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SummitUp, Pete Blackshaw, and Teresa Hoelle

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Today was somewhat serendipitous. I took the day off in anticipation of some great content at SummitUp. I was not disappointed. David Bowman, a call out to you for a well spent day on the campus of Wright State. Where else could I get to listen to Kevin Dugan, Bob Garfield, Artie Isaac, and Chris [...]

Cincinnati Innovates

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Gotta hand it to Elizabeth Edwards. She’s pushing innovation efforts in our city to the forefront again. Now, it’s not just Elizabeth. I had a conversation with her last week where she mentioned the effort to me. I don’t know who else is involved yet, but pay attention to CincinnatiInnovates.com. The idea is to run [...]

InOneWeekend In The Context Of Elizabeth Edwards

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Elizabeth Ann Edwards is one of the most in-touch people I’ve ever met.  And having blazed her way through a Michigan undergrad in three years, and a UC MBA in one, she’s also one of the smartest.

ShareThis SVP of Product Strategy – JB Kropp

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

JB Kropp, ShareThis SVP of Product Strategy and a consummate entrepreneur and dotcom start-up glutton lets the InOneWeekend gluttons-for-punishment in on a day in the life of a start-up executive. What I learned most from JB is just do it. Not that he came out and said that, but with something like six [...]

My Perspective on InOneWeekend 2008

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Wow.  100 people.  Jeff Stamp, the inventor of Baked Lays, and creative facilitator extraordinaire, freed our minds Friday night.  $408,000 in sweat equity over 3 days.  Sitting in with the finance team watching them vet a million scenarios.  Working on the business team to dive deep into competitive analysis and gather real-world statistics that ground [...]

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