One meaningful point: we're early-stage and we bought a booth and we seem to be getting great value out of it, but we have a very specific target audience not mentioned by the original poster: digital marketers. At least the interactive part of SXSW is now way more a marketing conference than a tech conference and if you regard it in this light you can do very well. If you need to pitch social media managers, it's awesome, if you just want to talk about something consumer-y, not so much.
SxSW – Lost That Loving Feeling for Early Stage Entrepreneurs
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Re: SxSW – Lost That Loving Feeling for Early Stage Entrepreneurs
#22I'm not sure what the relationship is between an A Capella group and entrepreneurs is... But I can tell you why the cops showed up. SXSW the brand is very powerful - if you are an artist, being able to say that you performed at SXSW means that you'll be able to book better/larger venues, and perhaps get a better deal with a record company. As a result, there are several artists who show up each year and stage ad-hoc…
Like a typical corporate drone, you sounds like your subtly justifying the arrest of some young people singing acapella at SxSW.
It is amazing to me that someone "explaining" something is heard as "justification". Nowhere did chiph express approval or disapproval, but simply explain chiph's belief of why it happened. Calling someone names for providing an explanation is not very nice.
Re: SxSW – Lost That Loving Feeling for Early Stage Entrepreneurs
#23I'm not sure what the relationship is between an A Capella group and entrepreneurs is... But I can tell you why the cops showed up. SXSW the brand is very powerful - if you are an artist, being able to say that you performed at SXSW means that you'll be able to book better/larger venues, and perhaps get a better deal with a record company. As a result, there are several artists who show up each year and stage ad-hoc…
Austin PD will shut down unauthorized performances...
I saw literally dozens of street performers and buskers around town that week, and I never saw any of them hassled. I think this had more to do with a product promotion in a SXSW venue, not the singers themselves.