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Apr 14

mesh08 keynote: Garrett Camp of StumbleUpon

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A quick update to let everyone know that Garrett Camp, one of the founders of StumbleUpon, is coming to mesh 2008 as our keynote speaker for the business stream (you can see the other keynotes here, as well as some of the other great speakers and panelists we have lined up). We’re pretty excited to be able to bring one of Canada’s leading Web entrepreneurs to Toronto for one of mesh’s “keynote conversations.”

Garrett co-founded StumbleUpon in 2001 with several university friends while he was finishing his degree in software engineering at the University of Calgary. He and a couple of the other members of the StumbleUpon team later moved to San Francisco after getting venture financing, and last year the company was acquired by eBay for $75-million. Garrett is still responsible for StumbleUpon’s product design and strategy, and the service has more than 3.5M members.

mesh on!

Apr 11

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Let’s mesh @ The Irish Embassy

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After a lot of work behind the scenes, the preparations for mesh ’08 and our new event, meshU, are nearly complete. We’ve got some great keynotes – Matt Mason, Club Penguin’s Lane Merrifield and Warner Brother’s Ethan Kaplan – and some terrific panels featuring people such as blip.TV’s Dina Kaplan, Digg’s Daniel Burka, RedFlagDeals’ Derek Szeto and and Techdirt’s Michael Masnick.

Needless to say, we’re excited! So, let’s get together for some pre-mesh conversation, food and a few adult beverages on April 21 at The Irish Embassy. (Update: why not drop by the Facebook page and let us know whether you’re coming)

Here are the details:

When: Monday, April 21

Where: The Irish Embassy Pub & Grill, 49 Yonge Street (Click here for the Google Map.)

Time: 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Tickets are going fast for mesh and meshU. You can purchase your mesh tickets here, and your meshU tickets here.

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Apr 11

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Ryan Carson at mesh and meshU

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Avi Bryant One of the great privileges of travelling to conferences is you get to meet extraordinary people – people who inspire you. About two years ago, on a long day after speaking at Web 2.0, I bumped into Ryan Carson. We’d never met, but we’d exchanged emails and talked on the phone. We decided to grab a quick bite to eat and a long story short, over the next three hours I discovered I’d found a kindered spirit.

Ryan is a sharing entrepreneur. Using his blog, other peoples blogs and his conference company, he invests a tremendous amount of energy sharing what he has learned building several businesses – including two web applications (DropSend and Amigo).

Ryan is going to speaking at mesh about “founders stories” and meshU about making the jump from your 9-5 to becoming an entrepreneur:

Leaving your 9 to 5 to launch your own company is exciting but a bit scary. With everything riding on your success you need to make sure that you have the best advice from the folks who’ve done it all before – that’s where this start-up workshop comes in.

I’m delighted to have Ryan (who’s flying from England to join us) at meshU and mesh, and I want to congratulate him and his wife Gill on their one week old boy Jackson. Thanks for coming Ryan; especially during such a special time.