Sean Ellis Speaking at meshwest
We seem to be living in the midst of a startup renaissance with a flurry of entrepreneurial activity. Heck, it’s even happening Canada, including the emergence of a growing amount of seed capital to turn ideas into companies.
Given all this activity, we’re thrilled to have Sean Ellis speak at meshwest. An entrepreneur, startup executive, one of the leading startup thought leaders and popular blogger, Ellis will offer valuable insight for startups and entrepreneurs looking for an edge in a highly-competitive landscape.
Ellis is the founder and CEO of CatchFree, an online service that makes it easy to find and compare the best free online solutions to meet your needs. CatchFree has raised $5.5-million in venture capital, and launched in May 2011.
Before founding CatchFree, Sean ran marketing at LogMeIn and Uproar from launch to NASDAQ IPO filings, and helped bring Dropbox, Lookout, and Xobni to market in interim marketing leadership roles. He also helped accelerate growth at Eventbrite, Socialcast, Webs, World Golf Tour, WordPress.com and Songkick.
Tickets for meshwest can be purchased here.
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Congratulations 15MOF Winners
After a hiatus, we decided to bring back “15 Minutes of Fame” this year as a way to help put the spotlight on the growing number of start-ups doing interesting things. We were delighted to receive a flurry of applications from a wide variety of start-ups. It made life difficult for our judges who were given the challenge of boiling it down to six selections.
In the end, the following companies were picked:
The six companies get a pass to mesh11 and an opportunity to demo their idea in the mesh Village. mesh attendees will be asked to vote for the Grand Prize Winner, which will receive the following package:
- A mentorship lunch with Farhan Thawar, vice-president, engineering, with Xtreme Labs
- A half-day PR training session from Edelman
- A one-year membership from the Toronto Board of Trade (more details here)
- A one-hour consulting session with Mark Evans, a mesh co-founder and digital marketing strategist.
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meshU Speaker Spotlight: Sean Ellis
When the opportunity to have Sean Ellis do a workshop at meshu presented itself, let’s just say we were stoked.
Sean is extremely well-respected within the start-up community and his blog, Startup Marketing Blog, has a large following.
Ellis just doesn’t talk the talk; he also walks the walk. His resume includes leading the marketing from launch to IPO at LogMeIn and Uproar. He also helped bring the popular Xobni service to market as its interim VP, Marketing.
Sean is now founder and principal at 12in6 Inc., which has helped startups such as Dropbox, Eventbrite and Lookout (Khosla Ventures) transition to high growth companies.
Sean is one of the four people doing workshops within the meshU management stream. If you’re a startup, and looking for insight and advice on how to go from zero to 60, you’ll definitely want to catch Sean’s workshop.
Here’s where you can purchase tickets to meshU.
Sean Ellis at Lean Startup Circle Meeting from David Binetti on Vimeo.
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