Hello! Burin

Breakfast taco: overpriced and underfilling. That’s how I started my day. I dropped into the audience of the BizSpark Accelerator on the 6th floor in the Downtown Austin Hilton right next to the Convention Center and watched all these startups give their pitch.

Late morning I headed into the Green Room that wasn’t green but was apparently for VIPs. There was no shortage of crackers, fruit, and cheese. I had a lot of cheese. A lot. The gorgefest stopped once Sarah Kennedy reminded me with an “i hope you’re not lactose intolerant”. Safety first people, safety first.

Before the event, I chatted with Suzzane and Rich from weardrobe.com. Awesome people! I let it slip that I secretly admire their site. It’s okay, Suzzane said it’s because there are a lot of pretty girls there. Let’s just go with that.

Guy Kawasaki was in the Green-but-not-green room and I introduced myself. Next thing I get is unsolicited advice. If he were anyone else, I’d think he was a major douchebag but since this was Guy-effin Kawasaki in this particular context, it was okay. “Tell us wth you do.” Why thank you Mr. Kawasaki, let me go change my whole pitch because I thought I was going to tell you about what my grandmother did for a living! No really, I appreciated it! Honest!

Some organizers of the event kept thinking I was “the driver” for cubeless, aka the technogeek who would be controlling the computer.

No! I’m speaking. For the third time people, I’m speaking for cubeless!

They called the drivers away to hook up their machines. Away Erik walked.

Next up was me.