Wow! Two days of intensive networking! We started yesterday at former MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos place where we went for cocktails with the Aaltoes group. Good to see that there are such talented and inspired people in Aaltoes. Some successful enterpreneus from Finland also joined us for the cocktails. Wise words from experienced people. Great stuff!

Today we started the day with a brief tour at the Microsoft Campus. Then we ran off to San Francisco to meet with Jason Aiken from 99designs. We had a long talk about how they made it and got exellent tips for our service as well. The main message was that the service must be outstanding to get people using it. If the users love it, they’ll market it to their friends without asking.

In the evening we went to Musica Tecnomica which is an invite only monthly get together for the people in the audio industry. Thanks for Brian Zisk for hooking us up with the event organizer David Katznelson and thanks for David for inviting us to this great event! David himself is a former Vice President at Warner Bros Records. We got a change to talk to other great people in the audio industry as well. There were startup founders, label executives, entertainment lawyers, Emmy award winners, etc. What a honor to participate.

We made great new contacts and met a lot of interesting people!

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