Biz Conf

Uzi Shmilovici

After serving 5 years in the Israeli army as an intelligence unit commander, Uzi founded Netcraft, a leading web design and development agency. The agency focused on providing high profile web projects for top clients in Israel and the US. He brought the company to $1.5M in revenues, employing 30 full time employees to sell it in the end of 2009. During this time Uzi also served as the local leader for The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) and director for innovation for the Usability Professionals Association (UPA). In 2008, TheMarker, the leading business newspaper in Israel, chose him for the list of “The top 40 Israeli web professionals.”

Recently, Uzi moved to Chicago and founded Future Simple Inc with a mission to create simple and intuitive business software for small businesses.

Company: Future Simple

Presentations at BizConf

• Growing and Selling your Web Agency

  Friday, August 06, 2010 at 2:00 PM

  What does it take to grow a healthy and profitable web agency? What are the mistakes that you want to avoid? Which companies might acquire a web agency? Why would they do so? Should you sell it anyway? After founding and managing a web agency for 7 years, Uzi has sold his company at the end of 2009. In this talk Uzi will share the fundamentals of creating a great web agency, the mistakes he did along the way and the secrets for creating long lasting value for your firm, whether you want to grow it substantially or sell it eventually.

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