Speakers
Mary Baker-Anderson, Managing Partner, Calipa Partners
Jean Barber, Vice President & Treasurer, The Bartell Drug Company
Robbie Cape, CEO & Co-founder, Cozi
Jack Gallagher, President & CEO, Ultreo
Doug Gorder, Co-Founder & CFO, The Cobalt Group and Vigilos
John Holt, Chairman & CEO, The Cobalt Group
Craig Kinzer, Chairman & Co-Founder, Kinzer Capital
Mike Mathieu, President & Founder, All Star Directories
Lon McGowan, Founder & President, iClick
Villette Nolon, President & CEO, Alphabet Lane
Diane Renihan, CFO, Bag, Borrow, or Steal
Perry Satterlee, President & CEO, Clearwire
Tom Simpson, Managing Partner, Northwest Venture Associates
Mike Stull, President, Pacific Bioscience Laboratories

We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of our sponsors and supporters of Entrepreneur University 2007:

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Space is limited to the first 350 registrants. This event is very popular and has sold out the last three years. Members: $275. Non-members: $375.

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NWEN's essential annual summit for the region's brightest entrepreneurial minds, EU provides you with a unique opportunity to get tips and advice directly from some of the best pilots in business. This year features keynotes Peter van Oppen, of Trilogy Ecquity Partners and former Chair & Chief Executive of Advanced Digital Information Corp (ADIC) and Sunny Kobe Cook, founder of Sleep Country USA.

EU '07 offers two complete tracks for the distinct stages of creating and growing an entrepreneurial venture. The first track is for early stage entrepreneurs starting their businesses and preparing for take-off. The second track is for entrepreneurs ready to accelerate their businesses’ growth and reach altitude! Each track covers the applicable facets of marketing, sales, finance and operations. Each track covers the applicable facets of:

• Marketing
• Sales
• Finance
• Operations

Whether you are starting your first company in the garage after your day job, running a business that will soon need outside funding or cementing your position as a serial entrepreneur with your third business, you can customize your own schedule to fit your business’ unique stage. In addition, you will have an opportunity to sign up for a personal five-minute talk with a VC at VC Bistro, share ideas with experts during lunch at a variety of table discussions and brainstorm with peers during a special afternoon session.

Here’s what past attendees have written to tell us about their Entrepreneur University experience.

“EU has been a tremendous value for me, providing the key information and valuable networking opportunities that I needed to develop my new software start-up. I’ve attended this event each year for the past three years. The speakers have been excellent, and the program has provided fresh insights and great new contacts. You never graduate from EU!”
Bill Bain, founder of ScaleOut Software

“The programming, speakers, and handouts were excellent. You certainly exceeded my expectations. I had reservations about taking the time off to attend, but the University both generated great ideas and gave me time to rethink critical areas of our business.”
Richard Denmark, CFO, PlayNetwork

“I came for the agenda, for the variety of perspectives, and the high-caliber thought leaders with their wealth of experience. I came away from EU with new meaningful contacts, with the motivation to implement some strategies I hadn’t considered before, and with a new sense of connecting the start-up dots. EU is perfect for early-stage entrepreneurs—they’ll learn a tremendous amount about start-up basics and connect with others in the same boat.”
Lizza Miller, founder and CEO, DatStat

“VC Bistro is like Business School on steroids.”
John Cook, venture capital columnist, Seattle PI

“As a graduate student working on biotechnological applications for microfluidics, EU was a valuable experience. I was able to mingle and gather information on some of the hurdles that I may face in the coming years.”
Perry Schiro, graduate student, chemistry, University of Washington

“EU was, without doubt, one of the most inspiring, encouraging, and beneficial events that I have attended. As a business owner who has been in business for 19 years and in need of answers to questions pertaining to ‘growing a business’ versus ‘operating a business,’ I found EU to be very energizing.”
Edward Lewis Rudd, cofounder, Ezell’s Famous Chicken

“I attended EU to get an effective, inexpensive, and expedient review of all the moving parts of a successful company. Entrepreneurs have to see the big picture, to know what they don’t know and to build the right relationships. EU was a great place to meet and share experiences with other entrepreneurs and to learn from their big successes as well as their terrific failures.”
John Schneider, founder and CTO, AgileDelta

“The experience was more rewarding than I’d even hoped it would be. The variety of topics was tremendous and the presenters were knowledgeable and engaging. As many times as entrepreneurs talked about failing (which I expected), what held my attention is how they turned these attempts into stepping stones toward grand endeavors that did not fail. I left with the idea that there is always a door open somewhere.”
Vicki Biscay, graduate student, Organizational Psychology, Antioch University Seattle