San Diego Tech Founders

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Mike Thompson

Next meeting - date and call for speakers

Join the discussion to plan the next SD Tech Founders meeting. We need to pick a date and identify speakers.

Tentative dates include August 19, 20, 26 or 27, depending both on your travel schedule in August and on how quickly we can schedule speakers for the next meeting.

If you would like to present or can recommend a speaker, please let us know. If you would like to pitch your company or project idea, please let us know.

Mike

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We've gotten several requests for an August meeting and proposals to consider Wednesday dates. Therefore, I propose one of the following dates (depending on when we can arrange speakers): August 19, 20, 26 or 27. Please let me know if there's a conflict that I'm missing.

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Steve had a great proposal to spend (at least part of) one meeting to help members prepare for the Tech Coast Angels Quick Pitch Competition. If you intend to apply for the Quick Pitch competition and would like to practice your pitch beforehand, please let us know. If you have previously been involved with the Tech Coast Angels competition (either pitching or judging), please let us know if you would be willing to help prepare fellow SD Tech Founders for this competition.

Thank you,
Mike

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Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't have known about this thread if I hadn't posted on the postmortem one. Until the forum become the heartbeat of this awesome group, you should proactively direct people here by sending them (gasp) emails. :)

- Steve

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I may be willing to help companies prepare.

Right off the bat, let me point to a couple of resources. Here's my generic pitch template:
http://www.slideshare.net/brantcooper/xlerate-solutions-investor-pi...

Steve Blank has some good biz model points here:
http://tinyurl.com/kk86zh

There is a limit to the amount of time I can spend, but am happy to help out in some way. Company I helped last year actually won! : )

BTW, there's another competition everyone should be aware of:
http://www.connect.org/email/VRT/062409_application.hthttp://sd.tec...

Brant
www.twitter.com/brantcooper

Mike Thompson said:
Steve had a great proposal to spend (at least part of) one meeting to help members prepare for the Tech Coast Angels Quick Pitch Competition. If you intend to apply for the Quick Pitch competition and would like to practice your pitch beforehand, please let us know. If you have previously been involved with the Tech Coast Angels competition (either pitching or judging), please let us know if you would be willing to help prepare fellow SD Tech Founders for this competition.
Thank you, Mike

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Great pointers, Brant - thanks!

The system messed up the link to the other competition to which Brant referred. Here is the link:

http://www.connect.org/email/VRT/062409_application.html

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