Plaid at SXSW Interactive

Mar 16
Me and the boss at our first Monday panel.

Me and the boss at our first Monday panel.


9 months ago
Austin at night.

Austin at night.


9 months ago
Mar 15

Regional Whuffie Building: Attracting Innovation to Your City


Panel description:
It used to be a given that you need to move to center like Silicon Valley to have a successful startup. Not so much anymore. This panel is about the people who are creating centers of innovation all over North America and how they are doing it.
Panelist(s)  Tony Bacigalupo (Co-founder, New Work City), Geoff DiMasi (Principal, P’unk Avenue), Julie Duryea (Owner/Founder, souk (coworking)), Susan Evans (Co-founder & Owner, Office Nomads), Matthew Wettergreen (Founder, Caroline Collective)

See the Twitter stream for this presentation:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=whuffie
Links to items discussed in the  presentation: http://bit.ly/whuffielinks


What’s a Whuffie:
The currency of the future.
Roughly equivalent to social capital

Ideas and concepts discussed on the panel:

Coworking space: it’s not a business. Not the goal. Goal is to improve the city that you live in.

If I make the city better, my business will be better.

Hold free events monthly, geared toward designers. Panels that talk about the industry from people in the market.

Adopt international programs, like Ignite (IgnitePortland)

It only takes ten people to make an innovation center. Start simple.

Suggested book: Better Together

9 months ago

Scott monty from Ford shows off what will be the official vehicle for the Plaid summer tour!

Scott monty from Ford shows off what will be the official vehicle for the Plaid summer tour!


9 months ago
Facebook developers garage. Lots and lots of geeks. Not a single girl.

Facebook developers garage. Lots and lots of geeks. Not a single girl.


9 months ago
Darryl and missy give vodka gimlets two thumbs up.

Darryl and missy give vodka gimlets two thumbs up.


9 months ago
SLO crew shows us how it’s done.

SLO crew shows us how it’s done.


9 months ago
Big red. The choice beverage if you’re not drinking beer with BBQ.

Big red. The choice beverage if you’re not drinking beer with BBQ.


9 months ago