I respect our achievments and don't doubt you meant well by being there although I am not clear what RIGHT you feel you had to attend. If you have such a big problem with what happened, perhaps it would have been better to speak to Resham privately after the event when she was less stressed and had more time to discuss. Instead, you started Tweeting to the world about the injustice and then blog about it thus stirring up a shitstorm totally out of proportion to the incident. By offering people a right to reply when they are actually running an event seems to demonstrate an inflated sense of importance.

I stand by my point that if you feel this is so wrong, and are no doubt an accomplished entrepreneur, then set up an alternative. I would be equally happy to support yours, or other quality activities that support the growth of the entrepreneurial ecosystem. http://thebln.com By making this such an issue, you run the risk of alienating some of the people and organisations that would be inclined to help.

Errm, that should have read 'your achievements' not 'our achievements'. None of the achievements in this Hacker News thread are anything to do with me.