February 22, 2010 Last Minute Agenda Change
Monday Feb 22, 5:45 PM
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Neenan Company
- 2620 E Prospect Rd # 100, Fort Collins, CO River Bend business park, across from Advanced Energy. Use west entrance to building.
70 attendees
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Peter Olins Organizer -
Patrick Gill Co-Organizer -
Lawrence Drake (+1 guest)Good meeting although I prefer not having a break between presenters. People are ready to leave after the last presenter and the networking time at the end is rushed. The break should come either before the presenters or after.
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Carl GronbergGood group of helpful people - that's hard to beat!
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Vi "TheFiddler" WickamExcellent presentations. Great audience participation. Well done!
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Startup Guru- Brian TsuchiyaPeter and Patrick run an excellent meetup. I got a lot of value even with my commute from Boulder. Great job and I recommend you use the gong more. :-) bt
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Jen BolandI do think more in depth workshops would be helpful. More presenting on a small scale and more feedback would be awesome.
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Donna Walter, NDThe meeting was of a different format than I have been to in the past. I found it to be educational and liked how the networking was worked around the education. Thanks.
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Steve Byers was called away on a family emergency.
Keith Howard and Chuck Hodges from Zebulon Solutions graciously stepped in a the last minute!
We will also present the highlights of the recent member survey.
Ample time will be provided for networking.
Refreshments provided by Mike Edwards, Coldwell Banker.
DETAILED PROGRAM:
Keith Howard and Chuck Hodges,
Zebulon Solutions LLC (Berthoud, CO)
Zebulon Solutions provides productization services to help small and mid-sized companies turn their R&D projects into manufacturing ready products. Service offerings include product design. industrialization, program management and business analysis. Recent engagements include medical devices, a robotic network storage product, and several industrial products.
Inputs from the group requested: 1) ideas on how to let the world know what the heck productization is; 2) ideas on expanding Colorado business (currently < 20%); 3) seeking complementary service companies to partner with.
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Larry Drake, President, Teal International (Loveland, CO)
Larry and his partner, Dick Vondresky, are developing a highly portable, modular shelter for small utility trailers and pickup beds that can be used for camping or cargo hauling. The product will be introduced to the public at the RV, Sports, Boat and Travel Show in Denver, March 4th in order to test the waters.
Input from the group requested: 1) viability of the product 2) manufacturing options
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We will also provide highlights of our recent Meetup member survey.
Great meetup.
Suggestion for future... think we should announce the intro's format or question ahead of time.
Although this "Sustainable"
one this time was interesting, it went all over the place and to me didn't help us learn about each person.
Good point, Jay. We like to try some different things, but I agree that it would be better to go back to a less demanding intro question.
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