Favorite Award

[MoeMom]

Originally Posted by hallk

I'm a big fan of awards with short and easy names. While I think the "business plan award" is super cool I can never remember all the sponsors.

I used to think the same thing- I'd never heard of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers before- not part of my world. When I read that they were the venture capitalists that helped Dean fund Segway, I was suddenly very thankful that they ventured their capital on us FIRST-folk. Turns out they are very much a part of my world- AOL, Google, Amazon, iphones, green tech and on and on. Now I feel like we're practically family.

On a different thought, I've really learned to embrace the Imagery Award. I realized that for us, it's all about joy and a whole lot of green paint... somebody gets an idea or tells a joke and the next thing you know a big group jumps in and it grows until you get an uppet, or a green man group. It's celebrating that together we are more than just our individual parts.... when you're proud to be seen (from 1/4 mile away) and tell total strangers "I'm with them."