If you follow this blog you saw some mobile-posts yesterday, during the Early Stage Investment Forum. The event was good. There were about 30 companies presenting, and more than 300 attendees for the full-day event. I was told that about 100 those were accredited investors, Angel Investors or VCs.
They recommended that companies arrived at 6 AM (!!!) to set up their booth (a.k.a. 3-feed of a table against a wall). Paul and I decided it was insane. We are a software company and 6:00 AM doesn't exist on our clock. Paul got there at around 8:30 and I got there at around 9:00 AM.
I've met a ton of entrepreneurs, like Jon Clemens that founded Jakoba software, Meetul Shah from Knouen, Jordan Mitchell from Others Oline, Phil Cohen from Adapx, Peter Weiss from HyBlue, Allison Nelson from The Local Vine, and others.
Events like this always have their fair share of ex-Microsoftees, some are entrepreneurs, some are investors, some are looking for a startup to help, or are still working at Microsoft and desperate to quit and do something exciting.
On the VC side of things I've met Eric Monsowitz from Maveron, Rick Lefaivre from OVP, Tim Porter from Madrona, which was also the moderator of our presenting room. Meet a handful of angels that I won't disclose their name for now.
What is worth it? I have to wait a couple of weeks to tell you if anything good comes out of that, and by good I mean the 2-3 angel investors that we are looking for.
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. The event was good. There were about 30 companies presenting, and more than 300 attendees for the full-day event. I was told that about 100 those were accredited investors, Angel Investors or VCs.
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October, 2007