Boston: best day we've had in a while
I sleep at 4 am and at 6 am my cell phone rings. Time to get ready and hit Boston. Prosper is driving while Ali and I catch up on sleep. It starts raining - we know this is gonna be good. Usually when it rains on such important days, awesome things happen to us.
We meet our first potential investor (cant give names right now). Really awesome guy. Hes founded several companies and he grills us with questions (i take flack for being the freshmen PR guy). During the meeting i come to admire his instinct. There is certainly a difference between succesful and failed entreprenuers and I believe it has a lot to do with instinct. In the middle of the meeting, his 8 year old son comes in and hes like son tell me some thing. If you had a dollar would you give it to these people? And im sitting there, going oh no, 2 pakistanis and one black guy. But the kid is like sure why not. The guy turns around and smiles at us. In principle hes interested. (this has to be one of the coolest stories ever).
We headed over to this diner and they were selling sandwitches for 10 bucks. Next stop Mc Donalds were we got burgers for $1. Finally for the first time, we used company money to feed ourselves. Felt good using the company credit card.
Our second meeting was even better. The gentleman offered to write us a cheque right there and then. Hes founded a lot of succesful companies and once again, i realized how good his instinct was. There is definately a trend here amongst these succesful people.
Anyways we're headed to NYC tomorrow for more meetings. Then Mark's place on Tues. In actually enjoying this fund raising.
posted by Murtaza @ 10:59 PM
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6 Comments:
Congratulations guys, sounds like Iventster is going to be going places :)
iPods on its way Noah. Could you email support@iventster.com with your full address and we'll ship it asap to you. Congrats!
This sounds really cool! Congrats on getting those meetings and offers, but aren't your huge user numbers just based on spamming lots of people?
The facebook shut off their export feature two weeks ago. Check our Alexa graph since then. Its been growing non stop even though its the end of the semester.
The friends inviting friends definately helped put us out there. But since then, we've been doing excellent without it.
Rock on. You can tell I'm bitter about getting 36 invites from one person in an equal number of hours. (A qmail bug that you guys fixed, thankfully.)
I checked out Noah's event and saw that over half of his attendees didn't even live in Georgia. That was a little disheartening, but I probably would have done it for an iPod Shuffle, too.
Some campus marketing plans are going to be clutch this summer. Is there a name for Metcalfe's Law as applied to small, campus environments?
I'll keep (jealously) watching for news on who bags your investment. Thanks for the updates.
Like I said, I invited everyone I knew, a good majority of the invites were from my "Single@State" group on Thefacebook which has about 500 members itself. I marketed the event on 4 different campuses around Atlanta for a good two weeks as well. Some people added it to their calendar I'm sure just to help me out, so for that I'm thankful. But all-in-all, about 100 college singles showed up for this event, and out of 500 invites that's not too bad at all. :)
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