July 17, 2008

The July 17 membership meeting featured a presentation by Jeff Beamsley, President and founder of Hilgraeve Inc.  His Michigan company has a product that has shipped with every version of Windows for over 10 years, HyperTerminal. Jeff recently sold his privately held company (to a big Michigan IT company, no less) and his story about building software products, negotiating with Microsoft, and selling to a big company offers numerous business and life lessons for both prospective and experienced entrepreneurs.