Comments on: SXSW: Perfect pitch, how to attract more money for your digital convergence business http://www.tmarkiewicz.com/sxsw-perfect-pitch-how-to-attract-more-money-for-your-digital-convergence-business/ Thoughts on technology, marketing and entrepreneurship. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:56:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Tom Markiewicz http://www.tmarkiewicz.com/sxsw-perfect-pitch-how-to-attract-more-money-for-your-digital-convergence-business/comment-page-1/#comment-7932 Tom Markiewicz Sun, 19 Mar 2006 18:50:47 +0000 http://www.tmarkiewicz.com/?p=298#comment-7932 The most interesting point made was by Harlan, whose company recently received funding. His comment that there are two groupings - the experienced entrepreneurs who have relationships with VCs and everyone else - was sobering. One thing I wish were discussed (which I didn't think of at the time) was the issue of location and how that plays into funding companies. I constantly hear that companies need to be relatively local to the investing firms, but at the same time I see investments by these same firms nationwide. It would have been interesting to hear more on this aspect and whether companies should spend any time pursuing investments outside their regional areas. I wish I would have thought of this earlier and asked the panel the question. The most interesting point made was by Harlan, whose company recently received funding. His comment that there are two groupings - the experienced entrepreneurs who have relationships with VCs and everyone else - was sobering.

One thing I wish were discussed (which I didn’t think of at the time) was the issue of location and how that plays into funding companies. I constantly hear that companies need to be relatively local to the investing firms, but at the same time I see investments by these same firms nationwide. It would have been interesting to hear more on this aspect and whether companies should spend any time pursuing investments outside their regional areas. I wish I would have thought of this earlier and asked the panel the question.

]]> By: Beef Jezos http://www.tmarkiewicz.com/sxsw-perfect-pitch-how-to-attract-more-money-for-your-digital-convergence-business/comment-page-1/#comment-7931 Beef Jezos Sun, 19 Mar 2006 18:32:06 +0000 http://www.tmarkiewicz.com/?p=298#comment-7931 "I didn’t hear a whole lot of new ideas in this panel. It was interesting, but mainly a re-hash of the same themes I’ve heard from the money people." Thank you for speaking honestly. Most people would have felt a need to lie and talk about how truly enlightening it was. I have sat through enough of these since the 1980s to be able to say that 99.99% just rehash what has been said a million times before. These panels are like the TOP TEN Lists that are so wildly popular amongst business sites and blogs. After you have read five or so you begin to realize that it's basically the same list just worded and ordered a bit differently. “I didn’t hear a whole lot of new ideas in this panel. It was interesting, but mainly a re-hash of the same themes I’ve heard from the money people.”

Thank you for speaking honestly. Most people would have felt a need to lie and talk about how truly enlightening it was. I have sat through enough of these since the 1980s to be able to say that 99.99% just rehash what has been said a million times before. These panels are like the TOP TEN Lists that are so wildly popular amongst business sites and blogs. After you have read five or so you begin to realize that it’s basically the same list just worded and ordered a bit differently.

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