SXSW Accelerator Pitches #daily notes

Startups from Web, Health, Mobile, Entertainment, Social, Music - Technology:

#HEALTH
@medify - health user data
@jiff - facebook of health
@cellscope - at home diagnosis
@BodiMojo - teenager health management
@pipette - app to reduce complications after surgeries
@simplee - save money on medical expenses
@beyonLucidTechnologies - cloud service for emergency information

#ENTERTAINMENT
@tugg - watch movies of your choice at a local theater with your friends
crowdsourcing event organizing
@goosechase - scavenger hunt platform
@wevideo - collaborative video editing platform
@switchcam - watching events from different views
@mopix - distribute and sell your video content
@theblu - next generation digital studio

#WEB TECHNOLOGIES
@trapit - virtual personal assistant
@scrible - annotating of web sites
@oneID - single sign on
@PrismSkylabs - use security cams for consumer experience
@Viztu - 3D models from user-generated photos
@brandYourself - SEO for everyone
@AgLocal - buy local with your mobile app
@ZeroDesktop - cross platform cloud desktop

News Related Technology Pitches @umbel @SwiftRiver @buzzdata @openfunf #SXSW @UFOstart todos #daily notes

My notes and votes > 2 I would probably invest

#AdGlue 2/4
Ben Ilfeld
CPM ad network for SMB
self service for: ad creation, choose publishing spot,

@SwiftRiver - 3/4
swiftly.org
curation tool for real time data like tweets, sms, rss, email
data + #crowdsourcing
customer: newsrooms

#funf.org - 3/4
@openfunf
data collection platform based on mobile phones
open mobile ecosystem
api, appstore, data storage
nadav aha..

@buzzdata - 3/4
sliderocket for data
make data easy for people to use
sentiment analysis
free for public data

Session 1

> @crowdedComics - 2/4
> @davidBurnett
> #crowdsourcing of curated comics

> @nowspots - 3/4
> app platform for ads
> self service tool to create dynamic content ads
> HTML5 format, no flash, leverages news, twitter feeds,
> advertising, online marketing

> @localwiki - 2/4
> Mike Ivanov
> collaborate with your loca community
> example: Daviswiki

> @umbel - 3/4
> dashboard for social media + big data = digital genome for audience insights
> customer research center
> analytics

#todos for @UFOstart
buzzdata
umbel
swiftriver

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News Related Technology Pitches #SXSW #daily notes

My notes and votes > 2 I would probably invest

@crowdedComics - 2/4
@davidBurnett
#crowdsourcing of curated comics

@nowspots - 3/4
app platform for ads
self service tool to create dynamic content ads
HTML5 format, no flash, leverages news, twitter feeds,
advertising, online marketing

@localwiki - 2/4
Mike Ivanov
collaborate with your loca community
example: Daviswiki

@umbel - 3/4
dashboard for social media + big data = digital genome for audience insights
customer research center
analytics

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Mobile design of instagram foursquare foodspotting at SXSW via @mikeyk @arainert @ladylexy #mobiledsgn cc @UFOstart todos #daily notes

#mobiledsgn Panel
Alex Rainert - foursquare
Alexa Andrzejewski - foodspotting
Mike Krieger - instagram

Speed and stability are critical user experience features.
Instagram: 3 goals: beautiful mobile photography, sharing on diff
services was tough, smooth quick process
Have a hypothesis on Monday and test it by Sunday.
Pictures, not lists and stars. @foodspotting
Tell me about how looks the perfect picture of the vision.
Most important thing a designer can do at a startup: Communicate the
vision for the design you are trying to create.
Instagram tries to make all their employees designers, no matter which
role they have. 12 people now.
Build processes that allows you to validate ideas quickly.
@foodspotting runs kanban projects.
@foursquare always builds their prototypes in mobile web and use +
iterate it for months before doing the real impl.
When optimizing details, dont loose focus on your vision. Pivot how
you solve problems, but never away from the vision.
Live with your product to able to be intuitive in your design process.
User feedback as early as possible.
Try designing for one hand!
One way to find out what features your users like is to turn it off
for a while and see if they're upset... :)
instagram: first hire was a community mgr, live and die by community
The app @mikeyk just mentioned for seeing mocks on your iPhone/iPad is
LiveView Screencaster.
when building an app, consider two modes: goal-driven vs. killing time
The holy grail: wordless (+seamless) interactions.
Be smart about disruptive notifications, ie by aggregating data before pushing.
Mobile & web - foodspotting leaning toward make the (desktop) web more app-like

#todos for UFOstart
Build processes that allows you to validate ideas quickly.
Tool for mocks on iPhone/iPad is LiveView Screencaster:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/liveview/id301069270?mt=8

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UX driven startups at SXSW via @zachLarson @cindyalvarez @imf @KateRutter #UXStartup #daily notes

#UXStartup panel
@KateRutter - luxr
@zachLarson - sidereel
@cindyalvarez - UX director yammer
@imf - LeanUX advocat

UX > UI
users + needs + uses + features = user stories
Listen to customers, but don't give them what they say they want,
think of the problem they're trying to solve.
users = customers = users = customers
"It's as important to define what you don't do, as what you do do."
People use feature requests as a proxy for what they want in the
world. Ask them: "What would that let you do?"
Positive feedback about your product is great but means nothing if
noone will pay for it.
If people have a real problem, they will be showing emotion. If they
are non-chalant, there isn't a need.

#Andy Rachleff - CEO wealthfront
always start with a measureable customer hypothesis
convenience is the most important user experience
you dont need a designer to find the point of pain for customers
not everyone should like your idea
more important to learn to iterate than execute

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Lean startup in the @whitehouse via @macon44 @todd_park #SXSW #daily notes #obama

#lean startup initiative of the US government

#Health Data Initiative
NOAA of health
publish health data, make it machine readable,
started a health 2.0 developer challenge
datapalooza: 50 startup innovations selected via american idol style
> result: ecosystem to improve health and create jobs

#White House Digital =
1) reach audience - amplify
2) qualitive feedback - open
3) participation - engage

#40dollars campaign, people explain their needs direct to the
president @WeThePeople

#MyHealth.gov
use good design to explain government content
consumer friendly UI
motivate people to take care of their health

www.whitehouse.gov

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SXSW #metrics of startup success with @dharmesh @abatalion @joebot #todos for @ufostart #daily notes

#panel
Thomas Korte - moderator
Aaron Batalion - livingsocial
Darmesh Shah - Hubspot
Joe Zadeh - airbnb
Zach Nies - rallydev.com (collaboration software for development)

#livingsocial > trial and error often
started with review solution to make affiliate commissions
realized that they need to have 200m visitors to cover their salaries
pick your five, things make you happy ... and thought facebook will buy them
PIVOT - trial and error several times: tried 100 different things
good enough is ok

