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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Pre-Game Interviews 3:00 Yoni Argaman – Stern EEX 9:15 Ray Bernaz – Socialibrium 15:00 Sabir Semerkant – Vitamin Creek 20:15 Rebecca Chiu – Tech@NYU Pitches 23:30 Pitches Start Sponsors 1:05:00 Richard Berger – SeamlessWeb 1:06:20 Ben Haverstick – Duane Morris Half-Time Interviews 1:11:30 Laura Allen – 15 Second Pitch 1:15:00 Harry Sedgewick 1:22:20 Spencer Fry [...]
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Question: Are there any benefits to registering as an INC vs. LLC in terms of attractiveness to future investors/acquirers? Answer: Although there are a number of reasons for entrepreneurs to organize their companies as LLCs (e.g., tax planning; avoidance of double taxation on profits—at the entity and the personal level), there’s one very important reason [...]
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New York – October 2010 Bootstrapped to Millions of Dollars in Profit This panel features the candid, real-life stories of three successful, bootstrapped technology entrepreneurs. Each entrepreneur runs a company founded with zero external capital that now has over $1 million in revenues. The panel is inspired by a submission to South By Southwest 2011 [...]
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Question: Is it legal and acceptable for a start up to receive donations from fans or well wishers through its website to fund business operations? For example, having a donation section which enables fans to send donations via checks or accepts credit card payment from the website or paypal account. Are there tax implications? Does [...]
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Question: What are the advantages and disadvantages of convertible debt vs. equity? Answer: As we’ve discussed in previous postings, I am very much in favor of the convertible note scenario for non-institutional rounds of financing. To recap, the convertible note structure replaces the sale by early stage companies of equity securities, at a set valuation [...]
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[toc] Event Summary What is an “lean” or “agile” startup? Do non-lean startups exist? What are viable options for financing a startup until you achieve profitability or fundability? Is “lean” a (temporary) stage of a startup or a (permanent) type of startup? If it’s a stage, what is the objective of the stage? What is a “product/market [...]
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