Each Wednesday at 7PM Eastern, we host chats on topics of interest to entrepreneurs.
These chats are moderated by Tom Des Jardins, LaunchBox Digital Advisor and formerly the
co-founder and CTO of Lightningcast, which was acquired by AOL.
Click Here to Launch Chat Application (Java required)
Future topics include:
- What is Venture Capital and How do Venture Capital Firms Make Money?
- What is the best way to gain access to Sources of Capital?
- What are Typical Investment Terms by Round?
- How are Early Stage Businesses Valued?
- Identifying and Solving the Market Problem?
- How market and revenue affect funding decisions?
- Web X.0 and co-opitition
- IPTV and new media
- Social/Networking
- Gaming
- Advertising
- Cell Phones
- Sports
- Product Development Challenges and Mistakes to Avoid
- Development platform selection and how it affects costs/scalability
- Outsourced development, India vs Russia
- Virtualization/Hosting options
- How do I get my product in market (Distribution)?
- Viral models
- Challenges with Defense/Government related startups
- Challenges with Hardware Based Startups
We also reach into the extensive network here at LaunchBoxDigital to bring you
guest speakers for chat sessions. Local VCs, media executives and leaders
from a wide background have committed to give you some of their time, take your
questions and help grow the Washington DC’s reputation in the start up community.
To suggest a topic, please email tom@launchboxdigital.com
Tom Des Jardins