George Deeb:  

George is the Founder and Managing Partner of Red Rocket. George has consulted hundreds of startups since launching Red Rocket. George has a very deep base of relationships in the startup, digital and venture community, in Chicago and nationwide. George desires to help other B2C and B2B entrepreneurs navigate through their start-up, fund raising or other business issues. George’s skills are particularly deep in strategy, corporate development, business development, fund raising, financial planning, sales, online marketing, e-commerce and online media/monetization. As author of 101 Startup Lessons-An Entrepreneur's Handbook, George is also an entrepreneurial blogger at Crains Chicago and featured speaker/mentor for many startup-related organizations. George was recently named to the Crains Tech 50 List in Chicago and was a finalist for "Mentor of Year" by Built in Chicago, for his efforts at Red Rocket. From 2009-2010, George was the CEO of MediaRecall, a B2B digital video services and technology business. George lead the sale of the business to Deluxe in February 2010 at up to a 10x return on invested capital. George helped to build a $25MM sales pipeline from big brand entertainment clients and cut a strategic...Expand for more