It Was a Packed House

I am still coming off the high from last night.  There were the usual players and many many new people I haven’t yet met.  It is always exciting when I have the opportunity to meet that many new people in one night!  There was free beer, startups, and networking. How couldn’t that be fun?

A special thanks Bing, Foster Pepper and Blue Box Group, our three event sponsors for making the entire event possible!  Nathan Buggia at Bing talked about how entrepreneurs can leverage Bing to grow their business, Will Orndorff of Foster Pepper spoke to the legal needs of the startup community, and Jesse Proudman of Blue Box Group shared their scalable cloud hosting services.

With their support, we were able to have Gist, Mpire, Evenues, Viafo and Twilio present to the audience of well over 200.  There were some great presentations, but there can be only one crowd favorite award.  This time around it went to Twilio.  Congrats to Jeff and Danielle!

Also, it was great having Seattle 2.0 and Seattle Lunch 2.0 as Media Sponsors.  Without them we wouldn’t have been able to get the word out as much as we did.

Thanks to Randy Stewart for the photos (more photos at the link):

Your's truly haming it up for the crowd

Nathan Buggia at Bing kicks off the party.

TA McCann, CEO of Gist launches into the product demo.

The crowd is busy twittering the presentations to the audience at home.

Darren Austin, creator of the iPhone App Amplitude helps us choose the crowd favorite.

all photos are courtesy of (CC) Randy Stewart, blog.stewtopia.com.

If you want to see the online chatter about the event last night, feel free to check out the Twitter stream.