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FYI for ASW3 grads

Thanks to Alan Urech for this info – thought all of my fellow Atlanta Startup Weekend alumni might find this interesting:

The MIT Enterprise Forum of Atlanta is now accepting applications from start-up companies who would like to participate in their January 13, 2010 Run It By The Pros workshop.

During this MIT Enterprise Forum event four companies will be given the opportunity to present their “ten minute pitch” to a volunteer pro panel made up of representatives from the Atlanta start up community, including an investor, serial entrepreneur and lawyer.  After the presentation and panel feedback, the audience will be given the opportunity to ask questions about the pitch and company.

There is no cost for the selected presenters to participate in this event.  The workshop will be held from 3:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at the law offices of Sutherland, located at 999 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia, 30309.  The judging criteria and an application are attached.

The deadline to submit your application and Executive Summary for consideration is Friday, December 4, 2009 at 12 noon.  Both documents are required to complete your application and should be sent to virginia@mitforum-atlanta.org. [not me   🙂  I put a copy of the application form and guidelines here: http://drop.io/davidscohen ]

Please forward this announcement to anyone who you feel has an interest in application.  I’ve attended a few of these and if you get accepted be ready to be put under the microscope, but it can really sharpen up your investor presentation.


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Enjoying the park

Today I decided to try something new… My first al fresco blog post. We’ve had such lovely weather lately in Atlanta that I couldn’t bear to stay cooped up inside. Thank goodness for smartphones (although my thumbspeed is fairly abysmal).

I have no grand observations for you today nor any grand ambitions to sprain my thumbs pecking out War and Peace 2.0. However I will lob this over the fence: I believe that being successful means being yourself and that in turn means you need to know a little bit about what makes yourself tick. Right now I can think of no measure of success greater than enjoying a beautiful afternoon in the park with Julie and our bunny (Mr. Bialy). No doubt I will be using a different yardstick tomorrow, but for today I have my full measure.

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Interviewed on ThriveAMERICA

David Cohen interviewed on ThriveAMERICA

David Cohen interviewed on ThriveAMERICA

I just wanted to give a shout out over to Brent Brooks at Blank Stage Productions and thank him for having me as a guest on their video blog: ThriveAMERICA.  As an interviewer Brent was great – friendly, prepared and he went out of his way to make me feel comfortable as a guest.  Thanks Brent!

The interview is about a half hour long, but is broken up into 10 minute sections.  I hope you’ll take the time to check it out as we discuss the three Rs of branding and the three Cs of communication.  Brent even got me talking about some business mistakes I’ve made and some ideas for the future.  I hope you enjoy it and if you do, please remember to click on the stars to rank the video.

Thanks!

David Cohen discusses branding on ThriveAMERICA

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New Workshop – Social Media Sales Impact

 

June 10th, Georgian Club

June 10th, Georgian Club

Well I’m excited to announce a new workshop – I’ve teamed up with Nadia Bilchik, Barb Giamanco and Troy Johnson to put together a special program.  We’re calling it Social Media Sales Impact.  The idea is to take the participants through a half  day process involving concepts for better content development, conversational impact, connection via social media tools, and most importantly converting that online activity into sales.  We’ll be at the Georgian Club on June 10th, for details and registration visit http://socialmediasalesimpact.eventbrite.com/

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Arthur G. Schoeck – TTI Trainer of the Year

Just wanted to give a shout out to one of my clients: Data Dome‘s founder and CEO, Art Schoeck, was just named by Target Training International (TTI) as their recipient of the prestigious Trainer of the Year Award!
He was picked from over 7000 DISC training experts spread across 50 countries – kudos Art!

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TAG Enterprise 2.0 to host AWS Tech Evangelist – Jinesh Varia

This one might be of interest to some of you barcampers:   The Technology Association of Georgia’s Enterprise 2.0 Society will be hosting a talk by Amazon Web Services’ Technology Evangelist Jinesh Varia.   The talk will be held at the GTRI Conference Center on Wednesday Nov. 5, 2008.  7:30am -9:30am.  The cost is $20 for non-members and free if you are a member of TAG.  You can register here, but as of this writing the page still needs to be updated with the event info (glitch in the system).  You can find out more about TAG’s Enterprise 2.0 society at TAG online or our Ning page.

So right now, I’m still at Barcamp and Loren Norman and a guy I don’t know with a big beard are leading a loose discussion of AWS and cloud computing.  Quote – “S3 is literally a big magic hard drive in space”

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