We are incredibly excited for Steve Welch's Entrepreneurs Unplugged Session. Steve will be leading our group through the characteristics of a successful startup entrepreneur and instructing us in trait development as a success predictor.

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Entrepreneurs Unplugged Series continues on Wed, June 16th at 7 pm.
Featured Entrepreneur: Steve Welch of Dreamit Ventures, "We are All Born Entrepreneurs", Philadelphia's Entrepreneur of the Year, 2008
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: The Traits of Success and How to Develop Them.

Description: Steve Welch is in a unique position. As a successful biotech/engineering entrepreneur, analytical genius, angel investor, incubator founder and author, he has made a study out of what it takes to succeed in the startup world. Steve examined the characteristics of success while interviewing and profiling over 100 hyper-achieving businessmen and women for his novel "We Are All Born Entrepreneurs". His findings are remarkable and you should know about them if you want to succeed in your venture.  Join us to learn, be inspired and challenged while putting yourself in the position to attain success.

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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.

Entrepreneurs Unplugged is back, with Ed Sullivan leading a group through the intricacies of selling to huge corporations and leveraging small successes to climb the startup ecosystem.

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

Entrepreneurs Unplugged Series continues on Wed, February 17th at 7 pm.
Featured Entrepreneur: Ed Sullivan, Founder of Aria Systems & Laserlink.Net
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.

Join us for Volume 6 of Entrepreneurs Unplugged, the series that brings successful local entrepreneurs on stage to educate, entertain and inspire the startup community. The format for the evening will be a 30 minute presentation followed by audience participation – so come out for a night of fun and information, and most importantly to have your startup questions answered. Ed Sullivan, founder of Aria Systems will be outlining an insightful and somewhat top-secret strategy for business success.

Presentation Topic: Leveraging Small Successes and Selling to Huge Corporations.

Ed’s experience selling to companies such as Gateway, IBM, SONY has left him with insights that he had to learn the hard way. Join us to hear first hand how he grew his company and raised $14M from Silicon Valley VCs, and learn to leverage small successes to climb the startup ecosystem and avoid the mistakes that he made. This is a must-see event for any company with a sales model. For those companies with no sales model, please contact Blake Jennelle and request a fishbowl session.

Bio:

Ed Sullivan, Aria Systems’ Founder, has been the CEO since the company’s inception in 2003. As CEO, Ed offers his vision, innovative ideas and valuable insight to the needs of the marketplace to bear on Aria’s strategic direction. Under his leadership, Aria has been established as the market leader in on-demand billing and customer lifecycle solutions and currently supports over 1 million customer accounts in 236 countries.

Ed’s entrepreneurial spirit and innovative ideas have led him to build several successful companies. Prior to Aria, he was the Founder and President of LaserLink.net, the World’s first and largest Virtual Internet Service Provider. LaserLink provided billing and Internet services to over one million end users and operated the Internet Services for several ISP’s including American Express, Compaq, Gateway, Amway and IBM. LaserLink was acquired by Covad Communications in March 2000.

Ed serves as a Director of NetQOS, an Austin Texas based IT company which offers end to end network management solutions. NetQOS was recently ranked the number one fastest growing technology company in Texas by Deloitte and Touche. He also serves on the advisory board of Covad Communications (DVW) a publicly traded provider of voice and data services. Ed has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University.

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.  Tickets are free thanks to TicketLeap.