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Event Seek Beta - live and ready for action!

Filed Under product design, production, public relations 

It’s been just over a year in the making, but Event Seek is finally ready for prime time! Last night at midnight, we officially launched www.event-seek.com as a platform for discovering new and interesting events. Anyone is welcome to use the website to discover events and activities in Atlanta. Other cities will be coming soon, but right now we’re focused on proving the concept out. If you’d like to see Event Seek carry events for your area, send an email to info@event-seek.com and we’ll use your requests to drive our expansion.

In addition to launching the beta product today, we are also celebrating our 1 year birthday. Exactly 365 days ago, we began full-time work on creating a product that would allow media companies, struggling with their current revenue, to expand their online offering and drive value from the website. Today we have completed our fully-functioning commercial product and are in several conversations with early-stage pilot program customers. Before you know it, you’ll see Event Seek powering the local events calendar of your favorite newspaper, tv, and radio station.

The year has gone by amazingly fast, far more quickly than I would have expected. As I look back over our accomplishments through the past year, I’m proud of what we’ve been able to do, but more importantly, excited about the future. In addition to closing several rounds of fundraising from friends and family investors, we’ve established a market need and developed a product that our customer contacts absolutely love. I can’t explain how exciting it is to demonstrate the product for potential clients and hear the words “this is exactly what we’re looking for - and more.”

Some of my favorite successes from the past year include:

  • Leaving our full-time jobs with an idea and a few dollars in our pockets
  • Developing a prototype in less than a month and presenting it to a wildly impressed top 20 newspaper nationally
  • Being selected as one of the top 15 technology startups in Georgia as part of the GRA/TAG business launch competition
  • Selecting an early-stage development partner and rapidly building the basis for what would become Event Seek
  • Convincing a host of talented, successful, intelligent, and experienced professionals to join our advisory board
  • Expanding our team to include the most talented front-end and back end-designers I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with
  • Developing an alpha product, launching it, and using customer feedback to continue to improve the offering
  • Honing our individual and corporate strategy to focus the business where we can drive the greatest value for customers, investors, and employees
  • Being selected as one of the companies for CapVenture, a fundraising preparation boot camp in Atlanta
  • Expanding skills we always knew we had, developing ones we never knew were there, and faking everything else
  • Establishing our name in the Atlanta entrepreneurial community as a company to watch
  • Being profiled in several technical trade journals
  • Finally launching a product that not only are we proud of, but has real potential to help people and companies

I’d like to think that we’ve been able to get where we are today thanks to our hard work and determination, but I know better. We have been damn lucky and have been helped along the way by individuals of all walks of life. I’m not sure why these people see something in us, but I’m just glad that they do. I’ll be thanking each and every one of you over the next few years and for years to come. We couldn’t have accomplished what we have without you and for that I am eternally grateful. 

With all of that being said, stop reading and go to the website! Use it, tell us what you like, tell us what you don’t like, and tell your friends. Event Seek becomes more and more useful and valuable the more users we have. We’ll continue to add content, find great local events, develop useful features, and bring on new geographies - you just enjoy it and spread the gospel: “Stop searching for events…start discovering them!”

Posted by: Connor Fee

Comments

One Response to “Event Seek Beta - live and ready for action!”

  1. Dan Waldron on October 1st, 2008 6:16 pm

    Nice writing style. I look forward to reading more in the future.

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