Archive for the ‘Conferences’ Category

Speaking at Small Biz Tech Tour 2010 – Salt Lake City: Attend Free or 50% off

Oct 11 2010
Speaking at Small Biz Tech Tour 2010 – Salt Lake City: Attend Free or 50% off

This Thursday is the Salt Lake City stop for the Small Business Technology Tour 2010. They’ve already been to Bay area, and are heading to Boston, Washington, D.C. and Atlanta next.

I’m speaking on “How Entrepreneurs Leverage Technology to Build a Successful Business” at 10:30 a.m.

Other Utah based speakers are Jesse Stay (Social Too), Brock Blake (Funding Universe), Tom Dickson (WillItBlend from Blendtec), Kelly King Anderson (Startup Princess), Jyl Pattee (Mom it Forward), and Brandt Page (Launch Sales and Marketing).

The full agenda is on the Small Business Technology Tour

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Mile High Club and In-N-Out Project Report

Dec 2 2009
Mile High Club and In-N-Out Project Report
Wifi_on_plane Well it's official. Till this morning I was an in-flight wireless virgin. No longer. This is my first blog post from the friendly skies. I've joined the Mile High Club of Internet denizens surfing from 30,000 feet above the ground. It. Is. Ridiculously. Awesome!!! Give me enough extra batteries (sorry Apple, your battery life sucks) and GoGo and I'll just keep flying round and round the world getting work done like a wild man.

Global Entrepreneurship Week

Nov 12 2008
Global Entrepreneurship Week

Global Entrepreneurship Week is next week.

Its objectives are to Inspire, Connect, Mentor, and Engage. (About Global Entrepreneurship Week)

Grow Utah Ventures is the regional sponsor of the event, and Utah has some events scheduled next Thursday Nov 20th as part of GEWUtah at the South Towne Expo Center in Sandy.

I’m participating on a panel, and I think events like this are so incrediblely valualbe for entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs.

Hope to see you there at GEWUtah.

Back from my galavanting

Jul 2 2008
Back from my galavanting

I am back and finally getting to a post about my 2 weeks as an eCommerce Hippie.

Two solid weeks on the road is tough. It was GOOD to get home. But I had a great time while gone, both personally and also for Doba.

Internet Retailer

So we exhibited at Internet Retailer for the first time. Our booth was made out of cardboard boxes all piled on top of a guy laying in the middle, and it was received very well. People loved it. We had a great show while introducing Doba’s mid-market product (more on that in another post). If you’re involved in eCommerce or eTail, Internet Retailer is a must attend event in my opinion. Next year

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eCommerce Hippie

Jun 3 2008
eCommerce Hippie

After this week, I’ll be gone for the next 2 weeks. Being an eCommerce Hippie.

Maybe I should explain. Back in February, I was looking at the schedule of conferences for the next several months, and noticed that Internet Retailer was in Chicago at McCormick Place June 9-11. I attended this conference last year in San Jose and we were in the midst of making plans for Doba to exhibit for the first time since it’s the worlds largest e-retailing show. I then noticed that eBay Live was just over a week later June 19-21, again at McCormick Place in Chicago, and again, we were making plans for Doba to exhibit–for the 5th time at eBay Live.

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Ground Zero

Jan 16 2008
Ground Zero

I headed to New York Sunday for a quick trip to the National Retail Federation 97th Annual Convention and Expo, a.k.a. Retail’s Big Show.

I mainly went to cruise the show and get info and meet a lot of the exhibitors.

I ended up with a bit of extra time on Tuesday, so I headed down to the World Trade Center Site. I’ve never been. I went on a walking tour with Tribute NYC. These tours are led by people whose lives were profoundly changed by September 11th. Each tour is unique and connects those who want to hear stories with those who want to share them. One thing that surprised me is that 75% of my tour

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Mark Cuban is my New Hero

Nov 14 2007
Mark Cuban is my New Hero

Thanks to Mikal Belicove
for the photo!

THE highlight of the BlogWorld Expo that I attended last week was the closing keynote given by Mark Cuban.

Mark was one of the most engaging speakers I’ve ever seen. He speaks his mind. And his mind is sharp. Makes for a great 75 minutes. He didn’t use any slides. After polling the audience for a couple of minutes to begin with, he realized it was a different group than he had anticipated, and he adjusted his remarks on the fly, flawlessly.