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Apr 15

meshU Speaker Spotlight: Sean Ellis

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When the opportunity to have Sean Ellis do a workshop at meshu presented itself, let’s just say we were stoked.

Sean is extremely well-respected within the start-up community and his blog, Startup Marketing Blog, has a large following.

Ellis just doesn’t talk the talk; he also walks the walk. His resume includes leading the marketing from launch to IPO at LogMeIn and Uproar. He also helped bring the popular Xobni service to market as its interim VP, Marketing.

Sean is now founder and principal at 12in6 Inc., which has helped startups such as Dropbox, Eventbrite and Lookout (Khosla Ventures) transition to high growth companies.

Sean is one of the four people doing workshops within the meshU management stream. If you’re a startup, and looking for insight and advice on how to go from zero to 60, you’ll definitely want to catch Sean’s workshop.

Here’s where you can purchase tickets to meshU.

Sean Ellis at Lean Startup Circle Meeting from David Binetti on Vimeo.

Apr 14

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mesh’s Business Keynote: Paypal CEO Scott Thompson

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Since PayPal was launched in 2000, it has become the world’s leading global online payment system – making it easy for millions of people to buy and sell products and merchandise. In many respects, Paypal has been verb as in “Just PayPal it to me”.

Given PayPal’s ubiquity and continued strong growth, we’re thrilled to have PayPal president Scott Thompson as the business keynote for mesh this year. We’re looking forward to hearing Scott offer his insight on PayPal’s strategic direction and how the global e-commerce market is growing and evolving.

Before joining PayPal, Scott worked for Inovant, a subsidiary of Visa that was created to oversee its global technology. As Executive Vice-President of Technology Solutions at Inovant, he was responsible for all development, support and maintenance of Visa’s global payment system.

Visit the mesh Web site for more information about our keynotes, panels and workshops. Tickets for mesh, which happens May 18 and 19 at the MaRS Collaboration Centre in downtown Toronto, can be purchased here.

Apr 13

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mesh Swag for Your iPhone

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Earlier this week, we announced a sponsorship agreement with StickerYou, which will be providing mesh attendees with mesh laptop stickers – the cool, durable vinyl ones.

Another exciting member of our mesh sponsor family is Gelaskins, which makes removable covers for protecting and customizing portable devices. These covers feature beautiful, photo-quality graphics design by Gelaskin’s growing family of artists from around the world.

Gelaskins, which is based in Toronto, is going to be providing mesh attendees with protective covers for iPhones and iPad Touches. All I can say is “Sweet!”