FastIgnite News

Soon after my workshop on the evolution of cloud computing with Bob Brennan (CEO, IronMountain) and John McEleney (CEO, CloudSwitch) at the Nantucket Conference,  I’ll be leading another cloud computing panel with another great group of speakers at TiECon East:

• John McEleney – CEO, CloudSwitch
• Scott Crenshaw – VP/GM, Cloud Business Unit at RedHat
• Dave Fachetti – Managing Director, Globespan Capital
• Rob May – CEO, Backupify

The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) events are very well executed. I invite you to join us.

It is time for the Nantucket Conference again. Scott Kirsner, the organizers and the advisors have put together a great agenda and brought together an influential group of speakers and attendees. Just in the B range of the alphabet we have Bill Warner (founder of Avid), Bob Brennan (CEO, Iron Mountain), Bob Metcalfe (Polaris Venture Partners and inventor of Ethernet), Brad Feld (Foundry Group & TechStars).

I’m fortunate to be hosting a workshop on the evolution of cloud computing with Bob Brennan and John McEleney, CEO of CloudSwitch. I’ll share my thoughts on my blog after the event.

I joined AngelList, a great service by VentureHacks.

VentureHacks provides a great service to entrepreneurs and I’m happy to support them as a sponsor. I wrote about agile investing and agile founding teams.

The first company I co-founded through FastIgnite, Better Advertising, launched a few weeks ago. The entire process took only a few months. Read more on my blog.

I will be leading an unPanel (like unConference but smaller) at Xconomy’s Cloud³ Forum. Great lineup of speakers and the audience will be full of pundits (trust me, see the invite list) so the conversation is guaranteed to be both interesting and educational. This isn’t yet another “intro to cloud” or “cloud 101″. Expect a much deeper and more engaging and interactive forum. CloudCamp comes right after. Register here.

I have started a new section of FastIgnite called startup tools. Check it out.

Simeon Simeonov has joined an all-star team of EIRs at the MIT Entrepreneurship Center.

Sim Simeonov joined the advisory board of DubMeNow, a startup tackling the challenge of keeping contact information organized across devices.

The proliferation of social media and mobile devices has made it more difficult for everyone to manage contact information and initiate conversations using the right channels. I have many contacts and experienced this problem every day. DUB’s unique technology makes the problem go away. I look forward to working with Manoj and the company to help DUB change the way we think about exchanging contact information.

It’s been a busy summer. FastIgnite is helping start a couple of new companies. Lots of travel to NYC — send an email or DM me at @simeons if you’d like to meet up.

I’ll be at OMMA Behavioral in SF on July 30. There are some big changes afoot in the advertising space driven by the move to exchanges, by advertisers asserting more control over data and by the evolving compliance landscape with respect to online behavioral advertising (OBA), which, to mix metaphors, is just the tip of the iceberg of that can of worms.

Last but not least, very excited that Thing Labs shipped the new, new thing–Brizzly. I can’t stop using it.