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by sanjayparekh 17y ago
Startup Riot is hitting its third year in 2010. It is absolutely not a pay to pitch event and has never been - selected presenting entrepreneurs pay NOTHING to present. They also don't pay for a booth or anything else other than their own
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Startup Riot 2010 Accepting Applications(startupriot.com)
34 points by sanjayparekh 17y ago|8 comments
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by sanjayparekh 17y ago
Totally get you and you're totally right. I wish things like demo day existed when I was funding my company. Would have saved me from talking to 200+ investors over a 10 month time span.
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by sanjayparekh 17y ago
I'm one of the Shotput partners. I'm not sure if the implication here is that we specifically didn't intro our companies to investors from outside of the southeast. If so, that is entirely not the case. Myself and other partners continue
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by sanjayparekh 17y ago
Yeah, it's actually a lot more difficult than one would think. Heck back in 1999 I thought it'd be pretty easy. The Internet is pretty wily when it comes to this kind of stuff.
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by sanjayparekh 17y ago
All I can say is sorry. Yeah, the technology is my creation although Google doesn't use my old company's technology anymore (long story). I always tried to educate users with the proper way of implementing and using IP targeting. Doesn't
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by sanjayparekh 17y ago
Check out @startupgossip on Twitter. I'm trying to post most of the events there. I also post stuff on my blog at sanjayparekh.com (altho I've been slack lately) when it comes to events I'm running. Start coming to events and you'll meet
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by sanjayparekh 17y ago
I was 7 and got a TI-99/4A. I rocked it out by saving and restoring programs to cassette tape. You read that right, cassette tape.
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by sanjayparekh 18y ago
Good ideas but there are issues with this approach. But to explain them here would probably cause me to run out of characters and bore 99% of HN readers. But you're absolutely right that some of these sources could help augment the accura
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by sanjayparekh 18y ago
Honestly, it doesn't really matter to me since I've already had my exit from my company but unfortunately I don't think this is true. Given how much data collection and analysis has to go into good IP geotargeting technology, this really i
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by sanjayparekh 18y ago
Quick comment but a disclaimer first - I have a prejudice on this subject since I founded Digital Envoy which was the first IP geotargeting company. I no longer work there and the company was acquired back in 2007. In general services that
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by sanjayparekh 18y ago
Plus it provides a support system when things go wrong. And yes, things will go wrong. Something always goes wrong in a startup. But hopefully there are more highs than there are lows.
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One day left to apply for Shotput Ventures summer 2009(shotputventures.com)
16 points by sanjayparekh 18y ago|10 comments
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by sanjayparekh 18y ago
Serendipity is your friend. The very first article I had written about my company (Digital Envoy) happened because I randomly met this reporter at an event (Red Herring Venture Market South - that tells you how long ago this was since both
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by sanjayparekh 18y ago
So I guess there is a two part answer. I should have said that in the title of this post but the wording I used was confusing and removed by the powers that be - as it should be. I didn't change it to say "inspired by" because it's a moot
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by sanjayparekh 18y ago
can try going directly to the form using this: http://bit.ly/nxn87 Lemme know if that works any better.
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by sanjayparekh 18y ago
That may be but I'd ask you to look at the founders of the fund. It isn't like they've accomplished just a little. Well, maybe I've accomplished just a little. The other eight guys, pretty impressive.
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by sanjayparekh 18y ago
yeah, you guys are right - I probably should have said "YC inspired" instead of "YC in Atlanta". my bad.
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by sanjayparekh 18y ago
that's an intelligence test. you failed. :-)
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by sanjayparekh 18y ago
Okay, so we're 2 hours before our 3/6/09 opening of applications date. So sue us. We're hyper-excited to launch this thing and hyper-excited to see a bunch of companies get to work this summer in Atlanta. Want to be one of them? Go apply
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Shotput Ventures Open Up Apps(shotputventures.com)
28 points by sanjayparekh 18y ago|27 comments
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by sanjayparekh 18y ago
Don't forget that having UPS as an Atlanta based company has helped in creating logistics oriented companies here. That plus Memphis (home to FedEx) isn't that far either.
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by sanjayparekh 18y ago
I probably shouldn't chime in but since my name was brought up a couple of times I feel compelled. Yeah, I'm Indian. Yeah I'm American too (born and raised in Kentucky). Is there prejudice in the world? Yeah, sure. Have I experienced prej
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by sanjayparekh 18y ago
Not to just keep pimping my own things, but this was why I started Startup Riot ( http://www.startupriot.com ) which I just held in Atlanta last week. Presenting companies pay nothing and there are no exhibitors. Other startups can attend
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by sanjayparekh 18y ago
Can't make the above links so here, to make this easy: http://www.sanjayparekh.com/georgia-startup-award/ Sanjay
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Making Startups Pay for Awards
3 points by sanjayparekh 18y ago|4 comments
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by sanjayparekh 18y ago
Only at a great event like Startup Riot will you see great deals like WiFi Cat. :-)
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by sanjayparekh 18y ago
Actually, I disagree. If you have a CEO that does not fully understand the company's product to a sufficient technical degree, then you have someone who is leading the company with no idea of what is possible. What nearly always happens i
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by sanjayparekh 18y ago
Go is a great game. I'm hoping I can coax my son to graduate from Chess to Go. Of course he's still pretty young so I'm not hurrying him too much.
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by sanjayparekh 18y ago
Errr.. @ardell, I never said once a month! :-) I'm thinking once a quarter so we don't burn out on this event.

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