#hubspot > incentivize on data
Cancellation of customers sucks! - How to find out why?
measure every churn rate
We can predict data! Customer happiness index. (login frequence, time
spent, feature usage, sticky feature usage, ...)
We know, a customer is unhappy and will cancel in a few month and can
take action.
Use this data to incentivize:
1) compensate sales people (penalty to sell unhappy customers)
2) support compensation
3) product management
4) pre-emptive "saves"

#airbnb > measure all hypothesis
1m bookings 2011 - 5m bookings 2012
YC startup
1) go to where your users are (so they realized, that good photos of
rooms sell better)
2) establish hypothesis
- professional photos sell better)
3) measure and look at all kinds of data
build a dashboard for your measures

#rallydev > no pivot without data
planing is based on knowing data
agile cadence: daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly reviews of
all your numbers and strategies
hunch, hypothesis, experiment, measure and get out of the building

#todos for @UFOstart
rallydev.com (collaboration software development)
build a dashboard for your measures
setup hubspot

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SXSW #Likeable social media in 7 steps @DaveKerpen #daily notes

How to use social media the right way?

1. listen - to your community
to tweets, social media and any feedback
all keywords relevant for you

2. responsivness - is not a choice
customer service is now marketing
respond to everyone

3. provide value - for free
incentives, all kinds of free stuff
free features
don't give away an ipad if you are not apple
give away your value proposition

4. share stories
stories are your social currency

5. inspire customers to tell stories about you
I love Mary @ McDonalds...

6. target smarter
nano targeting
use facebook ads to find your audience

7. consistently
deliver excitement, surprise, delight

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SXSW #newsjacking @dmscott #todos for @UFOstart #daily notes

Hijack all relevant news to deliver your content in real time!

How to newsjack?
1) find a news
2) strategy (fit your content into the news)
3) speed in your news (right now!)

dont do PR campaigns anymore
most companies fear this strategy because of no agency, no lawyer,
during weekend
needs a real time and open mindset

#examples
Obama insured for croc bite (4600 reposts with one news)
Obama - newsjacked tuesday of republicans with a press conference
Weiner resign - Larry Flynt offered him a internet job
oracle acquired Market2Lead - oracle joins the party (quotes,
statistics, content) eloqua
Kate Winslet saved life of richard bransons mother - offered fire
fighter training
release newsjacking book - same day as kindle fire

#todos
1) person in charge of today
2) guidelines
3) systems in place for real time #moneyball
4) develop a real time mindset in the company

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seedcamp pitches summary @socialbro @blossom #daily notes

My notes and votes out of 4 points.
>2 I probably would invest

@24symbols 2/4
Cloud reading

@appextras 2/4
Mobile App marketplace via "more apps" button

@archivme 2/4
Mobile mint

@bilbus 2/4
Lending and cashflow management

@blossom 3/4
Lean product management platform to develop software

@bluefields 2/4
Sport team organizatio
#intro to yoursports

@campalyst 2/4
Analytics software for social media

@checkthis 2/4
Content publishing easy

@compilr 2/4
Code direct from browser
Software development platform

@holvi 2/4
Smart banking for group activities
#crowdsourcing
#intro to amiando
Debit account for groups
Event organizers, clubs,
Wepay plus bookkeeping

@milk.ly 2/4
Social skill market place

@mopapp 2/4
Analytics for mobile apps cross platform

@oust.me 2/4
Geo game based on places, forsquare and twitter

@pult 3/4
Airplay for the web
Stream all content to mobile device technology

@qminder 2/4
App for waiting tickets

@socialbro 3/4
Social media management platform
#looking for 2m grow and enter US
Raised 600k notes

@teleported 2/4
Photo sharing

@transferWise 2/4
P2P money transfer platform

@zingl 2/4
Social dating, friendships, business
Matching algorythm
Selling exposure and privacy

#Todos
Blossom
Socialbro

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Opening German Silicon Valley Accelerator, keynote by @PeterThiel

@DirkKanngiesser - welcome
German companies are great engeneers, bad sales marketing
Only SAP as a global success in software after the war

@PeterThiel - keynote
To build a great company, ask yourself Is this the best in the world?
Last moover companies have a good potential to become the best.
The greatest companies got never sold.
VCs go out of business in countries where all companies sell at 20M.

#His advise to German entrepreneurs:
To build a new mittelstand, first germany needs to believe
In a new mittelstand in terms of success and worth to invest in.
Investors shouldn't push entrepreneurs to sell, to build great companies.
Germany is the most under invested place in the world.

#Pitches
@FairObserver
Huffingtonpost meets wikipedia

@trifense
Network defense technology

@Pixray
Image recognition to find and filter pictures
Dennis Wetzig ceo
Raisied 1.3M

#Todos
Apply SVB demoday in march @carrie startups 500k
Followup with mentorCloud, raising 1,5M
Followup with oliver to connect GSVA with UFOstart

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E245 #4 Stanford Entrepreneurship #Distribution #daily notes

#distribution channels
Channels don't generate demand, they are for fullfilment
How do you want to sell your product? - Apple store was an important channel decision.
How does your customer wants to buy? - Same day, installed, downloaded, bundle...
Types of channels: direct, indirect, licensing
Think about the channel as a customer.
Ho to channel motivate your channel? - Money, training, marketing, spif

Product - Cannel - Matrix
Product web/physical
Channel web/physical

All slides and real projects:
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Startup weekend SJ 16 pitches #daily notes #swsj

My notes and votes >2 I would probably invest:

@mySTfair 3/4 - Winner by the Startup Weekend judge!
Product watchlist to wait for a price drop
Browser plugin to set a price alert
Got 3$ funding
#crowdsourcing groupon

@chirped.it 3/4
Twitter app for realtime hashtag group chat rooms
Demo Chirped.it/#swsj

@NightingaleRx 2/4
Multiple medication made easy
First product: ebook
Next product: ipad app

@TrollBlock 3/4
Social network based on eliminations (unfriend and dislike)
Building a negative social graph
- unique
Raising 100k

@fishbowl 3/4
Networking solution, talk to right people, followup, realtime
95% people fail to follow up
dev2.fishbowl.me

@trambo 3/4
Mobile app for city tours with marketplace
#crowdsourcing
-sounds like gowalla
Demo.trambo.com

@sellatscale 2/4
Outsorcing of fullfilment for ecommerce offers
Order drop handling automated
- smal feature, even real problem for smal market

@pledgeHealth 2/4
Health hub with motivation system

@PointsFlyer 2/4
Fly for free, just by signing up with several credit cards
Interesting affiliate model
- smal niche

@salesqualia 2/4
Improve sales performance
Evaluate sales call quality if calls are recorded
- great feature for salesforce, hard to sell direct to big corporates

@mhired 2/4
Hirering solution via social networks
- Copycat of branchout, talent.me,

@Bzzr.me 2/4
Replace restaurant pagers with your phonenumber
Opentable with "your table is ready" sms
- nice idea, hard to scall with smb restaurants

@livelife 2/4
Activity planing with facebook app

@simpleRevie.ws 2/4
Mobile app for short product reviews

@nexus 1/4
real estate marketplace for retail stores
- where is te problem, existing solutions cant solve?

