Vol. 3: In this installment of Entrepreneurship 101, Professor Duff expounds on why he thinks you should always try to eliminate the need for outside capital and why you’ll always be better grinding it out on your own.

John Duffy, 3Ci’s founder and CEO, is a serial entrepreneur having started several businesses in a wide range of industries. He was asked to speak to a group of Florida Atlantic University students as part of their celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week. Entrepreneurship 101 is a break down of that panel discussion into topical segments meant to be informative and hopefully useful to potential entrepreneurs. Duff is not a professor he just plays one on TV so take his advice at your own risk.

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3Ci CEO John Duffy will join a group of distinguished speakers at the 2011 Mobile Marketing Strategies Summit in San Francisco, April 26-28. This event brings together some of the brightest and most innovative minds in mobile. The 2011 Mobile Marketing Summit will provide valuable information, through case studies, presentations and hands on workshops.

Duffy’s presentation is titled: Mobile Best Practices: Deploying a True Mobile Strategy. Fortune 1000 enterprises recognize mobile is a natural extension to many existing business and customer communication processes. Mobile has matured beyond being just a flashy marketing tool and has become an integral part of how businesses communicate, both internally and externally.

Duffy, using case examples of successful mobile integrations across various industries, will discuss how to best deploy a mobile strategy to create long term, recurring value for the enterprise and its consumers. He will also address what challenges to expect throughout the process.

Other featured speakers at the 2011 Mobile Marketing Summit include:

• Cameron Clayton, senior vice president, Weather Channel

• Ben Parr, co-editor, Mashable

• Jeff Merkel, director mobile, Google

• Jeremiah Owyang, partner, Altimeter Group

• Julie Ask, vice president and principal analyst, Forrester Research

• BJ Emerson, vice president technology, Tasti-D-Lite

• Linda Boff, global director marketing communication, GE

• Andrew Koven, president customer experience, Steve Madden

To learn more about the event visit the 2011 Mobile Marketing Strategies Summit website.

Vol. 2: There is an old saying “Never Do Business with Friends”. In Volume 2 of Entrepreneurship 101, Duff explains why he ONLY does business with his friends and why he would not be concerned telling people about a new idea for a business.

John Duffy, 3Ci’s founder and CEO, is a serial entrepreneur having started several businesses in a wide range of industries. He was asked to speak to a group of Florida Atlantic University students as part of their celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week. Entrepreneurship 101 is a break down of that panel discussion into topical segments meant to be informative and hopefully useful to potential entrepreneurs. Duff is not a professor he just plays one on TV so take his advice at your own risk.

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The 11th Annual International IHPM Health & Productivity Conference is taking place April 4-6, 2011 in Orlando, FL. 3Ci’s VP of Industry Relations, John Styers and Executive Director of Healthcare Solutions, Barry Hix will be in attendance to present on the panel: Mobile Technology and Health Improvement.

Nearly everyone in the US recognizes the inefficiencies of our healthcare system today. In 2012 it is projected that we will spend $3.1 trillion on healthcare, by 2016 that will increase to $4.3 trillion, or 20% of the U.S. GDP.

The world’s population is aging and expenditures for healthcare are increasing at an unsustainable rate. Technology companies in concert with innovative healthcare institutions are creating new approaches that will serve patients in a more cost- efficient manner.

This session will explore how mobile health (mHealth) can provide all the players in healthcare a means to connect with patients in a way never before possible. Allowing them to drive behavior changes and improve health outcomes while also addressing operational efficiencies and reducing wasteful spending.

Leading mHealth organizations 3Cinteractive, Rush Hour Digital and 4G Biometrics will present compelling use cases to illustrate how mobile is already being used to make healthcare more effective and efficient. The use cases will touch on using mobile to improve staffing efficiency, increase health education and drive compliance with diabetes treatment regimen.

For more information on IHPM text “IHPM“ to 34343 (Msg & Data Rates May Apply). The IHPM mobile program is powered by 3Cinteractive.

If you would like to meet John and Barry at the event, 3Ci will be in booth #7. Or if you would like to schedule a meeting at IHPM or learn more about 3Ci’s mHealth solutions, please email us at sales@3Cinteractive.com.

Leading mobile platform company founder, John Duffy recognized as a Palm Beach Ultimate CEO by the South Florida Business Journal.

Boca Raton, FL, (PRWEB) April 1, 2011– 3Cinteractive®, a provider of cloud-based mobile software and services for the Fortune 1000, is proud to announce that John Duffy was recognized by the South Florida Business Journal as a 2011 Palm Beach Ultimate CEO.

