Seattle 2.0 Awards a Great Success!

By all accounts, the Seattle 2.0 Awards last night was a huge success:

• It was a packed, sold-out, crowd.
• The featured speaker, Glenn Kelman, gave one of the most inpsirational speeches about entrepreneurship I've ever heard (see below).
  
• The #seattleawards hash tag gathered over 120 tweets by 72 people.

The reception was still going strong, with lots of interesting people to talk to, when the Pacific Science Center had to kick us out around 10pm.

I think the event was invigorating for the broad Seattle startup community.  Talking to Marcelo at the reception, I think he was very pleased with the event (as he should be).  But his ambitions are still higher - he has plans to get even more potential entrepreneurs to test the "startup waters" and join the community than we already have.

While he said in his intro speech that Seattle will always be behind Silicon Valley, Marcelo is very motivated to help make Seattle the clear #2 Best City to start a technology company.

Seattle 2.0 Awards - Glenn Kelman's inspiring speech from Seattle20 on Vimeo.