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Eric Standlee's Events

Uptown Mixer

November 11, 2009 from 3pm to 8pm – Tasting Room 1101 Uptown Park Blvd, Uptown Park, Galleria area, Houston, Texas
Texas young Professionals Networking Happy Hour

November 12, 2009 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm – St. Regis Hotel's Remington Bar
Networking Christmas Party and Toy Drive

December 8, 2009 from 6pm to 9pm – ISIS Houston
2009 Houston Business Expo

December 10, 2009 from 8am to 8pm – Hyatt Regency Downtown Hotel

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Eric Standlee's Discussions

Looking for Houston area small businesses and professionlas who assist SBOs for my articles @ www.examiner.com Thank you.

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What do you like best about InHouston?

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What do you like best about InHouston?
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Funding Commercial Businesses Greenhousing customers for Banks

accepting new members and groups and pictures. Nite. Oct 16

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Teddy Bear From Cyndi Gutowski

Recommended Connections

Please find below links to the people I have met one-on-one and in many cases 10's and 100's of times, who I know on InHouston and whom I recommend:

Christine Spray

Business Development Director for CFW CPA. The best connected lady in Houston.
Louis Gonzales

Business Development for Cap5 Managed IT Services. One of the most well connected men in Houston and a very successful marketer.
Katie Demarest

Relatively new to Houston but extremely well connected and extremely successful sales and marketing mentor to me. I look up to this hard-charging hip-checking-against-the-boards leader in the Houston market.
Dave Guerra

Servant Leadership as the foundation for super performance guru. President of a global enterprise spreading the fire of super performance and servant leadership.
Kevin Huston

Well connected and well traveled SAP consulting firm principal. Living example of hard-working give 100% entrepreneur with tons of experience to give.
Jason Emanis

A well-networked and well-connected Aggie I am glad to call a friend while he isn't too famous yet.

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How did you hear about this site InHouston?: I created InHouston.ning.com. I was growing my LinkedIn network (now over 6750+ direct connects and over 14 million in the network) and realized that lots of them were here in Houston. So, I started a LinkedIn group. That grew, so I invited them to start up the conversation around events at inhouston.ning.com. Now we are over 1000 members on the Ning site and over 2000 in the LinkedIn group. Now that isn't a 10th of the Houston members of LinkedIn and is a small portion of my group of Houston contacts, but we are growing at a good clip as people join and get involved. Are you involved yet?
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Industry: Banking / Finance

Niche (Services/Products your company provides:): Working Capital (not loan nor equity) for growing companies.
Greenhousing future bank clients for partner banks.

About Me:: Married to a real live Japanese Samurai Princess.
Three wonderful kids 11, 9, and 6 almost 7 (girl, boy, girl).
Former Christian Missionary to Japan.
Played football in Highschool.
Hobbies: networking, ideas, open source
Priorities: God, wife, kids, friends, businesses I own

Moto: Give and it will be given to you, shaken, pressed down and overflowing 100 fold.

Advice: think big, dream big, live big, you only have one life.

Business Development and Marketing Director for 19 year old family owned 200 million dollar Houston firm which helps greenhouse companies to help make them bankable and gives to support orphan homes.

Connect with me on LinkedIn.

City, State: Houston, Texas

Area of Houston: far north

Website:: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ericstandlee

Blog:: http://ericstandlee.crusaderx.com

Open Networker?: yes

Servant Leader, Give It First Networker?: yes

Have Attended Live InHouston Netweaving Events (ever):: yes, going to the next one

Perfect Client: o Banks looking to increase fee income, decrease risk and increase deposits.

o Businesses not bankable yet or which have outgrown their current financing.

Target Market(s): Businesses:
o manufacturing
o metal fabrication
o start-ups
o staffing
o employment services
o IT services
o Transporation
o Oil Field Services
o Exporting
o Consulting
o not retail
o not most construction right now
o not attorneys

Banks:
o community
o independent
o state
o regional
o banks looking for a means to turn loan denials into non-interest fee income without losses that works for regulators

Urgent Needs and Compelling Desires of Target Market(s): Businesses:
o payroll
o pay taxes
o large deal opportunity, need working capital to accept
o cash out a/r for quarterly and/or annual reports
o buy competitors
o buy out partners
o meet short-term need

Banks:
o 27-37% non-interest fee income
o keep deposits despite commercial loan application denial
o grow deposits
o no losses to-date
o fully audited
o regulator friendly
o no start-up costs for bank

Opportunities said Target Market(s) would love to invest in: o Working capital for growing companies.

o Strategic Partnership with non-interest fee income.

Benefits of investible opportunities to Target Market(s): Businesses:
o keep growing fast
o accelerate cash flow
o grab large opportunities
o say no to lost opportunities
o free up cash for short-term need
o no long-term contracts
o no equity loss
o no long-term debt

Banks
o grow revenues no matter the markets
o work out of problem industries/niches
o add working capital and stop turning away commercial paper
o keep clients with more services
o ten year track record of providing 27-37%
o fully audited.