@hellolitlefuture
Corporate social responsebility

@500startups demoday 30 pitches #500strong

My notes and votes out of 4 points, >2 I would probably invest.

@500startups demoday pitches #500strong

@tinyRevie 3/4
Reviews with photo + 3lines
300k raised

@RotaDosConcursos 2/4
Brazilian education platform for goverment jobs
350k raised

@cadee 3/4
Golf improvement mobile app + saas + community
500k raising
85k raised

@spinnakr 3/4
Website targeting on your website
500k raised

@weddinglovely 2/4
Wedding planer
350k raising

@switchcam 3/4
Youtube for events
#crowdsourcing
750k raising
300k raised

@hapyrus 3/4
Collaborative analytics
Big data preperation with hadoop
japan
700k raised

@lookAcross 3/4
social CRM
Analyze all social channel to find best time for a sales contact
200k own money invested

@memetales 2/4
interactive kids stories on ipad
750k raising
100k raised

@central.ly 3/4
Online storefront for facebook
Add a product to your fanpage wall like a photo
300k raising
100k raised

@72lux 3/4
Universal checkout, on site basket and checkout
50k setup + 100k annual + 2% transaction
300k raised
1.5M raising

@gizmo 3/4
Cloud advertising content management for content creator
615confirmed
1.3raising

@oneschool 3/4
Education via mobile apps collection to organize everything in schools
750k raised
2.5 raising

@intercom 3/4
Crm Whitelabel zappos service quality for any website
Changes customer communication
Next salesforce
1m raised
Not raising

@300milligrams 3/4
Dashboard for all cloudservies
2days to connect any cloud service
500k raising

@HighScoreHouse 3/4
Payment platform for kids
Gamification for kids daily life
Icecream for breakfast
750k raising

@postrocket 3/4
facebook marketing platform
Facebook edge rank
500k raising

@Fitocracy 2/4
Fitness app game changer
Gamification of fitness
380k raised
500k raising

@LoveWithFood 2/4
Subscription of gourmet food
Sending samples to get feedback
750k raising

@brightnest 2/4
Home maintenance dashboard
665k raised

@talkdesk 2/4
Call center as a service without agents
400k raised

@contactually 3/4
CRM in your email box
Suggestions to followup
Synchronize with crm
225k raised
500k raising

@paybygroup 2/4
Raising

@ContaAzul 2/4
Saas Accounting solution for smb in brazil
350k raised
Raising

@fileboard 2/4
File exchange and view app for tablets
Annotations, share, collaborate
500k raising 25% commited

@moPIX 3/4
Appstore for film and video
Marketplace
Youtube with monetization
#crowdsourcing
300k raising 50% confirmed

@Farmeron 2/4
Farm data dashboard
200k raised
750k raising

@brandBoards 2/4
Connecting brands with fans
Advertising solution for stadion games
750k Raising

@eSpark 3/4
Pandora for education on ipad
1.5m raising / raised

@Tailored 2/4
Wedding planer for brides
1m raising
500k raised

@GoVoluntr 2/4
Voluntr saas for companies to build community

@SafeShepherd 2/4
Personal data removing service on subscription
600k raising
200k raised

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E245 - Stanford Entrepreneurship #daily notes

#Value prop - Ann Minura-Ko
What is the problem for each target group?
User, buyer, recommender, decision maker

Competitors
What are customers doing today?

How to test value prop hypotheses?

MVP
- core problem for customer
- features to learn from early users






#Customer Segmentation - AlexOsterwalder.com

Inventor of the business model canvas

What is a customer?
If you compete with the value proposition, then it is a customer.
Example google users are their customer, even id they dont pay.

Empathy maps: simple customer profiler
1) what does he see in his environment?
2) hear from others
3) mind (worries,
4) what he Says about

Think about what job does a product do for its customers!

Mapping jobs
To find product market fit


#Steve Blank The final post is here:
http://steveblank.com/2011/05/10/the-lean-launchpad-at-stanford-–-the-final-presentations/

You can read the entire series here:
http://steveblank.com/category/lean-launchpad/

The posts were reprinted on the Huffington Post here:
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Pnp angel deal flow session #daily notes

@graymatics 2/4
Image and video content understanding platform (object recognition)
Wants to sell it to advertisers / publishers
@goHaircut 2/4
Airbnb + opentable for haircutter
Open hours, travel, waiting time
#crowdsourcing
No customer proof yet
@spyra 3/4
Mobile, social Game company
Roxanne Gibert CEO
Good experience from zynga, playfirst
Buzmod: virtual goods
@userzoom 2/4
Software to manage customer experience
Tools to do agile user testing, survey, A/B
Hubspot for usertesting
Next gen analytics
Buzmod: subscription 20k per year
4 years in business, 100 customers like google walmart amazon etc
No integration in website needed
From spain
@magnifis 2/4
Siri for android
MVP in 3 month
No distribution yet

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Pitches at pnpexpo #daily notes @mavia @smartbox @cardskin @Spreadd

My notes and votes. >2 means I would probably invest.

@Prepay 2/4
Loyalty mobile solution

Repost.us 2/4
Sharethis
1.5m self funded

@bazar 2/4
Market place for free android apps
19k developers

@cachatto 1/4
Security solution for b2b mobile users

@rangg 2/4
Top10 list meets amen

@ifollow 2/4

@webmobi2/4
App platform for mobile apps

@smartbox 3/4
Social TV experience
TV appstore

@wazapp 3/4
Pandora for events
Great design on website

@graymatics 2/4
Realtime video recognition infrastructure

@pixowl 2/4
Family mobile games platform

@decisyon 2/4
Platform to customize cloud apps

@nomad3d 1/4
Power saver

@gizmo

@fuze

@cardskin 3/4
Casual reading
Cards to summarize a book
Great pitch

@gledit 2/4
Augmented reality meets online advertising

@GVN 2/4
Tele presence / video conferencing platform

@monkeycontact 2/4
Contact management solution

@secludIT 1/4
Security solution for cloud services

@Spreadd 3/4
Better collaboration
Observer of cloudservices what people are doing
Oposite of Chatter socialcast chatter (no tagging, sorting, reporting-
just obeserving and matching)

@Phroni 2/4
New Smart phone browsing experience

@Yappoint 2/4
Appointment platform for service providers and customers

@vidquik 2/4
Frustrated in webex and gotomeeting?

