Pitching Startups:
| Founder | Website |
| Sean Coughlin – 1st place | FaithStreet |
| Nicholas Maddix | Copy2Contact |
| Daniel Tashman | Tomato Lightning |
| Dmitry Shamilov | YaTrader |
| Michael Bernstein | PenPal News |
| Corey Maass – 3rd Place | The Birdy |
| Eloise Bune – 2nd Place | Gracious Eloise |
| Ian Griggs | Hazarai |
| Geoff Grandberg | Lifestander |
| Brandon Burns | Star 67 |
| Jay Orfield | SpruceBox |
| Alex Fair | FairCareMD |
Panelists (alphabetic order):
Owen Davis
Bill Reinisch
David Teten
Mark Wachen
- Owen Davis (@owendavis), Managing Director at NYC Seed
- William Reinisch, Venture Advisor at Paladin Capital Group
- David Teten (@dteten), Partner at ff Venture Capital and Founder and Chairman at Harvard Business School Angels of New York
- Mark Wachen (@mwachen), Founder and CEO at Upstage Ventures and Managing Partner at DreamIt Ventures
Format:
Feedback Forum and Pitch Showdown is a brand new format for Ultra Light Startups. It is designed to serve the following purposes:
- Help early stage startups refine their business and revenue models
- Help the audience see how investors evaluate startup pitches
- Award prizes to the most viable startups, based on audience voting
At this event, the panel and the startup pitches are integrated into a single session. Startups pitch to a panel of investors, who are also successful entrepreneurs. Each startup gives a pitch and brief demonstration of his/her product. The panel and audience ask follow-up questions after each pitch. The panel gives constructive feedback to each startup pitching. At the end of the series of pitches, the audience votes for their favorite pitches via Twitter. The winners are announced and prizes are awarded. Then we go for drinks nearby.
Hosts:
- Graham Lawlor (@generationg), Founder of Ultra Light Startups
- David Carlos, Founder of David Carlos Managed Information Architects
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