I just read this post about Facebook choosing their first possible companies to fund — and the good news is that the companies get to present at locations “around the US.” Quoting:
“We’re scheduling a series of events around the US at which we invite you to give a 10-minute presentation of your proposal.
We’re currently planning the following events:
Silicon Valley: Monday afternoon, 1/7/08, 11:30am - 1:30pm
San Francisco: Tuesday evening, 1/8/08, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
New York City: Thursday evening, 1/10/08, 6:30pm - 8:30pm”
Huh??
Since when does the valley, SanFran and NYC count as “around the US?” And even more to my point, why have *both* the valley and SanFran? Because you didn’t want to have to force those budding entrepreneurs to travel?! Pffft.
To be fair, they go on to say that they’re planning other events that people can present at, but c’mon. I’d have been impressed if the first 3 events were Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans (or Minneapolis, Denver, Dallas, or Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle, or)….
Or maybe I’m just being curmudgeonly. Back to your usual new year’s programming…
