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Yesterday (November 5th, 2009) I presented to the 37 tech companies who were all vying for the 20 open slots to pitch various VCs and Angels at the upcoming 3rd annual Fusion Forum. Here is the presentation I gave, but click through to see the notes for context...

We’re coming down to Seattle tomorrow, and we’d like to see you! In particular, we’ll be at the Spitfire Grill from around 12noon to 2pm, having some lunch after the drive down from Vancouver. We’d love it if startups and entrepreneurs from Seattle dropped by and said “hi”. Did we men...

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Yes, we know things have been quiet here at Bootup HQ (besides Danny’s great posts and our always active Twitter account). This year has been a busy one, working with our portfolio companies that are part of our beta fund. Now we’re ready to go into full operation. And that means we want YOU! (i...

I attended this month’s VANTEC Angel Network meeting today. I’ve attended many of Mike’s events in the past, but today’s was different for some reason. I don’t know what it was. I just felt much more productive, professional. Maybe it...

I often hear the statement: “I’m not going to invest because if [fill in the blank large company] wanted to do this, they would just wipe you out.” I usually respond: If that was true… …Yahoo would have taken out Google …Amazon would have taken out eBay …MySpace would have taken out Facebook …Fac...

A while back, I tweeted on the @bootuplabs account that “Craigslist now sucks for finding good web / startup people. Use http://www.joblink.tw/ which @ericries made. Let us know, we’ll RT for you”. More recently, we’ve had a chance to try this out. One of...

I hear it all the time - almost daily, in fact. Entrepreneurs deal with wildly varying, passionate, almost religious, beliefs around how to pitch their company to Investors...

I’m a small Angel investor, but I’m first an entrepreneur. I’ve been the pitcher and the pitchee over 100 times. Having this perspective has taught me something that I wish to share. I of...

I was a having coffee with a VC colleague last week. This is someone I respect, and hope will fund some companies graduating from Bootup Labs. I have probably explained Bootup Labs and why our investment model works to this individual on at least 7 different occasions...

The last post was called Pitch-tember. We get “pitches” all the time. People tell us their idea, where they are with their business, and we try and give them feedback. A lot of the time we get stuck in the weeds because people feel the need to somehow make their pitch “fancier” in some way. It’s m...

I know it’s only the first half of August, but the wall of events in September is already staring me in the face. The week of September 14th is what is making me call it “Pitch-tember” - a ton of opportunities to pitch your company. Monday, Sept. 14th...