We had an amazing Sip+Hatch featuring entrepreneurs working on the web. Our lineup included: Michael Comperda & Chris Beaman from Curse Bryan Powell from Metabahn Geoff Millener & Lindsey Frost from Mozilla Foundation Harrison Diamond from the City of Huntsville Michael Spiceland from Respoke Topics discussed included the Open Web, next generation web development tools, PaaS for WebRTC-based communications, the business of online video, the future of gaming, and the GIG infrastructure coming to town.

1. Lightning Talks
​ Exponential Growth: Startup Life on the Internet

2. Making Everyone a
Developer
Bryan Powell
Metabahn
1

4. The Open Web
Lindsey Frost &
Geoff Millener
Mozilla Foundation 2

7. CONNECT&WITH&MOZILLA&GIGABIT&AND&HIVE&
Lindsey Frost
@lindsey_in_cha
lindsey@mozillafoundation.org
Geoff Millener
@gmillener
geoff@mozillafoundation.org
hivelearningnetworks.org
@MozillaGigabit
@Hive_CHA

8. GIG City Huntsville
Harrison Diamond
City of Huntsville
3

9. GIGCITY
Huntsville

10. To Infinity
and Beyond
Michael Spiceland
Respoke
4

13. Example technology
available now from iRobot
(not currently based on Respoke)

15. Circret bracelet
(not real now but maybe
someday)
Many companies working
on augmented reality
glasses.
(not currently based on Respoke)

16. www.respoke.io
twitter.com/respoke
Cicret Bracelet
http://cicret.com

17. www.respoke.io
twitter.com/respoke

18. Helping YouTube
Entrepreneurs
Chris Beaman
Curse
5

19. Helping
Entrepreneurs

29. 1
The Future of Gaming
Michael Comperda
Curse 6

30. The Evolution of Gaming
From Kilobytes to Gigabytes
• 1985: Super Mario Brothers
• Expensive Game Cartridges
• 47 Kilobytes of Capacity
• $10 Cost to Manufacture
47 Kilobytes

31. The Evolution of Gaming
From Kilobytes to Gigabytes
• 2015: Super Mario Brothers U
• Inexpensive Optical Disks
• 25 GB of Capacity
• Less than $1 Cost to
Manufacture
25 Gigabytes

32. 1x
47
Kilobytes
1985
7x
300
Kilobytes
1989
24x
8
Megabytes
1996
192x
1.5
Gigabytes
2002
5x
8.5
Gigabytes
2006
3x
25
Gigabytes
2012

33. The Evolution of Bandwidth
From Nothing to Everything
• 1985: What’s an Internet?

34. The Evolution of Bandwidth
From Nothing to Everything
• 2015: Broadband
• Gigabit Connectivity
• Average Speed 35 Mbps
• Average Price $65 / month

35. Convergence
The Perfect Storm

36. Powered by Servers in the Cloud

37. Delivered by Fiber Networks

38. Consumed On Any Device

39. Curse
Our Story
• Curse Voice Communication
Platform
• Game Streaming via Virtual Console
• 2008: Engineering Moved to
Huntsville
• 2013: HQ Established in Huntsville
• 40% of Engineering Hires are Local
• Huntsville Lifestyle Differentiator
• Inspiring Entrepreneurship

40. 12
Let’s Give Them a Hand!
Bryan Powell
Lindsey Frost
Geoff Millener
Harrison Diamond
Michael Spiceland
Chris Beaman
Michael Comperda