I’ve just finished writing to all the speakers and signed-up participants for this year’s Flight School, announcing its cancellation. Please stand by for Flight School 2009!
It’s incredibly frustrating to do this, but we (Imaginova and I) just weren’t signing up a critical mass of participants, despite a great speaker list. You can build a great product without customers, and you can (and should!) invest in real estate around airports in a downturn like the current one, but you can’t run a good meeting without a quorum. So, we decided to stop pushing on a string.
Despite a strong speaker line-up and Imaginova’s broad market outreach, interest in Flight School seemed to be waning rather than building as the overall economy slides into a funk. That frustrates me. Personally, I have just upped my investments in XCOR Aerospace, ICON Aircraft, Airship Ventures and (pending) Space Adventures. And I have some more good news coming that I can’t announce yet….
I love this marketplace and the people in it, and we aren’t going away even though Flight School is taking a break this year. I’ll be continuing to post here; send me your news and opinions.
And meanwhile, if you haven’t already, please join our Facebook group to keep the conversation going.
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