As many of you probably know, we’re running a large Web 2.0 event in London called The Future of Web Apps.
There is an exciting opportunity for web app startups to get on stage for a full 10 minutes in front of the entire audience. It’s called the Startup Spotlight and it’s an amazing PR opportunity.
There are only three spots left, so if you’re interested, please email our VP of Sales, Andrew Calvo on andrew at carsonsystems dot com. The cost is £5K.
Hope to see you there!
Andrew Dawson
January 15th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
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As a prospective audience member, I’m not sure I’d want to pay to see this.
LouderVoice Blog » £5k buys me a lot of developer hours or gets me to five conferences
January 15th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
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[…] I was excited for a very short period this evening when I spotted on Ryan Carson’s blog that there was an opportunity for web app startups to get on stage for 10 minutes in front of the entire audience of FOWA. There were only three spots left. I was just about to shoot off an email saying “me me me” when I spotted the final line “The cost is £5k”. […]
Lars Fischer
January 15th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
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£5K for “full” 10 minutes. Wow…
Mike Papageorge
January 16th, 2007 at 7:40 am
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Is there Q&A for these presenters?
As a developer and prospective member of the audience, I would love to hear this and hit some of these people up with technical and business questions…
Ryan Carson
January 16th, 2007 at 9:07 am
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You bet. It should be really interesting.
Keeran
January 16th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
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Is this a 30 min event?
On a serious note, what kind of coverage can we expect for this investment in marketing? How many people at the event, how many press representatives etc.
£5000 is a lot to drop on promoting your app to an audience comprised mostly of potential competitors. I suppose the value is in the (artificial) seeding of the buzz / ideavirus / etc.
It’s interesting that you are trying (and succeeding) to bridge old techniques and new (premium marketing vs viral / word of mouth), but in the case of the next big ‘web 2.0′ app I think the cream will always rise to the top naturally.
Looks like a quality event though - if we weren’t so busy I’d attend!
Mike Papageorge
January 16th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
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**Throws hat in ring**
Competitors, or potential users, extendors (via Apis), employees and of course as you point out, people with blogs who will create buzz, buzz that may just catch on.
Remember that many of the web 2.0 apps have a strong core of users and adopters that are made up of we web dev people. Pitch your app to us, make us passionate, share the ins and outs with us and not only will we extend the word on our blogs, but we may bring our passion to work with you, we may use it to extend your Api etc etc.
Ryan Carson
January 16th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
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I agree (as you would suspect) with Mike.
As I said in one of my posts, I’ve learned that often you need to be willing to spend money on marketing and advertising.
When I first started building web apps, I didn’t believe this to be true - but now I don’t think that’s the case.
By offering a “Startup Spotlight” opportunity at FOWA, we’re trying to give people a quality and valuable platform to get the word out about their web apps.
Trust me, we could’ve charged at least £10K for each of these spots, so we feel their great value at £5K. Sure, it’s not dirt cheap, but it’s damn good value.
Cooper Mor
January 17th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
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Ryan - did all the “Startup Spotlight” places sell at the last FOWA event? (if you had them)
Ryan Carson
January 18th, 2007 at 6:13 am
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Hi Cooper - yes, all the spots sold.