Extreme Startups is proud to host a Lunch ‘N Learn with Amber Mac and Konnekt on Friday Nov. 30th at noon in our offices (3rd floor, 639 Queen St. W). Hear about the 10 Steps to Market Your Startup or App and much more! You’ll have the chance to network and meet Amber, her team, and other entrepreneurs and hackers in the city.

Konnekt (www.konnektnow.com) is a digital agency that empowers organizations to meaningfully engage audiences online.  Konnekt helps with Strategy, Production, Capacity Building and User Experience

We hope to see you here!

Extreme Startups & Amber Mac

Sunir Shah is the Chief Marketing Olarker at Olark live chat, the easy way to talk to the customers browsing on your website for sales and support. He also co-founded and leads industry initiatives at The Small Business Web, an organization of 175 companies working to make the Open Web the best place to build, find, and sell small business software online. He has extensive experience in software development and product marketing. He focuses on marketing through engineering. Ask him about partnerships, APIs, business analysis, and marketing to the United States from Canada.

http://www.extremestartups.com/mentors/sunir-shah/

Amber Mac is an entrepreneur, television host, professional speaker, and bestselling author. She co-hosts a TV show on CTV/BNN called AppCentral, which airs nationally in Canada, Australia, and South Korea. Amber is a regular contributor on CTV News Channel and has appeared on various other networks, such as CNN.

She writes weekly for Fast Company, where she discusses social business, digital productivity, and how to work smarter; Amber has also hosted a number of online video shows for Fast Company, which her digital marketing company MGImedia.ca produces.

Aside from working as a broadcast professional, Amber is also the author of social media business book, Power Friending (Globe & Mail national bestseller). She has spoken on stage and keynoted more than 200 events worldwide as an exclusive speaker with The Lavin Agency.

In the online space, Amber has spearheaded and co-hosted two successful podcasts, The Social Hour (watch Amber on TSH here) on the popular San Francisco TWiT.tv network and commandN.tv (an MGImedia.ca production). Both shows have been featured in Wired Magazine and have won a number of podcast awards (and are still in production, reaching approximately 100,000 viewers and listeners a week).

Amber’s company, MGImedia.ca, launched in 2007 and includes clients such as world-renowned speaker Tony Robbins, Rogers, Discovery Channel, Microsoft, Canada Goose, American Dental Association, Genumark, among others. The company specializes in digital marketing, with a keen focus on social media strategy, online video production and distribution, and website design and development.

http://www.extremestartups.com/mentors/amber-mac/

Joseph Fung is co-founder and CEO of TribeHR, where he focuses on the strategic direction of the organization and vision for the software.

Previously, Joseph was Director of Digital Media at The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and President/CEO of Lewis Media, a web software company that built re-brandable web solutions for marketing and design professionals. For his successes, Joseph was honoured with the CIBC Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2005, and recognized as one of Waterloo Region’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2011.

Joseph is a strong supporter of the technology community with a commitment to corporate citizenship. He has been involved in the early stages of a number of technology start-ups including Lewis Media, OnMyBlock.ca, Simple Machines Forum, and TravelPod.

http://www.extremestartups.com/mentors/joseph-fung/