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The NetSuds™ Report ©
The January 6, 2003 Issue (An addendum to the January 1, 2003 Issue):
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Definition: "com and .com" = Telecom, Datacom, IT or Internet
In this Issue:
1.0
Minnesota Venture Capital Conference - May 19-20
2.0 International Business
Development Conference - May 21
3.0
NetSuds
and
MedicalSuds - March 13 at the
Mall of America
4.0
NetSuds
and
MedicalSuds CEO Roundtables
5.0 NetSuds and
MedicalSuds
Calendars - FREE POSTINGS
6.0 Job Opening
1.0 MN VC Conference (MNVCC) - May 19-20
| The 2nd Annual Minnesota Venture Capital Conference takes place May 19-20 at the Radisson Metrodome - www.mnvcc.com. News on the agenda, speakers and sponsors will be made on February 1. Registration is now open. Click here to register. |
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Speakers: While we entertain suggestions and nominations for Conference speakers, we are nearly complete with the Conference speakers agenda. However, don't be shy about a suggestion. Email me at matt@netsuds.com with a suggested speaker or topic.
2.0 Minnesota International Business Development Conference (IBDC) - May 21
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Details on this first-ever Conference will be announced on or before February 1. For those doing or wanting to do business internationally, this is your Conference. Meet companies visiting from outside the USA. Tour Minnesota companies with international business. Meet with local, state and federal government officials involved in foreign trade and economic development. Learn the import and export business fundamentals. Learn how to do business outside the USA.
Speakers: We are entertaining suggestions and nominations for Conference speakers. Don't be shy about a suggestion. Email me at matt@netsuds.com with a suggested speaker or topic.
3.0 NetSuds and MedicalSuds - March 13 at the Mall of America
NetSuds (and MedicalSuds) is planning an all-day and all-evening series of tech events on Thursday, March 13. We will be in the Great Ballroom at Camp Snoopy! The Great Ballroom accommodates 700+ for a reception. We'll have both breakfast and lunch events as well as all-day exhibits. We'll have discounted Camp Snoopy passes for you, your friends and your family! Buy a ticket for a NetSuds or MedicalSuds event on March 13 and get as many discounted all-day passes for Camp Snoopy. Discuss databases on the Mighty Axe or eCommerce on the Roller Coaster. Schedule a company party with us on March 13. Let's rock the house and fill it up. Details will follow soon.
4.0 NetSuds
and
MedicalSuds
CEO Roundtables
NetSuds
and
MedicalSuds are initiating CEO Roundtables. The first meetings of the 3 CEO Roundtables
have been scheduled for January 21, 22 and 23. Unfortunately, all
January Roundtables are full. We will be initiating another set of Roundtables in April
2003 and have started a waiting list. We anticipate the April roundtables
will fill up by January 31. If you are tech or medtech CEO and want to join us in April (the
first session is free), contact
matt.noah@netsuds.com.
A synopsis of the CEO
Roundtable can be found at
www.netsuds.com/ceo/ and
www.medicalsuds.com/ceo/. It is repeated here
as well. NetSuds
and
MedicalSuds
CEO Roundtables Membership Only CEOs of tech and
medtech companies are allowed to join the
NetSuds
or
MedicalSuds
CEO Roundtable. If you are a VP, CxO or President, you are not welcome
unless you also hold the CEO title. Perhaps we will start a CFO, CTO or
COO Roundtable but until then, we are only interested in the top dog, the CEO.
If you are interested in becoming a member, contact
matt.noah@netsuds.com.
Membership is not automatic. There must be an available spot open in the
roundtable. You must have employees. Your company must be
incorporated. Your company must be a tech (communications, IT,
Internet) or medtech (medtech, biotech, life sciences) company. You
must pay a yearly fee in advance. You may not send substitutes to the
Roundtable. Roles Unlike the days of knights,
kings and Camelot, there is no king of the
NetSuds
CEO Roundtable; only a facilitator; Matt Noah, CEO of NetSuds.com, Inc.
Knights are replaced by CEOs and the table won't be quite round. Schedule The Roundtable will meet 10
times per calendar year. Exact dates are not decided upon at this time.
