The Story

Today I’m at Finovate Startup 2008, in San Francisco. I thought you might like a few updates here from the show, so throughout today I’m going to blog and tweet a bit to keep you in the loop. If you’re not already connected to us on Twitter, hook it up at http://twitter.com/CreativeBrand.

So far this is a great day. Besides the awesome weather, I’m sitting here with industry pals Brad Garland and Mark McSpadden from Banktastic (and The Garland Group), and Ron Shevlin. I’ve also seen old friend and colleague David Hawkins, VP of Brand at Umpqua Bank. Good times already.

The Finovate Startup format is an interesting one. There are like 40 “startup” companies presenting today….each one given five minutes and NO POWERPOINT. Instead, they do a quick demo and then get the heck off the stage Things are moving fast! I just heard the presentation from Prosper, one of the peer to peer lending leaders.

Also check out the Banktastic blog, which my trio of friends here will be updating throughout the day with posts on each presenter.

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