Okay folks, there is new news for the upcoming Startup Riot which is only 2 weeks (!) away.
First, I’ve opened back up applications to present. There are still limited slots remaining but I’ve had a lot of people asking me to look at this company or that as a favor. So to be fair, I’m opening up the application for everyone on the site. One change though - along with your application you must submit your four slides (details below) along with your application. Based on those slides I’ll decide if you get a slot to present or not.
So if you want to submit slides to possibly present here are the rules. Your slides can’t have any animation, audio, video, or anything else to make them anything but static slides. They also must be submitted in Powerpoint (PPT, not the new PPTX) format. My suggestion is to cover your team, your product/service, and what you’ve accomplished and/or what you plan on doing.
Second, details will be coming soon (next day or so hopefully) about the after-party. Yes, there is going to be an after-party for Startup Riot. It’ll start right at the end of the event at 5pm and probably run until 8pm or later (depending on the final venue). Regardless of where we hold this, it will be somewhere in Atlantic Station so everyone can walk from the conference to the party.
So plan on attending the after-party if you come to the event or even if you don’t. We’ve got an awesome sponsor for this part of the day and this should rock.
UPDATE: fixed my suggestion above to include what I actually suggest for your slides. It was cut off before. Whoops!
Published on February 19, 2008
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At a conference last December that I attended for a few minutes, I heard Tino Mantella mention a Venture Atlanta conference that they (they being the Atlanta CEO Council, the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, and TAG I think) were planning to hold this year. I held off discussing this event until they had a website which they now have.
I’m not entirely sure what the goal is here although the tag line implies that this conference’s goal will be to introduce (Georgia?) startups to venture investors. From the looks of the sponsorship package, the group is looking to raise a bit of money ($5k, $10k, and $20k sponsorships are available) - probably to pay for the facilities (it’s being held at the OMNI Hotel downtown).
As a little bit of a pre-announce, I’m hoping to organize a somewhat similar event this year. Some of the goals of this event will be the same as Venture Atlanta, but some will be vastly different. I’ll post additional details here as this develops.
Regardless, this increasing focus on the community and community building is certainly a great development and hopefully it’ll help spawn some great companies in Atlanta, the Southeast, and the East Coast.
Published on January 28, 2008
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SoCon 08 is filling up and about to breach the 200 mark. You just have a few more days to register. If you’re going to go, better go and register right away!
Published on January 15, 2008
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91 spots are now taken for SoCon 08 (although the participant list only shows 46 people). Unfortunately I’m not going to be able to make the dinner on Friday evening but I’ll be there on Saturday. They’re also looking for additional sponsors so if you are willing, make sure you contact the organizers.
Thanks to a post by Jeff Haynie on SoCon 08, I realized there is a blog for the conference. Even cooler, there is a (automatically updated?) participant list posted as well. I recognize some of the names from events in town and a few from SoCon 07 last year. But there is a great number I don’t know. And that means this will be a great conference. Have you registered yet?
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