Each meeting will last between 1 and 2 hours starting at 7 am. A facility
convenient to the majority of Roundtable members will be chosen. Breakfast
will be served. Purpose CEOs need resources to
assist them in executing their duties and leading their companies. Boards
of Directors and upper management are not always the best or most independent
resources upon which to draw. The CEO Roundtable exists to provide CEOs
with an independent resource of wisdom and shared experience. Your key
'take-aways' from the Roundtable will be accelerated learning - so as to avoid
common and uncommon pitfalls -, an expanded network of advisors and colleagues
and tools to enhance the productivity and value of your enterprise. Content First, networking among the
CEO members of a Roundtable is the best and richest content. Second, the
Roundtable facilitator will schedule subject matter experts of interest to the
CEOs. Examples include intellectual property, branding, sales,
engineering, marketing, finance, compensation, human resources, M&A, etc. Format Meetings will consist
primarily of 2 elements. First, "content" will be presented and discussed.
Second, "discussion" of common problems and solutions will take place. The
facilitator will lead both elements or assign elements to certain CEOs. Confidentiality Roundtable meetings
are completely confidential. Nothing said in a roundtable discussion,
short of illegal activity, leaves the meeting. This allows each CEO to
feel comfortable discussing issues and subjects he may not feel comfortable
speaking about with others.
Our introductory session (free)
has been scheduled three times: January 21, 22
and 23. Attendance will be limited to just CEOs.
All sessions are full. Our first session will feature a 20 minute presentation on a topic of particular interest to CEOs
followed by a roundtable discussion on this topic and other topics
of interest to the group. Matt Noah will moderate.
5.0 NetSuds and MedicalSuds Calendars - FREE POSTINGS
The web calendars for NetSuds and MedicalSuds continue to grow in popularity as more and more people use them for the definitive place to find high-tech events in the Twin Cities. The calendars are free to use for both tracking events and for posting your own events. To post events, login as "guest" with a password of "guest". We will publish the upcoming month's events in the NetSuds Monthly Reports which reaches 5000+. The Calendars are accessed at:
NetSuds -
http://www.netsuds.net/cgi-bin/calweb/calweb.pl?cal=default
MedicalSuds -
http://www.netsuds.net/cgi-bin/calweb/calweb.pl?cal=MedicalSuds
Non-Minnesota companies conducting events in Minnesota will not be allowed to post events for free. Events posted to either of these calendars are not immediately available for viewing. All events will be marked "pending" and will be reviewed for content prior to public viewing.
5.1 - Minnesota
1/21 MedicalSuds CEO
Roundtable - Minnesota
http://www.medicalsuds.com/ceo/
1/22 NetSuds CEO
Roundtable - Minnesota
http://www.netsuds.com/ceo/
1/23 NetSuds/MedicalSuds CEO
Roundtable - Minnesota
http://www.netsuds.com/ceo/
http://www.medicalsuds.com/ceo/
1/30
MedicalSuds Best of
Business (BOB) Breakfast
- Minnetonka, MN
http://www.medicalsuds.com/bob/2003/january/
3/13 NetSuds Evening Gathering -
Minnetonka, MN
http://www.netsuds.com/netsuds/
5/19-
Minnesota Venture
Capital Conference
- Minneapolis, MN
20 http://www.mnvcc.com/
5/21
International Business Development Conference
- Minneapolis, MN
http://www.mnvcc.com/ibdc/
5.2 - Outside Minnesota
1/22 NetSuds-sponsored Mobile &
Wireless Panel & Reception - Tysons Corner, VA
http://www.newmediasociety.org/
2/20 NetSuds HIGH IMPACT Sales
Manager Workshop -
Raleigh, NC
http://www.netsuds.com/rdu/amg/
5.3 - January 2003 Events
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6.0 Job Opening
Email tsrep@mattnoah.com with a cover letter and resume attached immediately if interested in the following position. Your email will be forwarded to the hiring manager at the company. Do not email NetSuds with any inquiries. The hiring company will follow-up if there is an interest.
Position Available: Territory Sales Representative – Twin Cities
Employer: A Twin Cities based private company.
Compensation: $2,000 salary plus benefits and lucrative commission plan paid on recurring revenue. A professional voice or data sales representative with excellent time management skills should make $75,000 in the first year and $225,000 in the second year; with monthly income of $12,000 per month by the end of the first year and $25,000 per month by the end of the second year. Reps will be supported with tradeshows, association memberships, print advertising, and other advertising programs and all proven performers will have the opportunity for rapid advancement within the company. A company laptop will be supplied for demonstration and training purposes.
