Celebrating 5 Years at iContact

The team at iContact celebrated the company’s 5th anniversary and reaching over 100 team members on Friday afternoon at our offices in Durham. We had BBQ from Thrills from the Grill underneath two large tents in our parking lot with bluegrass band Second String Fiddle adding to the sounds. Aaron and I went up in a hot air balloon to unveil our new sign on the building as the team sang “Happy Birthday” below. Magicians, balloon makers, bouncy castles, dunk tanks, and a few gusty winds added to the excitement.

Getting iContact to 106 employees and 29,000 customers would not have been possible without a supportive Triangle community, our wonderful team, investors who believed in us when few others would at NC IDEA, and our wonderful Series A backers Updata Partners. Thank you to everyone who has helped make iContact what it is today. Here’s to the future and the opportunity and many challenges ahead.

Thanks especially to Christina Jaromin and Chuck Hester and to our team members who helped organize the event!

Picture courtesy of We Love Durham NC Blog

Breakdancing in Denver With The Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour

Last Thursday afternoon in Denver at Metro State College we decided to break it down in the quad in front of the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour Bus with Doug Fath, Arel Moodie, Sheena Lindahl, and Michael Simmons. After falling underneath Carla the Metro State professor we recover and finish with the avante garde high-five of our generation–the ‘pound explosion.’ Can’t I get a Ye-Ah?

Soundtrack: Crush by Paramore

CEO Keynote: Want to See Me Dance to Soulja Boy in Front of 800 People in Chicago?

Here’s an excerpt video clip from my keynote speech at the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization Annual Conference in Chicago. Enjoy!

“Entrepreneur Ryan Allis dances to Crank That Soulja Boy during the middle of the Collegiate Entrepreneur Organization keynote speech, Finding The Purpose of Your Life in Six Lessons, presented November 3, 2007 at the McCormick Conference Center in Chicago in front of 800 college entrepreneurs.”