I was at this event and it was quite an interesting way to see what kinds of ideas people are working on and what kind of help they need. There were 50 or so elevator pitches and a chance to speak with the presenters afterwards (which was useful since some of the ideas seemed a bit useless until you actually spoke with the founders face to face)
Where do people hear about this kind of thing in advance? I'm new to the area and trying to get plugged in, but it's hard to figure out what's worthwhile and what's a waste of time.
This particular event appears to have been for Stanford students only and apparently not widely advertised, but you can keep up with the public events in the area with a couple sources:
Meetup.com, Stanford Engineering's public mailing lists, your local network of Stanford students and alums that you cultivate, and if you're near Stanford, actually spend time on campus. The Huang Engineering Center has bulletin boards downstairs and an electronic one upstairs outside the Terman Library entrance with a lot of these announcements. Sign up for their mailing lists as well.
I got tix to a very cool, sold out Peter Thiel presentation this past fall from BASES, and heard about but missed the Marc Andreesen presentation via Ecorner.
What would it take to make Veebot not look like a horrifying machine to anyone with "needle phobia"? Maybe if it automatically dispensed candy when it was finished?
