there are any questions or concerns with this policy, please
contact me directly. Thanks, Dan Murray (dan@...).
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