We are still recovering from an amazing week in the San Francisco sunshine. But luckily our blogger friends picked up the slack with exhaustive coverage of Finovate Startup. It’s great to see blogging beginning to impact the B2B space like it has on the consumer side.
It takes enormous concentration to listen, much less write about, 40 companies in a single day. So thanks much to Erin, Scott, Ron, Brad, Matt, Jeff, Corey, Christophe and the others who tirelessly spent their day bringing the event to life through their blogs, videos, and photos (links below).
Blog coverage:
- For a rundown of each company and its demo, see:
— a thorough post in Payments News by Scott Loftesness of Glenbrook Partners
— Erin McCune’s full coverage in her Forte blog
— Christophe Langlois’ live blogs at NetBanker - For critiques of each demo:
— Brad Garland and friends rate each presentation on a 1 to 5 scale on the Banktastics blog
— LazyMan demonstrates he’s anything-but in his review of the 40 presentations at Lazy Man and His Money - For an insightful critique of the value propositions (or lack thereof) presented by each category of presenter, see Ron Shevlin’s Thursday must-read post in his Marketing Whims (and check out the comments as well)
- Jeff Stephens at Creative Brand Communications adds his thoughts on several of the themes at The Story blog
- Wing Yu at FinancialMedia.org posted his interview with Vestopia CEO Steve Markowitz
- RateLadder posts about Loanio
Video coverage:
We’ll have exclusive full coverage of all 40 demos in their entirety at our Finovate Startup website within a few weeks. We also had two blogger/videographers active at the event:
- Banktastic has a 7-minute video with excerpts of interviews with Mint, SmartyPig and Credit Karma here; their conference photos are here
- Christophe Langlois from Visible Banking shot a number of videos that will be available shortly; his Flickr photostream is here (sample above)
Related press coverage of presenters:
- Daniel Wolfe at American Banker writes about two presenters today, Mint and Wesabe
- Kathering Boehret at the Wall Street Journal and Michael Arrington of TechCrunch cover Mint’s new investment-tracking features