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6 Tips for Building Relationships with Journalists

Both Sides of the Table

Oh, and Demo charges the startups $18,000. Journalists don’t know enough about your company before the show, don’t have time for proper research, and you will be competing for their time afterward with 49+ other companies that want them to write about you. - Robert’s article is worth reading. Deal with it gracefully.

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Coincident.TV Is “CREATE”-ing Second Screen Transmedia Producers Out Of Everyone [Beta Invites]

Tech Zulu Event

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. It has been reported by Google that 77% of viewers use a companion device while watching TV.

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

Goldman release a report on us. It kind of reminds me a bit of how “social media experts&# are talking to customers today). Use social media to be sure people are aware of it. Just don’t believe what they write about you. Write a blog post or a journal about how you feel while you’re there.

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

Tech Zulu Event

. “Let us come together and celebrate…” The mashup theme was reflected in the SBF programming, which included panels highlighting accelerators, VCs, startups, developers, movies, TV, music, web content, art, fashion, social good, surf & skate, and more. Demo Day / Angel Pitch. Tons of info and tons of fun!”

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How to Talk to a Journalist When You Only Have 30 Seconds

Tech Zulu Event

To start, let’s take a peek inside my train of thinking while I was preparing what I would report on for Tech Crunch Disrupt 2012. The best way to get a journalist’s attention is to know who you are writing to and what interests them. 6 Always do a demo. 1 Pre Planning. 8 You’re not psychic so drop the qualifiers.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

Both Sides of the Table

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

How To Pitch A Product - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , August 4, 2010 I've said a bunch of times on this blog that the perfect pitch is a very short intro to provide context followed immediately by a demo. One of the big questions, probably the biggest questions that I get from reporters, is 'what trends do you see?

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