Archive for August, 2008
August STIRR Canada Founders’ Table
Invites have gone out for the next Calgary Founders’ Table. This invitation-only dinner for tech-driven entrepreneurs will kick off the conversation with a window on the challenges and opportunities facing hardware-oriented tech startups. HOW TO JOIN: If you’re the founder or funder of a tech startup, and you’re interested in joining STIRR Canada, please click [...]
Invites have gone out for the next Calgary Founders’ Table. This invitation-only dinner for tech-driven entrepreneurs will kick off the conversation with a window on the challenges and opportunities facing hardware-oriented tech startups.
HOW TO JOIN: If you’re the founder or funder of a tech startup, and you’re interested in joining STIRR Canada, please click on the Apply tab (above) and complete our Application Form … tell us more about you and your company.
HOW TO SPONSOR: If you’re interested in sponsoring a STIRR Canada event, please click on the Sponsor tab (above) to find out more.
WHAT’S ON FOR FALL?: Invites will go out in September for our big fall Calgary Tech-Mixer event – get ready for some great Hacks, special guests, and networking opportunities!
Values or Value First?
Here’s a wrap-up of the STIRR Canada Founders’ Table dinner held at the Wildwood Grill on Tuesday August 29th in Calgary. The theme was Technology Marketing and the discussion was animated as attendees discussed a broad range of topics including: choosing a business partner (look at the culture/values first or the numbers/value first?); internal blogging [...]
Here’s a wrap-up of the STIRR Canada Founders’ Table dinner held at the Wildwood Grill on Tuesday August 29th in Calgary.
The theme was Technology Marketing and the discussion was animated as attendees discussed a broad range of topics including: choosing a business partner (look at the culture/values first or the numbers/value first?); internal blogging strategies (education, keywords, etc.); SEO (conversion vs. clicks); varying business views of the role of marketing in Calgary (commodities trading, t-shirts, strategic role); finding customer champions (internal influence, heroes, etc.); vibrant communities (taking the good with the bad); and ideas for growing technology marketing know-how and expertise in Calgary.
Representatives of the following companies were at the table: Divestco, Curve Dental, Intuit, Evoco, Tynt, iStockphoto, RenoWorks, Shopster, Cambrian House, Uncommon Innovation, and Mob4Hire.
Feedback from the evening:
“Great contacts, folks I’d been meaning to connect with for some time, interesting discussion.”
“I really enjoyed the event and thought it was useful to get together with fellow technology marketers and talk about functional and current business issues.”
“Thanks very much for organizing the dinner last night – it was one of the best industry events I have been to.”
Clockwise from upper left: Stephen King (Curve Dental), Christine Dougan (Intuit), Peter Koizumi (Shopster), Shekhar Parmar (STIRR Canada), Doug Vickerson (RenoWorks), Carey Houston (Evoco), Yvonne Beyer (iStockphoto), Claudia Moore (STIRR Canada).
