Seasoned Entrepreneurs with a Startup Mindset - (#18)

Seasoned entrepreneurs talk about their startup experience. Sign up now to block the date on your calendar.

Let's keep the momentum going with another great event for NJ entrepreneurs and startups.

Speaker: Mitch Rothschild, Chief Perfectionist & CEO of Vitals (http://www.vitals.com/)

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Mitch brings two decades of entrepreneurial experience to his role as co-founder, Chief Perfectionist & CEO of Vitals (http://www.vitals.com/).

Prior to Vitals, Mitch founded RaspberryRed Marketing, NetWorks, Tuff Rhino, Awards.com, RUSS CandyBears and Time Warner Viewer’s Edge. He has also been involved in the rapid growth of Popcorn Indiana, Blue Moon Mexican Cafe and IT’SUGAR.

Startup Pitches: (5-minute pitches followed by 5 minute Q&A:)

1. Spudder (http://www.spudder.com/) - Fundraising for Amateur Sports

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Spudder is a management system for amatuer sports organizations. Spudder is the first platform that provides a solution to the 4 challenges facing amateur athletics.These challengers are fundraising, safe communications, community involvement (validated through hard metrics) and real time sports updates (aka "SPUDS"). Spudder is currently accepting requests for private beta users at Spudder (http://www.spudder.com/).

Presented by: Dennis Harabin

2. iSocialSmart (http://www.isocialsmart.com) - a leading vendor of enterprise social networking compliance solutions for various industries and situations.

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Presented by: John Carini

John is the CEO of Social Smart Software and the Chairman and founder of its parent company iEnterprises, Inc. John has more than 15 years experience in the software industry and has worked in leadership roles at companies such as iEnterprises and SugarCRM. In addition John has worked with various partners and customers including IBM, Oracle, Apple, Microsoft, Google and other organizations during his career.

3. MobileArq (http://mobilearq.com) - an edu-tech NJ based startup. We provide mobile directories for schools and have over 20,000 parents using our mobile directory software.

Presented by: Niru Mallavarupu

Interested in pitching your startup at an upcoming meetup, send details to charlie@juicetank.com

What to expect:

6:30pm – Networking, light refreshments & beverages
7:00pm – Start of Meeting - Introduction by the Organizer
7:15pm - Startup Pitches
8:00pm - Speaker(s)
8:45pm - Open Q&A
9:00pm - Continue Networking!