Archive for November 28th, 2009
Mike Schmidt joins the Social Conversation in Colorado Springs
Mike Schmidt, Founder & CEO Ensemble Ventures, LLC. May 2001 - Present
Ensemble is an 8+ year old Business Development “Venture Ventilator” based in Colorado Springs assisting seed stage and development oriented companies with strategic business development and product/market positioning tactics, technology assessment and adataption services. Ensemble developes capital formation plans for seed stage companies, solicits funding and partnership alliances for clients and company-owned ventures, and provides visionary leadership for technology development teams. Mr. Schmidt is also the Director of the Colorado Springs Entrepreneurs Group, (222 Members) http://www.colospgsbiz.org and http://www.meetup.com/colospgsbiz providing grassroots Entrepreneurial support services and an open forum for the development of Colorado Springs emerging Innovation and Entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Mr. Schmidt is a native of Colorado, and a Strategic Business Development and Tactical marketing and sales professional/ entrepreneur with integrated skills in both technology and marketing/sales disciplines. Twenty-plus years of international start-up company experience and management-level consulting engagements with over 30 clients. Technical Skills include; new product design, development, project planning, software definition and creation, and product engineering prototype work, manufacturing support, and logistics.
Marketing/sales skills encompass; advertising, promotion, public relations, trade show coordination, publications design, direct mail campaigns, seminars, customer training, technical support, sales management, sales training, and account management. Management experience includes; management of company profit centers, project teams, forecasting, budgeting, and start-up of companies in the US, UK, and Asia. Comfortable with new start-up companies and product/service offerings. Have traveled extensively both domestically and internationally in the USA, Canada, Central and Latin America, UK, (Wales, Ireland, Scotland), Europe, Central and Latin America, Asia, and South Africa.
Love Grown Foods joins the Qittle National Tour
We are so excited to have Maddy and Alex of Love Grown Foods supporting the “Live The Dream” tour coming to 60 cities nation wide.
All week long the Qittle team has been munching on Love Grown Raisin Almond Crunch, it’s yummy. We’ll have it at all of our Live Events.
Click here to see the Qittle Tour dates and Cities
