| July 7, 2009 |
| 6:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
The Guest Drinker on July 7th is Alec McClennan, the founder of Good Nature Organic Lawn Care. On first glance this looks someone jumping on the “Green” movement for a quick buck. Not So Fast. The business is more than ten years old and is not part of the green hype.
On the Hot Seat is Mark Chollett a long time member of The Gorilla Group. After hanging around our motley crew of entrepreneurs for over six years he finally bit the bullet. He quit his job at a Fortune 500 company and bought Norris Precision Machining earlier this year. He is just a few months removed from the big corporate machine and now has all the responsibility.
Register for July here. The meeting Tuesday July 7th.
The Annual Meeting is coming up in just two months. We are going to be returning to Whiskey Island just outside downtown. The location is as close to perfect as we could hope. A great view of downtown, the Coast Guard Station and Lake Erie. To get registered for August Please Click Here.
The Guest Drinker in June is Frank Schossler, the Founder of Efficent Channel Coding. Did you know that Cleveland was a hot bed of research and design in the satellite communications space? Frank took a very curcuitous route from his Mechanical Engineering degree to starting a business that makes it easy to talk and communicate instantly all over the world. This is a real success story and includes the exit strategy, because after being pursued by many suitors he sold the company. Not too shabby for someone under 35.
On the Hot Seat is Trevor Clatterbuck from Fresh Fork Market. If that sounds familiar, it should. One year ago Fresh Fork Market launched the business and sat on the Hot Seat. Here comes the 365 Day Update. Help celebrate these guys first business anniversary.
Register for June here.
The Annual Meeting is coming up in just two months. We are going to be returning to Whiskey Island just outside downtown. The location is as close to perfect as we could hope. A great view of downtown, the Coast Guard Station and Lake Erie. To get registered for August Please Click Here.
The Guest Drinker for May is Columbus Woodruff the founder of Hot Cards. The company is a full color print house with a national reach. Columbus took a mature unsexy business space and combined it with a dash of Internet marketing and some unconventional operations.
Built from scratch, he originally bought time from other printers so that he did not have to buy equipment. Now business is booming and he is looking for more space to move into so he can keep growing. What recession?
Tuesday May 5th
6:00 PM
Touch Supper Club
On the Hot Seat will Christina Anderson. She just crossed the one year mark and is on the way to building her business empire. Come support a fledging entrepreneur.
Join us at The Touch Supper Club at 6:00.
Registration is for the meeting is here.
Larry Fulton
Joining us for the April 7th edition of The Gorilla Group is Larry Fulton, the Founder of
Lefco. He is the exception to the rule that MBA’s can not be entrepreneurs. He bought a struggling business with barely $200K in revenue and built it into a multi million dollar business with a robust set of product lines. Just to make it fun he kept his full time job and ran the business full time. Nothing quite like an 80 hour minimum work week to encourage some life balance. By the way did I mention he had a GM’s position with a gigantic conglomerate, a good salary and plenty of freedom? It was what people call a ‘Good Job.” Yet he still threw it all away to chase his own dream.
This is a Joint Meeting with the 20 30 Club of Cleveland. The Cleveland Professional 20/30 Club is a non-profit organization created to retain Young Professionals in Greater Cleveland by providing events focused on both personal and professional development.
We have a spectacular new event. Well, it is a new event. For the first time we have Dueling 5 Minute Business Plans. Mario Juric has started Secure IT Disposition Services. Steve Kemmering’ s business is Good Sense Solutions. We will have the two of them going head to head that night.
Join us at The Touch Supper Club at 6:00 for the April meeting of the Gorilla Group.
Serial Entrepreneur Dave Stack will be joining us on Tuesday, March 3rd. Dave is the founder of Plugged In Cleveland, Coupon Saver and Music Stack.com, the largest lister of music titles on the Internet. If you can not find it on Music Stack, it may not be available anywhere.
Joining us for the 5 Minute Business Plan is Peter Sciulli. The name of his startup is Family Legacy Consultants. Take a few minutes out of your day to point an aspiring business owner in the right direction. Who knows he may be your client one day.
To register for the meeting please click here. As always we are meeting at the Touch Supper Club on Lorain at W 27th near the West Side Market and Great Lakes Brewing.
Dave has started several other companies as well. He is a huge believer in the scalability of businesses. It has to be able to grow with out adding layers of management and people.
