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mesh is Canada's digital transformation and innovation event taking place in Calgary and Toronto each year.

meshU Speaker Spotlight: Dan Martell

By meshU

At the meshmarketing conference last October, Dan Martell rocked the house with a presentation on how to build Web sites that convert into business. We were so impressed that we asked him back for meshU, a one-day event for Web designer, developers and entrepreneurs that happens on May 17 in Toronto.

Dan, a Canadian living in Silicon Valley who co-founded Flowtown.com, will be doing a workshop on “Lean Lean Product Development: Learning is the Killer Feature”.

Here’s a summary of what he’s going to cover:

“In todays world of open source, cheap computing power and APIs, it’s not if you can build it, but should you build it. The #1 startup killer is running out of time to “figure it out” before you get traction. Lean product development is the methodology that allowed companies like PayPal, Yelp, Ardvark and up and coming Flowtown.com (profitable in two months) to pivot into their market to become a dominate player.

There is a science behind the approach and in this talk I’ll go over customer development, feature prioritization, split testing, product metrics and agile development as approaches to increase your probabilities of succeeding as a startup.”

Dan is just one of the great speakers we’ve lined up for meshU, including our keynote speaker, Bill Buxton. For more information about the event, visit meshu.ca. Here’s where you can buy tickets.

meshU Speaker Spotlight: Sean Ellis

By mesh news, meshU

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.

mesh’s Business Keynote: Paypal CEO Scott Thompson

By mesh10

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.