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It was standing room only at StartEngine 's Demo Day Wednesday afternoon, held at Santa Monica's Cross Campus , as the startup accelerator launched eight of its latest startups into the world, after a 90 day process of mentoring, honing their business model, and heads down development. READ MORE>>.
StartEngine said that the companies--who have all gone through the 90 day mentorship process at StartEngine--include the BedAbroad (international student housing marketplace); CARBON 38 (online luxury fitness destination for women; Smilu (cross-platform, multiplayer video games); WhereMyDogsAt (mobile socialnetworking for dog owners); Ember (demand (..)
According to Qualcomm, it has selected six regional finalists, who will each represent $100,000 in venture financing, with the chance to win $150,000 as a grand prize winner at DEMO Spring 2011 in Palm Desert. READ MORE>>.
This morning, Snap joined a host of startup accelerators shifting its demo day online amid the COVID-19 quarantine. SketchAR : an augmented reality drawing app with social tie-ins. TRASH : an app for quickly editing social video cuts using machine learning. Veam : a socialnetwork built around AirDrop.
The growth of Facebook and social gaming led by Zynga – Another obvious trend is Facebook. Notice that I didn’t say “socialnetworking.” Much like iPhone is the only mobile platform in town, Facebook is the only “closed network” socialnetworking platform in town. Seems an obvious fit.
For one, we built a following by using Facebook and Twitter and other socialnetworking sites. Jeremy demos various new programs and websites and shows all kinds of tips and tricks, DIY and other cool stuff. OSN 101 – Online SocialNetworking news and tips. We built unique websites for each show.
We built this to support corporate portals--companies that have a corporate presence on the web--but also see that socialnetworks like MySpace or Facebook could use this technology to allow users at their site to communicate in their native language with other users. Idris Manley: We will be launching our private beta at DEMO.
Similar to DEMO and TechCrunch Disrupt, the Austin-based conference is holding a showcase to feature the most exciting startups around. There are categories for Innovative Web Technology, Social Media and SocialNetworking Technology, Entertainment Technology, News Technology, and Music Technology.
How many socialnetworks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? I got him talking about this on This Week in VC including a quick demo of his dashboard - I think I'll shoot a separate sequence with just a walk-through of their analytics. Sure, but will they still be using it in a year?
One really great experience was a discussion I had with the camera rolling with my good friend Dmitry Shapiro who founded the major YouTube competitor of its time (Veoh) that was sued into oblivion by Universal and who also founded a socialnetwork designed to promote pseudonymity. I’m not crying in my beer. But context matters.
There are moments like being on stage when your demo crashes, reading about your competitors raising a ton of cash or having one of your top team members resign that test your will. before the really profitable years of socialnetworking and when many in the industry were despondent. I was baffled. It was 2007. Let me explain.
Bring your products to your Customers, their socialnetwork and their influencers with DoTogether Hosted Facebook Applications. What: A Startup Demo event. Neerg puts the spotlight on all the great ecopreneurs and merchants creating products that will help us easily lesson the impact we have on our wold. to 11:00 p.m.
The myShopanion is an iPhone app that just recently launched at DEMO and intends to help bridge the gap between online and real-world shopping. In addition, since the app is connected to Facebook and Twitter you can find and add friends from those socialnetworks as well.
Based on the popularity of rewards systems and socialnetworking of late, GreenNurture gives people incentives to help save energy and precious resources. What it takes to be a DEMO presenter. GreenNurture is the maker of an application that helps employees contribute to the sustainability for their employers.
What the service does is synchronizes the contacts you have across your phones and socialnetworks and puts them in an easy to use contact database. Taking the contact data its collects from your mobile device and pairs it with all known social contacts on networks like Salsforce.com, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
This included stabilizing a historically negative traffic and user trend, reducing the operational cost of the business by nearly 90 percent and pivoting the product from its legacy as a socialnetwork to a social entertainment destination. 7:10 – 8:00pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company.
Not to worry because we’ll recap the night with some information on the demos from these up and coming companies located in LA. ” After almost one year, this is what Tint decided to do and relaunched with a social activity website that allows you to embed content from your socialnetworks onto your website in one page.
There are moments like being on stage when your demo crashes, reading about your competitors raising a ton of cash or having one of your top team members resign that test your will. before the really profitable years of socialnetworking and when many in the industry were despondent. I was baffled. It was 2007. Let me explain.
Bring your products to your Customers, their socialnetwork and their influencers with DoTogether Hosted Facebook Applications. What: A Startup Demo event. Neerg puts the spotlight on all the great ecopreneurs and merchants creating products that will help us easily lesson the impact we have on our wold. to 11:00 p.m.
Groups rehearsed in every way possible, making sure their presentation covered the Problem, the Solution, How it makes Money along with showing off a killer demo. The countdown to 5:00 PM came near and teams were then cut off from continuing to work.
The final showoff's have been selected, so that brings the count to a total of 10 showoff's plus a wild card from the demo night at UCLA (full list of showoff's below). NutshellMail takes copies of all your latest updates in your socialnetworking and email accounts and places them in a snapshot email.
There was no viral socialnetworking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. The first attention we started getting was after we launched the company publicly at Demo on September 25th of this year. The first VC I met with came from attending DEMO. After Office 2.0
Quick aside: how can VC’s invest in online businesses, digital media, socialnetworks or mobile applications if they don’t actually use the products actively themselves? So if you present to me and the CEO can’t drive the demo or the financial model themselves it is a BIG RED FLAG. I did the grunt work.
We had special guest Denise Grayson of The SocialNetwork. Other extended segments were AOL's takeover of Techcrunch, our favorite demos from TechCrunch Disrupt and the best reenactment of AngelGate you'll ever see. Pre-Crime Data Mining Company Social Intelligence. Guest: Denise Grayson of "The SocialNetwork". .
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. Social gaming was naturally one of the key topics, covered in many presentations. Kudos to John for an excellent pitch.
Trust doesn’t come from one 45-minute Powerpoint pitch or 30-minute demo. In the era of socialnetworks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. This is a demo + a high-level deck. Create scarcity.
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