... by Matt Noah We help people build and enhance their network of contacts in the "com and .com" world.
... by Matt Noah Entrepreneurs Breakfast
Friday, September 8,
2000, 7:00 am, University of St. Thomas, $40 (No Refunds)
SOLD
OUT
West Dining Room in Binz
Refectory, number 33 (Directions)
Six Minnesota "com and .com"
Start-ups Giving 7-minute Presentations
Up to 5 Start-ups giving 1-minute elevator pitches
Special Guest
Speakers
Mark
Cree, CEO, NuSpeed
Bernice Folz, Ph.D., Professor & Director, Graduate Programs
in Software, St.Thomas
Mark
Lacek, MilePoint.com
Sponsored By:
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Contact Stephen.Moosbrugger@ey.com at 612-371-8623 and Jeff Tollefson jtollefson@crescendoventures.com) at 612.607.2803
There will be 6 7-minute presentations from: George Lee, CEO of Censys, 612.946.1966. Kurt Waltenbaugh, CEO of Wagpaw, 612.822.6049. Mark Summers, CEO of MedMar, 952.473.7448. Kirk Honour, CEO of Yapstone, 952.345.1010. Steve McDermott, CEO of Object Reality, 952.432.0424. Mark Lacek, MilePoint.com.
Censys is a business to business e-service provider delivering the capability to create clearly defined product features to increase the success of new product launches. This results in faster time to market for new products, less costly product development processes, greater likelihood of broad market acceptance, and the identification of "killer features" for product differentiation. Censys identifies the disparity between what customers say they want and what they will actually buy. www.worrell.com
Wagpaw The average American listens to 3 hours of radio a day, and during this time hears 60 minutes of advertising. Average ad retention? Nearly zero. The problem with mass media is the listener's attention span - we have used it all up! Grab your customer while you have their interest. Success depends on advertisers engaging customers and motivating the purchase before they are distracted by the next ad. Wagpaw's Demand Capture Service uses wireless technology to create a real-time linkage between consumers, fulfillment sources, and the advertising media. Stimulating and fulfilling market demand are linked dynamically, without requiring consumer retention. The first Demand Capture Service is the Wireless Jukebox. Wagpaw allows mobile music listeners to "Listen, Like It, Buy It": purchase a song playing on the radio with a few simple keystrokes on their wireless device. Wagpaw develops partnerships with radio stations, major market fulfillment partners for distribution, and local/national advertisers. www.wagpaw.com
Medmar is a rapidly-growing e-business solutions firm operating exclusively in the healthcare industry. They employ a set of integrated creative and technology tools to help businesses develop strategies for using the Internet to increase efficiency and lower costs, and then design, build and host the necessary technology infrastructure. This is a market that in healthcare alone will grow to an estimated $8 billion in the next four years. Employing customized as well as proprietary applications technology, MedMar is one of only a handful of firms vertically integrating to meet this specific market need. Headquartered in Minneapolis, with an additional office in California, MedMar is a profitable business and is focusing heavily at present in the medical device and provider market niches. They are currently raising a $1.5 million private placement round to accelerate their growth through the addition of new staff and facilities. www.medmar.com
YapStone offers internet and phone-based services that easily enable landlords and automobile resellers to accept credit cards for the payment of their goods and services. The system effectively makes the private individual or small business a merchant by licensing the use of YapStone’s master merchant account. YapStone has targeted non-traditional credit card markets for its services that exceed $1 trillion of annual transaction volume. YapStone’s system went live and transactional in June 2000 after establishing numerous customer accounts and partnership agreements, building the required transaction infrastructure, and integrating with partners Wells Fargo Bank and CyberSource to process its transactions. The Company expects to be the first payment solution provider for private used auto sales transactions when YapStone launches its services in this market in September 2000. www.yapstone.com
Object Reality (ORI) provides advanced real-time 3D network and system management products. Our products use standard Internet technologies including VRML and Java to help companies visualize their networks and systems. As a company focused on Application Visualization and consulting services, Object Reality, Inc. provides open-architecture solutions which satisfy the need for high functionality and low cost network and system management products. www.objectreality.com
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