With more than 100 investors, mentors and members of the Dallas entrepreneurial community, Evidence-Based HR for Startups was a big hit last night! Held at the Collins Center, Crum Auditorium at SMU by VentureSpur, the event was one of several public events hosted by the
Today, I served on the panel for the Business and Technology Roundtable discussions with Congressman Tom Cole. The panel was organized by Google and focused on the importance of Oklahoma’s technology economy. Students interning at OU’s Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth (CCEW) participated in a Q&A
We’ve announced our first Pitch Day at VentureSpur. See the details below. A Pitch Day, or Demo Day, as it is called at some accelerators, is the culmination of a class program. It is the day on which the startup teams introduce their venture to the
We just finished a great Find-a-Founder event here at VentureSpur! We had a great group of entrepreneurs with early stage businesses and business ideas, as well as talented designers, engineers, programmers, business executives and marketing people go through our process. After an opportunity to do a one-minute
Thanks to everyone who came to our first Lunch and Learn with David Matthews, covering Go-to-Market Strategies for startups! Thanks to David and to our event sponsor, Trailblazer Capital! We had a great discussion about the control advantages of a direct sales strategy versus the scalability
We will be hosting a free lunch at The Exchange with VentureSpur co-founder, David Matthews, presenting Go-To-Market Strategies for startups. Full event details here.
I have co-founded a new venture accelerator and seed investment fund based in Oklahoma City. The accelerator is called VentureSpur and it runs on the same model as TechStars, yCombinator, and Tech Wildcatters. I’m very excited about this new project!
Earlier this year, I posted a tweet about a dinner I was attending as a volunteer mentor to the Veteran’s Entrepreneur Program. There were several inquiries after my tweet, and I promised to tell you more. So today, Memorial Day, I wanted to mention this
I had the pleasure of speaking at the recent Oklahoma Entrepreneur’s Conference 2010 on a panel about the rules of the road: Successes to Copy, Failures to Avoid – “Entrepreneur Panel – Moderated and structured panel discussion focused on the best and worst of the
I enjoyed judging the OpenBeta3 PitchCamp last Thursday with fellow judges Vance Lucas of InvoiceMore.com, Jim Rogers from i2E, Piyush Patel of P L Studios fame, and Shawn Roberts of Brown & Roberts . I have to admit that I was skeptical that participants who