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The Kinect Accelerator

Feld Thoughts

The goal is to help new startups develop both the technology around their Kinect experience as well as the business model so the resulting company can prosper as an independent entity after the program. Eran Egozy, Founder and CTO Harmonix. Manu Kumar, Investor, K-9 Ventures. David Cohen, Founder/CEO, TechStars.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. The first attention we started getting was after we launched the company publicly at Demo on September 25th of this year. A number of VC’s stopped by our booth or watched our demo on the DEMO website and we had about 5 proactive inquiries. After Office 2.0

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Investors, MVPs and Evidence of Traction

SoCal CTO

Investors Really Want Evidence of Traction So you built your MVP; you bring it to the investor; you demo it; and I will guarantee they will ask you: "So how many users do you have? You may have to build something out to show it working for someone to evaluate whether it really works better than what else exists.

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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product. It’s so important to line up the type of marketer and leadership that fits the business model, the product, or even the founder’s philosophy or early attempts at marketing.

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Women 2.0 Pitch Night…batter swing!

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Raise more money than you need because your business model may change. The business model for residential solar panel company: contract with customer, local rebates, and tax benefits. A lot of entrepreneurs attended the event as evident by business cards with “Founder&# listed.

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Developers of NYC Startup Tour to Visit ff Venture Capital

David Teten

The NYC Startup Tour selects promising startups each month and brings developers into their offices for technical presentations and demos and a chance to mingle with the startup teams. Anthony Calenda, CEO of SquareSpace, gave the second-ever private demo of the new 6.0

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Women 2.0 Pitch Night…batter swing!

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Raise more money than you need because your business model may change. The business model for residential solar panel company: contract with customer, local rebates, and tax benefits. A lot of entrepreneurs attended the event as evident by business cards with “Founder&# listed.