Comic Wonder at Accelerate Madison

Accelerate Madison is a company that focuses on providing business support for IT organizations. They frequently have guest speakers and last night, Kelly Fitzsimmons, the CEO of ComicWonder, was one of the speakers. She got me in for free so I went and watched. It was pretty awesome.

The entire thing was also broadcast as a webcast and can be watched here. Kelly starts at about 35 minutes in.

The first presentation was by one of the founders of Sharendipity, Mark Gehring, and was quite interesting. Basically they are building a platform onto which anyone can do programming. Currently it's build onto Facebook's API and is mostly about games but it's got lots of potential. They'll be launching in July. They are a local Madison company.

After that Kelly took over. For those of you that want to know what Comic Wonder is really all about and who's working behind the scenes it really is quite interesting. One of the things she does mention is who her husband, Jeff's uncle is. I had no idea but it makes sense now. You'll have to watch to find out, but I'll give you a hint. He's a famous movie director.

The other thing that happened is that she pointed me out a few times towards the end, which was nice. If you really don't want to watch but want to hear my name mentioned, you can jump ahead to about 75 minutes during the Q/A (question about staffing).

Oh, and another thing I did not know that I found out before hand when Kelly was talking about a possible deal with Playboy for us to provide the audio component of their party jokes section, was that Kelly's mom was a Playboy Bunny! How funny is that? I had no clue...


Anyway, watch the webcast. I found it very interesting.