John Duffy is a serial entrepreneur with 25 years of experience in communications and payment processing. Prior to founding 3Ci, Duffy built several successful companies in a broad section of industries.  As founder and CEO of 3Cinteractive, Duffy is responsible for setting corporate strategy, driving revenue, and helping maintain the company’s key relationships with customers and vendors.

“South Florida is home to many innovative companies with great leadership so It is a real honor to be recognized as an Ultimate CEO by the preeminent business publication in our region,” said John Duffy, 3Cinteractive’s founder and CEO. “Receiving this award would not be possible without my fellow founders and the great team we have assembled to execute on our vision.”

This award puts Duffy in elite company.  Past South Florida Business Journal Ultimate CEO honorees include H. Wayne Huizenga, William Koch, and Dr. Phillip Frost.

Under Duffy’s leadership, 3Ci was ranked 28th on the 2010 Inc. 500 list of Fastest Growing Private Companies in the U.S. with three year revenue growth of 6,844%. 3Ci has also been recognized as the Fastest Growing Technology Company in South Florida and one of the Best Places to Work by the South Florida Business Journal.

To watch John’s lighthearted acceptance speech, check out the video below. To view pictures from the event held at The Breakers of Palm Beach, visit the 3Ci Facebook page.

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3Ci Co-founder and COO, Mark Smith was a featured panel speaker at the latest South Florida Technology Alliance (SFTA) event that tackled the imminent nightmare scenario of: The Internet is Running Out of Addresses- What Does that Mean to Your Business.

The panel addressed the issues facing the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 and answered the following questions:

• What are the business opportunities and challenges?

• What is the cost of not doing anything?

• What do we do next?

Ronnie Frames, director of net engineering at Peak 10, and Mark joined the discussion after an eye-opening keynote by John Curran, president and CEO of American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN).

As of February 2011 the last allotment of IPv4 addresses were allocated.  What’s an IP address? They’re numbers computers use to contact each other over the Internet. A solution was needed to ensure that every computer, mobile phone, car, gaming console, refrigerator, and any other Internet-connected device can talk to each other.

That solution is IPv6, which creates new addresses and greatly increase the number of available addresses, ensuring this communication nightmare never happens again.

IPv6 must be adopted for the continued growth of the Internet but with the transition comes growing pains, as IPv6 is not backwards compatible with IPv4. Everyone from the individual to enterprise companies, Internet service providers, equipment vendors and content and hosting firms will be affected. Planning for the transition and the wrath of complications that will surely follow is vital.

In just three short years, more people are expected to browse the Internet on their mobile device than on their desktop. Mark spoke about how the rapid adoption of smartphones helped hasten the end of IPv4 and how the mobile industry is dealing with the transition to IPv6.

Mark also noted how, as an entrepreneur, he recognizes “where there is pain, there is opportunity”. As the transition begins there will be many occasions for people with IPv6 knowledge to create businesses around professional services and transition assistance.

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About the SFTA

The SFTA promotes the growth, success and awareness of the regional technology community. Through events, networking, programs and education, SFTA provides South Florida’s technology-related companies, academic institutions, entrepreneurs, governments and related organizations with an active forum to grow the business of technology in our region.

In January, 3Cinteractive joined President Donna Shalala and her team at the University of Miami for the Global Business Forum. The 2011 Global Business Forum focused on the business of health care and served as a call to action for thought leaders and change agents from public and private sectors of healthcare.

The following white paper, Seniors, Mobile Technology, and Health Care:  Is grandma “hip” yet?, provides a review of 3Ci’s presentation at the Global Business Forum. The presentation was developed and delivered by Barry Hix, 3Ci’s Executive Director of Healthcare Solutions, who served as a speaker at the forum’s panel session on “Elderly Adopters: Older Adults and the Promise of Health Care Technologies”.

The paper examines the potential for mobile communication to serve as a relevant and powerful bridge to connectivity, to education, and to behavioral change across senior populations.

The primary questions addressed in the paper include:

• Are seniors utilizing mobile communication technology today?  Tomorrow?
• What are the clinical and economic implications of increased adoption of mobile technology?
• What are the forces driving the adoption of mobile communication across seniors?
• What does this mean for marketers of healthcare services to seniors?
• Should marketers of services to seniors begin thinking about their mobile strategy today?

To download the white paper click: http://3c.vg/senior