TiE Midwest - “Capital Efficiency for Growing Businesses”

July 11, 2006
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I wrote an aricle about Mike Domek, CEO of Ticketsnow, Jason Fried, CEO of 37 Signals, Lucas Roh, CEO of Hostway. The conversation was moderated by Matt McCall of Portage Venture Partners and was hosted in Chicago by the law firm of Gardner, Carton & Douglas.

Matt led a truly inspiring discussion at the recent Chicago The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) event! Understanding how each of these guys built their businesses in a unique way is such a great story. What is also awesome is that it proves that there is no one right way to do it as Jason Fried of 37 Signals was radically different in his thought as he sat next to Mike Domeck of Ticketsnow.

All of these success stories are exciting to me and it made me realize how much fun it would be to be a part of a high growth company again.Matt led a truly inspiring discussion at the recent Chicago event! Understanding how each of these guys built their businesses in a unique way is such a great story. What is also awesome is that it proves that there is no one right way to do it as Jason Fried of 37 Signals was radically different in his thought as he sat next to Mike Domeck of Ticketsnow. These leaders also demonstrate that Chicago is capable of being the Silicon Valley of the 21st century. More on that in another post sometime soon.

All of these success stories are exciting to me and it made me realize how much fun it would be to be a part of a high growth company again. You can read my full summary here on the Wiglaf Journal, a Marketing and Strategy Journal which I contribute to. If this is your first time here, please subcribe to my RSS feed and come back sometime. Thanks.

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2 Responses to “TiE Midwest - “Capital Efficiency for Growing Businesses””

Matt on July 11th, 2006 11:47 pm

Thanks for writing this up and for the kind words. Will spread the world…
Matt McCall Gives Venture Capital Investing Tips at Barcamp Chicago on June 25th, 2007 4:37 pm

[…] It was a great pleasure to see him talk in such unstructured detail. You may wish to see my past TiE entrepreneurs venture capital discussion panel writeup to learn more about Matt as he moderated an excellent panel back in 2006. Be sure to […]

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