Sanjay Parekh & Start-Up Riot
May 21st, 2008 Posted in Community, Start-Ups
Sanjay Parekh is a Force of Good within the start-up community. Singlehandedly he organized Start-Up Riot; giving 55 ventures the opportunity to make their pitch for advice, talent, or dollars. On top of all that we heard from Drew Curtis, creator of Fark.com. Closing question by Dave Wright: Would you sell for the right price? Drew’s answer: Hell yeah!
Start-Up Riot was a great opportunity for me to meet in person a number of folks I’ve only followed on-line: Keith McGreggor, exercise freak Rob Kischuk, and Wei Yang. I enjoyed catching up with Todd Merrill, Duncan Freeman, and fellow gun nut Michael Mealling.
A number of our clients were at the event. Jungle Disk both presented and sponsored. My office just started using their services to back up our systems. Dave Wright and his crew come highly recommended.
Another client, Servinity, had a great presentation. Having worked in the restaurant industry early in my life I can appreciate how Servinity’s technology will make things easier for managers and employees.
I wasn’t able to see all the presentations as my day job got in the way. I missed seeing Josh Watts (Blue Violin) and several others. I also missed the after party, but am sure that there were some good photos to be had there. The ones I took are posted in the Photo Gallery. Congratulations again to Sanjay for a job well done!
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