| 07/14/98 RMIUG Meeting
- Founders of sizzling Net startups
The Tuesday, July 14th meeting of the
Rocky Mountain Internet Users Group will
feature a panel discussion with founders
of some of Colorado's top Internet startups.
The meeting is a special joint event with
the Colorado Internet Keiretsu (CIK), a
networking group of founders of Colorado's
Internet companies, and all panelists are
members of the CIK. Representing the CIK
will be C. Maxine Most (maxmost@ix.netcom.com)
of EDGE Consulting Group who will give a
brief introduction to the CIK, its mission
and how to get involved (and tell us how
to pronounce the word "Keiretsu" and what
it really means ;-). Join us for an interesting
evening with a distinguished panel of entrepreneurs,
and bring lots of questions!
Our first panelist is Deborah Arhelger
(arhelger@logtrax.com),
Co-founder and CEO of LogTrax, a startup
located in the Boulder Technology Incubator.
LogTrax is developing WebNovation, a suite
of visualization and analysis tools to improve
web site usability.
The next panelist is Srikant Srinivasan
(srikant@brainplay.com),
Founder and CEO of BrainPlay.com in Denver.
(formerly Thunderbeam.com). BrainPlay.com
is a family-oriented ecommerce company specializing
in children's software and videos. The company
received several million dollars in a first
round of venture financing last fall.
Our final panelist is Jim LeJeal (jim@vstream.com),
Co-founder and Chief Financial Officer of
VStream. Vstream offers high-end outsourcing
services which enable controlled and measured
broadcasting and on-demand access to video
and audio information over corporate intranets
and the Internet. The company recently closed
on a $10 million round of venture financing!
URL's of interest:
The meeting is Tuesday, July 14th from
7:00 - 9:00 pm (with optional 6:30 pm start
for refreshments and informal networking).
The meeting will be held at The National
Center for Atmospheric Research at 1850
Table Mesa Drive in Boulder, which is located
on the west end of Table Mesa Drive, up
the hill, right under the Flatirons. For
door-to-door driving direction, go to MapQuest
(http://www.mapquest.com/
), click on TripQuest, enter your starting
address, NCAR's address, and voila! Park
in the NCAR lot, go in the main door, and
ask the guard to point you to meeting, which
is held in the main auditorium, right off
the lobby. The meeting is free and open
to the public, but we may pass the hat to
help defray expenses.
RMIUG appreciates the ongoing support
from XOR Network Engineering (http://www.xor.com)
for administration of RMIUG's electronic
discussion lists & WWW site. Thanks also
to NDA (http://www.nda.com)
for sponsorship of refreshments for our
group.
Consultants and companies are invited
to bring Internet-related product information,
brochures, and business cards which will
be displayed on an
information table.
There is an email mailing list set up
for this group. General information can
be obtained by sending an Email to rmiug@rmiug.org
which will generate an auto-reply message
that tells you about the lists and how to
subscribe. You can also reach the RMIUG
"Executive" Committee at rmiug-comm@rmiug.org.
Our WWW site is at http://www.rmiug.org/
Tentative schedule of upcoming RMIUG meetings:
- Sept: To be announced
- Nov: Secrets of the Pros on Maintaining
HUGE Web Sites. A behind-the-scenes peek
at large, well-known web sites by the
webmasters who maintain them - see how
Sun Microsystems and the Colorado Rockies
do it!
(To suggest a topic, send your idea to
rmiug-comm@rmiug.org)
Dan Murray
dan@rmiug.org
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