Tech~Surf~Blog

Jason Kintzler of PitchEngine Speaking in Twin Cities July 13

GraemeThickins — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:29:29 -0500

According to ace conference organizer Jen Kane of Kane Consulting in Minneapolis, it's now a "brave new world" in public relations. And to help managers of local businesses and PR practitioners alike better understand how "new hybrid media forms" are changing the game, she's flying in a national speaker who's an expert on the subject.

Called "PR 2.0: The New Tools of the Trade," the event will be held Monday July 13 from 8:00 am till 4:00 pm at the Westin Galleria, 3201 Galleria, in Edina, MN 55435. Jason Kintzler, founder and CEO of PitchEngine, is the keynote presenter. PitchEngine, based in Casper, Wyoming, is "a social media release service" that enables PR professionals to package stories and share them with journalists, bloggers, and influencers via the social web. (By the way, if you want to follow Jason, here's his Twitter page, which tells us he's also a former journalist, a graphic designer, a fly fisherman, and a snowboarder.)

Said Jen in announcing the event (she's pictured below, and that's colleague Kary Delaria at right), "If you’re in the business of sharing facts, telling stories, starting conversations, and monitoring dialogue about your company or client, this is stuff you need to know."

The conference will also feature eight breakout sessions reflecting the most cutting edge and innovative thinking on how to navigate this rapidly changing industry. I know most all these folks and can attest they know their stuff.

The breakout sessions include:

• "Using Social Media Behind the Firewall" - Gary Koelling, Best Buy, and Cameron Gross, GreaterThan Media, a consultant to Best Buy.
• "Pitching Using New Media Tools" - Eva Keiser, Senior Vice President, Risdell McKinney Public Relations.
• "Online Reputation Management" - Greg Swan, Digital Strategy Manager, Weber Shandwick Digital Communications.
• "Incorporating Podcasts and Video Into Your Marketing and PR Mix" - Albert Maruggi, founder of Provident Partners and Producer of the Marketing Edge podcast.
• "Self Publishing for PR" - Arik Hanson, ACH Communications/Chief Blogger, Communications Conversations.
• "How to Monitor Your Brand Through Social Media Channels" - Connie Benson, Chief Community Officer, Techrigy.
• "Optimizing Content of Press Releases and Beyond" - Jolina Pettice, Senior Account Manager, TopRank Online Marketing.
• "Small Brands. Big Results" - Blois Olson, Executive Vice President, Tunheim Partners.

In addition, there will be open lab periods where attendees can network with others and explore new online PR and marketing tools and applications.

The organizers tell me that remaining space is limited, but registration may still be available as you read this. To register and see the list of those attending to date, here's the PR 2.0 event registration page. You can also see the press release for the event here: a PitchEngine release, of course!

Can't make the event but still want to schmooze?

You're in luck. Kane Consulting also announced they're holding a "TweetUp" after the conference from 6:00 to 9:00 pm at Tavern on France! You may have seen some buzz about this on our local Social Media Breakfast (SMBmsp) site -- well, now it’s official. It's your chance to meet Jason Kintzler of PitchEngine and hob-nob with the local PR digerati. But you must RSVP here for the TweetUp. It's open to all. There’s no cost to attend this evening gathering, and you can simpy order food and drinks off the menu.

See ya there!

I'm Stoked! 'Coldwater Surf Fest' Is June 6th, Park Point, Duluth

GraemeThickins — Sat, 23 May 2009 23:41:03 -0500

(UPDATE 6/8/09: Here's my Flickr set from Friday night and Saturday, June 5-6. Alas, no waves on Saturday -- but we had fun, anyway! ... and a very successful Surfrider Foundation beach clean-up. Several surfers stayed on for waves forecast at 4-7 ft Sunday and Monday.)

It's that time again, surf fans! For the annual celebration of Lake Superior surf culture: Coldwater Surf Fest, brought to us by the Superior Surf Club. Time to gather for food, laughs, maybe a brew or two, and your chance to take a dip in the Big Lake They Call Gitchigumi. But, regarding the latter (unless you're just wading), do bring your 6-mil or 5-mil wetsuit, hood, booties & gloves, as one never knows what the water temp may be, even in June (let alone the air temps and wind). The surfers in the group, of course, will be hoping for big winds blowing out of the Northeast to produce rideable waves! Readers of this blog may recall I wrote about the 2007 Coldwater Surf Fest. And, for those of you who don't think surfing on Lake Superior is for real, here's a shot of our own Bob Tema surfing Stoney Point, north of Duluth:

Event Details:

FRIDAY NIGHT 6/5/09: Gather at Fitger's in Duluth for brews and grub, starting about 5:00 pm. (Map and directions.)

