http://www.ryanallis.com Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:42:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I originally wrote this post for the Social Entrepreneurship Section of Change.org. You can find the original Change.org post here or read below. A Vision in a Time of Peril It's hard to see the big picture in times of turmoil. Let's go back to Wednesday, March 4, 2009. That day, ... http://www.ryanallis.com/maxmizing-social-return-from-giving-pledge/ In late 2002 I met my business partner Aaron Houghton at the October meeting of the Carolina Entrepreneurship Club on the UNC campus over Chic-Fil-A nuggets. At the time, Aaron ran Preation and I ran Virante. We partnered to launch IntelliContact Pro, which became IntelliContact in 2005 and then just ... http://www.ryanallis.com/the-brand-new-icontact-com-oh-my-how-design-standards-have-changed/ Session 10, Raj Sisodia on Conscious Capitalism EO/MIT Entrepreneurial Masters Program Year Two, June 19, 2010 I am getting so much value from this session by Raj Sisodia on Conscious Capitalism. Wow this was awesome! I've tried to go to school on this in the last year, working to redefine the iContact Culture, roll-out ... http://www.ryanallis.com/raj-sisodia-on-conscious-capitalism/ Session 5, Brette Simon on Legal Issues for VC Backed Firms EO/MIT Entrepreneurial Masters Program Year Two, June 18, 2010 Brette Simon of Jones Day is talking about legal issues for VC backed firms. She did a great job and this was a really good refresher. Here are my notes from the session... Part ... http://www.ryanallis.com/brette-simon-on-law-and-finance-for-vc/ Session 2, Don Hutson, High Performance Selling EO/MIT Entrepreneurial Masters Program Year Two, June 17, 2010 Don Hutson is now talking about how to increase performance in a sales organization. Here are the notes... The Evolution of the Process Selling Over Time The Product Pitch (Snake Oil in the 18 Century) not recommended, for historical perspective ... http://www.ryanallis.com/don-hutson-high-performance-selling/ Session 1, Dr. Gerry Bell EO/MIT Entrepreneurial Masters Program Year Two, June 17, 2010 I'm in Boston for a few days attending year two of the EO/MIT Entrepreneur Masters Program. Our first presenter this morning is Dr. Gerry Bell of my hometown Chapel Hill, NC from the Bell Leadership Institute. Here are the ... http://www.ryanallis.com/dr-gerry-bell-on-leadership/ I've been super focused the last six weeks on iContact and Nourish since making it back from Skoll World Forum and the Icelandic volcano. iContact Update The baby that Aaron and I started way back in 2003 is now 7 years old (see our company picture below). We've hired 45 new team members ... http://www.ryanallis.com/icontact-nourish-update/ Weddings have been missed. Births have been missed. Babies have been conceived that otherwise would not have been. Lifelong friendships have formed. Serendipitous first romantic connections have blossomed in Hyde Park. Lovers have connected via Skype and Gmail video chat. Yes, there will be a movie. And no, I still do ... http://www.ryanallis.com/to-the-dominican-republic-i-go/ I'm at The Hub incubator space next to London Kings Cross station this evening. I'm attending a spontaneous entrepreneurial event called TEDxVolcano that has been set up in 24 hours by Nathaniel Whittemore of AssetMap and Change.org with the support of TED, TEDxLondon, Sandbox Network and many others. The wonderful ... http://www.ryanallis.com/recap-tedxvolcano/ I'm stuck in London for a few days due to the Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption in Iceland. I'm looking outside my hotel window at a calm Heathrow airport. It's filled with parked planes, but nothing and no one is moving. All of the UK and much of European airspace is closed. Here's a ... http://www.ryanallis.com/volcano/