Subrah Iyar launched WebEx on the DEMO stage in 1996. Last month, he was back at DEMO Mobile launching his latest venture, Moxtra . Moxtra is a powerful collaboration tool for the mobile age. It is a social collection and collaboration application with major enterprise hooks.
We’re looking for a few good startups, and we’re scouring the entire world to find them. In a couple of weeks we are kicking off a DEMO Tour with events in New York City, Moscow, and London. On June 7, in partnership with Index Ventures, the premier early-stage venture capital firm in Europe, we’ll be … Read more
DEMO Europe will be in Moscow this year, June 3-4. While we are there, we will be meeting with Russian startups and organizing a DEMO Tour date on June 5 for local startups who want feedback on their products and pitches, and a chance to present at DEMO Fall in Silicon Valley. Any Russian (or … Read more
The DEMO Tour is starting with a spark at the swank office of Spark Capital in NYC. Apply here to pitch your product on May 29. We will select up to 10 startups to participate in private one-on-one feedback sessions with the DEMO team and partners from Spark Capital (investors in Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Runkeeper, … Read more
DEMO God winner The Monkey Inferno has been on a roll since launching Beer Hunt at DEMO Mobile, receiving tons of great press and even free TV spots during the Indy 500. (Read more after the jump).
With 33 Startups Participating From Around the World, Built.io wins the WinDemo Mobile competition with Flowbit Inc coming in as the runner up. DEMO Mobile, a launch event exclusively focused on the best new mobile technologies based on design, innovation, and market potential, announced the winners of the WinDemoMobile.com contest, featuring roundtrip tickets on American … Read more
When you are sitting in a room, your field of vision is about 200 degrees as you turn your head from side-to-side. Yet one of the limitations of video conferencing is a much more limited field of vision. Remote participants see only what the camera sees. How many times have you been in a meeting with a bunch of people in a room, someone calls in on Skype video, and you have to constantly rotate the laptop depending on who in the room is speaking?
PanaCast by Altia Systems solves that problem. One of the DEMO God winners at DEMO Mobile, PanaCast is a circular $600 camera that sits on a stand and can replace video conferencing systems that cost thousands of dollars.
What does it take to scale a startup in the mobile era? Last week at DEMO Mobile, Chris Dixon (who recently joined Andreessen Horowitz as a partner) and Pandora CTO Tom Conrad joined me onstage to talk about how 10 million users is the new 1 million users. This is especially true in mobile.
“The shift to mobile is so dramatic,” said Dixon, who estimates that 95% of the startups he looks at have a mobile component. He noted, however, that it is a lot harder for a small mobile startup to rise in the App Store rankings without “black hat marketing” and spending money to buy your way up the rankings. Conrad cautioned that you can’t “growth hack your way” to success. You have to solve a real problem for consumers first and “be absolutely the best at solving [the] problem”.