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This past Wednesday we participated in  Capital Factory’s Demo Day.  Capital Factory is the business incubator program we participated in this summer and Demo Day was the culminating event where the five participating companies (including us) presented to a group of 250 investors, entrepreneurs and press.

The event was fantastic and we met tons of great people who are really excited about what we are doing at SpareFoot.  I gave a presentation about the company and ended up winning the audience choice award.  Thanks to all attendees who voted for SpareFoot!

Our summer in Austin has been truly great and we are thrilled to be staying in town to grow SpareFoot.

Prize for whoever can guess how much cash is in the closet:

PS – We used to be called Homstie – we still have to update this on the video.

Woo-hoo! The inaugural class of Capital Factory’s Austin-based business incubator program is graduating after a summer of hard work. On September 9th the five participating companies will present at an event called Demo Day, being held at the University of Texas AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center.

At the event, each of the five companies will make a presentation to potential investors, press, and other entrepreneurs.  SpareFoot is proud to be part of the amazing group of start-ups – PetsMD, Hourville, Cubit Planning and Famigo – completing this incredible ten week program.

We were looking forward to inviting everyone to the event, but it sold out within two weeks! Don’t worry though, you can still watch the event live from the Capital Factory website. It starts at 8:30am CST with a keynote delivered by Mike Maples Jr. While 8:30 may sound a bit early, I guarantee there is no better way to start your day.

As I do, I was surfing the net for all things self-storage when I discovered something quite fascinating. That is, I discovered an entire community of people (35,000 so they claim) who belong to a social networking site called, Self Storage Bands.

Apparently, as it can be hard to find a place to practice, bands are renting out self-storage units. This can be much cheaper than renting a music studio if a band doesn’t have access to a garage or basement.

Even better though, self storage bands don’t have to deal with noise complaints from angry neighbors. Thor’s old band, Monsters from Mars, used to practice in my parent’s garage and they have definitely had the police come knocking.

Well, later in the afternoon, I was telling some of my office mates (PetsMD, Cubit Planning, and Hourville) about my discovery, and Nick of PetsMD told me his band used to practice at storage facilities as well!

So, I dug a little deeper and found a few interesting articles, including this one, Garage Bands No More, from the Washington Post.

But that was all band practice talk and Kristen of Cubit Planning had a much grander plan that we all form bands and put on a concert at a self-storage facility.

I’m thinking, Mario on bass, Thor on guitar (or anything else because he is so musically talented), Chuck on drums (although he has no rhythm) and Dan and I on vocals (except we’re going to mute my microphone and I’ve never heard Dan sing, so I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt).

Maybe we could go on tour, visiting storage facilities across the nation, and we could call it, SpareFoot Rocking Self Storage.

Don’t worry, you’ll be the first to know… But for now, friend us at SpareFoot on Self Storage Bands.