@mavia 3/4
Mobile solution for Connected car
Oil change, where is car, emergency,
Crowdsourcing solution
Internet of things IOT

@shopwell 2/4
Mobile app to shop right products

#Todos
snoozy.com voting system via text sms
Try to be different then to be better. Matt Miller MD Walden Venture Capital

Design conference Warmgun summary 2011 #daily notes #warmgundesign

@mcclure
240 investments with 500startups today

#designing for disaster
@veen ceo typekit
Summary: bit.ly/uP0tLy

#design decisions
@jmspool
#Unintentional Design: happens if the team is not focused on the user.
#self designing: we,re designing for ourselves. - when we are solving
our own problem. But make sure to use your own product every day!
#genius design: use an expert from your industry
#activity focused design: follow the features
#experience focused design
#Summary:
Every design has his purposem
Know your style
Use the same style for the whole project
Make sure the whole team uses same style.
The more advanced, the more expensive.
Agencies can't go beyond genius design - do it yourself
Activity and experience design - do it yourself
#Get his free book: Webappbook@uie.com
Summary: bit.ly/tugQRP

#future of design founders
@enriqueAllen
#a His book on kickstarter

#how to sell design to engineers?
@Rebecca Bortman designer youtube
Understand what people need
Never let the engineers see you pick a color, keep myst
Don't design things, design value
Be super funny ;)

#design for disruption (change behavior)
@azaaza
Kids don't eat Marshmallow example
Amazon increase speed 100ms sales 10%
Round Speed arrow motivates to slow down
-Give realtime feedback (speed feedback on streets)
-social feedback
-Fast music to slow down

#design for mobile speed
@Mikeyk
@tjzark instagram
No one wants to wait, while they wait
1) Perform actions optimisticly
2) Adaptively pre loading
3) Move bits if nobody is watching
Give feedback before ttyou execute the operation
Only load what the user is looking and skip realtime (focus on user spot)
Start operations before user clicks enter

#designing with content / microcopy
@bokardo
Microcopy = kind of context help
= personifies software
#Answer open questions, make users Feel loved, make users loyal, use
appropriate tone, don't repeat
#Mailchimp is doing nice user dialogs with its monkey
#good examples: Flickr.com/groups/microcopy

#designing with data
@slangille visual.ly
Data matter more then design for infographics

#UX makes look fat?
@clevergirl ceo luxr
Lean UX:
Get happy about launching crap
Ugly is just fine
Your opinion is a hypothsis
Make it perfect when you have evidence
=make the right product and then make the product right

#todos
Muledesign.com design studio in SF
Microcopy for ufostart
Check Visual.ly for big data Visual.ly/why-startups-fail

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Founders Institute best in the world graduates #daily notes

America: Kaliki
Europe: idespo
Asia: Identifii
Silicon Valley: Rentcycle
Most Disruptive: CakeHealth
Best overall: Udemy

The Future of Gamification #daily notes

#Designboost
@PeerEriksson communicator
#Swedish fikka: 22 nobel prices come from a university of 200 people,
because they meet 4 times a day in their cantina.
#If you got it flaunt it - andy warholl
#innovation vs design
Innovation is designing how we want to live

@DavidCarlson David.se
#7 steps to heaven
1 think transdisciplinary
2 Have a humanistic perspective
3 act responsible (make it matter)
4 make it different (different or die)
5 share knowledge
6 be intuitive
7 dare to fail (do it and fix it as you go)
Stay foolish, stay hungry!

#gamification of learning
@AndersGroenstedt
#5 superpowers of learning design:
1 story telling (tell a story over month, not in ppt session)
2 Gamify (points, level, badges, onboarding, quests)
3 3D (excitement)
4 Social (collaboration)
5 Mobile (always u
Cisco, sap start to gamify their business solutions

#STEM education
@KennethBodin algoryx.se
Social, because we are humans.
Focus on tools, not on informations.
Not learning specific. (Biz phones are dead)
3D and simulation goes web.

#Games as the main learning tool
@MatsWiklund Professor Stockholm University

#gamification for change
Ozma Game Design Studio
@BobbiAugustineSand
@KarinRyding
Why gamification?: Attraction, loyalty, activity (contribute
willingly), circulation (give a reason to talk to friends)
When: ..Gamif. needs to be a part of solution not add on
What: activities, situations, experiences, systems

Todos:
#a "train for success" AndersGroenstedt: Every thursday 9am on second
live show about gamification
Facebook.com/TrainForSuccess
#a book: reality is broken
#a second life - free 3d engine to prototype
#a unitry3d - free developer solution
#a algodoo physics - education software in mac appstore
#a weproject - tool for change
#a ozma.se/blog gamification chart
#a check out dreamhack events (500k live viewer)

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Angelpad demoday 15 pitches @simpleReach @lendfriend @pipedrive @kout @vungle #daily notes

Here my notes and votes, as always > 2 would probably invest.

@sourceNinja 2/4
Solves legal pains of using open source

@simpleReach 3/4
3founder
Realtime Social intelligence dashboard
Measure social capital - social score
130M PIs

@lendfriend 4/4
3founder
Loans from friends and family (credit, car, student)
#crowdfunding

@pipedrive 3/4
3founder
Pipeline tool for deals
342 paying customers from 31 countries

@frugalo 2/4
Social ecommerce
Agregate relevant offers from your gmail account

@iDoneThis 2/4
3founders
Daily productivity check-in to track team progress
#virtualteam Infrastructure
Looking for distribution

@prizzm 2/4
Reward system for customers to give feedback

@buffer 2/4
social traffic scheduler
800 paying customers, 150k sales

@wishery 2/4
Email customer retention to send status to customer
Integrates with google apps

@shoplogic 2/4
Promotion logic tool for merchants
Like retargeting for promotions

@kout 3/4
Cross platform ecommerce platform
Every product gets one url and the customer gets the right checkout
page depending on your device and environment (Social, mobile, ..)

@LikeAndy 2/4
Mobile private video solution
Copycat of Andy Warhole ;)

@storie 2/4
How to stories Mobile app

@vungle 3/4
Video advertising platform for mobile apps

@tapviva 2/4
Mobile food ordering next generation platform

Todos
@wishery for globumbus registration
@iDoneThis for our dev teams

All on angellist

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Unity developer conference day2 #daily notes #unite11

#unity for education
Classroom, conference, online venue - education
Walkerboystudio.com/html/unite11.html

#unity for students
@davidkoontz

#learning unity
Best game engine on the planet
Learn to program - book: "how to think like a programmer"
Start with 2d and scratch, Gamemaker, stencyl - 6weeks
Pick a language on unity: javascript or C# (javascript: easier, C#: complex) dont mix it
Decide to make a game and 18 month later you know about unity
Realize you need lineare algebra - you need vectors (1 day enough)
Practice games you can make in one day
Clone a classic game: asteroids, space invaders, pac-man
Now you have a sense of unity
The bigger the project early on, the less learning there will be!
You cant learn it all at once, be persistent and focus on learning the tools and not making a game first.
DavidAThappycamperstudios.com

