Re:Help Send Us To Startup Camp + Foo Camp
by gojomo on Wednesday May 28, 2008 @01:28AM
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Sounds like "web-based groupware for small teams" -- a space crowded with offerings (and littered with startup corpses). To succeed, you need a unique angle -- like 37signals' minimalist "elegant interfaces and thoughtful features". And even then, it might not offer growth warranting investment beyond small angels and bootstrapping.
If it's something different, that needs to pop out so you can't miss it.
Cutesy photos can work for crowd presentations but investors want to cut to the point: team, market, product/tech, competition, plan, ask. Specifics help, euphemisms and hand-waving generalizations hurt (eg "square peg in round hole" "gluing together ad-hoc solutions" "awesome developers... making great things that increase the productivity beyond our imagination").
If it's something different, that needs to pop out so you can't miss it.
Cutesy photos can work for crowd presentations but investors want to cut to the point: team, market, product/tech, competition, plan, ask. Specifics help, euphemisms and hand-waving generalizations hurt (eg "square peg in round hole" "gluing together ad-hoc solutions" "awesome developers... making great things that increase the productivity beyond our imagination").
HTH, good luck!