January 20th, 7pm
Host: Frank Koehl – Fwd:Vault
Location: Terra Building, Room 1107
Address: 211 South Broad St.
Contact: Nicolas Warren

To welcome everyone to a new year with Philly Startup Leaders, come out and put on your marketing-caps for Frank Koehl and the newest and slickest company of 2010. Frank’s new company, Fwd:Vault, allows users to backup and recover their files using their email and web browser. Without any software to install or hardware to configure, Fwd:Vault aims to make data backups available to everyone regardless of skill or situation.  Come learn from the brilliant Philadelphia marketers or assert yourself as the go-to-market genius you are.

Frank Koehl is your all around go-to geek, with over 15 years of experience across the IT and web development sectors. He became a full-time entrepreneur in November 2008, when his employer went belly-up.

In development for the past year and open beta for the past 5 months, Fwd:Vault will launch around the new year, at which time Frank is refocusing to marketing and advertising. “And that’s an area with which I have little direct experience,” he admits. His goal at the PSL Fishbowl is to present his initial marketing game plan, and solicit the community for feedback.

Frank has thus far built Fwd:Vault without employees or outside capital, making this Fishbowl particularly useful to other “solo-preneurs.”  The University of the Arts gives us an outstanding location in which to hold the Fishbowls and there is always valuable networking with each event.  Grab your tickets before the room fills up

You can read more about Frank’s background on his blog here:

(http://frankkoehl.com/about-me)

and you can check out Fwd:Vault by visiting his site (http://fwdvault.com).