#using unity to present art
To land a job or target audience
Export FBX format from autocad
Import in unity


#todos
book: "how to think like a programmer"

Unity3d developer conference #day1 #daily notes

Unity V 3.5

#asset store
Makes 140k a month

#API for Social graph integration
Cross platform: Ios game center, Facebook, PS3
Microphone and webcam input

#Analytics
Key to monetization
Heatmap where to loose people, where they start to pay
Zero day analytics:
Completely integrated
Hosted by

#In-App Purchase
Cross-platform
Tied into analytics and social

#AAA Initiative
Larger projects
More demanding teams
Setting new standards

#infinityblade 40% of $10M in 6month frm in-app purchs

@davidBrevik Future of game industry
Build software knowing your hardware focus on audience

#evolutions
Architecture: Lan, internet, mmo/social
Control: Joystick, controler, mouse, wii, touch
Distribution: Disk, retail, website, appstores, facebook
Business: sell to mass, subscribtion, free to play

#Future of game dev:
No install,
everyone can access,
Mobile (tablet, phone)
Cloud. multi-device gaming (anywhere, any device)
Free to play
You can all make it with unity!
Gazillion entertainment

#family guy online - making of
Mmo social game
@Roadhouse ceo, coordinator
Production company for making games like movies
@acronym developer company (39 people in vancouver)
Funky - developer
200 developer month
Photon network layer
Photon from exitgames for multiplayer realtime features

#Todos
Yetizen Incubator for games

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Pitches at founders institut #daily notes @clientMagnet @grubCrawl @explorence @steelhanger

#Pitches
With my notes and votes > 2 means possible investment

@Chalkwise 2/4
Dashboard for kids grades
#education

@logrado 1/4
Sms reminder platform for colleges
>Wrong motivation in my eyes
Looking for 250k

@explorence 3/4
Outdoor video games + facebook
Bit like gowalla meets runkeeper meets mytown
Looking for 500k

@mobtest 2/4
99design for mobile app testing

@steelhanger 3/4
Subscription model to buy men cloth without going shopping. Choose
your style and get deliveries

@holisticMD 2/4
Marketplace for alternative healthcare
Chiropractor, accupunctur,
>Difficult distribution > seo
Looking for 500k

@inveska 2/4
Rating mutual funds
Algorithm for investment decision

@clientMagnet 3/4
Automated Marketing solutions for smb
Remember your clients to come back via email + call
Freemium model
300k revenue in 2011
Based on intuit appstore
Looking for 750k

@grubCrawl 3/4
Food events
Meet new people and discover restaurants together
3 different locations per event
#crowdsourcing

#adeos keynote
Eqity compensation contract for advisors now live on his new website

#Todos
Problem first + existing solutions and competitors
Distribution
Team at the end (we can make it)
Check Eloqua marketo

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Pnp expo pitches #daily notes @inboxFever

My notes and votes out of 4 points.
> 2 potential investing

Judge winners: spool, cloudless, snackr

@Emove 2/4
Wave electric generator
In 6 years profitable
50k from richard branson for prototype
Looking 5m funding

@gripNote 2/4
Amazon for student notes
Looking for 400k funding
#crowdsourcing

@userZoom 2/4
Optimising user experience #ux
Saas ux research
3m revenue 2011, break even
Looking for scale

@myBantu 2/4
Personalized social recommendation app iphone
Virtual personal assistant
#crowdsourcing

@vixlo 1/4
Survey monkey for product research with coupons for customers

@pangia 2/4
Analytics for buildings
Looking for 1.6m

@inbenta 2/4
Search for enterprise websites
Natural language search insted of keyword search
No money needed yet

@agoraSessions 1/4
Recommendation platform (don't got it)
Look 1m

@routershare 2/4
Cloud router technology

@ixion 2/4
Talent find facebook app
Build your talent avatar
Collect data from fb linkedin
Look for 2m

@ModeWalk 2/4
Emotional shopping solution for luxury goods

@infinica 1/4
Document based communication
Looking series a

@spendgo 1/4
Loyalty solution
Looking 6m

@tubaloo 2/4
Google voice global or skype
Reduce costs of international calls
Looking 4m

@inboxFever 3/4
Email powered application platform
Send an request via email and get an result via email
#disruptive

@cardFlick 1/4
Businesscard exchange app
Looking 1m

#jeffJordan
Ebay, paypal, Opentable,
Local Salesforce is a big value

Secret of YC etc?
Intensity, environment, competition,
Community, time presure, learning

#Todos
Checkout ixion
Pnp mobile app for voting
Zoosk 50m user
userZoom

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Startup2startup - @karaswisher #daily notes

@KaraSwisher from @allThingsD
Make a nice product, the press and customer will follow
@Sparks - good PR company in Silicon Valley
Stagnation at PC's and laptops , mobiles and tablets grow
Twitter is a very good source for news
Be honest and be yourself

#Followup
Manu Kumar - schedule a demo
Gagan udemy -
Bhanu S (he loves the idea and name) - invite for beta
Miten Sampat (angel class stanford) - invite for beta
Scott Schube @happytoymachine

Todos
#a orchestra for iphone
Read 3pm allthingsd

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Techcrunch disrupt summary day 2 @growtheplanet @Talkto @trello #daily notes

As always, my notes and votes out of 4 points, > 2 means I probably
would invest.

@VinodKhosla - khosla ventures
Calls himself a venture assistant and loves to take risks
Only advises entrepreneurs, don't takes board seats

@MenloTalentFund starts 20m fund
Seed deals last year: accel:30, charles river:91, google80

@AshtonKutcher
#a Show next monday Magic tricks
Team helps to sort and simplify deals

#startup battlefield

@Talkto 3/4
Text any local bsuiness
Like sms
Get rid of your requests and get asynchron feedback
In the backend they use call center for businesses, which are not connected yet
@rewardli 2/4
Affiliate commissions as cashback for consumers
@trello 3/4
Organize anything together
Who is doing what?
Project management and workflow process on digital cards. Light wight pms
Free
@prismSkylabs 2/4
Video observing in public places by protecting privacy
We bring physical spaces online
Closed 1m round
Beta: Pri.sm/beta
@meexo 1/4
Mobile dating
@rentloard
Real estate business without agents

#startup alleey
@vidcaster 2/4
Whitelabel youtube
@toutap 2/4
Crm feature for gmail, for serial emails
@playsay 2/4
Facebook language learning app social education
@findAheroBeAhero
@growtheplanet 3/4
IOT internet of things for your garden #crowdsourcing
Learn to garden
Share your tomatos
Peer to peer