Turn Savings into Cash Cow
Have Savings and Use it too
200 year old wealth secret
http://marketplace-ministry.info/personalwealth

High School Profile Link (optional):: http://www.kleinforestalumni.com/MemberInfo.asp?ID=60784

"Other interests" (Traveling, wine, books, etc...):: Travel to Japan, TaeKwonDo, linux, motorcycles, writing, podcasting, church, and http://cometomyhouse.org/

What does your company do to focus on its purpose?: On-Purpose Person by Kevin McCarthy
On-Purpose Business by Kevin McCarthy

Veteran? Which Branch?: USAF, cryptologic linguist - Chinese Mandarin

Eric Standlee's Blog

Networking/Netweaving Motivations

Why Network/Netweave? What are your motivations?

I cannot pretend to know your motivations, but as I continue to learn and grow I can share where I have been.

When I started out to get on the path to networking, I didn't even know there was such thing as netweaving. So, what were my motivations?

Initially, fear motivated me to not do anything, but like the millions of pounds of thrust from the rockets on the space shuttle help it to overcome gravity and inertia and eventually leave Earth for… Continue

Posted on October 1, 2009 at 12:02am — 4 Comments

Too many events and too many people to meet, but not enough time in the day?

On InHouston, we are blessed to have tons of great events and new venues and meetings starting up every month. We have many great people who are centers of influence and get pay-it-forward networking.

We list meetings happening every day. If you just went to every meeting on InHouston, you'd meet alot of great people and be very busy. But, you'd never meet everyone on InHouston.

There are over 4000 on InHouston.ning.com and over 6000 on the LinkedIn InHouston group.

So, when you find time in… Continue

Posted on September 29, 2009 at 1:34pm —

Note to Self: Give first in a recession

Dear self,

Don't give up

I know that watching the news makes you numb, and it feels like you have somehow stepped into a different and parallel universe.

No matter how much you want to curl up on the couch and hide from the outside world, it is NOW that the world needs servant leaders giving without expecting anything in return.

… Continue

Posted on September 24, 2009 at 8:15pm —

Seeking Start-ups

In this tough time, it is very hard to get financing for startups.

I'd like to encourage the creation and proper funding of startups.

Do you know any startups?

I am a no-cost resource for business advice for startups and I can help them find funding for the right deals. More importantly, I want to help them develop revenue as soon as possible.

Who should I talk to?

Posted on September 24, 2009 at 5:05pm —

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Posted on August 29, 2009 at 12:35am —

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David A Marsilia commented on Eric Standlee's event 'Uptown Mixer'

Will be my second event. See you there!

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David A Marsilia, Lori Lane, Allen Armstrong and 3 other members are attending Eric Standlee's event

Uptown Mixer at Tasting Room 1101 Uptown Park Blvd, Uptown Park, Galleria area, Houston, Texas

November 11, 2009 from 3pm to 8pm

The Best Professional Business Networking Event every month: No cover No Dues Cash Bar 300 plus RSVP Many more just show up -- why they don't RSVP for the free publicity I don't know Meet the movers and shakers in Houston in an eclectic wine bar c...

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Janet Snyder joined Eric Standlee's group

The Woodlands

The Woodlands is a master-planned community to the North of Houston, Texas.

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Allen Armstrong commented on Eric Standlee's event 'Uptown Mixer'

Looking forward to the event

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Theresa Bratton might attend Eric Standlee's event

Uptown Mixer at Tasting Room 1101 Uptown Park Blvd, Uptown Park, Galleria area, Houston, Texas

November 11, 2009 from 3pm to 8pm

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Cindy Seeram-Gonzales commented on Eric Standlee's group 'InTransition'

I am currently looking for an HR Generalist or Recruiting positing within the Houston area.

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Cindy Seeram-Gonzales joined Eric Standlee's group

InTransition

Are you InTransition (job hunting)? Do you know someone who is? Do you help/mentor those who are? Join this growing group. Come back and mentor others when you get a job.

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At 9:47am on October 29, 2009, Kimberly Fuller said…: Thank you! So glad to be here! Looking forward to seeing you again and meeting new people. Have a great day!

At 1:04pm on October 27, 2009, Nancy Johnson said…: Tomorrow afternoon before the Wild West @ Houston National?

At 12:44am on October 27, 2009, Nancy Johnson said…: Not so much that I am aware of, but I haven't really been looking for them. I'll keep my eyes open for you... I'd love to know more about what you do so that I can send people your way.

At 7:50am on October 21, 2009, Cyndi Gutowski gave Eric Standlee a gift…: Teddy Bear
This is a Care bear, because you "Care & Give" so much to all us members!
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At 2:20am on October 15, 2009, Matt Chapman said…: Eric, I can't tell you how impressed I was with the Mixer Wednesday night. As you know, I just joined InHouston and have been quire impressed with the folks I've met via the group & how generous everyone has been with their time and willingness to share resources - truly a collaborate and friendly environment. I will contact Tex and see if there's anything I can do to help his campaign. Matt

At 10:06am on October 10, 2009, Sheena T Abraham said…: Love this quote from you on the InHouston testimonials page!

"If you worry less about how you can give your 30 second schpeel and more about asking good questions and building trust with those you meet, you are on the right step."

At 1:07pm on October 1, 2009, Laura Russell said…: Hi Eric,

I joined last fall and have been to a few events, but not many lately. My store is open till 7pm and it is a little hard to get out early. I am hoping to get more involved. I am hiring now and wondered if there was a place I could post jobs? I looked around on the site, but did not see anything.

At 10:16am on October 1, 2009, Val Kasperek said…: Eric,

It was great to meet you also. I look forward to speaking with Christine. Thnaks for everything.. Talk to you soon.

Val