SAT MORNING 6/6/09 10:00 am: Beach clean-up at Park Point "First Turns" Beach, sponsored by the MN-Superior Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation. (Map and directions. Street parking available.)

SAT 6/6/09 NOON: Party! Pavillion at Park Point. BBQ, drinks, stories, trade/sell equipment, memorabilia. Raffle to benefit the Tom Blake Memorial: tickets $5. (More info on the Tom Blake Memorial.) Map and directions. Lots of parking available.

SAT EVENING 6/6/09: After-party at somebody's place.

SUN MORNING 6/7/09: Brunch at Pizza Luce's.

Come for part or all of the event -- stay as long as you can! I'm driving up Friday afternoon and staying over through Saturday. All are welcome: surfers, friends, relatives, spouses and kids, participants or spectators, and anyone who thinks they may someday want to take the plunge into surfing the Big Lake... whether that be regular surfing or stand up paddleboarding (SUP), as shown in these two pics from last year's event -- when, unfortunately, surf conditions were totally flat. (All photos of last year's event courteous Bob Tema. The guy in this shot actually teaches surfing at the U of MN-Duluth!)

Whatever the conditions, though, you will be guaranteed to have fun at CWSF! Bring a board and wet suit if you have one, or maybe you can borrow someone else's and paddle out! You'll meet great people, including many of the top surfers on Lake Superior, eat some good grilled grub and partake in some cold(!) libations, all the while enjoying the wonderful outdoors in our great State of Minnesota!

The Park Point peninsula is really a natural treasure, if you haven't experienced it yet: wide, sandy beaches, stretching out from the Canal Park bridge, which is the heart of Duluth's tourist center. Park Point is a thin strip of sand with beach houses and lake-front condos, reaching all the way out to a small airport at the end of the peninsula, adjacent to a great park that has a picnic pavilion, barbeque grills, even a beach concession building -- with birch and pine forest lining the wide stretches of pristine sand.

Well, it's pristine when people keep it that way! But we're out to do our part in that regard at this year's Coldwater Surf Fest -- because our new MN-Superior Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation is sponsoring a Beach Clean-Up the morning of the main event (Saturday, June 6). We'll take an hour or so to each don plastic gloves and grab a garbage bag to pick up trash and debris to ensure our favorite Duluth Beach is left better than when we got there! It's all part of giving back to our environment.

For more info on this year's Coldwater Surf Fest, just ask in the comments section of this post. Or visit the Superior Surf Club site -- where you can even order the limited-edition event T-shirt (long or short sleeve). Here are some more pix (again, courteous Bob Tema) from last year's event...

GlueCon 09: My Interviews with VCs Brad Feld and Seth Levine

GraemeThickins — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:05:43 -0500

While I was reporting from the first-year Glue Conference the past few days in Denver, I had the opportunity to interview two of the guys behind the scenes in launching and planning this great event: Brad Feld and Seth Levine, partners in VC firm Foundry Group, which is based in nearby Boulder, CO. (Actually, of the two, Seth was more involved in Glue, while Brad was the main guy behind launching a sister event called Defrag, which is held in the fall in Denver, the first one being in November 2007.)

I had noticed in the days leading up to Glue that Foundry Group had announced a new investment (Gist, whose founder was at Glue), then I saw two more investments they announced on their blogs while the event was going on (Medialets and CloudEngines). So, I decided to see if I could interview both Brad and Seth during breaks on Day 2 of Glue to learn about these latest new portfolio companies of theirs.

Brad (left photo) and Seth typify what I've called before The New Face of Venture Investing -- a post I actually did in December 2007, which specifically called out Brad. I've also written previously about Seth, in a post from June 2008 called The Best Advice I've Seen Lately on Using Startup Advisors. They are both really nice guys, wicked smart, and doing great work helping many entrepreneurs build successful startups in a place that...well, is not Silicon Valley. Yes, they've proved in spades that it can be done. And, unlike your typical VCs, they do believe in investing outside their own backyard -- as is the case with all three of their latest investments. Sure, many of their portfolio companies are in Colorado, where a lot of innovation is going on (which they're involved in on a day-to-day basis -- including the TechStars program, which they helped launch). But they're also smart enough to know great ideas and great teams can live anywhere. I love the way they get involved in these events of theirs -- they're right in the middle of it all, very much a part of the "community" that each of these events they've launched really has become. It doesn't take long to realize that both these guys are "people persons" through and through.

