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GoPC was selected as one of 5 finalists this week to present on stage to the main body of the Silcom Ventures 2009 Summit at Stanford University.  http://www.silicomsummit2009.com/   The Summit included key notes from industry luminaries such as Meg Whitman (ex CEO eBAY), Vinod Khosla (one of Silicon Valley’s most successful and respected VC’s), amongst others.

This was an amazing opportunity for our company to present to an international conference of 350 technology investors and Venture Capitalists as we reach out for our next stage of investor funding to fuel growth of the business and to establish supercomputer nodes in other continents.

There is huge interest from Silicon Valley VC’s in the field of cloud computing and GoPC is certainly in the sweet spot with one of the leading technologies. We have now repositioned our company message slightly as the term “cloud computing” is becoming so misued that we are concerned it will shortly become a meaningless term.

So here’s the new pre-positioning statement:

At a high level:

At a user level:

This month at an investor forum in Silicon Valley,  50 companies were invited to deliver their elevator pitches to the Silicon Valley Bank, VC’s and Angel investors.  GoPC was selected in the top 3 finalists, offered feedback and asked to re-present.  Of the top three, the venture capitalists selected us as the number 2 most interesting and well presented pitch.

Of course we were absolutely delighted. But in one sense we were not that surprised – we believe it underscores the huge interest and recognition in Silicon Valley about cloud computing.  It also demonstrates GoPC is definitely in the top echelon of projects currently in Silicon Valley.