#Todos
@trello 3/4
#a Show next monday Magic tricks

#globumbus
Virtual pitch room (live, asynchron, any device, vote, comment, chat,
checkin, apply, advise,
Like virtual worlds like Shaker, turntable, vcruise
#invest in people rather then ideas: thrustfund.com
uniform
Contract generator like @rentloard

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Techcrunch disrupt summary day1 #disruptsf11 #daily notes

#Founder stories
@arrington unpaid blogger
@ReidHoffmann
40 investments last year

@MikeMcCue flipboard
3,5m downloads 500mio flips per month

@DouglasLeone sequoia
The dna of a company is set in the first 60-90 days
Loves entrepreneurs fixing their own problem
Advises startups to come to Bay Area
Startup advantg: speed+ stealth, shut up until ur ready
Leone@sequoia.com

@PaulGraham Ycombinator
6 pitches from startups

@DustinMoskovitz asana
Many more ideas gets funded in the Bay Area

#startup battle field pitches
@tonara 2/4
sheet music ipad app
@farmigo 2/4
GroupBuy food dirct from farmers and pickup close to u
@housefix 1/4
Manage your house repairs and contractors
@openbucks 1/4
Use giftcards to pay online
@cakehealth 2/4
Manage healthcare expenses
@younow
Crowdsourcing live music artist contests
Like chat roullett for music

#Startupalley
@Quixey 2/4
app search engineqq
@tweaker 3/4
crowd investments analysis,
Launching next week in appstore
Looking for 500k for development in india and china
@shoutAtweet
Group tweeting
@didthis 2/4
Run keeper for everything
500k usd only cash To pay 5 people (already on board)
@proximiant 1/4
Get receipts to your mobilephone on nfc
@positiveTalk 2/4
Social analytics
@spiralMoon 1/4
Traditional Video pitch production comp in mountain view
Example video: "Share the air"
@plango
Mobile social calendar for facebook
@picdish 2/4
Quora + facebook for food
750k for distribution and
@picBadges 3/4
Viral facebook campaign using your profile picture
12m users within 12month
watermark url on profile
700k-1m directsales, development
@opensesame
Udemy for b2b
looking for 2m
@vCruise 4/4
Sims 3d on facebook
Chat, play, watch youtube together, schedule parties, battles etc
Live on 9/15
Looking for 1m for distribution, contact to celebrities, to become
top 10 facebook game
Monetization: Virtual goods and vip status
10 people (6artists 3developers in palo alto)
@Amen 2/4
Platform for strong statements
@idle-Games 3/4
Facebook game
Analyze interests to invite your friens (recommendation)
The game needs to breaks the ice for you

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Startup weekend gaming demo session #daily notes @JukeDJ @gambit @Gablinga

After one weekend working on their idea, the teams present their results.
Here are my notes and votes, as always potential investments >2/4

@gambit 3/4
Online betting, we create adds as digital bookmaker
Want to become open api for all online game bettings
(Big business in korea with starcraft etc games)
Deployed on heroku
Looking for: Legal counsels and mentors

@HappyAnimals 1/4
PlayForLife (gaming, life, education) casual games
#HappySalmon, first game, help him to get home
App stores: apple microsoft android amazon
Looking for: Money, developer, designer, ux experts

@Gablinga 3/4
Social In-Person gaming platform
#Hotpotato handover the phone (like stuhltanz) and win a drink

@be-novative 1/4
Game to Unlock your creativity

@brainiacSports 2/4
Challenge your sports knowledge
Fantasy sports facebook game
Developed on Unity
Looking for: seed Money, developers

@FaceOff 3/4
Play with your face against face of your friend
Mobile shooting game

@afterPM 1/4
Find what's open after hours
Like "arround you" after 10pm or yelp with filter "open now"

@PuppyCannon 2/4
Mobile Real world games / educating game
Child take cares of an puppy (like tamagochi)
Business model: virtual goods, sponsorship

@JukeDJ 4/4
Iphone jukebox
Use your iphone in a bar or restaurant to choose music
Bar makes additional money and safes money on jukebox

#startupfever
#Ideas for real life game mechanics
two players to call the same number - first wins
bump at same time
Handover your phone

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German startups go to Silicon Valley #daily notes @globumbus

How can German companies, find money and market access in Silicon Valley?

#german funding landscape @JoannHalpern
German Center for Innovation
#Programs: Htgf, Frauenhofer attract, gepris, research-explorer, daad,
exist - entrepreneurs program, Go-Bio, humboldt-innovation, bmwi
@RichardBendis - blogger innovation daily
Germaninnovation.org

#German Silicon Valley Accelerator
@DirkKanngiesser, Dietmar Harrhoff, Oliver Hanisch
#program:
40 company program for next 3 years
3-6 month program in SV (german pavillion at pnp)
Mentor network
Who can apply? German tec startups, businessplan, part of an 'exist' program
Services: Office space, workshop , mentoring, networking events, visa service
Startups have to cover travel, food and housing costs
10/1 start of selection, 2012/1 first startups arrive
Apply: www.Germanaccelerator.com

#plugandplaytechcenter
Office space, data center, mentoring, services, events
600 startups icubated since 2006
750USD funding raised
50 service partners
150 VC partners
Plugandplaytechsenter.com

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Daily notes PnP university expo 2/2 uexpo

Pitches from Eastcoast Universities

@hulkshare 1/4

@bookstoreGenie 1/4
Textbooks rental on amazon logistic services

@Nooch 2/4
Wepay without paying

@yourmech 2/4
Mobile app to call a car mechanic 30% cheaper

@effimaxSolar
Solar power for the masses

@blackLocus 1/4
Automated ecommerce strategy
Automatic price adjustments

@goodplates 1/4
Yelp

@sanacare 3/4
Medical devices based on smart phone

Daily notes: University expo at pnp 1/2 pitches from stanford, san jose, berkley...

>

> West coast universities:
>
> @Icracked 1/4
> Iphone repair service
>
> @Ignition Education 2/4
> Stanford startup
> Widget for websites to connect you with experts in realtime
>
> @Junglee games 4/4
> Zynga for india
> Ankush@jungleegames.com
>
> @ditto 2/4
> Zappos for glasses
>
> @TVtally 2/4
> Iphone game for reality TV shows
> Voting, chatting etc
>
> @kopokopo 2/4
> Mobile wallets
>
> @styletech 2/4
> Franchaise model to sell glasses online (3d fitting model)
>
> @writeReel 3/4
> Video creation saas
> explain your product with a video
> 100$ per month
> Competition: studios and Online do it yourself solution
>
> @twepto 4/4
> Generate offers out of twitter
> From tweets like "i hate soing laundry" offering laundry service etc
> #crowdsourcing search analytics
> Seeking 500k
>
> @gripnote 2/4
> Amazon for college documents
> make money with your notes
> #crowdsourcing
>
> @imprint energy 2/4
> Printable batteries
>

iExpo winner

#keynote
@bessemer venture partner
@DavidCowan
Investment criterias:
Businee model: like Subscription and Virtual currencies
Distribution: need to be high viral
If you need to Pay for user: need double return
If ecommerce:
Linkedin, skype and teamviewer are best models because of: virality
and productivity increase as value prop

