Well I can't keep posting small life lessons and expect people to take me seriously as an entrepreneur. Today I'll be posting a short update on some work that I did for Gamer's Life Convention. I think I'll be posting updates under the title "A Day in the Life". So today, I arranged a time to have a look at a potential venue for GLC2013 with Lachlan, my head tech guy for GLC. The venue we were checking out was Southport community centre.
I had found the venue while looking online for various types of venues for the event such community centres, sporting venues, school / university venues. Amongst state owned community centres, Southport seemed the best venue sizewise so we went to check it out. The manager for the venue, Trev seemed like a nice guy and took us around. The venue was a really suitable venue for our event, it had good space, electricity, projectors, location, parking, public transport and as a big plus the venue came with plenty of trestle tables and chairs (saves us having to hire). Downside, no internet connection and having to deal with a ton of paperwork from Gold Coast City Council.
The paper work wasn't an issue at all, I've been trained well from all the paperwork and bureacracy that I had to deal with while at Bond University. Internet was essential, but there is always a solution. Good thing the solution to the problem looks to be financially reasonable. It looks like we might have to use some Telstra 4G dongles for the event, which is typically not a cost effective option for most homes, but is a cheap solution in context of a large event.
From our long venue search we've noticed that no venue is perfect, each venue has it's own weaknesses, whether it cooling, internet, date availability or venue hire cost. But I guess that's where the entrepreneurial mind comes in. To find something that has potential and using your ability to make it capable of doing something amazing (and hopefully at a feasible cost).
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