Entrepreneur & Social Entrepreneur Meetup #18 is tonight (Thursday) starting at 8pm.

Presenters Include:
Mary Musacchia - Council for Entrepreneurial Development
John Glushnik - Intersouth Partners
Jinan Glasgow - Economic Development in Ghana

Please feel free to bring friends and colleagues.

PARKING
Plenty of parking is available along Park Bluff Road

DIRECTIONS FROM DOWNTOWN CHAPEL HILL
From HW54 (aka Raleigh Road) coming down the hill from Chapel Hill, take a left on a Meadowmont Lane, go to end of road (1.5 miles) then take left onto Park Bluff N. then first cul de sac on right into Millingport Court. House is #102.

FROM DURHAM/RALEIGH
Take I-40 East to exit 273 toward Chapel Hill. Take right at Meadowmont Lane. Go to end of road (1.5 miles) then take left onto Park Bluff N. then first cul de sac on right into Millingport Court. House is #102.

SCHEDULE FOR REST OF YEAR:
While the meetup will usually be once per month on a Thursday at 8pm, this may change from time to time due to travel. Here is the schedule for the next few months (all Thursdays unless otherwise noted):

June 26
July 24
August 26
September 25
October 23

You can RSVP at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=19916001713

You can join the group at http://unc.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19139128576 for updates.

Aaron and I won the Ernst & Young Carolinas' 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Emerging Category tonight at the ceremony in Charlotte. We were up against Virtual Heroes and Canvas on Demand, both from RTP.

The winners will be going to Palm Springs, California in November for the Ernst & Young 2008 National Entrepreneur of the Year Awards to compete against the other regional winners.

We're really glad, and humbled, to have won. We are very appreciative of the support North Carolina and the Triangle community has given us the past six years and have to thank our family at iContact and our families at home. We have a lot lot lot more work still to do.

The full list of winners is below.

Ernst & Young Carolinas 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year Winners

Lifetime achievement. O. Temple Sloan. General Parts, Inc.

Financial Services
Robert Hatley
Paragon Commercial Bank

Health Services
Willam Cobb
JM Smith

Industrial Products
Christopher Kearney
SPX Corporation

Real Estate Hospitality Construction
Patricia Rodgers
Rodgers Builders

Retail and Consumer Products
Thomas Millner
Remington Arms

Emerging
Aaron Houghton
Ryan Allis
iContact

Software and IT
Matthew Szulik
Red Hat

Telecommunications
Eugene Johnson
FairPoint Communications

Last night iContact was honored by the Council for Entrepreneurial Development as the 2008 Technology Growth Company of the Year at Bay 7 at American Tobacco Campus.

Aaron and I accepted the award on behalf of the iContact team. You can watch a video of the award announcement.

Hey everyone. I was in New York today visiting with partners and customers and filming for The Big Idea With Donny Deutsch. I was glad to be on the show again for the first time since I was on last May 31. I'm told the episode will air tonight at 10pm on CNBC.

I think I'll be on for about 3-4 minutes about halfway through the show around 10:30pm. The topic of the show will be 'how to prepare your children to be driven, be passionate, and follow their dreams.'

They have an expert from NYU Dr. Harold Koplewicz and a guy named Troy with seven kids who debate the various methods of encouraging and supporting children and then bring on Kimberly Burleson Spinks co-author of the book 'Prepare to Be a Teen Millionaire', me, and 25-year old artist Amanda Dunbar.

Hey everyone. I was in New York today visiting with partners and customers and filming for The Big Idea With Donny Deutsch. I was glad to be on the show again for the first time since I was on last May 31. I'm told the episode will air tonight at 10pm on CNBC.

I think I'll be on for about 3-4 minutes about halfway through the show around 10:30pm. The topic of the show will be 'how to prepare your children to be driven, be passionate, and follow their dreams.'

They have an expert from NYU Dr. Harold Koplewicz and a guy named Troy with seven kids who debate the various methods of encouraging and supporting children and then bring on Kimberly Burleson Spinks co-author of the book 'Prepare to Be a Teen Millionaire', me, and 25-year old artist Amanda Dunbar.