OATV StartupCamp and FooCamp

This is a post from Luke's old blog; it is saved here statically for historical purposes, as of October 2008

This post won't do nearly the justice that the last four days deserve, especially since I've barely posted this summer, but I figure better to start small than not at all.

Andrew and I just got back from OATV StartupCamp (as opposed to StartupCamp, which I've also been to ) and FooCamp. It was a great weekend -- we met a lot of great people at both events, including my personal hero Kathy Sierra, and we got a lot of advice and information on our startup.

The only thing tangible we really took away is that we laser-etched our laptops and my moleskin notebook (it went first as a guinea pig). Hopefully I'll take another picture soon; that one didn't exactly turn out. I'll probably end up scraping some color into my laptop or something, since the cuts don't show up as much as I'd like. If we ever do a conference booth, that's what we're going to show up with -- a laser etcher.

The etcher is owned by Make Magazine, but I was shown how to use it by Eric Wilhelm from Instructables. Yes, it was sweet.

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 | Tags: conference, foocamp, startupcamp, oatv