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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 [...]

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Pitch contest winners – Sonar, Pixable, and oGolf Panel slides – Mobile App Startups Panel topics include: Which companies and sectors within mobile app startups are the most profitable Revenue models for mobile apps – what works and what doesn’t Premium apps, mobile advertising, m-commerce, mobile content sales, in-app sales, etc Marketing mobile applications.  Dynamics [...]

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Ultra Light TV was a live, web-based TV pilot that aired on Friday, March 18. The show featured startup community news plus pitches and advice from the founders of successful online businesses. Panelists and guests are founder/CEO’s of technology and media companies that have achieved significant commercial success without external funding (ie by bootstrapping). Rather than [...]

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Panel topics include: When should you seek seed funding? What state should the company/concept/team be in? How do you determine who is appropriate to pitch to? What format and content is appropriate for a seed-funding pitch? What is the difference between an seed, angel, super-angel, and Series A funding? What are an entrepreneur’s biggest obstacles [...]

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Amazon Web Services sponsors the monthly Ultra Light Startups startup pitch contest.  The winners from February, 2011 are… First Place Bob Petrie HonestlyNow   Second Place Corey Maass Cue App   Third Place Baruch Herzfeld Zenofon

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Topics include: What does it mean for media to be viral? Why does certain content “go viral” while other content does not? Can virality be deliberately “engineered” into a website or does it only happen by chance? What are the essential principles of user behavior, media, and technology for making content viral? How is virality [...]

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Topics include: How to get influential bloggers, reporters and journalists to cover your startup Determining which blogs, magazines, newspapers and TV shows to target for your PR efforts Developing relationships with journalists Best practices on pitching your story Handling interviews – how to prepare, what to say, what to avoid Maximizing the business value of your press And [...]

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Pitches for From Concept to Website – December, 2010 Name Website Compete Rick Thompson Greentech Media 55543 Mahdad Taheri The Noo Group Ltd 6435 Jeff Fernandez Grovo Learning, Inc. 3706 Sergey Chernyshev ShowSlow 2009 Michael McCurdy TestingMom.com 1911 Michael Dietze Datagram Inc. 1156 Joe Chin SourcePad 1026 Ray Bernaz Socialibrium 475 Hsiang Lin Ezarchitecture

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Slides for From Concept to Website You have a great idea for a startup business.  It’s a concept nobody has thought of before and you’re sure it will change the world – and make millions in profit.  The problem is, you’ve never built a website before.  So how do you implement your idea?  Come to [...]

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Pitches for The Email Mafia – November 2010 Name Website Compete Salim Mitha Wahanda 13561 Joseph Rosenberg zenofon llc 3174 Scott Wolpow MyFilm 796 Rana  Mumtaz FABLOGUE 750 Hunter Cohen CoNeXus Software 745

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