Eric Standlee

Eric Standlee, Principal and VP of Business Development and Bank Relationship Development with family owned Houston private funding firm American Prudential Capital, Inc., founded the on-line/off-line community InHouston which meets once a month every second Wednesday in Uptown Park. InHouston has grown from 6 people in February 2008 to 400+ at the meeting by June 2009. On-line the group on LinkedIn and their own social network InHouston.ning.com has grown to larger than 20,000 members and is part of the InCity Networks which is starting similar groups around the world.

Eric Standlee’s business

Eric Standlee has helped his family’s funding firm increase sales by more than $20 million in monthly numbers utilizing what he knows about social networking sites like LinkedIn. He speaks regularly at two or more venues about “Driving Revenue using Social Networking”. Eric Standlee is currently the host of internet “radio shows” including The Everything Networking show available for download free from iTunes. He has written and published a book on Amazon called “Alternative Funding” and is currently writing 4 more business books to come out soon. Eric Standlee‘s family’s private funding firm provides funding to growing commercial b2b companies.

Eric Standlee is also the founder of three acquisition holding companies in: Oil Field Services, IT Services, and Staffing. His most recent startup is Shale Oil and Gas Placement a division of InCity Placement LLC.

Funding

Alternative forms of funding corporate growth exist. In these troubled times, we need to look beyond the same old funding methods and learn the hard lessons from the misuse of inappropriate funding.

Firms can grow without limits, without giving up equity, without long-term debt.

Social Networking

There is a right way and a wrong way to utilize social networking sites like LinkedIn and Facebook to generate real revenue.

Servant Leader

Networking = hand out desperate salesie and pushy.

Servant Leader Netweaving = give first, pay-it-forward, golden rule interactions where giving always ends up coming back around to the giver.

Leveraged Buy Outs

In this depressed market, valuations are low and there is a lack of debt for buy outs. It is the perfect storm for some industries to see buyers buy up a whole sub-segment.

Eric Standlee

Leader, Speaker, Author and Owner