Amazon Web Services sponsors the monthly Ultra Light Startups startup pitch contest. The winners were… First Place Viktor Marohnic ShoutEm Second Place Alison Anthoine Paperlex Third Place Jeff Thomson Prodideo Complete Startup Pitch List Alison Anthoine - Paperlex (2nd place) Francisco Prat - LifeWellth Viktor Marohnic - ShoutEm (1st place) Crowley Tom - Enthusiast Nation Oladapo Ajayi - AppsBidder Jeff Thomson - Prodideo.com (3rd place) Max Belenitsky - Text A Cab Joana [...]
Thursday, January 12 (6:30pm EST – New York) Register to Attend ($20/$30 – includes pizza/soda) Apply To Pitch (Pitching includes Gust/Angelsoft application and pitch coaching from McAdory “Mac” Lipscomb) Panelists (alphabetic order) Gil Beyda (@gilbeyda) Founder & Managing Partner at Genacast Ventures Art Chang (@achangnyc) Founder at Tipping Point Partners Micah Rosenbloom (@micahjay1) Founder Partner at Founder Collective Mark [...]
Amazon Web Services sponsors the monthly Ultra Light Startups startup pitch contest. The winners were… First Place Ari Grazi Indiewalls Second Place Robert Petti Resoomay Third Place Richard Zelson MyStream Complete Startup Pitch List Duy Huynh - Taap.it Robert Petti - Resoomay Richard Zelson - MyStream Joshua Dern - Reqoop Aaron Sylvan - Lemonade Heroes Maya Landesberg - I Had Cancer Gavriel Wolf - Indiewalls Andrew Cohen - Brainscape Philip Reichen - LocalUncle
Pitch contest winners: Indiewalls, Resoomay, MyStream Panelists (alphabetic order) Greg Cangialosi (@gregcangialosi) CEO at Nucleus Ventures Owen Davis (@owendavis) Managing Director at NYC Seed (audience choice) Nihal Mehta (@nihalmehta) General Partner at ENIAC Ventures (audience choice) Marc Michel (@marcmichelvc) Managing Partner at Metamophic Ventures Startup Pitches Duy Huynh - Taap.it Robert Petti - Resoomay (2nd place pitch) Richard Zelson - MyStream (3rd place pitch) Joshua Dern - Reqoop [...]
Pitch contest winners: BridesView, WearingSocial and NewsIT Panelists (alphabetic order) Andrew Cleland (@awcleland) Venture Partner at Comcast Ventures (audience choice award) John Frankel (@john_frankel) Partner at ff Venture Capital (audience choice award) Alan Gould (@gould_alan) Entrepreneur in Residence at Greycroft Partners Bradley Harrison (@bradharrison1) Managing Partner at Brad Harrsison Ventures Startup Pitches Daniel Maloney - BridesView (1st place pitch) David Friedman - Inhabi Peter [...]
Pitch contest winners: CityMaps, BrandME, and RideHack Panelists (alphabetic order) John Ason (@kewpster) Professional Angel Investor at Kewpie Associates Brian Cohen (@brianscohen) Vice Chairman of New York Angels and Founder & CEO of Launch.it Paul Sciabica (@paulsciabica) Executive Director of New York Angels Jonathan Stillman (@jonstillman) Founder & President of Half Moon Ventures and Managing Director at Assembla Startup Pitches Yuri Bakumenko MobilizeToday Ilya Zeldin brandME (2nd place) Alex Kombos EventNow Kelsey [...]
Pitch contest winners: DailySecret, Qrio.us, Nelbee Panelists (alphabetic order) Gil Beyda (@gilbeyda), Founder & Managing Partner at Genacast Ventures Brad Harrison (@bradharrison1), Managing Partner at BHV and Partner at Point Capital Partners Edward Reitler, Founder at ARC Angel Fund, Senior Partner at Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt Michael Yavonditte (@mikeyavo), Venture Partner at ff Ventures, CEO at Hashable Startup Pitches Lior Messinger - Medicasting [...]
Panel slides on Building a Valuable Online Community Panel topics include: Community building case studies from the panel – Mashable, Etsy, Mediabistro.com, Forrst. The essentials of online communities – why do certain communities thrive while most fail? How is online community building different from offline community building? Scaling a community to new cities and new countries. What are [...]
Panel slides for Lead Generation Revenue Models Panel topics include: Examples of lead-generation success stories What is lead-generation and how does it work? Sizing market opportunities. Who buys leads? How to find lead buyers? Definition of a “lead” – what are the essential components. How much is a lead worth? What determines the value of [...]
Pitch contest winners – Talamu, Umagram, and Crane TV Panel slides – Sales for Startups Panel topics include: Startup sales successes and failures Product Market Fit and Customer Development When should a startup begin selling? Selling your product before it’s built Product positioning Understanding and managing a sales pipeline Lead generation and tracking Sales metrics [...]