Excuse me for the radio silence over the last two days. I am getting ready for a pitch today I am giving to potential investors and entrepreneurs, which I am delivering after Alan Meckler, CEO of Jupitermedia. He is the keynote speaker of this event put on by StartupAlpha.com. Pretty funny. Not sure how relevant he is to starting a new business but when I heard he was speaking I was very interested in going and hearing him nonetheless.
If anyone is in Midtown Manahattan today at 530 and wants to go, let me know. The event is at Midtown Pub.
First beer or soda is on me.
Wish me luck ;-)
John
UPDATE:
The pitch went great last night and thanks for the well wishes. It was short and sweet but I nailed it and was happy to get a chance to practice it and meet some new people.
In addition, I got to meet and had a good conversation with Alan Meckler, who I met right when I got there. I started off by telling him about Cutcaster and how we were getting ready to take over Jupiter. HA. Kidding but we spoke for a while about the future of online video, what Cutcaster was doing, the different web properties that Jupiter owned and how they use them in coordination and also a bit about each others background. Was nice to meet him and put a name to a face now. Someone mentioned that he looked a bit like the dad from Everybody loves Raymond, a sitcom here in the States, which I thought was pretty good.
After I met him, Alan gave a talk on his professional background to the audience and how he got to where he was at Jupiter. He spoke more about his investing background, working with VC's/banks, raising money for different investment funds and which businesses he has invested in to become a billioniare (lasted just 4 months and was only on paper he said), then he did about the image business. He also spoke about building a "vertical" on the Internet and where he saw the Internet going in the future. I can't say I completely agreed with him on everything but it was an interesting story nonetheless and a pleasure to meet him.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Pitch today after Alan Meckler
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Good luck John!
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ReplyDeleteYou need at least 10 beers before the show...
Anyway, we know the business plan model of Jupiter : "make money with subs and give one or two cents to the contributors".
Just have a look to their recent success with stockxpert...
Good Luck...
good idea to get some tips from Alan Meckler dude. He's the guy with the company who's stock are going down the drain.. Follow him and you will have a prime role in the next Biggest Loser.
ReplyDeletePitching your company in front of an audience who think Alan Meckler should be a Keynote is a great idea dude as you know they cannot be very smart.
@ Jason B hahaha. got some good tips on what not to do ;-) Regardless he is still a smart guy with a ton of experience.
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