Next meeting - date and call for speakers

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Permalink Reply by Mike Thompson on July 21, 2009 at 11:18pm

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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Permalink Reply by Mike Thompson on July 21, 2009 at 11:26pm

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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Permalink Reply by Steve Bjorg on July 22, 2009 at 2:52am

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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Permalink Reply by Brant Cooper on July 22, 2009 at 10:17am

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
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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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Permalink Reply by Mike Thompson on July 22, 2009 at 12:02pm

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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