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Choose A New Avatar for Scott

July 29, 2010

So lately Cali and John & Gio have given me a little crap about my new avatar, Dave thinks I look like Lex Luthor (bah!). No doubt it’s a great picture taken by Leigh Cariccoli so it’s not an affront to her awesome photography skills (you should seriously hire her for an avatar shoot if [...]

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U.S. Army Golden Knights Dropping Into OpenCamp

July 21, 2010

Photo courtesy John P. If you haven’t been keeping up with all of the OpenCamp news you might have missed that the U.S. Army Golden Knights (check out their new site) Parachute Team will not only be attending OpenCamp but will be doing 2 jumps for us! The first jump will be on Thursday evening August 26th and [...]

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Cali Lewis Talks About OpenCamp on Fox4 News

June 2, 2010

Cali Lewis makes regular appearances on Fox4′s “Good Day Dallas” to discuss tech. In this episode Cali talks about the upcoming multi-platform, multi-media tech conference “OpenCamp.” (Note: Cali and I are both on the OpenCamp planning committee along with several others). If you haven’t had an opportunity to learn more about OpenCamp visit the OpenCamp [...]

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RIM WES2010 Day 1

April 26, 2010

RIM (Research In Motion) the makers of the beloved BlackBerry Devices are throwing a mean conference in Orlando this week WES2010. I can honestly say that this is one of the tightest conferences I’ve ever attended. Everything is running on time, there is food and beverage everywhere, plenty of entertainment, I’ve not had a single [...]

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OpenCamp 2010, If You Do Anything Online You Don’t Want to Miss It

April 5, 2010

For the last several months I’ve had the privilege of taking part in planning a great event and today we’re proud to release to the public the first OpenCamp. OpenCamp stemmed from the realization that many of the “camps” (wordcamp, drupalcamp, etc… ) share more in common than not and through those common interests we [...]

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New VSEllis.com Goes Live

July 15, 2009

On July 14th, 2009 I launched the new version of vsellis.com that you are looking at right now. I still have a ton of new content to publish and write and the focus has expanded a little bit but is generally on track with what I mentioned in earlier posts. I’ll be giving a lot [...]

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A New Focus on VSEllis.com

April 7, 2009

In the many years I’ve had this site it’s taken many forms and discussed many topics. Even as I have focused more on business and technology I’ve realized still doesn’t feel (to me) as though it has as much focus as I would like. So in the coming month I’m going to be redesigning the [...]

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RiseSmart Garners $3,000,000 New Financing

December 9, 2008

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=938b6a41-0243-43a3-8786-2b275d71696d&Preview=1 Publish Date 12/9/2008 Company Name RiseSmart Mailing Address 2201 Midway Rd. Carrollton, TX 75006 Company Description Based in Dallas, RiseSmart is a human-powered job search service that prescreens online search results for time-starved managers and executives. The RiseSmart team matches opportunities with jobseekers based on each member’s unique profile, freeing senior-level [...]

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Appcelerator Lands $4,100,000 Series A Round

December 9, 2008

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=03221208-1264-4912-9db6-6ecdb975d1e1&Preview=1 Publish Date 12/9/2008 Company Name Appcelerator Mailing Address 3535 Piedmont Rd. Atlanta, GA 30305 Company Description Appcelerator is an open source software company that develops products and services for rapid rich Internet application (RIA) development on a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Website http://www.appcelerator.com/index.html Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $4,100,000 Transaction Round [...]

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