The Start-Up Project - Seattle was a great success! The event was "sold out" with over 250 Founders, CEOs, CTOs, and Chief Architects of exciting, local tech start-ups and a great presence from the larger VC community.

Thanks to our customers and special guests for their presentations:

• Matt McIlwain, Managing Director, Madrona Venture Group
• Eric Browne, Co-Founder, Smartsheet.com
• Gautam Jayaraman and Casey Muller, Co-Founders, Jamglue
• Sunny Gupta, CEO, iConclude (now Opsware)
• Michael Karp, President, Blingee
• Michael Nguyen, Director of Technology, SpamArrest and MyPW
• Brady Forrest, Technical Evangelist, O'Reilly Radar, Ignite Seattle!
• Jeff Barr, Evangelist, Amazon Web Services
• Andy Jassy, Senior Vice President, Amazon Web Services

Blog coverage:

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Learn more: Amazon Web Services is giving entrepreneurs access to Amazon's robust infrastructure and technological resources via services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Utilizing AWS' solutions, you can compete on ideas not resources and turn your idea into a profitable business.

Check back for the NEXT Start-Up Project!