Comments on: STARTUPS: Please boycott AlwaysOn's Venture Summit Silicon Valley for charing $10k for 6 min pitch! http://calacanis.com/2009/10/20/startups-please-boycott-alwaysons-venture-summit-silicon-valley-for-charing-10k-for-6-min-pitch/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:11:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Matt Bowman http://calacanis.com/2009/10/20/startups-please-boycott-alwaysons-venture-summit-silicon-valley-for-charing-10k-for-6-min-pitch/#comment-4395 Matt Bowman Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:10:43 +0000 http://calacanis.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/startups-please-boycott-alwaysons-venture-summit-silicon-valley-for-charing-10k-for-6-min-pitch/#comment-4395 Jason, I was with you on the Keiretsu Forum jihad. But neither AlwaysOn nor New York venture summit are angel investors. They are media companies. Media companies cover their costs by selling commercials. A pitch at AO is a commercial--and a pretty high-quality one. Your demo tables at TC50 are commercials. In both cases, startups buy them because they're worth the attention. Also, you said Greg didn't discuss the fees until the end--not true. Reread the second sentence: "The CEO Showcase program is a paid presentation..." This is a totally different scenario from angel forums, and the model is perfectly legit. Jason,
I was with you on the Keiretsu Forum jihad. But neither AlwaysOn nor New York venture summit are angel investors. They are media companies. Media companies cover their costs by selling commercials. A pitch at AO is a commercial–and a pretty high-quality one. Your demo tables at TC50 are commercials. In both cases, startups buy them because they’re worth the attention.

Also, you said Greg didn’t discuss the fees until the end–not true. Reread the second sentence: “The CEO Showcase program is a paid presentation…”

This is a totally different scenario from angel forums, and the model is perfectly legit.

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