Apply for President and All Executive Roles

Philly Startup Leaders is now accepting applications for every key position in the organization.

This includes President, Vice President, Events Director, Technology Director, Marketing Director, Operations Director, Membership Director, Finance Director and new positions we need and don’t have.

We hope you’ll apply.

This not a third world coup (we’d love to be important enough for one of those).

It’s exactly what a thriving movement like ours should do at this moment in its life.
 

Why PSL needs fresh blood

PSL was created from fresh blood in a stale city. It was created by young entrepreneurs crazy enough to believe that they could build their dreams here. That Philly could become the next great startup city.

As a community, we’ve crushed it. No one in Philly feels lonely anymore when they launch a startup. No one struggles to find other entrepreneurs like them. No one wonders whether it’s possible to succeed here.

We have more members, events and internal entrepreneurship than ever before. Over 650 people participate in our email lists, we host over 30 yearly events, and traditions like PSL poker, Starter Stories and PSL Vice Squad were all started and run spontaneously by members.

Now it’s time for more fresh blood to transform this city all over again. It’s time for each of us who has built PSL to make room for the people who will grow this community in ways we could never imagine.
 
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If you’re an internet entrepreneur, you likely have some experience with outsourcing and, like everyone else, have probably had mixed results.

We’ve all been there, so we decided to talk about it and share tips on how we’ve made outsourcing work for us.

Jameson Detweiler from GreenKonnect will be moderating a pretty amazing group of people:

• Chris Conley who does lots of really cool things and is a Mechanical Turk ninja who knows how to get trustworthy results.
• Andy Guy from Basecamp Business who has perfected using Mechanical Turk for repetitive tasks to maintain everyone’s favoritePhilly events calendar.
• Phil Ives from Philadev who must be crazy because he doesn’t interview when when hiring through oDesk.
• Satyajeet Shahade from Raspee who I think has tried pretty much every outsourcing option out there.

Please RSVP to let us know how many people will be there. If you have any questions or topics that you’re interested in discussing, let us know in the comments below.

If you can’t make it, David Speers has volunteered to record it, and we’ll make sure to let you know when we put it up.

Making Outsourcing Work for You (or Getting Other People To Do Your Work)
Drexel University Baiada Center (3225 Arch St.)
Tuesday, April 20 at 7PM
Please RSVP

Entrepreneurs Unplugged is back, with Brad Blumberg leading our group through the intricacies of selling innovative technologies to existing markets resistant to change.

Register today to reserve a FREE seat for Entrepreneurs Unplugged v. VII

Entrepreneurs Unplugged Series continues on Wed, April 28th at 7 pm.
Featured Entrepreneur: Brad Blumberg, Founder of SmarterAgent
Location: Hamilton Hall 320 South Broad Street (map – http://tr.im/hHpj )
Cosponsored by the Corzo Center for the Creative Economy at The University of the Arts.

Presentation Topic: How to sell innovation to markets that don’t think they’re ready for it.

Description: Smarter Agent faced the whole chicken or the egg, Customer/Investor/New Technology problem that so many of us are challenged with, and got through it almost a decade ago when it proposed how the trillion dollar real estate industry could go mobile. Learn how to get started, how to handle objections, and when not to quit. Today, Smarter Agent has raised millions of dollars and is a national leader in mobile application development and mobile search. Brad Blumberg, CEO/Founder will recount lessons learned and how to apply them to your business.

Register today to reserve your free seat!

Thanks to our friends at the Corzo Center of the University of Arts for providing such an extraordinary venue to showcase our local talent. Video production by Paul Shannon of Real Arts Media. Tickets are free thanks to TicketLeap.