Everyone's heard the adage that you manage what you measure, and so we all understand that it's important to pick business metrics that encourage the right kind of growth.

Our third Dent Dinner, hosted in partnership with Buck, was an absolute blast. The evening began with Denters getting picked up around Manhattan and Brooklyn by drivers in an assortment of cool 4G-LTE hotspot equipped vehicles (from Buick), and being whisked to Makerbot's impressive headquarters at One Metro Center.

We're very excited that the early lineup for Dent 2015 is looking so good... with presenters ranging from Pulitzer-Prize Winning Editorial Cartoonist David Horsey on creativity, to Lean Startup co-founder Sarah Milstein on growing

It was a blast to reconnect with Bay Area Denters last week for the first of our three Dent Dinners (the next two being in Seattle on August 19th and New York on September 18th).

Dent sponsor Oral-B will be joining us today at Tweet House SXSW (4,400 RSVPS!) for a special VIP and Dent-member wine tasting

It is very, very cool to see that Randi Zuckerberg has been cast in the Broadway musical "Rock of Ages," to run from March 14-28th, 2014.

Reshma Saujani, former New York City Deputy Public Advocate, founder of the nonprofit Girls Who Code, and member of the Dent Advisory Board, is launching a new book on October 8th titled Women Who Don't Wait in Line.

We're excited to announce a new addition to our speaker lineup this week. Mark Anderson, founder of the Future in Review (FiRe) conference and publisher of the Strategic News Service Global Report will join us at the Sun Valley Resort next March.