Comments on: Startup Riot – The Good And The Bad

By: Mario Taylor II

Mario Taylor II — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:11:43 +0000

I love the idea of the Startup Riot. There is no place you can be able to hear pitches from so many companies. I look forward to Stratup Riot ’09. I plan to represent my newly formed company Maven Investment Group.

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By: Allen Burnett

Allen Burnett — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:42:55 +0000

Hi Sanjay,

Somehow I didn’t hear about Startup Riot until today – and it was over. Phooey. We’re a startup company looking for an inventor(or investors). We’ve got what we think is a pretty good consumer product (patented and all that) but everybody seems to be looking for infotech companies or dismiss us out of hand because we’re absolutely NOT high tech. Personally I think simple things like the Post-it Note or Mr. Coffee would have been good investment opportunities. Would it be possible for me or someone in my group to meet with you and pick your brain about how we can go about finding the sort of investor we’re looking for? The Startup Lounge guys, J.P. James and other folks have been helpful, but their groups and associations all seem to lean toward high-tech. I’m sure you’re quite busy, but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Allen Burnett

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:03:41 +0000

David – thanks for the kind words. Heck, I wish there had been something like this when I was raising money for Digital Envoy in 1999 and 2001. Which is exactly the reason I’m doing this now. Why keep letting things suck for the next wave of entrepreneurs?

By: David Cohen

David Cohen — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:00:56 +0000

Congratulations on putting together (and pulling off) a great event! I just wish there had been something like this back in ’98 when I was trying to raise money for AnyDevice. You’re really doing a lot for the community, which is awesome.

By: Scott Burkett

Scott Burkett — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:33:51 +0000

ROFL – man I’m so glad I’m not the one doing all the skewering these days :)

Looking forward to the ’09 Riot …

Cheers.
Scott

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:38:56 +0000

Yeah, what happened at SoCon was actually the reason I didn’t distribute an attendee email list or email addresses for presenting companies. If it happened, I wanted it to be hard for the spamming service providers. Clearly, it did happen and could still happen from people who read about who presented. That I can’t stop. What burns me up about this guy (fine I’ll out him – Eric Stotts) is that he posed as an entrepreneur. I’m pretty sure he manipulated his LinkedIn profile to seem more entrepreneur like than he is because looking at it now, there is no way I would have let him in. Next time I’m going to screen capture each attendees’ info as I approve and reject them so I have something to go back and compare to.

So heed this warning service providers – if you attempt to invade any of my events, I will publicly skewer you. Like I always say – I have nothing against (most) of you but if you violate my rules, you will rile me up.

By: Lance Weatherby

Lance Weatherby — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:20:16 +0000

Great job with the event Sanjay.

You should totally out that loser from Administaff. Reminds of the salestalent spammer from SoCon that I played semi-nice with and then Josh Hallett outed him. Public disgrace and a vow from entrepreneurs not to do business with those that practice such bad behavior will stop it.

By: Vijay

Vijay — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:06:30 +0000

Hey,

Seems a lot like what we do here in India. Fun stuff! including those gatecrashers :)