Maximizing Media and Tech for Entrepreneurs w/ Paul O'Brien (MediaTech Ventures)

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About our speaker:

Paul O’Brien (https://seobrien.com/) is a long time Silicon Valley technology and startup veteran and is known for his widely publicized blog SEO’Brien (https://seobrien.com/) where he shares his big ideas, thought provoking concepts, tips & tricks, and inspiration. He is a growth architect and a masterful marketer notably leading the early growth of startups such as Outright.com (Acquired by GoDaddy), Zvents (Acquired by eBay’s Stubhub), and MicroVentures (Venture Capital). With over 15 years of experience in the tech and media industry he now works closely with entrepreneurs, startups, and medium to enterprise-sized businesses helping them with all areas of marketing and business development and ultimately helping them grow, scale and get funded.

Paul will share his approach to tech, media and entrepreneurship. He will walk you through his unique and proven method of getting into the minds of investors and clients, and will discuss lessons learned along the way.

Paul will discuss all of this and more.

Meetup Details:

When: Wednesday 06/28/2017 | 5:45pm - 8:30pm

Where: Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, 1st Floor

Who: Paul O'Brien (https://twitter.com/seobrien)

Meetup Agenda:

5:45 – Networking and refreshments from VERTS

6:30 – Paul O'Brien keynote

7:30 – Discussion, Q&A, and networking

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You Will Learn/Takeaways:

• How to leverage the changing internet environment to grab the attention of clients, customers, and investors

• How to approach and connect with venture capitalists in unconventional ways

• How to make use of media to grow, scale and land new business

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More on Paul O'Brien:

Paul O'Brien is the founder of MediaTech Ventures (https://mediatech.ventures/), founder and managing director of the Texas Startups (https://www.facebook.com/groups/startups.texas/), Principal in 1839 Ventures (https://1839ventures.com/), and a serves as a mentor in Galvavnize, DIVInc, and Founder Institute among other programs. He also works in Venture Capital Economic Development, serving the investment and venture capital economies directly, through thought leadership, consulting, and startup development.

Notably O’Brien is a seasoned marketer with an early career at Yahoo! and HP. From there he led the early growth of startups such as Outright.com (Acquired by GoDaddy), Zvents (Acquired by eBay’s Stubhub), and MicroVentures (Venture Capital). With technical expertise, O’Brien has consulted with various web properties, designed and developed sites, online communities, e-commerce stores, and web services. He is one of the 25 distinguished marketers featured in the Michael Miller book, Online Marketing Heroes (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470242043?ie=UTF8&tag=theoctopussgarde&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0470242043), can be found in Forbes, Techcrunch, Silicon Hills, Internet Retailer, KGO Radio, SXSW, Webmaster Radio, and DM News, and continues to blog at seobrien.com (http://www.seobrien.com/).

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Adnan Merchant Twitter @adnanmerchant (https://twitter.com/AdnanMerchant)

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