Growth Town

GrowthTown 5 is coming up – and this time – we’re sharing!

That’s right, Growth Town is a part of the fun and games of Web Week – a whole week long geek out!

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WHEN: Tuesday, October 6, 2009

DOORS OPEN: 5.45pm
START: 6.00pm (Don’t be late, we start on time)
FINISH: 8.00pm (Session finishes, feel free to hang around and chat)

WHERE: Anchor Systems (Thanks guys!)
Level 4, 81 York Street, Sydney, NSW

WHAT TO BRING: pen, paper, questions and a bottle of water.

Anchor is supplying drinks (wine, beer, normal drinks) and some mezze platters. Email us if you want to sponsor drinks.
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PRIZE TIME – Elevator FAIL

Elevator FAIL. Anyone who wants to win, stands up and has 30 seconds to tell a story of how you tried, failed and learned a good lesson. Winner is by crowd clapping and laughter. Get practicing.

PRIZE: To be confirmed soon. Comment below to offer a prize.

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EVENT STRUCTURE:

6pm Sharp (don’t be late!) - Welcome chat, why are we here, how we’ll try and make it work.

6.10 – First session - Michelle Gamble – Marketing Angels – Positioning your business effectively.

6.30 – Announcements – 30 seconds to talk about anything – good news, looking for people, events, ideas.

Then break to chat, eat, meet, ask, explore.

6.40 – Second session – Kylie Little – Founder of Essential Baby - From idea to exit.

7.00 – Elevator FAIL

Then break to chat, eat, meet, ask, explore.

7.10 – Workshops – break up in to groups to work, talk, argue about different things.

7.50 – Regroup – how did it go, changes next time, next event, any further announcements.

8pm Finish - Head home or to somewhere to chat/eat further.

Looking forward to a great night.

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Found this today, taken from http://blog.carpadium.com/?p=95″

Just for some laughs. Enjoy.

I’ve seen this kind of thing many times before in blog posts across the Internet. However, today it happened to me.

Not what you want to see in an elevator

I’m not sure what concerns me more: the fact that the controller in the elevator has failed, or that it’s using Windows. To be fair, it’s probably just driving the display and not the elevator control because the elevator still worked. Mind you, I didn’t stay in it for too long.

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When you signed up to the RSVP list, we asked you to list any potential topics that you were interested in discussing.

Here is a summery of the most interesting and popular topics suggested.
Feel free to discuss/raise any of these topics during your next GrowthTown.

- Stories from other founders (success and failures)
- Financing growth
- Balancing growth
- driving sales
- problems & Opportunities
- places to find inspirations for startups/further growth
- overseas markets (US)
- meet other founder
- Oz funding market status and who’s who
- mobile startups
- learning about startups
- Growing an online community – sales & marketing of technology/software professional services

GrowthTown 4 is here and it’s bigger than ever before.

Here are the details. If you haven’t registered, head over the the registration page to RSVP for GT4.

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WHEN: Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

DOORS OPEN: 5.45pm
START: 6.00pm (Don’t be late)
FINISH: 8.00pm (Session finishes, feel free to hang around and chat)

WHERE: Deloitte Office
Level 9, 225 George Street, Sydney
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WHAT TO BRING: pen, paper, questions and a bottle of water.

Deloitte is supplying drinks (wine, beer, normal drinks) and some mezze platters
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PRIZE TIME – Elevator FAIL

Elevator FAIL. Anyone who is wants to win stands up and has 30 seconds to tell a story of how you tried, failed and learned a good lesson. Winner is by crowd clapping and laughter. Get practicing.

PRIZE: To be confirmed soon. Comment below to offer a prize.

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EVENT STRUCTURE:

6pm Sharp (don’t be late!) - Welcome chat, why are we here, how we’ll try and make it work.

6.10 – First session - Austin Scott – The importance of forecasting, measuring and monitoring financial performance when driving for growth. Austin is a Deloitte Partner who focuses on investor readiness and transactional due diligences in the mid market.

6.30 – Announcements – 30 seconds to talk about anything – good news, looking for people, events, ideas.

Then break to chat, eat, meet, ask, explore.

6.40 – Second session – Duncan Bennet – Sales solves everything.
Duncan Bennet until recently, was the VP and Managing Director for Sun Microsystems Australia/New Zealand. He has also been involved in 4 separate start-up ventures in Australia in various Sales and Management roles over 25 years.”

7.00 – Elevator FAIL

Then break to chat, eat, meet, ask, explore.

7.10 – Workshops – break up in to groups to work, talk, argue about different things.

7.50 – Regroup – how did it go, changes next time, next event, any further announcements.

8pm Finish - Head home or to somewhere to chat/eat further.

Looking forward to a great night.

Register Here

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Welcome to the new GrowthTown site.

Here are the details. If you haven’t registered, head over the the registration page to RSVP for GT3. Register Here

WHEN: Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

DOORS OPEN: 5.45pm
START: 6.00pm (Don’t be late)
FINISH: 8.00pm (Session finishes, feel free to hang around and chat)

WHERE: Anchor Systems Office @anchorsystems
Level 4, 81 York Street, Sydney, NSW

WHAT TO BRING: pen, paper, questions and a bottle of water.

Hopefully we’ll have some drinks. Contact mick [at] pollenizer dot come if you’d like to sponsor.
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PRIZE TIME – Elevator FAIL

Elevator FAIL. Anyone who is wants to win stands up and has 30 seconds to tell a story of how you tried, failed and learned a good lesson. Winner is by crowd clapping and laughter. Get practicing.

PRIZE: One year subscription to Saasu Online Accounting Tool – Thanks guys!

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EVENT STRUCTURE:

6pm Sharp (don’t be late!) - Welcome chat, why are we here, how we’ll try and make it work.

6.10 – First session - Richard McGowan – using media to grow – why, when and how.

6.30 – Announcements – 30 seconds to talk about anything – good news, looking for people, events, ideas.

Then break to chat, eat, meet, ask, explore.

6.40 – Second session – Chris Hitchen – Growth Story – Building a business through partnerships.

7.00 – Elevator FAIL

Then break to chat, eat, meet, ask, explore.

7.10 – Workshops – break up in to groups to work, talk, argue about different things.

7.50 – Regroup – how did it go, changes next time, next event, any further announcements.

8pm Finish - Head home or to somewhere to chat/eat further.

Looking forward to a great night.

Growth Town is an open community. We hold monthly gatherings to help entrepreneurs who have already started, grow better businesses.

The aim is to bring those with experience executing (successfully and not) together with those who have started and are growing, but lack the advisors and mentors to learn faster.

This is NOT about starting. This is about growing.

The event will be very simple and free flowing. Those with experience will offer to talk about various subjects and the entrepreneurs can gather around, listen and wander around as they want to.