I spoke with Brad first, about the Gist investment, which had been announced the week before, and in particular about the investment they had just announced early that morning, on Day 2 of Glue: CloudEngines.

• Download the MP3 of my interview with Brad Feld.

Later the same morning, I spoke at greater length with Seth, primarily about Foundry Group leading a $4M Series A investment in Medialets, which had been announced on Day 1 of Glue. We also spoke a bit about an earlier investment of Seth's in the advertising space, AdMeld.

• Download the MP3 of my interview with Seth Levine.

For more about the Glue Conference, see my Twitterstream for the past three days. I must have tweeted darn-near a couple hundred times! And I saw this morning after I was back in Minneapolis that conference organizer Eric Norlin said he'd just read through all the tweets on the event -- 62 pages total! You can find the whole shebang by going to search.twitter.com and entering "gluecon" in the search box. It was a very successful event by all accounts. I'm really happy I was part of it, and have already said I'll sign up for next year!

MN Startups: Sharpen Up Those Business Plans! The ‘Minnesota Cup’ Deadline Is May 22

GraemeThickins — Sun, 10 May 2009 19:01:36 -0500

Attention all Minnesota startups and would-be startups: only a short time remains to enter the statewide business-plan competition known as The Minnesota Cup — applications are due Friday, May 22, 2009.

Now in its fifth year, the competition is bigger and better in 2009, with more prizes and more opportunities to win. The total amount of winnings this year was upped to more than $130,000. And the competition was expanded to now include six divisions — Clean & Green, BioSciences, High Tech, Social Entrepreneur, General, and Student. The first-place winner stands to win as much as $40,000. But I submit the money isn’t everything — the publicity and connections the winners get from this competition are worth far more.

The MN Cup, in more than doubling its prize money, stands in sharp contrast to a national study that recently reported angel investment dollars were down 26% in 2008. Yes, Minnesota entrepreneurs should take heart — seed funding is actually on the rise in this case! And many more founders can now participate in this competition with its newly added business categories.

Twin Cities Business magazine did a story on the 2008 MN Cup winners.

MN Cup 2008 winners. (Photo: Twin Cities Business)

And here’s their story on the 2007 winners.

MN Cup 2007 winners. (Photo: Twin Cities Business)

So, What’s in Store for 2009?
How many entrants can we expect this year, and how might this year’s crop differ? I asked Scott Litman, one of the MN Cup cofounders. “Submissions appear to be running at a similar pace to last year. With the six divisions being a new thing, the most popular category at this point is Clean & Green — we’re seeing nearly 30% of all entries in that division.”

Does he expect a rush of entries as the deadline approaches? “In our past experience, nearly a third of all submissions occur in the final 48 hours,” said Litman.

To apply for the competition, just visit www.minnesotacup.org and click on “Enter MN Cup.” Get this: there’s no cost! Zip, nada! So, all you bootstrappers out there — why wouldn’t you? The entry process, in it entirety, is via an online form, which you can save and come back to at a later time to complete the process.

“While we realize it’s natural to procrastinate, we strongly encourage entrants to set up their accounts and work on their entries sooner rather than later,” said Litman. “At the very least, it helps avoid any last-second technical issues — and, more importantly, entrants can edit or revise their submissions as much as they like, right up until the deadline. So, entering earlier gives them more time to refine and improve their entry.”

I asked Litman how many entries there were last year, and if he expected even more this year. “We had 844 total participants last year, which was by far our biggest year. Our goal is to get a similar level of participation this year. We believe, based on the current pace of entries, that this is about where we’ll end up.”

So, when do the judges/reviewers actually start looking at the submitted applications? Litman: “The deadline is midnight on 5/22, and we begin reviewing entries on the 23rd.”

Note to Tech Entrepreneurs Especially: Get Busy!
One other comment of Litman’s really struck me: “I’m not sure why, but the least well represented category so far for entries is high tech. At one level, it means we need more of these entries, but it also means that, for those that enter and write a really good plan, the odds of moving on to the second round are pretty good.” So, there you go, all my tech entrepreneur, inventor, and developer friends out there — have at it!

