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Costa Mesa, Orange County

Armand — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:28:32 +0000

Costa Mesa Whaddup!

Orange County is definitely one of the nicer parts of greater Los Angeles. Ok I’m not sure if it’s part of LA, but there sure is no demarcation to LA’s infinite sprawl.

OC’s roads are wide, malls are massive, cars are fast, homes are luxurious, homeless people aren’t homeless, and malls are full of beauty pageants.

We were based in Costa Mesa, just over the bridge from South Coast Plaza (which we spent every spare moment at) . Disneyland and Laguna Beach is around the corner, but hey, this ain’t a holiday (yet). Here are some pics on the way to the Office…

SpeakTech HQ

Hi Fred

Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner / shopping

Ruby’s Diner!

Guacamole burger – Hands down best burger I’ve ever had.

Aaron – business 24/7

Devconnections Conference, Mandalay Bay

Armand — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:34:10 +0000

Back at the Mandalay! Booth #429 is where we spent most of our time in Vegas, meetings, educating Web performance best practices and selling our web accelerator product. The Devconnections conference was smaller than the Sharepoint conference in ’09 and the attendees were predominately the Microsoft developer community, highly technical. Still the attendants were in the thousands. Our booth was swamped most of the time, without our Lead scanner I don’t think we could have registered all the interest we had! Overall the conference was a success, we brought home a ton of leads and the Award for best ASP.net product in the conference

Here are some snaps I took during our downtime (the only time we could all relax)…

winner!

They called me “Arma” from NZ….damn.

Booth #1007

Armand — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:41:11 +0000

Booth #1007 was the spot where we spent most of our time in Vegas. I think we had the most straight forward product at the conference and we could hook in people with 5 words – “we speed up your website”, speed is big pain point so everyone loved our website accelerator (and our odd kiwi jokes and accents). We had heaps of fun and over the 4 days we meet a lot of interested stakeholders, took home hundreds of leads and the notorious man flu.

SPC09 Beach party

Armand — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:32:08 +0000

Buffet and Bar on the House, Huey Lewis and the news at the “Beach”…Aint no party like a Microsoft Party…haha. Oh yeah, did I mention It was an absolute Sizzle haha, but hey good fun meeting new peeps.

When in Vegas…

Hanging out with Tom Rizzo

Limos & Fremont Street

Armand — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:20:22 +0000

Quite a turn out of Kiwis at SPC09. Shot Microsoft NZ for Shouting the Kiwis a night out.

Dinner at the Red Square, Mandalay Bay.

Cheers Steve

Vegas tour in the Limos

Fremont Street is vintage Vegas. A Must see, at night the neon canopy lights up. Cheap drinks & $2 black jack tables here…

Golden Gate hotel & casino boss was handing out chips like pringles. Pretty sure he won all the chips back (and some) by the end of the night…

Mix Lounge @ THEhotel

Armand — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:07:30 +0000

Great view, Great Food, Good Friends, Average photos. Take your friends out to the Mix Lounge @ THEhotel if you want to earn Baller status.

Who knew a 6 course meal of diva portions could get you full. OK I see the point now

The night skyline view was incredible

Out in the town with name tagged shirts haha, at least we’re not carrying laptops to a bar like the other guy

SPC09 Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas

Armand — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:59:28 +0000

This year’s Microsoft SharePoint Conference was held in the Manadalay Bay, Las Vegas. The 4 day event was sold out with more than 7000 attendees from across the globe. We meet a lot of people, showed off our web accelerator and took home hundreds of leads. We also all came home with the shareflu!

Key note speaches

YB

The Exibit hall

Breakie / lunch / break emails was top notch

O geez. Microsoft Rockband party