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Re: StartupEmpire: Somebody will get funded!

Terry Smith — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:18:09 -0000

JLA Ventures is missing a .com in the link, though I'm sure the readers here are smart enough to figure it out :)

Re: fOTOGLIF partners up with Getty and Thomson

Terry Smith — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:27:39 -0000

I might consider this (if I had a popular blog), if the ads were scaled to the size of the image. That's just ugly.

This will be useful for tagged images and images with keywords for contextual advertising to increase typically low CPMs on blogs. A great partnership for these guys might be with someone who does image recognition.

Re: Top 5 Do's and Don'ts for Raising Funding

Terry Smith — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:25:35 -0000

I find the best way to do this is to pitch your idea to as many people as possible: your friends, family, lawyer, accountant, and just practice refining it down to 4 or 5 sentences that go from market need to what you do to how you make money.

The purpose of the pitch is to get people excited and too many people try to explain everything when you should be trying to get people to ask question about the product.

I had the toughest time with this, but after pitching my idea to everyone I know, it became easier to articulate when I finally got to the investors (read: old people :) who really mattered.