Yesterday the Washington's State Association (WSA) started accepting applications for their annual Investment Forum that happens in April. Different from previous years, they joined forces with the Alliance of Angels to get more early-stage companies showcasing their new idea to investors.
This is not the place to present your company if all you have is an idea, but if you have a beta product or is about to launch a beta product on the next 6 months or so, this might be a great opportunity to get to present to a bunch of investors at once.
From my own (painful) experience, talking with investors takes a lot of time and resources and if you can give a presentation to several investors at once is definitely a time saver. The flip side is that if you screw up your presentation you screw up for all of them at once. To prevent that, make sure you presented to a least 2 investors (at separate occasions) and get their feedback so you can adapt the presentation/pitch to what investors are more interested in knowing.
Anyway, the deadline to submit your application is February 8. Leah Van Zee (lvanzee at-wsa.org) is the event organizer and can answer specific questions not addressed at the site.
Event: The 13th Annual Industry Achievement Awards [link]
Date: Thursday, February 7, 2008
Time: 5:00 - 9:00 PM
Venue: Westin Hotel, Seattle
Price: Until Jan/17: Members $115, non-memembers $195. After Jan/17: Members $145, Non-members $230
Presenters: Awards will be given on the following categories:
- Breakthrough Technology of the Year: Next IT, TravellingWave, Zumobi
- Business Product of the Year: Bio Password, Tableau Software, Formotus
- Consumer Product or Service of they Year: Picnik, Redfin, Yapta
- Service Provider of the Year: Slalom Consulting, GrapeCity, Ramp Group
- Technology Innovator of the Year: Fred Brown (Next IT), Bryan Mistele (Inrix), Brian Roundtree (SNAPin)
- Best use of Technology in the Goverment Non-Profit or Education Sector: eCityGov Alliance, King County District Court and Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
- Technology Leader of Tomorow: Jeniffer Chen, William Yip, Travis Duell.
Joe McCarthy of InterRelativity made a great suggestion. Why not create a list of links with great content for entrepreneurs and startups? And here it is.
The list has only one link so far (which was suggested by Joe BTW) and I'm sure you know of at least one or two great articles or blog posts you've read on the past that deserve to be on that list. If you do, send it to me at marcelo@sampa.com.
Here is another exclusive for Seattle 2.0 readers...
Sun Microsystems is hosting an all day event next Wednesday (Jan/16) in Bellevue with Scott McNealy to talk about their products and roadmap.
Here is their invite:
Sun Microsystems would like to extend a personal invitation to IT Executives of the Seattle 2.0 blog to participate in and attend an Executive Briefing that we are hosting in Bellevue next Wednesday January 16th 8a – 6:30p. This is an exclusive invite only event that we have the opportunity to host once annually in the Seattle area and is normally reserved for large Seattle accounts and their top IT Executives. We have been able to secure a few additional invites in support of our Start Up/Web 2.0 community in Seattle to demonstrate our commitment to the Start Up community. Our top Sun executives, including Scott McNealy – Chairman of Sun's Board will be presenting. There is no charge for the event and we plan it to be at capacity.
Please email Michael Katz ( Michael.katz@sun.com) for additional details and to register for the event. This event is not open to the press.
And the Agenda:
8:00-8:30 AM Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30-8:45 AM Executive Welcome
8:45-10:15 AM Sun's Corporate Vision and Strategy Brian Wilson, Distinguished Director & CTO - Market Development
10:15-10:30 AM Break
10:30-5:30 PM Hourly briefings from top subject matter experts on a number of topics by best in class presenters - includes a working lunch
10:30-11:30 AM Sun Storage Roadmap and Strategy Chris Wood, CTO Global Storage Practice
11:30-11:45 AM Break Bring Lunch back to room
11:45-12:45 PM x86 and x64 Strategy Tom Malak, x64 Specialist
12:45-1:00 PM Break
1:00-2:00 PM Solaris 10 Angel Comacho, Technical Marketing Manager
2:00-2:20 PM Break
2:10-3:10 PM UltraSPARC Nick Suh, Senior Field Development Manager, Systems Marketing
3:10-3:20 PM Break
3:20-4:20 PM Executive Conversation Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems Chairman of the Board
4:20-4:30 PM Break
4:30-5:30 PM Virtualization Serge Nadon, Solaris Ambassador
5:30-7:00 PM Wine and Cheese Reception
November, 2007
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