Should You Pay to Pitch Your Startup?

Re:Should You Pay to Pitch Your Startup? by lawlorg on Monday December 12, 2011 @06:57PM (#3345640)

Thanks SemanticFog, I appreciate the kind words.

Running good events is very time consuming, more than people often realize. And yet my landlord continues to "prey on" me by demanding that I pay rent. Somehow, he fails to see comrade Calacanis' logic that everything should be free...

Graham Lawlor - Ultra Light Startups

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Re:Should You Pay to Pitch Your Startup? by mindcrime on Monday December 12, 2011 @07:29PM (#3345735)

Are you in the event planning business or something? Isn't the idea for investors to make their money via return on the investment they make in startups?

That said, charging enough to cover the cost of pizza and what-not, that seems reasonable. But any outfits that are charging more than a nominal fee are highly questionable to me.

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Re:Should You Pay to Pitch Your Startup? by lawlorg on Monday December 12, 2011 @09:15PM (#3346021)

Yes, planning events (Ultra Light Startups) is a full-time job for me. I need to cover pizza, etc - and my rent...

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Re:Should You Pay to Pitch Your Startup? by evgen on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @12:54AM (#3346512)

If you are playing a valuable role to investors by providing them access to interesting new startups then they should be the ones paying you, not the startups.

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