Speaker Series
Here is a brief overview of recent E-Club speakers:
Michael Walters
He has judged Elevator Pitch Competitions at St. Thomas in recent years.
He founded Studio 503 in 2003
http://www.studio503.com/
Combines all of the advantages of consulting, marketing, and representative firms.
Develop lasting/meaningful relationships with customers.
http://whitelines.se/function/
Director of Business of Whitelines North America (Founded 2006)
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
New generation of writing paper
Whitelines makes words and drawings stand out.
Scott Taylor CEO
Founder of Cartegraph
http://www.cartegraph.com/index.php/our-vision
Focus on efficiency, accountability, safety.
Key Pieces of Info:
Don’t waste time! Figure out and plan what you want to do as soon as possible.
Find people who can help you along the way to challenge and support you.
Try to pull in good people who know good people.
What drives you? Figure out what you can do to make money with that.
Need to know yourself to prepare you for the future. Draw up a personal business plan.
Commit to a plan for your life. You can decide today what you can do tomorrow. Great potential.
Started Cartegraph along with four people in his basement and $500,000 in starting capital.
Formed from previous company
Took three times (now all web-based)
More attractive because it is cheaper for the government.
Asked advice from a lawyer, banker, businessman.
How to avoid pitfalls:
Internships or possible jobs in the future:
Not limited to technology field: Sales, services, software engineering, PR
Background story:
Diverse education enabled him to switch ideas.
Restructured the road design system.
Started out as a hobby.
1994 - 2 people and $150
Today - 92 employees
No matter what you have to sell...people want something else.
Capture all of the paper copies of maps of bridges, roads, and signs.
Advice:
Need to be in contact with investors.
Adversity shows what you mean in business.
Learn from past experiences.
Get people who know what they are doing.
Shift in the market.
Need less people for more resources.
Opportunity to pay back to others.
Integrity means playing by all the rules--financially, customers, shareholders.
Stay true to principles and values.
Ben Berry
Speaking on November 26th, 7:00pm in Olin 107.
Will discuss all the challenges behind his airship venture (beginning idea, assessing opportunity, assessing market potential, raising capital, etc.)
http://www.airshiptg.org/
He recently spoke at the SBIR/STTR conference Nov. 14.
http://www.sbir.gov/events/portland-oregon-will-host-2012-national-small-business-innovation-research-sbir-and-small-bus
He is also CIO at Oregon Dept of Transportation.
Michael Walters
He has judged Elevator Pitch Competitions at St. Thomas in recent years.
He founded Studio 503 in 2003
http://www.studio503.com/
Combines all of the advantages of consulting, marketing, and representative firms.
Develop lasting/meaningful relationships with customers.
http://whitelines.se/function/
Director of Business of Whitelines North America (Founded 2006)
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
New generation of writing paper
Whitelines makes words and drawings stand out.
Scott Taylor CEO
Founder of Cartegraph
http://www.cartegraph.com/index.php/our-vision
Focus on efficiency, accountability, safety.
Key Pieces of Info:
Don’t waste time! Figure out and plan what you want to do as soon as possible.
Find people who can help you along the way to challenge and support you.
Try to pull in good people who know good people.
What drives you? Figure out what you can do to make money with that.
Need to know yourself to prepare you for the future. Draw up a personal business plan.
Commit to a plan for your life. You can decide today what you can do tomorrow. Great potential.
Started Cartegraph along with four people in his basement and $500,000 in starting capital.
Formed from previous company
Took three times (now all web-based)
More attractive because it is cheaper for the government.
Asked advice from a lawyer, banker, businessman.
How to avoid pitfalls:
Internships or possible jobs in the future:
Not limited to technology field: Sales, services, software engineering, PR
Background story:
Diverse education enabled him to switch ideas.
Restructured the road design system.
Started out as a hobby.
1994 - 2 people and $150
Today - 92 employees
No matter what you have to sell...people want something else.
Capture all of the paper copies of maps of bridges, roads, and signs.
Advice:
Need to be in contact with investors.
Adversity shows what you mean in business.
Learn from past experiences.
Get people who know what they are doing.
Shift in the market.
Need less people for more resources.
Opportunity to pay back to others.
Integrity means playing by all the rules--financially, customers, shareholders.
Stay true to principles and values.
Ben Berry
Speaking on November 26th, 7:00pm in Olin 107.
Will discuss all the challenges behind his airship venture (beginning idea, assessing opportunity, assessing market potential, raising capital, etc.)
http://www.airshiptg.org/
He recently spoke at the SBIR/STTR conference Nov. 14.
http://www.sbir.gov/events/portland-oregon-will-host-2012-national-small-business-innovation-research-sbir-and-small-bus
He is also CIO at Oregon Dept of Transportation.
