Jeff Stewart

Stephen Messer• Founded and sold his first startup Linkshare for $425 million • Prior to the acquisition, grew Linkshare for 9 years (through the dot-com

bust) to over 200 employees • Currently Board member of Reloadnyc, Cross Commerce Media and angel

investor

Networking : 6:30 – 7:00 PM

Discussion Start : 7:00 PM

Being a Great Leader/CEO

• Founder and Chairman of Mimeo, one of Inc’s 2010 Fastest-Growing Companies with revenues of $60 million+

• Founder of Square Earth, which merged with Proxicom and IPO’d on NASDAQ 

• Currently Founder and Chairman of Urgent Group, and angel investor

Agenda

• What is Best Practices• Introductions• Sponsors• Intro to the topic

• Top 5 Best Practices• Q & A

[ break ]

Our Sponsors:

Introduction:

A. What does the CEO do?

B. How much does the CEO determine the success of company (%)? (vs. team, idea, market)

% CEO determines success(vs. team, idea, market)

Stephen Jeff

Joe Crowd

75% 82%

100% 0%100%

General:• Are leaders born or made?

• What makes a CEO great?

• Mistakes CEO’s make.

• Self-assess

• How have you grown?

Come out for Drinks & Ideas at Murphy & Gonzalez

Walk out, turn right on Fourth Street, left on Greene Street and walk 2 blocks north