Web 2.0 - Great conference & a couple of awards

So blogging on a regular basis has been harder than i had imagined. We're in the middle of a ton of things at CleverSet including product development, implementing with large customers, high level partnerships and some interesting industry events, among other things.  We will have a bunch of news to announce during the next few weeks/months but i wanted to catch up on some big happenings.

We were selected to present at Launch Pad at the fabulous Web 2.0 Conference this week in San Francisco.  For those who haven't been to 2.0 before you should go - it is the best conference in our industry, hands-down - just take a look at the agenda!  John Battelle is a terrific guy who, along with Tim O'Reilly, does a great job interviewing the top people in the industry (this years first few included people by the last names of Zuckerberg, Murdoch, Ballmer and Whitman).  Given the company we were just thrilled to be included!

The Launch Pad was composed of six companies (of the 200+ who submitted to present). I will say that there was a ton of excitement and nervousness in the 'green room' prior to our presentations.  And it's no wonder - it's not that often that any start-up ceo gets the opportunity to present in front of 1,000+ people including the who's who within the press.  After running through my presentation a few hundred times I was really excited to get on stage and pitch our story.  It apparently went pretty well. After the six presentations the audience voted on four awards and we were fortunate to win two of them - "Best In Show" and "Most Likely To Exit First".  This was great validation for our company and we are thrilled with the awards and some of the coverage including Christine.net and TechCrunch and Wired.

A month ago we presented at the Zino Zillionaire event in Seattle.  There were 28 companies presenting and we were selected by the attendees as the "Best Investment Opportunity".  If you're a Seattle-based company looking to sell your story, i strongly suggest that you line up for a chance to present at Zino next year - the audience is terrific.

We've got a number of huge customer announcements to come in the weeks to come and will just have to save that for another post.

I'll be back before another two months passes...i hope/think!