I'm at Microsoft National Innovation Day 2007
Yes, this is true ! Yesterday at December 13rd, 2007 at Jakarta Ritz Cartlon Hotel, Microsoft did National Innovation Day 2007. The key point it, Microsoft choose some of ISV that can be nominated as innovation star on 2007 based on some category. If you don't know the Microsoft Local Software Economy (LSE), then you should read it. It's a great idea to make micro ISV growth together with Microsoft support. The ISV Empowered program is also great for micro ISV or start up company.
For me, it's a reward. This is the same when the first time i've got my MVP reward. Honestly I don't know the judgment criteria, so I think this is blessing for me in 2007.
This is an honour for me to got this reward.
And very nice to meet all of them in the same booth at Ritz Carlton, Jakarta. This is some of the photos that i've been collected :
This is the Innovation Star 2007 result :
Bintang Inovasi 2007
Together with Sangkuriang Studio, Dycode, and PE College, we are one from more than 1000 micro ISV in Indonesia which managed. And don't tell me that i'm using unmanaged code now, it's all managed since established (you can say it 'manage by default'. :-) ). :) But *cough cough* yes, some of our code is unmanaged, but if we want to communicate with COM only. :)
This is when the award is given.
Btw, do you want to know our team ? Here we are :
Small, but effective and productive by using DotNetNuke as web application framework.
And this is, *cough cough*, the grandmaster :
And this is the reward :
You know, this is the first time in Microsoft event they have an ISV promote DotNetNuke and be proud of using DotNetNuke t-shirt design by myself. Everybody ask us and want to know us because ... we are different. And very proud to be different. Hey, did I tell you that our team is small ? :)
Don't grow your company based on employee number, but increase the revenue by doing more product installation, more services, and more features. :)