Category: Events
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Entrepreneurship and Religion: Moses’ Startup Experience
I attended an inspiring church service at the Northgate Church recently. The primary motivation for my attendance was to explore the possibilities of church groups as a target market for Interrelativity, but I got far more out of the service than market research results. Larry LaMotte, a friend from NWEN and a member of the…
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Intelligence, Advice, Investment and Politics
Yesterday I read a Seattle Times article about Paul Pillar, a former high-ranking CIA official who has raised important questions about the intelligence that was collected before and during the Iraq war, the advice that was given about this to the Bush administration, and the extent to which the intelligence advice was acted upon. This…
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Working with Angel Investors: It’s the Relationship, Stupid!
Susan Preston, Of Counsel at Davis, Wright, Tremaine, LLP, and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, shared her insights and experiences on how entrepreneurs can build and maintain successful relationships with angel investors at yesterday’s Northwest Entrepreneur Network Venture Breakfast. Sue started out by presenting a number of statistics on angel and venture capital…
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Bridging the Gap between Game Worlds and a Games Conference
Interrelativity had the good fortune to work with Evergreen Events to facilitate interactions at the recent Seattle Games Conference. We deployed a proactive display at the one-day event, where it showed content from profiles created primarily by speakers and sponsors on a plasma display near the registration table in the lobby of the Highline Performing…
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Passion, Knowledge and Wine
Phil Condit, former chairman of Boeing, and four groups of entrepreneurs gave presentations emphasizing — and exhibiting — passion and knowledge at an Executive Roundtable meeting of the Zino Society last night at The Rainier Club … then we all tasted some wine. It’s hard to imagine a more winning combination for a successful meeting!…
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Honor and Consciousness on MLK Day
Yesterday, I was struck by the multiple interpretations of a poster I saw at the King County Library announcing their closure in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday: [the sign reads: Honor Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday] One interpretation is that the library is closing in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. …
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eBay: I Think I Get It
I always go to the Northwest Entrepreneur Network (NWEN) Venture Breakfast Meetings; even when the topic doesn’t really excite me, I never fail to make or renew valuable connections with wonderful people during the earlybird networking. And, I am sometimes pleasantly surprised by a topic and/or speaker(s) being far more interesting than I expected, as…
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Eclipse Aviation: Redefining the Value Proposition for Jet Travel
Vern Raburn, President and CEO of Eclipse Aviation (mantra: "fly in the face of convention"), gave a rousing presentation at Friday’s NWEN Breakfast, describing how his company is redefining the value proposition for jet travel by making private jet travel — via a new generation of very light jets (VLJs) employed as air taxis —…
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Public Relations, Branding, Integrity and Passion
Parker LePla offered insights and experiences on The Essentials of PR and Brand Management at an Northwest Enterpreneur Network workshop this morning. They characterized a brand as a "sustainable differentiator" that represents the intersection of what you do well, what your customers value and what is sustainable over time, embodying the vision, mission and core…