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I'd love to get a table at LAUNCH. We are doing PR as a service to help startups be able to do pr effectively so that they can focus on building their core product. The site is http://socmetrics.com
We give programmers opportunities to showcase their skills, give measurable substance to their resumes. Right now we are having online programming contest. More features to come would be interactive puzzles. Our goal is to connect talented programmers, especially new talents without a big network, with companies in need of such talents.
It would be a great opportunity for us.
EventEngines is a brand new (~ month), 3 person startup, pre-launch, that would love to exhibit at a table! We're focused on mobile business intelligence for small and medium sized companies. Our application helps collect data at tradeshows, usergroup meetings, sales meetings, and other events and pushing that back into the enterprise for better shared decision making. Yeah, it's enterprise-ish and not so "cool" for…
I don't have a startup myself, but I nominate Dustin Curtis' LifePath ( http://lifepath.me ). It's not launched, but it looks cool.
Dustin: email me for demo if you are interested in being on stage and/or being in the LAUNCH Pad/fka demo pit.
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But that's just a landing page, not a product. We(at least, I) don't even have an idea what it is
I think a lot of us may have that "problem" as one of the requirements to submit to LAUNCH was to ensure that you did not have a web presence or public launch/description out there. Not sure if that is the same for the tables, but I think a number of us are playing it safe, just in case same rules apply. But your point is totally fair, in some cases (including mine) it's hard to know what is what.
For 2.0, you have to LAUNCH something new (i.e. a pivot, version 2.0 of your software) on the main stage for the first time.
The reason for this is that if you launch on the web the no one will come to the event.
As a group the startups agree only to have landing pages and to do very private betas---and no pre-briefing the press.
This means everyone is in their seats for the presentations and there is a LOT of energy in the room.
Conferences like DEMO let folks show boring stuff on stage that everyone has seen already... that why folks say it sucks so much. Well, that and the $20k price tag and absurd contract.
Zazu's ( http://getzazu.com ) heading over to the Bay Area from Boston right around then to meet people. We'd love to be there, it'd be an absolutely spectacular way to meet people! Oh right, should probably tell y'all what we do: We're building Jarvis from Iron Man -- though we're starting a little less grandiose and building the world's most kickass alarm clock.
email me and I will set it up! jason@launch.is
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