The County Line BBQ Restaurant on Lake Conroe Presents its 2011 Texas Country Music Series

Houston, Lake Conroe, TX (PRWEB) February 14, 2011

On Friday, March 4, popular Texas musician Cody Johnson will kick off the 2011 Texas Country Music Series at The County Line BBQ Restaurant on Lake Conroe. Held every Friday night from March 4 through September 3, the music concerts run from 7:30PM 12PM on the restaurants beautiful waterfront patio stage; admission for the March concerts is $ 5 for adults; free for kids 12 and under. Music lovers can enjoy County Lines get it all over ya BBQ in the restaurant or outside on the patio, and are welcome by water or by land, with plenty of free boat docks and ground parking.

Seating is first come, first served; reservations aren't accepted. The restaurant will offer appetizers and drink specials on concert nights, in addition to the traditional, smoke-cooked Texas BBQ menu items prepared by County Line's Texas-bred battalion of grill masters. (FYI: County Line offers half-price appetizers and drink specials every weeknight from 4 - 7 p.m. Monday through Friday.) In case of inclement weather, the music concerts are moved inside.

The calendar so far for 2011 is:

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ControlScan Closes $3.5 Million in Series B Round and Adds New Board Members

Atlanta, GA (Vocus) June 30, 2010

ControlScan, Inc. (controlscan.com), the leading provider of PCI compliance for small merchants, today announced that it closed a $ 3.5 million Series B Round of funding. The round was led by Harbert Venture Partners, with C&B Capital also participating. Harbert Venture Partners and C&B Capital join Total Technology Ventures, which funded the companys Series A round. Proceeds from the new funds will be used to advance ControlScans technology and infrastructure initiatives and drive sales and marketing efforts.

As part of this investment, Tom Roberts, partner, Harbert Venture Partners, will join ControlScans Board of Directors. Roberts serves on the boards of Clarabridge, JackBe and WindChannel Communications. Harbert Venture Partners provides early growth stage capital to technology and healthcare companies in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States.

ControlScan also announced that Jack McDonnell will join the companys Board of Directors. Jack currently serves as CEO of Phoenix Managed Networks and was previously CEO of ExaDigm, PayLinx, and TNS, Inc. (NYSE:TNS), which he founded and took public. In addition, McDonnell is a director of DealerTrack (NASDAQ:TRAK) and CyberSource (NASDAQ:CYBS), which was recently acquired by Visa, Inc.

Small merchants are struggling to achieve compliance mandates related to the PCI Data Security Standard, said Tom Roberts. We see a large market opportunity for ControlScan to continue its efforts in partnering with acquiring banks and their independent sales organizations (ISOs) to deliver payment security solutions to small merchants. After tracking ControlScans tremendous momentum over the last eighteen months, we are excited to partner with management, TTV and C&B Capital to meet the security needs of merchants, ISOs and acquirers.

Over the last two years ControlScans seasoned management team has achieved substantial momentum working with acquiring banks and ISOs to manage PCI compliance programs for their small merchant portfolios to ensure maximum compliance rates. We are proud of our progress and are excited to have additional capital and our investors support to advance the key initiatives that will further accelerate our growth, said Joan Herbig, chief executive officer, ControlScan.

About the PCI Compliance Provider, ControlScan:

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, ControlScan is the leading provider of Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance and security solutions designed exclusively for small- to medium-sized e-commerce and retail merchants. ControlScan provides easy-to-use Web-based security solutions and a personal level of service that make it easy and cost-effective for these businesses to analyze, remediate and validate compliance. ControlScan is the solution of choice for small merchants and acquirers because it offers security solutions that are built specifically with the small merchant in mind, a personal level of service and the best results. Acquirers and other merchant service providers rely on ControlScan to manage PCI compliance programs for their entire merchant portfolios to ensure maximum compliance rates. For more information about ControlScan call 1-800-825-3301 or visit http://www.controlscan.com.

About Harbert Venture Partners:

Harbert Venture Partners provides early growth stage capital to technology and healthcare companies in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States. The HVP team combines substantial investment, advisory and operating experience with capital to assist entrepreneurs in successfully executing their growth plans. HVP operates from offices in Richmond, VA, Birmingham, AL and Gainesville, FL. For more information on Harbert Venture Partners, visit http://www.harbert.net/venture-capital/ or contact the firm at 804-782-3800.

