SVASE First Impressions Presenters May 14th 2007

Chris Gill, SVASE CEO, and I completed our careful and exhaustive review of prospective presenters' slides. We had more than 150 unique inquiries for the May 14th event. I narrowed the list down to a final 23 presentations and that is where we focused most of our effort.

Congratulations to the following First Impressions May 14th presenters:

• Industrial Origami, Rick Holman
• CollegeWikis, Joe DiPasquale
• Connectance, Rick Beberman
• DivinR, Rock Clapper
• KDH, Susan Brown

As usual, we had a number of quality presentations and business ideas, but only 5 slots. For those who did not make the final list this time, I present 3 SVASE-related options:

1. E-mail me, Chad Salinas, if you would like me to put you into the priority queue for the next event.
2. SVASE offers a number of workshops detailing how to prepare presentations. In addition to expert advice, you will also meet other members of the SVASE team and familiarize yourself with some of the heuristics of raising money.
3. Attend the First Impressions event as an observer to get a feel for the quality of presentations and business ideas.

Thanks to everyone who participated.

Chad Salinas