Last night Lance Manning (http://www.lancemanning.com) and I drove down to Austin to attend IgniteAustin 2 (http://IgniteAustin.org) I felt compelled to attend since IgniteAustin 1 was the main inspiration for started IgniteDallas. Check out the website at http://www.igniteaustin.org.
Did you go? If so, what are your thoughts?
Talk soon,
Chris
Babar Bhatti, Chair of the MIT Enterprise Forum DFW Chapter and CEO/Founder of MutualMind, is hosting an “Effective Pitching” this Thursday night. Here’s the scoop from the MIT Forum site:
MIT Enterprise Forum DFW Chapter is pleased to announce our January event: Effective Pitching.
As an entrepreneur you have often heard about the elevator pitch. There is more to pitching than 30 second pitches. It is critical for entrepreneurs to sell their ideas and products to customers and investors. Can you effectively communicate the value of your products and ideas? Do you know what does it take to sell to a CEO? What are the things that investors want to hear? Our panel of experts will share what works and what does not work.
Learn the rules for Effective Pitching with:
* Jeff Crilley, an Emmy award winning communication expert
* Laurence Briggs, President of InvestIn Forum, Private Investor Network
* JR Atkins, Sales specialist and social media speaker
Date: Jan 28, 5.30pm.
Location: Company|Dallas, Floor 2, 1701 N Collins Blvd, Richardson TX 75080
Cost: $20 including Food and refreshments.
Registration: Register here – limited seating.
About MIT Enterprise Forum DFW Chapter
The Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter of MIT Enterprise Forum is focused on supporting technology entrepreneurs in the DFW metroplex. The group is open to anyone who is interested in technology entrepreneurship. You don’t have to be a MIT alumni to be involved.
After spending the last 36 hours restoring my laptop with countless updates, patches, software installations, database restorations arghhh… But its a new year and optimism is in the air. So here is the list of applications I installed – in order:
Did I miss anything?
CW