#Winners

3. @superCompare
Price comparison for local retailers
Fill a virtual basket
Stores will offer coupons and get
User save 1000 a year

2. @tapmap
Retailers can bring their inventory lists to an api online
They connect to erp systems
Customers like walmart, cvs, expert etc

1. @accedo
IPTV

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iExpo 2/2 pitches #daily notes #Globumbus

My votes out of 4 points

#Pitches

@OKeez 3/4
Open platform for remotecontrols on any touch pads
Invest: 2m 500k

@justInMind 2/4
Software prototyping platform
Testing
#saas
Invest: 2m sales marketing, us entry

@blueSource 2/4
Mobilepocket for all your plastic cards
>Hard b2b sales

@bestiario 2/4
System for Data analytics

@digital samba 2/4
Video conf and virtual classroom for #education
Onsync
>Another one

@gipht me 3/4
Virtual goods platform
Invest: 700k seed

@inbenta
Search to reduce
Barcelona
Invest: 5

@minteos
Sensors

@kodeid 1/4
Mobile wallet
>How to distribute?
Invest: 1.5m

@ayannah

@wondershake 2/4
Tokyo japan
Local social mobile Dating app

@capseo 4/4
Crowdsourcing meets marketing
Webinfluence
Matching tasks with skills
230k revenue
20 countries 10 languages
Invest 1.2 series A

@nicePeopleAtWork 1/4
Video on demand stream

@moglue 1/4
Create play share
Platform to create interactive ebooks

@zapon 1/4
Mobile app lo share events
Invest 1.5

@superCompare 2/4
Price comparison
Fill a virtual basket and they tell you where to go and buy
Local retail

@talkwheel 2/4
New communication tool

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iExpo 1/2 at plugandplay 34 pitches from 17 countries #daily notes #

My votes out of 4

#keynote saeed amir
Israel companies have 20 people in silicon valley and 200 in israel
and the go public on nasdaq for 3 times of value

Pitches

@paymentEvolution 3/4
Payroll as a service
>Value for every company
#saas

@mobibucks
?

@lendfriend 4/4
Facebook app for lending to family and friends
#crowdfunding
#crowdsourcing
2m loans
100loans
200 user
Social leverage, credit history
Invest: seed round

@webservius 3/4
Marketplace for Valuable structal data
Customers:
Investing Looking series a for sales

@cellKnight 2/4
#saas monitoring mobile bills

@posterita 2/4
#saas Retail management solution
Inventory, employees
Invest: 500k seed

@bitmenu 3/4
#crowdsourced Itunes for facebook
Invest: seed

@connectionPoint 2/4
Fundrazr app on facebook for fundraising
Nonprofit, political, etc campaigns

@createlyXT
Understand data
#saas Drag and drop data analyzis platform
Invest: A round 1.2

@agasa 2/4
Internet of things #iot
Sensors for parking lots for electrical cars

@accedo 1/4
Multi platform apps for TV
Profitable 8m in 2010

@teltub 1/4
Phone services

@ipoint 1/4
3d without glasses algorithm

@xaopio 3/4
Synchronize your enterprise data into the Cloud
Sap to evernot/sharepoint etc
Want to launch a saas model
Profitable since 2005

@tapmap 2/4
Google maps inside stores
Price comparison via rfc

@caffein 3/4
P2p group video chat
Leverage facebook and twitter
Web browser, no software
See a twwet and join a group video chat
3m users
Invest 1m angel

@wishponp 2/4
Social media for local sme stores
#saas

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Tax experts for German and US tax in Silicon Valley

A couple days ago I asked via twitter, if somebody can give me a recommendation.

Here is what I got from different resources:

Iris Leichtweiss (German)

Sunnyvale

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/iris-leichtweiss/21/296/532

Crista Lucey

San Francisco

www.Spottluceywall-cpas.com

Jochen Waldvogel (German)

Fresno, CA 93711     

www.ddccpa.com

Michael Chojnacki (German)

Palo Alto

http://www.frankrimerman.com/our_team/mchojnacki.asp

Holger Siegwart, Esq. (German)

San Francisco

www.siegwart-law.com

AngelPad demoday 2 @cloudbot @splash @crittercism @stickery @locBox #daily notes

My votes out of 4 points
Would probably invest 3+

800 business plans
13 companies presenting
All companies are on angellist

@shopobot 2/4
Social commerce
Price radar

@astrid 2/4
Task list with social preasure

@hopscotch 2/4
Bar code reader and browser

@cloudbot 3/4
Independend Api for all cloud services to interact between apps and services
#platform

@kismet 2/4
Mobile dating appn using photos and locations

@splash 3/4
Social plugin for mobil games
Brings social graph to any game

@crittercism 3/4
WTF-button for apps + autolog for errors

@stickery 3/4
Learning apps for kids
Gaming platform for education

@locBox 3/4
Ipad CRM app for SME
>Awesome idea, hard to distribute, without hardware

@companyLine 2/4
Yammer with integration of services like webex, dropbox, email etc

@feedGen 2/4
Sales lead management platform
Consolidate and Convert leads to sales
Like facebook + salesforce

@coverhound 2/4
Insurance comparison and shopping platform
Next level of lead generation

@secondleap 2/4
Recommendation engine for personalized career suggestions

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SF venture summit summary with @GuyKawasaki @naval @davemcclure #daily notes #SFVentureSummit

#SFventureSummit
Wifi: V7MQQT 6RQM

@Naval Ravikant
Angellist
More seed
Valuations go up
50 business plans a day
Recruting talents is the most critical success factor
A good exit needs 5-10 years, there are no short cuts

#panel - VC shifting paradigms
@SajjadMasud
@davemcclure
107 investments up to today
Dramatic cheaper distribution, with new platforms like: fb, twitter,
youtube, iphone, ipad,
Will do 100 deals per year
Get your users to pay
Next exit candidates are Nike, P&G etc
@rubygarcia
500k-1m (super angels)
Lead/syndicate Series A from 500k to 3m
Second market is a paradigm shift because founders and employees can
get liquidity without exit
Break 5-10 million revenue and everybody wants you
@rebeccalyn
@sharonwienbar
VC industry is shrinking by 2/3, less funds and smaler fund sizes,
angels are growing

#panel - social ventures
@wesselke @patrickGleeson @gautambarna @drewclark
>Most boring panel. I hope this dosnt reflect the industry.

