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We've got more good stuff coming to ITEN, and I'll start with the growing interest on the part of service providers to get involved. I encourage everyone who is connected with ITEN, and particularly our start-ups, to check out our Preferred Service Providers when you're looking for help. If you need legal advice, office space for your growing company, your website built or any other services, please check out who's listed on the ITEN website under the green Service Provider bar. The service providers listed support ITEN, have great references, and offer discounted prices if you are a part of ITEN.
I'm getting positive feedback on results from companies that have posted their job openings on the site. An ITEN start-up can find the "post a job opening" submenu item under the blue Start Up bar. It'll take a day or two for us to post it after we receive your posting request. Even though there are a lot of great folks out there looking for opportunities, give yourself plenty of time to find the person with the right fit for your company. It's a good idea to be doing occasional informational interviews before the immediate need to bring someone on forces you to settle for "best available" instead of the ideal fit.
As mentioned in my last blog, we've got a great line-up of events coming up, starting with Strange Loop the third week of October. It's being pulled together by Alex Miller, of Lambda Lounge and Pure Danger fame (see "Links"). ITEN is a co-sponsor of the event and we encourage everyone to check it out. I'm putting together a panel for a discussion on entrepreneurship that will be sometime around the noon hour on the 23rd. Tom Niermann, David Karandish and Bob Lozano will join me on stage for what should be a great discussion with plenty of audience interaction.
On November 17, we'll be having our 3rd Start-Up Connection. If you haven't been to one of these yet, you're really missing a lot of fun and great networking. The first one in January focused primarily on connecting recently laid-off technology workers with start-up tech companies looking for management talent, and that's still a major theme of the event. But we've gone on to add elevator pitch competition, panel discussions and a unique "Innovation Cafe." Expect the November edition to be well worth your while. The Start-Up Connection is free and open to the public.
Planning is proceeding well on two other events that have not yet been officially scheduled: Investor Speed Dating and a Seminar/Workshop on Web Globalization. Speed dating will enable selected ITEN companies to interface one-on-one with local early stage investors in an informational and informal setting. Web Globalization will explore many important aspects of successfully generating a world-wide reach for your enterprise. It's a well-known shortcoming that most Americans only know one language, but there's more to international website success than just translation. This event will tell you what you need to do to be successful.
To register for these and future ITEN events, go to the "Events" tab on the ITEN website.
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