Here are a couple of the most common questions company founders ask about the MN Cup, with answers from the site’s FAQ page:

What Happens If My Application Gets Past the First Round?
There will be as many as 30 entries that move on to the semi-final round. At that point, you will have six weeks to put together a much more detailed and thorough plan. Notification will occur on June 20 with the second-round submission due by July 28. To assist you in your efforts, you will be provided with access to the James J. Hill premium membership program (HillSearch), the most powerful business information resource available to individuals.

How Will My Entry Be Judged?
Entries will be judged on the following criteria:

• Innovation: An idea can be for a product or service and can be an entirely new idea or the evolution of a previous idea. Ideas that show the greatest innovation will be viewed more favorably.

• Viability: Can this idea be commercialized within two years? Can this idea create or serve a market need? What is the entrant’s strategy for making the idea into a high-growth business? Judges will be evaluating ideas on their potential to generate revenue, profits and employment.

• Quality of Presentation: This is a secondary criteria, but please make sure that all content is well written and clear. As the competition progresses, quality of presentation will factor in more substantially.

Any resident of Minnesota can submit his or her breakthrough business idea simply by visiting www.minnesotacup.org. I’ve had the good fortune to work with a winning startup in a prior year (actually, before the name was changed to the MN Cup), and am working with an entrepreneur this year to help him with his entry — and I can attest: you will not be sorry you participated in this experience. Whether you win isn’t the most important thing. This is an extremely well run competition, in every way. The process itself will make you a better entrepreneur, guaranteed. But don’t just take my word — read this post from a previous winner, HealthSimple’s Doug Powell: Business Competitions — An Ongoing Discussion. And these testimonials from past entrants are also quite telling.

Good luck to all Minnesota Cup entrants! I look forward to meeting at least all the semi-finalists at a special event for them this summer (to be announced).

Upcoming Event to Focus on the ROI of Digital Marketing

GraemeThickins — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:37:10 -0500

A Twin Cities event for senior executives and marketing professionals has been announced by long-standing Minneapolis web marketing firm Ciceron. Entitled Radical ROI: Seizing the Potential of the Digital Marketplace, the half-day panel will be held Monday, May 11, 2009, from 8:00 to 11:00 am at the Midland Hills Country Club in St. Paul.

The event offers attendees a chance to hear how a panel of local business leaders have transformed their organizations to thrive in the digital marketplace -- and I am privileged to be one of those panelists:

• Paul Douglas: CEO, Weather Nation (and former chief meteorologist, WCCO TV)

• Jan McDaniel: CEO, JTM Vision (and former CEO, American Red Cross Twin Cities)

• Phil Hotchkiss: Founder, BigCharts.com

• Joel Kramer: Founder, MinnPost.com (and former Publisher, Minneapolis Star-Tribune)

• Graeme Thickins: Founder, GT&A Strategic Marketing

• Andrew Eklund: CEO, Ciceron Digital Marketing

A special reduced rate of $195 per person is available till May 3 at this registration page, with a group rate of only $395 for up to five people from the same organization.

Ciceron is a web marketing and consulting agency based in Minneapolis. It offers full-service solutions from professional search engine optimization and email marketing programs to in-depth metrics and performance tracking. Its clients have included such major brands as Home Depot, Nascar, USBank, Andersen Windows, Best Buy, Target, and Pepsi. For more about Cicero, check out their about page, their full client list, and here are their management bios.

I hope to see you at "Radical ROI: Seizing the Potential of the Digital Marketplace" on May 11. Again, use this registration page before May 3 to get those preferential rates.

How to Get Buzz for Your Startup Launch: Write a Book!

GraemeThickins — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:38:32 -0500

Okay, not everyone can pull this off. But one experienced Minneapolis tech entrepreneur, George Reese, is doing it in a big way with a new book on "cloud computing." What's cloud computing, you ask? Did you just come out from under a rock? If you're involved in any way in IT, even on the fringes of it, you've been blasted for months with an almost endless amount of media coverage and discussion about this topic -- a recent example being on the front page of The Wall Street Journal the other day. Even most casual Internet users are now aware that many of their consumer web apps are accessed "in the cloud," as opposed to being software they install on their own computers. Google's Gmail is probably the best known example of that.

