This was incredibly awkward and painful to watch. It goes to show why you should avoid buzzwords as much as you can when pitching, it just looks like you're com

This was incredibly awkward and painful to watch. It goes to show why you should avoid buzzwords as much as you can when pitching, it just looks like you're compensating for a lacking product. Startups can learn an absolute ton from this, namely: - Only demo when you actually have something to demo (an animated start menu does not count). - Drop the buzz words, and just describe why the hell it's going to improve my life. - If you're going to put up a pre-launch website[1], don't just list your investors like that is some sort of indicator you'll be amazing, at least put some product information on there. Cullen's performance here intrigued me, especially his self-noted notoriety in the Windows community. A quick Google search unearthed this: http://www.bluescreenofdeath.org/?p=85 http://www.bluescreenofdeath.org/?p=85, where he discusses "Project Copenhagen" in 2009. It's pretty much the product they claim to be building today, but now with the backing of SV Angel and the Founders Fund. According to their website[1], "It's gonna be big. Really big.". My personal feeling is that there just isn't enough people who will go out of their way to skin their Windows PC, even if it does improve the experience. 1. http://lumier.com http://lumier.com