We are expecting the local paper(s) to provide us some coverage this week. That should push us up to our goal of 70 participants by getting us the last two dozen. Bloomington, a city of 69,000 people, is already comfortably within the norms set by past weekends.
134—San Francisco (Nov 16-18)
120—Hamburg, Germany (Sept 21-23)
82—Atlanta (Nov 9-11)
74—Wash., [...]
Tags: Recruiting · Updates
I recruited Jason de Runa, one of the future founders at BSW, to be the Hospitality Director for our event. Jason is going to make contact with local hotels to see if we can get some sponsorship to help house participants coming in from out of town. We will try to get this information to [...]
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Bloomington Startup is actively recruiting sponsorship to pay for a few sitters to watch kids in a room at City Hall. If you are interested in attending but have hesitated because of this important obstacle, please comment here or email Kevin Makice (kevin -at- makice -dot- net).
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Nothing official yet (read: no checks in hand), but it looks like we have four of our target six sponsors identified after a little local media blitz in the last two days. Smaller Indiana, a Ning group aimed at strengthening connections between Indiana professionals, started collecting donations via paypal last week. The City of Bloomington, [...]
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