EcoTuesday :: Featuring Steve Newcomb of Virgance :: October 27 October 27, 2009

Steve Newcomb, CEO of Virgance and successful serial entrepreneur, will share how to restructure the way we do business to create a more sustainable economy at the October EcoTuesday.

EcoTuesday, a unique, structured monthly networking event for sustainable business leaders held concurrently in seven cities across the country, will feature Steve Newcomb as its speaker in October. Newcomb has been involved in building 6 companies prior to Virgance, resulting in over $3 billion in market value. Virgance is an incubator that finds great ideas and turns them into companies that change the world. Companies in the Virgance portfolio include CarrotMob, 1 Block Off Grid, Green Options, and Lend Me Some Sugar.

Most recently, Newcomb co-founded Powerset, a natural language search engine company, which was acquired by Microsoft for $100 million dollars in 2008 and served on the Board of Directors at Jaxtr a voice over IP company which was acquired by Sabse. Before Powerset and Jaxtr, Steve also co-founded or created Promptu Mobil (private) and Loudfire (now Nokia), was an executive at Proxicom (now iCrossing) and AGS (now Statoil) and was the editor of "The Entrepreneur's Workbook".

EcoTuesday is committed to changing the way people do business. The monthly event provides a structured environment where sustainable business leaders network with one another and gain insight from industry thought-leaders and trendsetters. Everyone in the room quickly learns about everyone else during the "introduction circle". EcoTuesday.com connects participants between events, serves as a hub for conversations and showcases local businesses.
The vision of EcoTuesday is for business people to share ideas and collaborate so that companies develop products and services that have a positive impact on the marketplace and planet.

$10 online/$20 at the door.

Official Website: http://ecotuesday.com