November 14, 2006

My Talks at StartupCamp

I had two sessions at StartupCamp. Fortunately I got a lot of positive feedback - on both sessions - afterwards from people who attended.

The first session was on "User Acquisition and Retention". We discussed how to layer users from those who do not know about a service such as Frucall, all the way to what we call "active" users. Different techniques should be employed to "convert" users from each layer to the next. Peter Kazanjy and Jennifer Yoon did a great job at making sure that the detailed were documented on tha Camp Wiki. Here's notes from Frucall's User Acquisition and Retention Session.

The second session was on "How to Make a Good VC Pitch" and was co-hosted with Susan Wu of Charles River Ventures. It was a great session because the audience could get the point of view of both the entrepreneur and the VC. I have not had a chance to put the notes on the Camp Wiki, but I just noticed that Susan has blogged about it. She has a few great points from the point of view of the VC receiving pitches.

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November 13, 2006

Frucall on WKYC

Watch Frucall and what customers say about it on WKYC TV.

Make sure your speaker is turned on. Enjoy!

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November 09, 2006

StartupCamp Pictures

Ok... Here's some pictures from the StartupCamp. You can see that I even did magic along with Amazon's Jeff Bar :-)

       
     

For more pictures, check out StartupCamp pictures on Flickr.

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November 08, 2006

StartupCamp

StartupCamp was as great as MashupCamp. Lots of great people, lots of passion, lots of energy. It was great to see familiar faces as well as new ones.

The difference was that StartupCamp, as the name implies, was more focused on businesses, not mashup sites. It was great to see so many people with either launched businesses or in the process of doing something on their own. And the presence of VCs was very useful.

I presented two sessions, one on my favorite topic of "User Acquisition and Retention", and the other on "How to Make a Good VC Pitch", which we co hosted along with Susan Wu of CRV.

I wish I had a camera with me - but you can find pictures on flickr. Once I get a chance I'll post some of them here.

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