#panel - delivering good
@bragiel
@andredLee
@chrisRedlitz
@AnnWinblad
Companies are bought, not sold.
Take out all friction from your business

#panel - going global
@richardIrving
@donButler
@nicholasElBlaze
Investments in Silicon Valley have double size of Europe
To get money, your headquarter needs to be in the valley
If you hire engeneers here, you compete with facebook
Have your HQ here but your team abroad
@ Don Wood -
DFJ investing in china and cleantech
Big companies got started by 20 year old
Valley is overheated regarding valuations
Laptop is the new factory
Most great comps started with litle capital

@guyKawasaki
Buy his new book enchantment !!!

Todos
#globumbus
500k rounds on 10-15% 3-5 x exits are ok?
500startups Demoday april 7th
Zoosk mechanic for match making?
We don't work with as.. companies (listen, fun)
Only deal with startups who openly share
Business plan structure with crowdsourced services
Pitches to all our targets
First features: apply with an idea, recommend an idea
Watch never say never from justin bieber to learn marketing
(recommendation from guy kawasaki)

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#Sxswi austin texas #daily notes

#Sxswi

#makingGamesBetter
About game mechanics, social games,
Zyngas vision: become an internet treasure like google
Words of friends

#microMarketing
Greg Verdino

Pop-up Apple store scarbrough building congress avenue downtown austin

#viral connect.me
invitation list + Invite others to get in

#the lean startup pitches

@SnapAppointments
Scheduling for smal businesses

@snapWebManager

@mapomatic
Contextual map app

@planzai
Project management tool

#odogrids
Grid Design for the new world
Motivation for grids: Harmony, prediction, consistent,

#keynote
Moontowervfx.com

#gameLayer
The Game layer on top of the world
@SethPriebatch 22 years old, Scvngr

Last decade - social - connections
Game Layer - influence

1)-School: focus on final goal by collecting points, stop cheating

2)-Customer aquisition
Groupon
-free lunch
-Communal gameplay (show target and status + countdown)
-email list

3)-loyalty
-amex example
- level-up
- inclusive ownership (group ownership

4)-lbs location based systems become mainstream
Rewards work

5)-global warming

Result of the game:
Epic meaning
Blissful productive
Global problem, local solution

#slides
Color coded slides on top

2 time payment

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Pitches at startup monthly #Daily notes

@Jeanome 1/4
Find jeans that fit you
Slides: nice Agenda with progress at the bottom
>very smal problem

@superconnector 2/4
Networking tool to connect, create teams and collaborate
>Where is the difference to linkedin?

@MatchDesigner 3/4
Crowdsourcing design for your home
>Why not

@mobile sca.. 3/4
Keep people Exercising via their smartphone
Gamification of the gym with puzzels, coupons, points..
>First game with a real purpose

@ViziTV 1/4
Video aggregation portal

@LiveSprout 2/4
Farmville in reality
>Nice idea, impossible to scale

@GlobeTable
Time exchange

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Startup monthly event "lean UX" #Daily notes @jenshewald

#Lean UX keynote
Tim McCoy - product manager and designer cooper.com
@seriouslynow

Know your audience,
UX is strategy, roadmap, features, establish roadmaps
UX is engagement, inviting, compelling workflow, desire
UX is usability, clear actins, dialouqe

Framework:
-Personas (real users, do it for them)
-Needs/goals (identify issues, business objectives)
-Scenarios of use (merge objectives with needs, provide motivation and goals)
-Features (features need to desired)
-Releases (do one thing well, not many poor)

Cycle: think / make / check

Priciples
1team (design, management, dev)
Focus on high value issues
Think-make-check
Externalize (collaborative and visible)
User connection
Data driven decisions

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Game Developer Central - Google

http://code.google.com/games/

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Zurb product design presentation #daily notes

Zurb at hacker dojo
design company silicon valley

#Reasons startups fail:
Ignore customers
No market need
Not right team
Poor marketing
Ran out of cash

#Build a network of supporters to realize new ideas
#a check notable to scan and comment drawings

Alex pitch
Applaud dev framework for mobile devices
Roambi dashboard for business KPIs

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founder institute pitch event #daily notes

@myNeoLoan 1/4
car loans priced right
> customer value hard to explain

@clevrr 2/4
idea platform
collaborate, vote, follow on ideas
#crowdsourcing
>business model?

@serviceVines 2/4
yellow page service
maps and mobile integration
lead generation business 4$ per lead
>another service platform, hard to distribute

@ready2sign 2/4
eSigning with smartphones
signing with pin
>its not a tec challenge, its a culture change

@eggnest 3/4
wealth management portfolio management for your investments
> difficult to explain the value

@cinecandy 2/4
social video creation
#crowdsourcing
> hard to monetize

@screenius 2/4
pandora for video
video discovery
> business model?

@locotext 2/4
geo messaging
checkin service via sms

@ecobold
buy green

@objectFabric 3/4
PAAS for real time object model
cloud service developer program
open source
horuku for realtime development

@mosion.me 2/4
ad hoc social network (location based)
> who wants to have another facebook?

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Summary of pitches from #foundershowcase @topicmarks #daily notes

TheFunded FounderShowcase spring 2011

@GeorgeZachary - keynote
Everybody is starving for engeniers
Starvation is the best motivator of focus
AngelList is disruptive model - one company/day funded
What makes great Ceo? "A leader who excites tem through vision and
specifies focus and clarity."
Bubble? Money easy to get, no engineers, high stock market, marketijg
from investors.

@klickfu 2/4
Casual games for desktop
Looking for 400k
>Needs to be distributed and installed local, no social leverage, missing mobile

@visutalk 2/4
Facetime for business
Open architecture
Existing customer using his product
Looking for 100k
>Another video conferencing solution

@heyPublisher 2/4
Itunes for written words
Looking for 200k
>No way to monetize content without an disruptive idea

@letslunch 3/4
Give us a lunch slot and well match you with great people. Dating
service for business people.
Looking for 350k
Invitation code: showcase
Business model: 20$ per month
>Smal market

@topicmarks 4/4 (winner)
Automatic Text summarizing in the cloud
5$/month
Coop with evernote
Looking for 250k
>If this works, its a killer app

@mosoro 3/4
Developer platform for smartphones and IOT
Connecting toys
Looking for 500k
#internet of things with blue tooth

@Cipherpoint 2/4
Security solution for collaboration systems like sharepoint
Looking for 500k
>Sceptical. Security can't fix wikileaks

@fatminds 3/4
Marketplace for education
Looking for 500k for marketing
>Missing social part, high competition

@wholeshare 3/4
Group buying for food coop
Save 20% at buying food
Delivery into the garage of group leader
#Crowdsourcing
Business model 8%
Looking for 250k
>Distribution

@bookbrewer 2/4
Ebook publishing
Wordpress for ebooks
First whitelabel Customer: borders
Looking for 400k
>Smal market

#a check out this services:
@jetjaw.co instant realtime survey saas
@lawpivot crowdsourced quora for lawyer questions

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