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7 Responses to “Opportunity for start-ups to demo their product to VCs - Bangalore, Dec 12”

1. 1 Vijay Anand Oct 26th, 2006 at 3:39 pm

   Arun,

   It’s good interesting to see events like this getting organized here in India. In fact, the Knowledge Foundation, the team behind Barcamp Chennai and Blogcamp, is organizing an event with the similar theme, covering the entire spectrum of technology under the name Proto.in (www.proto.in) and the updates of the event are blogged at www.proto.in/blog.

   The dates are set for January 20th and 21st, 2007, in Chennai.

   we need to connect sometime, there is definitely information that we could share and collaborate on, to start and keep this momentum going.

   Vijay

2. 2 Animesh Bansriyar Oct 27th, 2006 at 12:02 pm

   This is a step in the right direction. Indian startups need such kind of platforms to get the right audience.

   I am not sure but proto.in seems to have the right kind of buildup for a larger event and the MobilVAS Connect might have the right people from the industry. Anyway I would suggest to provide assiatance in preparing for demos, since people like “Shel Israel” who could do magic with demos, are a rarity. That should be quite useful. Less than 1% of the applicants might have attented the demo conference or something similar.

   -Animesh

3. 3 Vijay Anand Oct 30th, 2006 at 10:04 pm

   I am with you Animesh. We are certainly going to be working with companies to make sure that their “pitch” is polished. I personally do know Shel Israel from a close friend,.. maybe I should bring him in and ask us to give us a trial run That would be interesting indeed.

4. 4 Animesh Bansriyar Nov 1st, 2006 at 4:44 pm

   Sounds awesome. I think proto.in has promise if done in the right way, and according to the initial buzz all around and given the right people involved it should be a cracking event.

   All the Best, and I hope my entries make it to the final round.

   -Animesh
   P.S. I had seen your post on Linux Bangalore Jobs and was even tempted to apply for it, and read about your take on the responses. The reality is sad.

5. 5 Vijay Anand Nov 3rd, 2006 at 10:20 am

   Animesh,

   We are certainly looking for volunteers who could help us out with Proto, as instead of a VC community organizing the event, this is an event from the grassroots level, and it is mostly fueled by passionate technologists like yourself and myself.

   let me know if you want to contribute. Write to vijay (at) vijayanand.name

   Yeah, its a sad fact, but at the same time there is a glimmer of hope. I’ve gotten some very interesting profiles responding to that post and wanting to be involved. There is lots of hope for growth…

   Vijay

6. 6 Arun Natarajan Nov 11th, 2006 at 10:42 am

   VC Brad Feld has a couple of posts on demo-ing here and here. (Read the interesting comments on his post as well.)

   I learned - early in my first company – that the first 15 minutes of a meeting will make it or break it. I learned how to do a great demo – even if it was simply my sales pitch on a white board or flip chart. This meeting reminded me how important it is for a young company (and a MatureCo) to be able to nail their demo and do it quickly.

   …I much prefer “top down” demos – these are ones that approach the demo from a user / use case perspective. Show me what the software does and why I care, not how it does it. So, rather than start at the top left menu choice and go through each feature (usually starting with “creating a new account” which I never have to see again in my entire life), walk me through a use case that is relevant to me and is populated with a complete and interesting data set. Occasionally, I’ll have a “how” type question, but then it’ll be in the context of a use case, rather than a technical feature.

7. 7 Keerthi Laal Nov 26th, 2008 at 10:18 am

   Hi,

   What about people looking for seed funding? In any case, I would like to volunteer for the event and help in anyway possible.

   - Keerthi Laal
   klkala (at) gmail

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