10 Years Building, Creating, Innovating
It Started Back In Q1 2014 With A Habakkuk 2:2 Moment
(“Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.“)
Then Later That Summer
Tech ‘Revolution’ Coming To Alabama
Brad Harper, Montgomery Advertiser, June 29, 2014.
Central Alabama may not look much like Silicon Valley, but a group of local entrepreneurs say there’s no reason it can’t have the same kind of future down the road.
“That (Interstate 85) corridor from Montgomery to Auburn-Opelika is the same length as the corridor from San Francisco to Silicon Valley,” Adam Warnke said. “Between Auburn University, Tuskegee University, Montgomery and the Air Force bases, there’s enough tech talent to create that same atmosphere within that stretch.”
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Warnke set things up through his Lightning Line promotion company and started spreading the word about a “creative revolution” and sharing the hashtag #revolutionMGM on social media.
“We want to try to get the entrepreneurial mojo going in Montgomery,” Warnke said. “Other cities like Nashville seem to be capturing this young, entrepreneurial vibe and people kind of flock to that.”
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They’re already planning other meetings and events.
Warnke said one possibility is a “Hackathon” in which tech professionals come together to solve a single problem with 24 hours of coding. For instance, he said they could create an app that lets people track city buses so they don’t have to sit and wait for one to arrive.
“We want to create something that snowballs and builds from here,” he said.
Adam Warnke
Referenced article: – https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/local/2014/06/29/tech-revolution-coming-alabama/11723963/
Later during the Summer of 2014
The Late Bijan Dhanani of Chattanooga, TN visited our region and provided a most interesting road map for our tech/creative community building efforts to follow.
Early Fall Of 2014 – Austin, TX Comes To The MGM
Bijoy Goswami
Austin startup expert: Montgomery ‘in movement’
“Ten years ago, the Austin, Texas, area was on the cusp of a tech startup revolution like the one that’s now building momentum in the River Region. A decade later, the Austin area is a haven and magnet for tech businesses and entrepreneurs, feeding a diverse and modern social community…
Goswami was at the center of the Austin movement, and he plans to share some of the lessons that came out of it during the third #revolutionMGM event Monday in Montgomery.
‘Bootstrapping kind of became a model for (the philosophy that) if you want to see something, you go make it happen. This stuff doesn’t magically happen. These people are just individuals. They saw what was needed and they made it happen.’ While central Alabama can benefit from the knowledge of what worked in areas such as Austin. Goswami said the best way for it to succeed is to find its own identity and path.”
Referenced article: – https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/money/business/2014/09/19/austin-startup-expert-montgomery-movement/15873509/