MashupCamp II: Startup Financing - Tips, Tricks and Tales

I have led a session on or around that topic at BarCamp, TagCamp and the first MashupCamp – and was hesitating as to whether I should suggest it again. And then Rick Segal, Brad Feld and I did something slightly different at Gnomedex during which we (softly) critiqued host Chris Pirillo’s pitch on TagJag. The feedback on the session was really positive, just because it gave many people their first glimpse at how investors, Angels or VCs, look at investment opportunities – and how they should be presented.

I am therefore planning to lead that discussion again at MashupCamp II, inviting fellow investors (I have spotted Ken Gullicksen and Peter Rip on the list) to join me in answering the questions that MashupCamp attendees might have on the vast topic of Startup Financing. And it will be an unsession, i.e we’ll probe people joining us on their areas of interest, and will build the content accordingly.

I am not sure yet whether this will happen on Wednesday or Thursday morning. I will update this post when the time is set.

Hope to see you there if you are a MashupCamp-er. Feel free to leave comments on this post, or send me an email to jeff [dot] clavier [at] gmail [dot] com, if you want to suggest questions/topics.

I am also looking forward to the session led by Mashery's CEO Oren Michels (my latest investment).

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Comments

[Ken Gullicksen]

I guess I'm drafted :-)

[Martin Hall]

This is something I would be very interested in. I (and a partner) have been working on a 'web 2.0' application. But we are not sure how to determine if the idea is fundable. We believe so, but it is hard to know when you look at issues in a vacuum. And if one determines that it is fundable what are the next steps. I would be very interested in this unsession.

[Martin Hall]

Oh, to add to the above -- we did not start working on our idea/app as a way to become a startup -- it is just that people seem fascinated by the underlying idea and that got us thinking....

[Marc Mezzacca]

General question that many others probably share: How do (potential) investors feel about putting money into a venture that mainly (or totally) relies on others’ data sources?