Unofficial Spiceworks

• 20% of Enterprises in the U.S. use @spiceworks #spiceworld2009
• @spiceworks has 1,200 new members a day. 1 million users by 1Q 2010 #spiceworld2009
• Spiceworks is a Social Business App. 770k user/members. 200 Spiceheads on hand to learn more. #spiceworld2009.
• “Sometime the best place to get your strategy is to just listen to your customer.” Wish more companies thought that! #spiceworld2009
• More sponsored plugins to come, thanks to the API some great new plugins are coming
• @spiceworks revenue growth 2009 3x from 2008 #spiceworld2009
• “Spiceworks is the fastest growing IT app in history”. Scott Abel. #spiceworld2009
• @spiceworks cash flow positive 1Q 2010 #spiceworld2009
• Spiceworks was started because Scott wanted to be with the guys again, nothing about a good idea.
• “I think people are just scared of the term add supported.” by JAFOLLIT on the Livestream chat
• We mention “The iTunes of IT” and Francis shut up by Scott
• Ad supported came from a Gmail advert for $69 logo designs
• scouch40: My IT motto- Hope for the best, Plan for the worst.

• zelleie: My IT motto – “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit”
• Motley2_98: Some call me willis
  Motley2_98: cause no one knows what Im talkin about
• Remember the glide function, well it FAILED and got taken out because it didn’t go that well
• Its not a website, its not a app, can you guess what it is yet?
• domjuk: How can you not be pessimistic in a negative way?
• zelleie: example for Dom : “You, sir, are an idiot but you’re very good at it”
• Scott Abel – maybe a little too consecutive in the beginning
• “We started the company due to the enormity of the bet” – Scott
• “I’m a fox news guy” – Greg
• BigTimmy: Tabrez is the man
• “Now i read the Spiceworks community digest” – Jay
• “We have 6 pending patents”
• “Were not going to ram ads into your face” – Scott
  • “We have turned down some big cheque” – Scott
• “Were not a website were an app that runs in a browser” – Greg
• BigTimmy: I have a smoke machine and throw all my apps in it
• “Tell us how it was working for Steve Jobs”
• dscammell: Gotta go sit on a @Spiceworks panel at #SpiceWorld2009. How can I still tweet? *lol*
• bluee504: When I think virtualization i think machines with 32+ Gb of ram and raid 10 of 15k rpm drives, aka IT porn
• domjuk: “THE BEARD HOLDS THE ANSWER” – When scott was shown on screen

The list is getting a little long so that’s it for now, checkout some more tomorrow if i find the time