George Reese is cofounder of a new Minneapolis startup, enStratus, and is right smack in the middle of all the buzz. Thanks to his new book, which he worked on for six months, he's in a great position to help clear the air surrounding a lot of the cloud computing hype that's flying around out there now. He's especially interested in helping enterprises that are looking to take advantage of the economic benefits of this form of corporate IT.

On April 10, George's new book will be released by O'Reilly Media: "Cloud Application Architectures: Building Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud." And here's the Amazon link. It's now available at both these links for pre-ordering. I've known George since 2006, in relation to his previous startup, Valtira (a SaaS marketing platform), from which enStratus is being spun out. (I also know David Bagley, the CEO of Valtira, who's the other cofounder of enStratus.) I thought it would be fun to get George's thoughts about this uber-hot topic of cloud computing, and hear the story behind his book. This is an interview I conducted with him earlier this week, which first appeared on the cloud computing site Cloud Ave. and, later, on our own Minnesota tech news site, Minnov8.

Graeme: How long have you been involved with cloud computing, and what made you decide to write this book?

George: I suppose that depends on what you mean when you say "cloud computing." I've been developing SaaS systems for the past five years, but got into Amazon Web Services and Infrastructure as a Service in late 2007 when my company Valtira needed an alternate approach to a high-availability infrastructure. During this time, I've developed a body of experience in putting transactional database applications into the Amazon Cloud. My editor at O'Reilly, with whom I've written several books in the past, heard I was doing cloud work and asked me to put together a book on the subject.

Graeme: Why is cloud computing gaining adoption like it is? What is its attraction? We know Internet and IT startups love it, but do you think it will catch on in any significant way with larger enterprises?

George: The primary attractions to cloud computing are cost and flexibility. Cloud computing enables you to build out a world-class IT infrastructure with no up-front capital investment and pay for the growth of your infrastructure as the business it is supporting grows.

I believe enterprise IT has a strong need for the benefits of cloud computing, but they have higher expectations with respect to reliability and scalability than startups. My company enStratus is all about dealing with these two concerns for enterprise IT, and I talk a lot about that in the book.

Graeme: For what types of readers did you primarily write the book? What will they get from it that they can't get elsewhere?

George: The book is for people tasked with making the move into the cloud and guiding them through that move. I start by establishing what the cloud means from my perspective and what its value is to an organization. The book covers how you evaluate what makes sense to move into the cloud and, once the decision is made, the security, availability, and disaster recovery planning necessary to operate at an enterprise level in the cloud.

Graeme: Do you deal in the book with the issue of choosing a cloud computing provider? In not, why not? Do you attempt to compare providers?

George: No. Anything I might say in the way of a comparison would be out of date by the time the book hit the shelves. Jeff Barr from Amazon reviewed the book for technical accuracy, and E.J. Johnson from Rackspace and Randy Bias from GoGrid both provided appendices describing their offerings.

Graeme: What are some of the other key issues you deal with in the book, such as security and reliability of the cloud? And what does the book deliver that's not available elsewhere?

George: Given my role at enStratus, cloud security and reliability are obviously key concerns of mine. I spend an entire chapter on security issues and cover how to architect your applications for maximum availability throughout the book. I have not seen much of this kind of talk available on the Internet; mostly warnings about how security and availability are things you should worry about.

Graeme: Readers of the book will also learn about the management tools you have developed for use in your own company, Valtira, which offers a SaaS marketing platform. Please tell us how those tools led to the formation of a separate, spinoff company.

George: Valtira was looking to build out a new service offering that required a high-availability infrastructure. We priced out a managed services infrastructure to support our needs, but that proved too costly for a new product offering. We then turned to the Amazon cloud to see if it would meet our needs. We ran into a number of obstacles along the way. Some of these obstacles have since been addressed by Amazon through new service offerings like Elastic Block Storage. For other obstacles, we built out tools to take care of things. It turns out that people who were not Valtira customers really wanted our tools, so we spun them out into enStratus.

Graeme: You began working on the book many months ago. The release of the book seems now to be right at a time of intense focus on cloud computing, undoubtedly driven in part by current economic conditions. What's your take on all the hype?

George: Cloud computing is the most disruptive technology to hit business since the Web. It's not hype. Like any disruptive technology, however, there's a lot of misinformation flying around. To make matters worse, every person has a different internal definition of "the cloud" that frames their discussions on the subject. So, the hype is warranted, but everyone needs to pay particular attention to context and definitions in their discussions.

Graeme: With the book's release, your speaking schedule is naturally heating up. Please tell us where people can find you in coming weeks and months.

