15 CED Member Companies to Participate in Internet Summit 09

Research Triangle Park, NC, October 30, 2009 --(PR.com)-- CED, formerly the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (www.cednc.org), a private, nonprofit organization that promotes entrepreneurial efforts in the Triangle region of North Carolina, has announced their member companies which are participating in Internet Summit 09, a conference to promote forward thinking on topics related to the Internet economy and Web-oriented technologies. The conference is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 4 and Thursday, Nov. 5 at the Raleigh Convention Center, located at 500 South Salisbury Street in Raleigh.

MemberHub.com, Preation, Inc. and Shoeboxed, Inc. have been selected to demonstrate their innovative Web-based technologies at Internet Summit 09, and representatives from 12 other member companies will offer their expertise during dynamic panel discussions. These include Cliff Reeves of Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team; Gary Milner, global interactive marketing director at Lenovo; David Morken, CEO of Bandwidth.com; Keith Moore, chief marketing officer of iContact; Jeffrey Revoy, president of interactive services at CenturyLink; Joe Colopy, CEO of Bronto; Rich Lee, founder and CEO of Hosted Solutions; Jason Caplain, general partner and co-founder of Southern Capitol Ventures; David Jones, partner at Southern Capitol Ventures; Dean Gels, director of RBC Capital Markets; Richard Kristof, co-founder and CEO of American Research Institute; Jud Bowman, president and CEO of PocketGear, Inc. and co-founder and former CTO of Motricity, Inc.; and David Spitz, COO of ChannelAdvisor.

Quotes:
“We are excited to see the depth of involvement that CED member companies have at this year’s Internet Summit,” said Joan Siefert Rose, president of CED. “The 15 companies represented this year offer outstanding services to the rapidly evolving Internet economy.”

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- It is the mission of CED to identify, enable and promote high growth, high impact companies like those selected to demo at Internet Summit 09. The goal of the second annual Internet Summit is to promote forward thinking and thought leadership on topics related to Internet technologies and Web 2.0.

- Presented by TechJournal South and Southern Capitol Ventures, the Internet Summit supports Web-oriented entrepreneurial activity, innovation, and the resultant economic development of the Southeast region.

- MemberHub (www.memberhub.com) offers a tool that helps member-driven organizations manage membership information, communicate with members and build online communities for their many groups. By combining both membership management and private group collaboration tools into one solution, MemberHub provides a solution to today’s unwieldy social media craze.

- Preation (www.preation.com) is a leading innovator of online marketing technology. After the success of iContact, they are now focused on Eden Platform, a powerful Web site content management system that gives small businesses the ability to garner more results from their Web sites.

- Shoeboxed (www.shoeboxed.com) is a mail-in service for receipts, invoices, business cards and other mission critical documents that every small business must manage. Using postage-paid envelopes, Shoeboxed subscribers simply mail in their receipts, invoices and business cards. Shoeboxed scans the documents, extracts and verifies the data, and makes it available for download in IRS approved formats. Shoeboxed's iPhone app was just selected as "App of the Week" by The New York Times.

About CED:
CED (formerly The Council for Entrepreneurial Development) is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1984 to identify, enable and promote high-growth, high-impact companies and accelerate the region’s entrepreneurial culture. Headquartered in the Research Triangle Park, CED is the oldest and largest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 5,500 active members. CED provides know-how, networking, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, programs and web-based resources. CED has helped entrepreneurs, investors, service partners, researchers and public policy makers in diverse emerging industries and at all stages of development – from high-tech, production-based organizations to service companies, from one-person start-ups to 1000-person businesses. Visit www.cednc.org for more information.

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