About Croft & Bender and C&B Capital:

Croft & Bender LLC, based in Atlanta, Georgia, is an investment banking firm focused on providing M&A, private equity and financial advisory services to middle-market and emerging growth companies in the Southeast. The firm also sponsors the C&B Capital private equity funds, with $ 44 million under management. For more information on Croft & Bender, visit http://www.croft-bender.com or contact the firm at (404) 841-3131.

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Fab.com Secures $8.0 Million in Series A Financing Round

New York, NY (PRWEB) July 26, 2011

Today Fab.com, the rapidly growing website featuring daily design inspirations and flash sales at up to 70% off retail, announced that it has secured $ 8.0 million in Series A financing led by Menlo Ventures. Several existing investors also participated, including: First Round Capital, Baroda Ventures, The Washington Post Company, Fab.com's founder and CEO Jason Goldberg, SoftTech VC, SV Angel, Ashton Kutcher - Guy Oseary and A-Grade Investments, and Zelkova Ventures. A number of angel investors also took part including: Kevin Rose, Jon Anderson, Don Baer, Josh Kushner, Dave Morgan, Ben Ling, and David Tisch. Fab.com will use the funds to scale the business, grow its base of designers, expand sales categories, and build more community and engagement features.

Fab.com was launched in June 2011 by CEO Jason Goldberg, formerly of XING AG, socialmedian, and Jobster and co-founder and CCO Bradford Shellhammer, contributor to Dwell and formerly of Blu Dot and Design Within Reach. The Fab.com team is on a mission to enable everyone, everywhere to benefit from good design.

Fab.com is the only online flash sales site and social community devoted entirely to design. Fab.com launches new sales exclusively to its membership 7 days per week and each sale lasts for 72 hours. Fab.com sales provide a new platform for designers to reach a mass audience of consumers, across a wide range of categories including: furniture, lighting, art, kitchen, outdoors, jewelry, gadgets, bags, and items for the workplace. From kites to bikes to maps to iPad cases to planters to lunch boxes, Fab.com features unique design objects not found on other flash sale sites.

Membership is free but numbers are restricted in order to maintain exceptional prices. New members are accepted daily. Members also participate in the Fab.com Inspiration Wall, an online mood board where users upload, share, and comment on design inspirations.

Since launching on June 9, 2011, Fab.com has already struck a chord with design enthusiasts. More than 350,000 people have signed up for the service and its members place more than 1,000 orders per day. More than 50% of Fab.coms members have joined virally via e-mail invites and Facebook and Twitter share links. The website is adding more than 5000 new members per day in July.

Fab.coms founder and CEO, Jason Goldberg, said: Were truly humbled by the way so many people have embraced Fab.com. Our own greatest design is the Fab.com customer experience and were committed to making it better and better. This financing round will go a long way towards building out our vision as the worlds leading resource for design.

Prior to Fab.com, most designers lacked mass-scale means to reach consumers. The Fab.com website site has immediately become a powerful tool for designers, providing a platform for brand new product launches, outreach to a devoted and design minded purchasing base, and a source for them to quickly generate new customers and a high volume of sales. In fact, many suppliers are reporting more sales in a 3 day period on Fab.com than they would otherwise garner in 3 or even 6 full months.

I cant say enough about the platform that Fab.com has given us. Our work typically sells to a very small niche market of design enthusiasts, and our own reach can only go so far. Fab.com exploded our customer base and enabled us to reach an entirely new set of consumers, says Matt Bradshaw, one half of the Silva/Bradshaw design team, of their first sale with Fab.com.

Iconic graphic designer, Milton Glaser, whose first sale was part of Fabs launch day, was able to sell signed posters that would have otherwise never found their way into the hands of design enthusiasts around the country. Our experience working with the Fab team was terrific and enjoyable. There were none of the customary hassles or complexities. And we also made a lot of money, says Glaser, who after a first successful sale signed on for another sale in July.

About Fab.com

Fab.com is design. The Fab.com website offers daily design inspirations and sales of up to 70% off retail. Membership is free but numbers are restricted to maintain exceptional pricing. Members receive exclusive access to daily curated design sales featuring the worlds leading and emerging designers and manufacturers. Fab.com was founded in 2010 by serial entrepreneur Jason Goldberg, formerly of XING AG, socialmedian, and Jobster, with design industry veteran Bradford Shellhammer, contributor to Dwell and formerly of Blu Dot and Design Within Reach in New York, NY, along with Deepa and Nishith Shah in Pune, India and Veerle Pieters in Deinze, Belgium. Fab.coms headquarters are in New York, NY.

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