MOTM : Making Money through Enjoyment
Come get inspired with entrepreneur Aaron Ross
When Tuesday July 28, 2009 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM Pacific
Where Four Seasons Westlake Village
Two Dole Drive ,
Westlake Village, CA 91362
1 (818) 575-3000
Who Organizer: Meeting of the Minds
Cost: $5 Valet Parking with Validation
Contact: RSVP MOTM 818.309.9322
Description Big thanks to everyone who came out in June to hear Ben Satterfield talk about the emerging future in the iPhone space. If you missed it, you can read about about Ben in this Wired article. Looks like Ben is now a card carrying member of the MOTM crew too; we’re excited about that.
For July, it’s our honor and privilege to have Aaron Ross present. A Stanford alum, Aaron wrote the book on sales 2.0. While Senior Director of Corporate Development & Acquisitions at Salesforce.com, he grew the B2B sales division to $100M. He’ll give us insight on how he did it. Aaron has an ability to make sales simple and fun. Aaron has a new business that he’s launching called CEO Flow that he’ll be sharing with us as well.
Also, big thanks to Ben Kuo from socalTECH.com, introducing us to Aaron. If you aren’t subscribing to Ben’s daily e-mail you’re missing out.
MOTM will start at 7:30 at The Four Seasons in Westlake.
About Aaron Ross
Aaron Ross is the founder of PebbleStorm, which helps inspired entrepreneurs make money through enjoyment, and CEOFlow, which helps leaders create money, freedom and adventure through inspired employees. Before PebbleStorm/CEOFlow, Aaron Ross was an EIR (Entrepreneur-in-Residence) at Alloy Ventures, a venture capital firm with over $1 billion under management. Before that, at salesforce.com he created a revolutionary Cold Calling 2.0 inside sales process and team that helped increase salesforce.com’s revenue by $100 million. Aaron was CEO of LeaseExchange (now eLease.com), an online equipment leasing marketplace. As an entrepreneur, he has been in Time, Businessweek and The Red Herring. Aaron graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Environmental Civil Engineering.
Aaron is also the cofounder of DataSalad (“Fresh B2B Marketing Data”), and on the advisory boards of Clickability, 4INFO, ConnectAndSell, MYNDNet, Personiva, AfterCollege, ExpertCEO and Flywheel Ventures. His B2B sales blog is www.BuildASalesMachine.com. He is an Ironman triathlete, graduate of the Boulder Outdoor Survival School and volunteer mentor at SCORE, “Counselors to America’s Small Business”, and an avid motorcycle rider (www.MotoCEOs.com).
