Feb 19 - Start-up Show and Tell

You can read about something, but it's only when you see it in action that you really 'get it'.

As a follow-on to last September's successful meeting 'Starting a company for under $1,000', this month you're invited to give a short demo of a tool, service, or process you use in your start-up. You'll have 5+ minutes to briefly show off something you use every day, and in turn you'll have a chance to see what other founders use. There will be a laptop projector and wifi, although to be safe you might want to bring screenshots too.

Besides technical tools, you can show business documents and processes, blacking out any confidential information.

We'll do as many of these as possible, shooting for 10 or so. They can be short, maybe 3 slides or less. Just so we get the idea of how the tool or process works: so we 'get it'.

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(if there's no name by an item, it's just a suggestion that you're free to claim):

Tech:

Central Desktop wiki — Sean Murphy

Wordpress blog

Eclipse devt environment

Ajax or similar technology

Firefox extensions

Amazon pay as you go computing

Business:

SugarCRM—Matt Perez

Startup Team Collaboration (beyond Wiki) -- How to get more out of your founding team (Clark Dong)

Off Shore team communications - leveraging Skype to your mobile; Ed Prentice, TeleVoce

Provisional patent application

Patent application

Web stats reporting

Sales plan

Google AdWords or similar advertising

Google AdSense (revenue from your site)

VC term sheet

Email marketing process