Background: The hiring company is a profitable wholesale provider of global dialup Internet access founded February 2000. It is undertaking a new initiative to provide global dialup Internet access services for small and medium sized businesses nationwide. The services will be sold through a wholly owned subsidiary. The first sales office will be in the Twin Cities. The subsidiary is the leading provider in the world today for prepaid global dialup Internet access. Frost & Sullivan recently awarded them the 2002 Market Engineering Award for Product Service Innovation. Victor A. De La Cruz, Program Leader for Prepaid and Operator Services at Frost & Sullivan, had this to say about the service. "The [company name] service is perfect for small businesses that have mobile workers traveling around the US and the world. The big telecoms do not properly serve small businesses and [company name] fills the gap. In fact, not only do they provide great services, but the pricing is better than many larger companies and Fortune 1000's can get from AT&T and Sprint." This first small business sales position is high profile and will serve as the basis for additional local and national hires. THe company is a leader in the market for wholesale toll free “800” Internet access for the US48, Canada, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. The company is also adding 0800 International toll free Internet access from the UK, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, and other countries.
More information about the company and its subsidiary will be made available upon receipt of a cover letter and resume.
Starting Timeframe: Immediate
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| Deborah E. Powell, M.D., Dean of the Medical School, University of Minnesota is a member of the distinguished National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine. She also has served as president of United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology. She joined the UofM in October 2002. She served as executive dean of the Kansas Medical School since 1997. Prior to that she taught at Georgetown University and the University of Kentucky. |
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| Pete Chung, Vice President, Morgan Stanley Venture Partners, joined Morgan Stanley in 1993 in the Technology Corporate Finance Department, and joined Venture Partners in 1995. After graduating in 1998 with a Stanford MBA, Mr. Chung rejoined Morgan Stanley. He continues to focus on technology investments in MSVP's Menlo Park office. |
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| Brad Lehrman, President, Portage Capital began his professional career as a corporate attorney. He founded Portage in 1993, a business and venture capital consulting firm serving a select number of emerging companies with business management and investor relation services. He is also a founder and fund manager of Portage Equity Investments I, LLC and Portage Equity Investments II LP, early stage accredited venture capital seed funds. |
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| William Lyman, General Partner, Alliance Technology Ventures, joined ATV in 1999 and focuses on seed and early-stage investments in semiconductor and communications technology. Bill led ATV's investment in and serves on the board of SyChip and Cygnal Integrated Products. Bill is an active board observer with Ziptronix and has previously been active with and a board observer at XtremeSpectrum, Nitronex, RF Solutions and SecureWorks. |
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| Todd Ortberg, Venture Partner, Coral Ventures, focuses on investments in the technology sector, with particular emphasis on telecommunications. Todd joined Coral in 2001 from ADC Telecommunications, where he was VP and GM of their Cable Access Systems division. He also served as VP of engineering while at ADC. He received his M.B.A. from the University of Iowa, and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Iowa State University. |
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| Bea Rothweiler, Executive Vice President, Portage Capital has over twenty years of experience working with early stage, emerging and growing companies in the US and internationally. Rothweiler is a founder, or advisor for companies such as Reliastar Investment Research, Demand Video Inc., Iconoculture Inc., and Chart Industries. Rothweiler graduated a BA in political science from the UofM in 1976 and her JD from Hamline in 1979. |
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| Christopher Volker, Principal, The Mercanti Group has seven years of experience working in private equity and investment banking with an emphasis on the healthcare and technology industries. Most recently, Chris was with Crescendo Ventures in Palo Alto. Chris has experience with several types of transactions, including principal investments, public equity and debt offerings, private placements and buy-side and sell-side M&A. |
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| Shelly L. Wall, Associate, Morgan Stanley Venture Partners, joined the New York health care investment team of MSVP in May 2002. Prior to MSVP, Shelly was a Sr. Associate and Kauffman Fellow at Tullis-Dickerson & Co, an early-stage health care venture capital firm. Shelly earned her MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor's degree in physiology, with an emphasis in chemistry from the University of Minnesota. |
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