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January 7, 2009

Welcome To The New Mexico Internet Professionals Association

The New Mexico Internet Professionals Association

The NMIPA provides a forum where those in all areas of the Internet industry can exchange knowledge and ideas - not to mention comraderie.

The Association organizes monthly meetings with a speaker and time to chat with other members. We are active in many endeavors with an eye to fostering the future of the Internet:

Internet Education
Government Affairs / Public Advocacy
Support of Internet Programs for Youths
Web Assistance to Small Businesses
Internet Trade Shows in Rural Communities

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Internet Jobs - a service of your NMIPA

The New Mexico's High Tech Job Forum is a joint project of the NMIPA and Technology Ventures Corporation. It is a FREE service that aides

Skilled individuals looking for employment or freelance work with New Mexico technology companies, and
New Mexico technology companies seeking qualified personnel to support New Mexico's economic development.

Come to the High Tech Job Forum to:

Next NMIPA membership meeting is THURSDAY, JANUARY 8th!
1/8/2009 @ 11:30am

Gardunos on the Green
Balloon Fiesta Park
Albuquerque NM
505-797-9222

Presentation by Scott Caruso, General Partner, Flywheel Ventures
http://www.flywheelventures.com/

Topic: Trends and Opportunities in IT

Cost for members is $16, for non members the cost is $26. Cost includes presentation, lunch, drink, tax, and tip.

Scott Caruso will provide a summary of his perspective on the IT landscape and discuss the opportunities that Flywheel is seeing in the market. He will also have a discussion of the industry drivers and implications for businesses, suppliers and technologies. Finally, he will discuss the intersection of technologies and solutions that create compelling startup companies.

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Scott Caruso is a General Partner at Flywheel Ventures. He has a decade of angel and venture investing experience and over 25 years of technology industry experience as a founder, builder, manager and advisor to over two dozen early-stage ventures in the Internet, Software and IT arenas. He has particular strengths in supporting company transitions from product development to sales-driven businesses and developing effective corporate infrastructure for scale.

Prior to Flywheel, Scott founded and led two successful technology start-ups – as Founder/President HotSpare, a self-financed, profitable internet infrastructure services company and as co-Founder of Compute Intensive, a self-funded ISP services company to the SMB market (acquired by Verio and sold to NTT). Between 1989-1994, Scott was a Systems and Sales Support engineer at Sun Microsystems. Prior to Sun, he managed the computer operations group of New Mexico State University’s Computer Sciences Dept. and was responsible for connecting NMSU to the Apranet (predecessor to today’s internet) and building the first campus-wide email system.

He is past Director of New Mexico Angels from 2004-2006 and is a board director of Flywheel Ventures company’s Lingotek, 4Blox, and Trackvia, a board observer at Filtrbox. Scott received a BS, with a minor in Computer Science from New Mexico State University in 1987.

Jump Start Northern New Mexico

The NMIPA offers free Web site consulting, development and hosting services to clients of the Empowering Northern New Mexico Business Spirit (EBS) initiative. EBS is a partnership of 20 organizations who collaborate to make Northern New Mexico a perfect place to start and nurture a business. The EBS Initiative serves clients in the following counties: Rio Arriba, Los Alamos, Taos, San Miguel and Mora.

The purpose of the JumpStart program is to give eligible entrepreneurs their initial Web presence as well as the skills to update their Web site.

To learn more about the JumpStart program, visit the JumpStart Web site.