I gave a presentation at the DemoCamp 19 in Toronto on my experience in founding/running a Web 2.0 startup over the past few years, and what I think we did right and where we screwed up. My idea was to share some experiences which other entrepreneurs in the consumer web space might find useful, especially those not in Silicon Valley. Folks in the audience seem to have really liked it, and Albert Lai (Kontagent, BubbleShare) remarked that this was the best case study he had seen about a startup's ups and downs. So I'm posting it here. Check it out:
This was a quickly assembled presentation for DemoCamp's special 'Ignite' format. I have been asked to repeat it elsewhere, and would update it with a better version when it happens on www.varunmathur.net / Techvibes.
Hi Varun, I enjoyed your presentation last night. Good stuff!
I wanted so badly to like that preso, but the slide template is so distracting that I stopped after about 5 slides.
Thanks for the feedback. Maybe I should invest in Keynote instead of using Google Docs! :) Wanted to signify 'from the trenches / grass roots effort', so I liked the grass.
I enjoyed that - thanks for sharing! Also, where did you pick up the cool slide deck theme?
Great presentation. Particularly the last bit about 'building the plane on the way down', and 'you'd be surprised what you can do'.
I just launched a new version of my live music search site -HearWhere, and 3 months ago, while planning it, i never would have thought i'd have been able to build it, but when you get started, you can do anything.
