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Managing Social Media With Fetch Plus

YoungUpstarts

Its product Fetch Fans is a social media design application that builds highly interactive and custom branded Facebook business page tabs, Twitter and blog backgrounds, which was launched at DEMO earlier this year. What Could Have Been.

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Be Careful not to be Penny Wise, Pound Foolish

Both Sides of the Table

I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004. A small refuge from a busy day of shaking hands and demo’ing products. We went “nuclear&# and slimmed down to 33 people (yes, I know, still large by today’s standards but this was 2001), raised $10 million and we built a real company.

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Demo 2004

BeyondVC

I am at Demo 2004, and it is great to feel the positive buzz in the room. Hopefully, I will get a chance to post on some interesting companies and technologies that I see but for now please stay on top of Demo through Jeff Nolan’s Day 1 posts. The post Demo 2004 appeared first on BeyondVC.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. And I would rather, even before the executive summary, have something to play with (a demo)…” It falls in the category of show don’t tell. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I So very few investors want Business Plans any more.

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Great product and good momentum are keys to unlocking investment

The Equity Kicker

In 2004, you’d raise $500k with just an idea. Maybe the product won’t be launched, but people will want to play with a demo at least. You had to do crazy stuff like put machines into a datacenter, at this point. Then you’d raise a Series B to scale the marketing. The qualitative bar for the team, idea, and market was high.

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Will Someone Please Tell Me Exactly What a Looking Glass Can Do?

Feld Thoughts

What’s remarkable about this is that Joseph started to develop Voxatron back in 2004 on the belief that one day a holographic display would exist to house it. Here’s a tiny demo cart with src in reply! I really like how in this example a tiny bit of code generates a holographic app in a Looking Glass.

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

Both Sides of the Table

2001-2004 were very humbling but we built a real company. We launched out second company, Koral, at DEMO in 2006. This is only the first chapter in my story. That story for another day. Don’t Believe the Hype – take your lesson from Public Enemy (video worth a 4 minute diversion ). I did get to have a second act.