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For those like me that weren’t able to make it to LaunchUp Las Vegas last night, the good people at Mustache Power Productions recorded and streamed the event for us to enjoy. I’ve already watched it and it was a really high quality event with some interesting info. I was sorry to miss it. Here’s the video:

One highlight of the event for me was definitely hearing some more of Tony Hsieh’s stories. It’s a shame to only have Tony on stage for 20 minutes. He probably likes that short time frame, but Tony has far too much good information to only have that short of a period. I’d prefer an entire day seminar from Tony on things he’s learned running startup companies.

Daniel Wu also provided some interesting insight through a story of entrepreneurs who didn’t cross all their t’s and dot all their I’s when they started their company and then ran into trouble later about who owns what. It’s nice that a lawyer mostly avoided the jargon and told stories to illustrate what’s important.

The three companies that presented were: Tracky, VoteGiant and Xoom Data Services.

My favorite part of the Tracky presentation was when David Gosse talked about a geo sensitive tracky at an event where you could talk about the event. Could be interesting. Although, we kind of already do that with Twitter and hashtags.

I’m really excited to see that Vote Giant got their beta out the door. I’m sure they’re sitting their a bit embarrassed by the features that are missing or not fully polished on their beta, but I LOVE that they just kicked it out the door already, warts and all. Someone on Twitter described it well:

Listening to @votegiant at #launchuplv they’re like a mashup of Pinterest & SurveyMonkey with Omniture like backend analytics

— Jeremy Hanks (@jeremyhanks) January 19, 2012

I must admit that I need to dig into Xoom Data Services a bit more. I love the idea of easy, fast, secure, encrypted large data file transfer. I just don’t quite understand how the technology completely overcomes the issues related to this process. I think the fast encryption part is really smart. It seems that the bottleneck is still bandwidth, but maybe I’m misunderstanding exactly how they’re doing it. As someone who writes about Healthcare IT a lot, I’m interested in how they can make this seamless encrypted file transfer a reality.

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