George: Well, first, I'll be presenting at CloudCamp in New York City on April 1. Following that, O'Reilly has a webcast on "Getting Started with Amazon Web Services" scheduled for April 8. In Minneapolis, I'll be speaking at the Minnesota High Tech Association's spring conference on April 15, and then at CloudCamp Minneapolis/St. Paul on April 18 at the U of MN. Recently, my company enStratus was chosen as a presenting startup at the Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, CA, on April 24. The following month, I'll be speaking on the topic of information privacy and security in the cloud at the Glue Conference in Denver on May 12. Then it's off to London, where I'll be speak on May 15 at WebTech Exchange 2009 on the topic of hardening an EC2 infrastructure.

Graeme: That definitely qualifies as a whirlwind, George! Thanks for taking some time to tell us about your book, and I look forward to seeing you at some of these upcoming events.

By the way, follow George on Twitter @GeorgeReese and his company's tweets @enStratus.

(Disclosure: the author has a consulting relationship with enStratus.)

DEMO 09 - A Closing Conversation With Some Buddies...

GraemeThickins — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:24:25 -0600

Talk about an impromptu podcast! This is kind of a "DEMOgang" thing, as it were...with my longtime buddy Steve Larsen, a serial starup founder and former CEO of Krugle Inc. (just acquired), which he debuted at DEMO '06 ... Eric Haus, a product manager at Zuora ... and another buddy, Chris Gammill, who's a startup advisor in LA and had previously been with a DEMO presenting company, in '07; he was attending DEMO this time with TechZulu.com, which did video coverage. The four of us just happened to converge to the same table in the midst of some of the Pavilion stations to unwind with a glass of wine -- and we ended up having a very fun, weird, rambling bull session on everything from startups, to chemistry experiments, to motorcycles -- totally ad hoc stuff, and the discussion ended up being my longest podcast recording of the whole event! Yikes -- a 10-meg MP3! At one point, one of the guys asked if I was going to edit it, and I said, hell no, I don't have time for that. So, here, friends, the full, uncut version... (In the photo, left to right: Chris Gammill, Erik Haus, and Steve Larsen.) What a way to end another great DEMO!

Tech~Surf~Blog

Jason Kintzler of PitchEngine Speaking in Twin Cities July 13

I'm Stoked! 'Coldwater Surf Fest' Is June 6th, Park Point, Duluth

GlueCon 09: My Interviews with VCs Brad Feld and Seth Levine

MN Startups: Sharpen Up Those Business Plans! The ‘Minnesota Cup’ Deadline Is May 22

Upcoming Event to Focus on the ROI of Digital Marketing

How to Get Buzz for Your Startup Launch: Write a Book!

DEMO 09 - A Closing Conversation With Some Buddies...

DEMO 09 - Closing Interview With Chris Shipley

DEMO 09 - Interview With DEMO Presenter Xmarks

DEMO 09 - Interview With DEMO Presenter Primal Fusion

DEMO 09 - Interview With DEMO Presenter AppZero

DEMO 09 - Interview With DEMO Presenter Skout

DEMO 09 - Interview With DEMO Presenter BitGravity

DEMO 09 - Interview With DEMO Presenter Silverstone Solutions

DEMO 09 - Interview With DEMO Presenter Jadoos

DEMO 09 - Interview With DEMO Presenter 7 Billion People

DEMO 09 - Interview With Cazoodle: Future DEMO Presenter?

DEMO 09 - Interview With DEMO Presenter Always Innovating

DEMO 09 - Interview With DEMO Presenter Gwabbit

DEMO 09 - Interview With DEMO Presenter Ensembli

DEMO 09 - Interview With Christine Herron, First Round Capital

DEMO 09 - Opening Reception, Interview 8: Coveroo

DEMO 09 - Opening Reception, Interview 7: Sobees

DEMO 09 - Opening Reception, Interview 6: Gazaro

DEMO 09 - Opening Reception, Interview 5: Mike Garity

DEMO 09 - Opening Reception, Interview 4: Golden Capital Network

DEMO 09 - Opening Reception, Interview 3: Zuora

DEMO 09 - Opening Reception, Interview 2: Carla Thompson, Guidewire Group

DEMO 09 - Opening Reception, Interview 1: Ami Kassar, Advanta

DEMO '09 Presenters Announced - Best Damn Gig Goin' In This Economy, and I'm There!