As part of a three person team for my friend's company, I will be happily attending
Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Week for Windows Azure @ Atlanta 09Nov09
We are glad to be able to participate in this program, both for the help in coding and for the perks involved:
"The Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Week for Windows Azure will be held at Microsoft Technology Center, Atlanta, GA from Mon 11/09/2009 to Fri 11/13/2009. This event consists of ½ day of training, 3 ½ days of active prototype/development time, and a final day for packaging/finishing and reporting out to a panel of judges for various prizes."
FandomU, the aforementioned company that I'll be representing, is an innovative new social media network for fans who attend conventions, focusing on anime initially and moving into other realms. The networking aspect, links to conventions around the country, and collective marketplace will all serve to drive the business forward and create value.
More details about the competition can be found here:
Yay!
~Jess~
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It's a pretty cool deal, we beat out a number of other companies who were nominated, and the grand prize is capital and support from Microsoft and a trip to California for the awards.
Sitting in the first day of Incubation Week right now, it's very interesting. A few of the startups here sounds really interesting, including one that is attempting to take message-oriented middleware entirely to the cloud for certain products they are developing. There are 25,000 BizSpark companies world-wide, I'll probably post a full post recap sometime in the week with pictures and what information I'm allowed to share.
Everybody here needs to ask Jess about this project, because it's the coolest thing going on in the world right now. Jess has been keeping me updated on this project, and things are really progressing nicely with her venture. She's even stealing Rahul etc's idea with the prezi.com presentation and doing some web design. If she wins, she gets all sorts of funding for the momo - and I'm sure some kickbacks will come her way eventually.
Good luck Jess, kick butt. Keep us posted.
Lol, actually it's my friend's company (which is linked to MomoCon in a lot of ways), but it IS pretty awesome. I get to wow them with the presentation on Friday morning. =) Might win an xbox or venture capital, either way I like it!
MS has done a lot of work to promote its platform. Azure is a good practice project or assignment for system integration course, well, maybe better for a web application development course. I think I will consider something like this in the future. Thanks for the information.
Saw your pic there, Jess.
If someone took Jess's picture and posted it, her ego just inflated tenfold and we're all in trouble.
Heh, it was pretty fun, and I got an interview for a job out of it, so I consider it pretty successful for me. I'll post the link to our interview and demo which should come up on Channel 9 or the BizSpark page soon.
Jess...we should be proud of you.. . You are becoming popular like Jimmy..
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