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Our next workshop – your city? Vote!

by Rayanne Langdon  |  July 15/2009  | 

Due to the success of our How to Build a Web App Business workshops, and overwhelming demand to take the show on the road, we’re doing just that.

And before we ask for your help, we wanted to show you an overview of the workshop and some feedback from some of our workshop participants:

Fresh Mike Workshop Video from FreshBooks on Vimeo.

Here’s where we need your help! We want YOU to tell us where we should bring our workshop. Please cast your vote below and let us know what you think:

Our second How to Build a Web App Business workshop was held June 16 at FreshBooks’ HQ. Mike walked a group of budding entrepreneurs through his journey building FreshBooks – including topics such as Building Your Team, Marketing Your Product and the 5Ws of Fund Raising.

The response we’ve received from announcing and running these workshops has been amazing. Folks travelled to our Toronto head quarters all the way from Nashville, Raleigh, Washington D.C., Winnipeg, Montreal and Ottawa to join some local entrepreneurs – all interested in building their own web app businesses.

And we’ve definitely taken note of how many of you want us to pay your city a visit to run our workshop there.

We think the workshops have been pretty great, but don’t just take our word for it! Check out what some of our attendees have said:

Matt Read from KarmaCake dropped us the following note:

Just wanted to say that I had a blast during the event and I left definitely feeling more confident about my understanding of the different aspects that go into building a web app. Obviously there’s a ton of work that needs to go into a project to make it successful so it was great hearing advice from the CEO of a company that I really respect and whose product is loved by tons of its users.

Martin Traub-Werner of Raybec Communications said:

I’ve gone through my notes repeatedly over the last couple of weeks and continue to find gems. I appreciate that Mike seems genuinely interested in people’s success and so willingly gave of his time and ideas. I would (and have) recommended this session to anyone who wants to spend some time thinking about their business in a framework that’s already proven successful.

See you on the road!

Note: The workshop will not be live streamed or posted as a video online. We really want to see all you beauts in person! : )


  • http://love2tweet.com/wp/ JIm

    What about coming a bit further south and drop in to Sydney ?

  • http://www.cinselhaz.com cinsellik

    I am grateful to you for this great content.

  • http://www.BestForeclosureSystem.com Justin Lee

    It’s gotta be Vancouver!

    You guys are a Canadian company, make it happen!

  • http://www.ents.ca Rob Davy

    ENTS (Edmonton New Tech Society) would love to host you in our space! Our community regularly brings out 150-200 people for events (DemoCamp, BarCamp, etc)

  • http://supportals.blogspot.com Liam Crotty

    If you bring this to Edmonton and ENTS I will surely be there!

  • http://blog.readytocloud.com G. Kiragiannis

    All these posts and none said Dallas, TX. What is wrong with Dallas??? =) Is it the heat?

    Come to Dallas if you have time available.

    Thanks.

  • http://adamdicarlo.com Adam DiCarlo

    Portland, Oregon! Our tech community rocks.

  • http://dealerignition.com Steven Wagner

    I have sat through many business building, entrepreneur and other How to workshops and seminars, but Mike’s presentation is the best. I

    He first is very organized in what he talks about. Second, he offers real advice and examples of how things changed for FB.

    Maybe we can get him to come to Greenville, SC and play some Ultimate Frisbee!

  • http://mikeschinkel.com Mike Schinkel

    Hey Rayanne,

    We just had StartupWeekend here in Atlanta with 120 people and 12 new startups. We could have easily had 60 more people and people are anxious to continue the energy.

    Also, Ignition Alley Atlanta Coworking (www.ignitionalley.com) will be the perfect place to host it (I’m a partner in Ignition Alley.)

    You build it here and we will sell out, almost immediately! I’ll even promote it on the calendar of Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs: http://atlantawebentrepreneurs.org with >1850 members!

    Come on down!

  • http://www.freshbooks.com/our-team.php#rayanne Rayanne Langdon

    Hey Mike!

    This is EXCELLENT! Get your peeps voting and this is a real possibility : ) We’d love to pay a visit down south and it sounds like Ignition Alley would be a perfect space for us.

    If we come (more votes gets us there!), I’ll be in touch about your space. We’re big fans of coworking ’round here.

  • dep nu

    The energy and excitement is so exciting! I can’t say how great it is to see the life long friendships that come out of these workshops. Women who live right by each other meet for the first time at our workshops! In fact, at the Seattle Wkshp in May, we had two women fly in from Alaska. Turns out, they live within minutes from each other and are going to start their own photography group when they get home. Isn’t that crazy! The connections we make are divine.


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