DC Startup Showcase List 2009
This list is an attempt to round up in one place a snapshot of the DC and metropolitan Maryland & Northern Virginia startup presentations & demos that took place in 2009. If you are a tech startup (or thinking of starting): you can plug in now into the Mid-Atlantic region’s growing community, including events every […]
Read MoreStartup News, Videos & Blog Posts Roundup: demos, creativity, innovation
Tuesdays are startup news days here. This week the attention is on the DEMO event, which is being streamed live. Our own Startup Rockstars alumni Diditz is there, along with dozens of other startups. (see articles at the bottom of the post) And in other news, the economy (at least in the US) continues to […]
Read MorePitching Your Product, Service, Company Or Yourself, On TV
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persona
- September 17, 2009
- 9 to 5
- audience tickets
- cable show
- Danish
- demo
- entrepreneurs
- get on tv show
- haro
- independent film
- Letterman
- Manhattan
- media
- New York City
- NYC
- oprah
- own tv show
- pitching
- product
- quiz
- QVC
- Rachel Ray
- reality show
- record contract
- service
- Sheena Easton
- sponsor
- startup
- Susan Harrow
- telebrands
- tickets
- tv
- tv commercial
- tv tickets
- wayne's world
I’ve been on TV! Okay, not in any high-visibility sense, just stuff like local man-in-the-street footage, or lost in the crowd during a camera pan on the David Letterman show, etc. It’s not something that was sought out. But, that might change, and so lately some research on the subject has been done. As a […]
Read MoreStartup News, Videos & Blog Posts Roundup
Tuesday is startup news day… here’s a round-up of stories relating to startups: StartupDay 2009 – found via this Seattle news/blog post, the event is a “conference for pre-entrepreneurs interested in founding or joining a tech startup“. It happens on Sept 26 in Seattle, Washington and is organized by Seattle 2.0. TechCrunch50 is today (and […]
Read MoreBusiness Success Videos – Motivational Mondays
Motivational Mondays kicks off with some videos from TED, a conference dedicated to “ideas worth spreading”, and with a video from down under. Success is a continuous journey – Richard St. John – talks at a TED event about success in terms of learning and re-building… an initial “success” is not the end-game. The video […]
Read MoreFive Slide Decks For Startups
Here are several slide deck presentations aimed at startups of technology companies. There are too many to put into one post, and future groups will be added & linked somewhere in this post. 1. The slide deck below is “Designing For Social Traction” and starts off with issues related to users of a (new) website, […]
Read MoreOnline Funding Resources: 10 Entrepreneur and Investor Communities & Portals
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persona
- September 8, 2009
- angels
- business plan
- capital
- coaching
- community
- crowd-source
- DC
- dire straits
- early-stage
- england
- entrepreneur
- financing
- investor
- london
- mid-atlantic
- money for nothing
- music
- online funding
- online term sheet
- prosper
- raise capital
- startup funding
- sting
- term sheets
- VC
- venture capital
- venture capitalist
- Videos
As a follow-up to last week’s post DC Investors Venture Capital (VC) List, here are some resources to reach out beyond your local geographic area, wherever you are. Some of these sites attempt to use the best aspects of online social communities to enable entrepreneurs to help each other, in areas of financing their ventures, […]
Read MoreTerm Sheets 101
Term Sheets An additional piece of lingo that may be involved in financing your venture is term sheet, which is a document containing the basic terms and conditions of a yet-to-ironed-out agreement. You may want to understand some of the nuances of these documents, including what an investor may think is ideal. There is at […]
Read MoreDC Investors & Venture Capital (VC) List
The word capital can refer to either geographic areas including the seat of government, or to “any form of wealth capable of being employed in the production of more wealth.” In the second definition, it’s money or the equivalent of funds used in business. Taking a small business to the next level often involves securing […]
Read MorePassion – Carrot & Stick
The source of a startup venture is usually one person’s strong passion. Whether the passion is clear and known, or murky and a hidden driving force, it aids in the process. Your passion can provide energy, direction, discipline, differentiation, and infuses itself into numerous areas. Where does passion come from? It depends on what type […]
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