Published on March 4, 2008
in Events.
Last week I lucked out and got a ticket to go to the 2008 Georgia Technology Summit thanks to Lance Weatherby and the folks down at ATDC (I’ve been begging, to no avail, for one for a while).
I was going to write a long post about what I thought was right and wrong with the event. Fortunately both Lance Weatherby and Scott Burkett did that job for me. I will chime in on the whole video thing (Lance railed on this last year as well). I think it’s really silly to have a videotaped intro done by someone who is in the audience. Not only that, this same person will come up to the podium after the video shows. Generally, people use video for including individuals that can’t make it to the event. And if you are going to do something silly like this, the presenter should be well rehearsed and have a smooth presentation. One can forgive a presenter stumbling when they present in person but you can re-record a video as many times as is necessary to get a smooth presentation.
Speaking of in-person presentations, John Imlay was an outstanding speaker. Of course, if I were European I’m not sure I would have appreciated a number of his jokes but for us Americans the talk was great. This talk alone made the trip to the Summit worthwhile. As an added bonus I can now say that John Imlay is in fact a real person since so few people have ever seen the man. He does exist and he is absolutely hilarious.
Personally this was a great event for me because it shows what should and shouldn’t be done at a pitch event. I’m taking these lessons and will incorporate them in the event I’m working on. More details soon!
I know, I know. This blog is starting to become an Appcelerator fan boy site. What can I say? Jeff Haynie and crew are hitting on all cylinders. I even opted to not talk about the latest addition to Appcelerator’s advisory board just to ease off some. But Jeff isn’t making this easy.
The folks at Appcelerator (and Jeff himself) have announced that they made the Top 10 of TAG’s Most Innovative Technology Companies in Georgia. At the TAG Summit on Wednesday Jeff is going to do a three minute pitch about his company (hmmm.. three minutes.. interesting amount of time - keep that in mind because you’ll be seeing that number again in a future post).
Too bad I can’t make the summit. Speaking of which, you probably won’t see any posts from me between Wednesday and Sunday this week. I’m occupied with some folks who are in town and we’ll be doing some crazy meetings while they’re here. I’ll post details about this on my personal blog since it isn’t startup, entrepreneurship, or fund raising related.
Oh yeah, congratulations to Jeff and the Appcelerator crew. Blah, blah, blah… :-)
Published on February 16, 2008
in Angels.
Most of you have probably seen this news but I thought I’d mention it. Sig Moseley, the head of Imlay Investments, is going to be inducted into the Technology Hall of Fame of Georgia (is there really no website for the hall of fame?). Under Sig’s watch, Imlay did a phenomenal investment into ISS which is probably their most well known exit. Sig has been fairly well involved in the local community and I must say one of the few local investors who has a Facebook account. The award will happen at TAG’s annual technology summit on February 27th. Congratulations Sig!