Mesh Conference – 15 Minutes of Fame

One of the startup-focused parts of Mesh is the 15 Minutes of Fame they do evey year. Each day of the conference 3 companies are given 5 minutes each to pitch themselves or their product to the audience.

What I love about it is that it really is completely open to whoever applies, and it is not an opportunity for the conference organizers to just give stage time to whoever will pay. (paying to do something like 15 minutes of fame is far more typical than you might realize)

The lineup this year was solid, with some new companies and some more established startups.

15 Minutes of Fame is a great way to get your startup in front of a new crowd in Canada, so think about doing it next year.

• Carbonetworks, which has developed software that helps companies create effective carbon emissions strategies to reduce costs and capitalize on emerging global markets.
• GigPark, a place to receive recommendations about a wide variety of services from friends and their friends.
• AidesRSS, which has created technology to make reading RSS feeds more effective and valuable.
• Well.ca, an online health and beauty store that ships across Canada.
• OverlayTV, an interactive media company that provides a video commerce platform that lets Internet users, content owners and e-commerce sites to monetize and customize their video assets.
• Enomalism, an open source consulting firm that focuses on solving the cost and complexity for enterprises that run large technical server infrastructures.