After failing miserably to raise 18 months ago, digging deep and bootstrapping our way to profitability, we made another attempt earlier this year and got a huge break by getting into 500startups.
We are now in the middle of raising our seed round and are doing a much better job at it than previously. I wanted to share some of what we’ve learned that helped made the current attempt a successful one.
Continue reading The ABC of raising your seed round
Today Robert Scoble came to visit our batch at the 500startups offices. He did some 1-on-1 sessions and later gave a free-form talk, mostly about Google Glass (not surprisingly), but also about reaching out to tech media. Here are a few bullet points from the talk –
This looks an awful lot like advice for fund raising. Robert has put himself and other prominent bloggers / tech blogs on the same level as investors as far as getting their attention is concerned, using SEO techniques and strategies which you can find online, and you can get Get More Info about this here. Is this a reasonable positioning for tech media?
IMHO, no.
Continue reading The awkward relationship of tech bloggers and startups
The first week of the 500startups accelerator program is in the books, and I definitely feel accelerated. Keeping with the current Star Trek theme at the 500s offices, I’d say we’re about Warp 7 right now after previously being at sublight speed for an extended duration. Lets go over what we managed in 1 week:
Continue reading Recapping Week #1 at 500startups accelerator program