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Summer Pitchin. Are you ready?

Summer is upon us.  Founders, is it your time to shine?  Join us Wed June 6th, 7pm.

Pitching is work, effort and a constant “work in progress”.  Pitchcrawl lets you practice and get practical feedback from investors.

Think of Pitchcrawl as speed dating for investors and founders- 3 minute elevator pitches 1on1.

Investors, get to know entrepreneurs on [...]

Pitchcrawl 3.0- San Jose

Pitchcrawl 3.0 in Downtown San Jose March 20th

Ah, a lovely new year.  2012 is shaping up nicely.  And so is the awesome serendipity in the air.

If you’ve been to Pitchcrawl before or have heard of it, you know it’s a ton of fun and full of interesting and relevant people.

Here at Dishcrawl, our philosophy is [...]

The Art of Awesome and Effective Twitter Use for Business

Hey there!  I wrote this for our Dishcrawl Ambassadors and wanted to share the love with the rest of the world.

So, let’s get down to business.  Twitter.  To get started with Twitter, go ahead and go here.  It’s a blog post I wrote awhile ago, but will give you a general idea of how to setup [...]

Pitchcrawl- Success, Failure, and Iteration

The Art of Investor Dating and Fail Points

Looking for investors is very similar to dating.  You run around in circles in hopes of finding the “one”.

Just like dating, it’s in your best interest to use your personal network to be introduced to the right people.  But, if you want to get more proactive about it, [...]

30 Days- The Instrosective Work Life Balance of an Entrepreneur

YUM.  As I sit here in our office at NextSpace (coworking #ftw) and sink in to the comfy chairs, I let myself stop.

We need to stop sometimes and reflect, and today I’m reflecting on the past 30 days.

The Beginning of a New Age

About 4 weeks ago, I met with my friend Patricia Lawless.  She has [...]

The Magic Behind Getting Feedback About Your Startup

I’ve been meeting with many new entrepreneurs as of late, especially with the Scrappy Startup lunches I host monthly.

I’ve begun seeing a trend with the initial set of questions that run through one’s mind when starting a company.  I had these questions too, so they always make me smile.   

Here are a couple tips crucial to set [...]

Startup Serendipity- How I Found Corkbin and Community

Dishcrawl.com has been a matchmaker for your mouth, but the memories and experiences we’ve been having offline at our Dishcrawl events have been the magick seems to capture the hearts of Dishcrawlers. I’ve been thinking about how to aggregate the active conversations found on Twitter and other social networks about our Dishcrawls that happen at after our events. Also, I’ve been wanting to find out how to maximize the serendipitous nature of our community and harness the beauty of making new friends in a more awesome way. Our Dishcrawlers and Cat have both confirmed for me that dishcrawling, yes, is about the food, but moreso, it’s about the [...]

Back to Basics- Simple, Useful Products Born with Lean Startup Principles

I’ve played with many advanced monitoring tools like Scout Labs and Radian6, but damn, after I looked at all the exciting things these fantastic tools could do for me, I realized Dishcrawl wasn’t at that stage yet. It is important for us to keep it simple and get back to guerrilla tactics that are so successful for us as a small startup. And although I enjoy playing Lone Ranger on an expedition looking for potential customers on sites like Chow (in Dishcrawl’s case), searching for people online to converse with can be time consuming. But hell, you do it anyways. I grew numb to the amount of time suck and process seeking out information on multiple sites [...]

The Redesign of a Landing Page: From Conception to Fruition

SIMILARITIES IN LANDING PAGE DESIGN
Value proposition is about a sentence and placed on the top left hand corner.
All have logo on top left quadrant.
Top right hand corner explains the product in further detail via screen shot or product breakdown.
Further information about the product below the fold. I like that.
Big clicky clicky “call to action” [...]