silicon halton meetup 45 - pitch night unleashed

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Meetup #45: Pitch Night Unleashed!

July 9th, 2013

• 7:00 pm Welcome• 7:05 pm Announcements• 7:30 pm Pitches• 7:45 pm Mark Your Calendar• 8:15 pm Open Floor• 8:30 pm Speed Networking

Agenda

Show Of Hands

• 890 members• 45 meetups• 7 peer2peer groups• Hundreds of LinkedIn

discussions

Membership Target For 2013

2,500

Announcements

Pitches

Scoring the Pitches

1. Oops! Back to the drawing board.

5. Average, needs more work.

10.Awesome!

Get your pens ready

Enrolink

The GapNumber of Participants in sports and

recreational activities

75%

25%

Participants

5-19 in Hal-ton that par-ticipate

5-19 in Halton that do not par-ticipate

Number of providers offering online registration

28%

72%

Organizations

Offering on-line registra-tion

Not offering online reg-istration

Join the Clubwww.enrolink.com

Leanintuit

a faster way to make simple decisions

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If you invite me to one

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- you make decisions within 22 minutes

- you’ve prevented 32 meetings!

- Jason agrees the most- Andrew disagrees the

most

4. Get neat stats

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42312Jason needs a

decision: I want to spend $1000 for a conference. Rply ‘yes’,’no’,’swiss’

yes

send

Txt

Jason needs a decision

I want to spend $1000 to

sponsor the upcoming conference

Yes No

+Switzerland Factor

AppEmail

To:mike@leanintuit.com

From: Jason@leanintuit.com

Subject: Decide Now!

Jason needs a decision: I want to spend $1000 to sponsor the

upcoming conference.

Reply to this email with “yes”, “no” or “swiss” in

the body.

LETSDECIDE.CA

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are needed to see this picture.

I want to spend $1000 to sponsor

the upcoming conference

The verdict:

? X X

...looks like you’re waiting for Mike

X

Sorry, you’ve been out voted!

That decision took 22 minutes

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Osnium

I have been a silent member of SH for a year

I finally made it out to a meeting!

Geoff Hogan

My Team

My Products:

What am I here to Pitch? Me really...

Pennell.co & The Hive

(new Burlington coworking space)

SearchVelocity

Me

Connecting Business to Business, People to People

connecting talent to employers

I’m different

I have a different perspective

Senior Technology ManagerEnterpriseSoftware Start UpsEnterpriseSaaSASPOn premiseISVIT professionalEntrepreneurialPublic speakingImplementedSoftwareo deliverablesVisibleAccountableManage Stakeholder ExpectationsERPMigration projectsSDLCPriorizeRescuedIT Search & RescueBell CanadaMediated Contract NegotiationVendor ManagementProject definitionSOWBuild implementation planManaged implementationUAT Beta softwarePilot productionSR & EDCo-Founder Silicon HaltonShape the FutureBlog CreationEvent ManagementMember RecruitmentSeminar LeaderUniversity of TorontoCreated SyllabusGraded studentsDirector, Software Development and ProductionEconstructionEllisDonISV StartupSaaS Multi-TenantERP Lead 7x24 Cross Functional TeamsMaintain 7x24 OperationsSaaSManage$1.5M budget High-AvailabilitySoftware DevelopmentQA Hired QA ManagersHired Quality Assurance techsBudgetingResource PlanningScopingProject Conflict IdentificationPrioritizeLed Software DevelopmentRebuilt teamsLead Technical Services GroupResponsible7x24 Production EnvironmentProject ManagementDrove ImplementationDrove MigrationPrepare ProposalsPlanningSchedulingBudgetingChange ManagementManaged Product ChangeImpact AnalysisImplementedProjectsScheduleManage RisksTechnical AnalystProduct ManagementClient CommunicationsManage ScopeCollaborationLevel-headedContractor Management PlanOrganizeLedHiringManager of Operations ISV StartupEnterprise Healthcare Benefits Management System Program ManagementIBM Domino

ERP Lead 7x24 Cross Functional TeamsMaintain 7x24 OperationsSaaSManage$1.5M budget High-AvailabilitySoftware DevelopmentQA Hired QA ManagersHired Quality Assurance BudgetingResource PlanningScopingProject Conflict IdentificationPrioritizeLed Software DevelopmentRebuilt teamsLead Technical Services GroupResponsible7x24 Production EnvironmentProject ManagementDrove ImplementationDrove MigrationPrepare ProposalsPlanningSchedulingBudgetingChange ManagementManaged Product ChangeImpact AnalysisImplementedProjectsScheduleManage RisksTechnical AnalystProduct ManagementClient CommunicationsManage ScopeCollaborationLevel-headedContractor Management PlanOrganizeLedHiringManager of Operations ISV StartupEnterprise Healthcare Benefits Management System

Program ManagementIBM DominoIBM NotesManagedSDLCMicrosoft-basedIntegratedEnterprise SoftwareImplemented Product Delivery PlanShareManage ChangeManage RiskManage ExpectationsConsolidated BudgetingAgileDevised technical solutionsImplementedRelease ManagementAchievedTeam BuildingStrategic thinker100% Track RecordOn scheduleInitiatedB2B/EAI projectKnowledge TransferBizTalkTechnical Account ManagerPrimary Client InterfaceTechnical Architect AnalystSenior ConsultantCGI Group Inc. ConsultingTechnical AdvisorArchitecture GroupBell Canada Professional Services Technical Advisor Architecture Group (standards body) Approval of new technology adoptionApproved $1M+ in new Business Process Management software implementation Technology contract negotiation SOWUAT Standard Operating EnvironmentNew Technology SolutionsIntegrateLargest Microsoft Environment in Canada

Campaign Service• Create job ad based on your job description, a job ad

designed to attract the right candidates.• Blast the opportunity to dozens of niche sites for a up to 90

days, re-posting as necessary to keep the job ad fresh.• Includes a 30-day job ad on LinkedIn• Includes a 90-day job ad on SiliconHalton.com, and

proliferation through the Silicon Haltoncommunity (for Halton based companies – read more here)

• Regular tweets with applicable hashtags• We review all resumes and submit only vetted resumes to

you (even after the 90-day period), with a Candidate Summary.

• Submitted resumes are marked up with our comments • Saving you time, frustration and money• Learn more here: searchvelocity.ca/ services/campaign-

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connecting talent to employers

Rick StomphorstPresidentRick@SearchVelocity.ca905.464.7285@StompR@SearchVelocitywww.SearchVelocity.caLinkedIn.com/in/rstomphorst

connecting talent to employers

Rick StomphorstPresidentRick@SearchVelocity.ca905.464.7285@StompR@SearchVelocitywww.SearchVelocity.caLinkedIn.com/in/rstomphorst

The winner:

Enrolink

Mark Your Calendars

Meetup #46 – Content Marketing

• Aug 13, 2013• Ned Devines, Milton

When:

Who:

Register:

September 2013 (3 hours)

Delivered by Marguerite Zimmerman of E=MZ2

Coming soon…

Converting Opportunities to Dealsnew! Sales Workshop

Open Floor

Speed Networking

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Meetup #45: Pitch Night Unleashed!July 9th, 2013