This past week on Tuesday and Wednesday, ZINO Society hosted our Roundtable investment meetings at the Seattle and Bellevue Harbor Clubs respectively. The featured dealflow presentations included iParse, Answers for Elders, Bluzinger and Smart Works. See photo of the entrepreneurs each getting ready to answer the “burning question” that came as a result of member discussion following their presentations. From left to right, pictured are Suzanne Perkins and Michael Carossino of Answers for Elders, Bob McCausland and Chris Beer of Bluzinger, Dan Diesso of Smart Works, and Rex Stevens of iParse. Each company is looking for accredited investors to invest in their businesses to help them achieve their growth plans.
iParse makes it fast, easy, and inexpensive for medium and small banks to provide mobile banking services to compete with the very large banks.
Answers for Elders is a boomers’ online community social site and portal to provide support, answers and expert resources in helping aging parents.
Bluzinger is building the first ever national location-based mobile advertising network, delivering paperless coupons to end customers.
Smart Works is bringing the “Smart Grid” inside facilities with network friendly circuit and device energy meters that improve energy intelligence.
Our “membership minute” was provided by Roundtable member, Skip Walter (top photo), and he shared tongue-in-cheek advice of 125 ways to lose money in the wine business. Our keynote speaker was John Bookwalter, Chairman of the Washington Wine Commission and owner and Winemaker for Bookwalter Winery. John did double duty on Tuesday evening, also pouring his wines as our featured vintner. See photo above of John pouring wine for guest, Sandy Walsh. He joked that we were probably expecting him to vacuum the room after the event in addition to his other two roles. Also featured was Charles Finkel of The Pike Brewing Company pouring his excellent craft beers.
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