Comments on: CES after 2AM. Diary of a founder's 'first time.' http://gigaom.com/2008/01/10/ces-after-2am-diary-of-a-founders-first-time/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:06:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: lyric http://gigaom.com/2008/01/10/ces-after-2am-diary-of-a-founders-first-time/#comment-190692 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:32:58 +0000 http://foundread.com/2008/01/10/ces-after-2am-diary-of-a-founders-first-time/#comment-190692 i would never blow it, but i am not a gadget maker so i guess my opinion matters very little

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]]> By: bob http://gigaom.com/2008/01/10/ces-after-2am-diary-of-a-founders-first-time/#comment-190690 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:41:40 +0000 http://foundread.com/2008/01/10/ces-after-2am-diary-of-a-founders-first-time/#comment-190690 v0rqwd hi good site thx http://peace.com

]]> By: SXSW Diary: The Good, the Bad, and the Schwag « FoundRead http://gigaom.com/2008/01/10/ces-after-2am-diary-of-a-founders-first-time/#comment-190684 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:03:00 +0000 http://foundread.com/2008/01/10/ces-after-2am-diary-of-a-founders-first-time/#comment-190684 [...] Editor’s Note: This is another in our series’ of founders’ diaries of their experiences, good and bad, attending tech’s biggest confabs. Also see, CES after 2 AM: Diary of a Founder’s ‘First Time.’ [...]

]]> By: Presenting at DEMO: 12 Do’s. 5 Don’ts. « FoundRead http://gigaom.com/2008/01/10/ces-after-2am-diary-of-a-founders-first-time/#comment-190683 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:06:04 +0000 http://foundread.com/2008/01/10/ces-after-2am-diary-of-a-founders-first-time/#comment-190683 [...] for more tips on presenting at big conferences see: CES after 2AM. Diary of a founder’s ‘first time.’ When demos go bad. No comments Share/Send Topic: Tips Tags: Bill Gates, bluescreen, CES, [...]

]]> By: Marc Barros http://gigaom.com/2008/01/10/ces-after-2am-diary-of-a-founders-first-time/#comment-190689 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:55:17 +0000 http://foundread.com/2008/01/10/ces-after-2am-diary-of-a-founders-first-time/#comment-190689 Dear Customer,

As you have pointed out, VholdR did run into a production delay along the way that forced me to make a very difficult decision; ship the product knowing we would need to provide an immediate firmware update, or delay the release and ensure VholdR is the quality product we promised. We have attempted to be very open with all of our customers including offering refunds, which we have gladly done for any pre-paid customers. I was in the process of writing our pre-order customers an email stating confirmation (will know tonight) that the first VholdR cameras are on their way, when I found your reply above.

Building a quality hardware device does take a lot of time and patience. We have been developing VholdR over the past twelve months and we have done our best to apologize for our aggressive communications on delivering for the holidays. I do believe in the team and the product, as we received production units 1-5 just before CES to test and provide a final quality approval.

As we work with our first VholdR customers we will continue to deliver the best quality service and products possible. Thanks for your support and I look forward to seeing your videos on VholdR.com.

Marc Barros

]]> By: Vholdr customer deliveries http://gigaom.com/2008/01/10/ces-after-2am-diary-of-a-founders-first-time/#comment-190688 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:04:42 +0000 http://foundread.com/2008/01/10/ces-after-2am-diary-of-a-founders-first-time/#comment-190688 Article aside, what would be nice is if Twenty20 would actually deliver units of the Vholdr to customers who paid for them two months ago. They have taken money and not delivered their product as promised, yet have time to attend the NEC show and continue taking deposits on something that does not exist in customers hands.

]]> By: Darren Herman - Marketing, Advertising, Media and Technology Blog » Blog Archive » links for 2008-01-10 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/10/ces-after-2am-diary-of-a-founders-first-time/#comment-190687 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:24:29 +0000 http://foundread.com/2008/01/10/ces-after-2am-diary-of-a-founders-first-time/#comment-190687 [...] CES after 2AM. Diary of a founder’s ‘first time.’ « FoundRead Glad I wasn’t there (tags: CES behind the scenes technology founders) [...]

]]> By: brk http://gigaom.com/2008/01/10/ces-after-2am-diary-of-a-founders-first-time/#comment-190686 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:52:13 +0000 http://foundread.com/2008/01/10/ces-after-2am-diary-of-a-founders-first-time/#comment-190686 Great post, I wish you luck in your venture…

An all-too-familiar story. I’ve done a couple of CES’for startups, along with many many other trade shows, where I had a large responsibility in both booth setup AND product demos, presentations, etc.

CES is pretty much an always-on week… Setup the booth, do a full day of pitches, talks, and demos, line up some early evening meetings, do deeper-dive talks, get dinner at 1AM, sleep for 4 hours, repeat.

The very first trade-show I ever did was for a company I had started at the time. We made the mistake of renting all our booth furniture, I think I paid $8000 to “borrow” a table and 3 chairs for 4 days :). Learned quickly that a run to WalMart would spruce things up nicely around the booth. In startup fashion, we kept the tags and returned the silk plants and decorations to Wal Mart at the end of the show :)

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brk

]]> By: Saud Juman http://gigaom.com/2008/01/10/ces-after-2am-diary-of-a-founders-first-time/#comment-190685 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:38:56 +0000 http://foundread.com/2008/01/10/ces-after-2am-diary-of-a-founders-first-time/#comment-190685 Article is very funny in the sense that we went to our very first large tradeshow last year and VERY similar experiences. (The big trade show in our space )healthcare tech) is the HIMMS show). In the end I think it was the trade show that benefitted the most.

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