down the avenue: Vatorsplash's September Event in Photos

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Only Those Who See the Invisible, Can Do The Impossible
The Age of your Heart is the Age of what you Love - Marcel Prévost
Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I'll understand.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one opening before us. -Helen Keller
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. -Leo Tolstoy
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. -Paul Tournier
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Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The foolish reject what they see, the wise reject what they think
Imagination is more important than knowledge - Albert Einstein
When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you - Lao-tzu
The world surrenders to a quiet mind
It is a funny thing about life: If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it - Somerset Maugham
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October 03, 2010

Vatorsplash's September Event in Photos

VatorSplash's September event had an incredible line-up of start-ups, entrepreneurs and keynotes. Start-up finalists included Appbackr, Breakthrough.com (the winner), MyeGamer, Bump.com, Phone Halo, Orange Slyce, CoHuman, Interview Studio and MicroMobs. An overview of each of them can be found in an earlier blog post.

Below Bambi Francisco, founder and CEO of Vator.tv and Vatorsplash events.

Bubbalon's Alex Galkin and Todd Hamilton show off their app on an iPhone, coming out soon. Bubbalon available for users to start rating people, places and things today at Bubbalon.com.

Bump.com's demo (they officially announced at DEMO earlier in September)

Cannonball gives away wine at Vatorsplash

Eventbrite's Kevin Hartz does one of the keynotes - on success and lessons learned

Peter Thiel also gives a successful and insightful keynote

Media Partners: Mashable, Magic Sauce Media, VentureBeat, Girls in Tech and We Blog the World.

Coverflow jammed at the after party at Cafe Du Nord, which includes Philip Kaplan on drums, Mayfield Capital's Rajil Kapoor on vocals, Tim Chang, a VC at Norwest Venture Partners, Prashant Fuloria who manages monetization at Facebook, also at Facebook, Ethan Beard. I also shot some videos - part I and part 2.

Robert Scoble was once again emcee the event.

Splash Box, which is now a tradition at Vatorsplash included investors: Aydin Senkut from Felicis, Rob Hayes from First Round Capital, Rick Heitzmann from First-mark and Gideon Yu from Khosla Ventures.