10,000 Miles For The Backchannel

For an entrepreneur in Perth Australia it’s a big deal to take a trip to the US for two weeks as part of launching a startup. It costs A LOT, and given the 24 hour travel time the jet lag can make you a mess.

So the question is what value is there making a trip to several conferences for someone who is still operating in stealth mode.

Fortunately I had one major goal: finding potential advisors. So I’ve chatted with a few people over here with that in mind, and have been happy with the result so far.

It certainly isn’t the content of the conference. Although there has been some interesting topics, many of them only scratch the surface. It’ll be interesting to contrast Supernova 2006 with a couple of un-conferences in the next couple of days (Bloggercon and Barcamp).

The backchannel at Supernova has been fun, and also a nice little way of networking and introducing myself. Of course the hallway sessions have been the most valuable, and I’ve been able to meet and chat with some cool people.

It seems like I’ve been here so long, but in reality it’s only been two days of sessions. So, I’ll have much more to report next week.