June 2008
4 posts
Digging The Demos
Posted By Krista Paul
Thursday night was the first demo night of the summer for Techstars. Each team made a 7 minute pitch followed by a 5 minute Q&A. I was incredibly impressed with all of the demos as well as the progress each team has made with their product or service. Rather than analyze each demo, I want to provide a quick list of the BEST demos for several specific categories. Great...
How About a Little Privacy, Please?
Posted by Elliot Sawyer
We had a great lunchtime falafel meeting with Dave Taylor on Thursday afternoon. We caught him just as he was on his way to watch the Euro 2008 semifinals (wish I could have joined him). Dave is a blogging machine on the Internet, as well as a hacker, social media expert and a dad! Our team has a lot to think about this summer and meetings like this provide a unique new...
Own The Negotiation
We had a very interesting session with Sarah Reed of Lowenstein Sandler and Jason Mendelson of The Foundry Group yesterday afternoon. Sarah is a recognized expert on the legal aspects of venture capital financings and a shreeeeewd negotiator. She just looks and talks like she can seriously whip some a**. I love it.
Sarah and Jason organized an interesting exercise for all of us to participate in....
Charging Toward Phase II of TechStars
Techstars had our first “Founder’s Dinner” on Thursday to go over the initial weeks of the program. The official count (as of today): Been here: 26 Days Time left: approx 60 days (give or take a week or so for the BIG day) This means we are already over a quarter of the way finished with the program! It also means we’re nearing the start of the Phase II, which is designated as the “hauling ass...