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Tech23 BugHerd voted People’s Choice at Tech23, also Most Promising Emerging Tech

This entry was posted in News and tagged 500startups, Angel, AU, investment, pitch, tech23, VC on August 25, 2011 by Alan Downie.

Another crazy/great week! Matt and Alan flew back to Australia from 500Startups in Mountain View, Alan heading home to Melbourne and Matt staying in Sydney to represent us as one of 23 startups pitching competitively at Tech23. Vincent followed along online while he banged out more third-party integration code, while I sat in the audience [...]

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Demo Days at 500Startups can be a tough crowd

This entry was posted in News and tagged 500startups, demo, event, incubator, investment, pitch on August 18, 2011 by Alan Downie.

You think it’s tough pitching your brand-new startup to a room full of sceptical, knowledgeable industry experts, angels and venture capitalists? Try warming up that same crowd with some clever, funny satirical rap. DJ Real is a great performer and Alan and Matt from the Bugherd team thought he was hilarious, but it seemed like [...]

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