Vegas Tech Fund-SHAKE DOWN OF SECRET WEAPON
Post date: Nov 18, 2014 6:36:38 PM
Founder Passion and Vision Evaluation: We want to understand the story behind your passion and your company vision. What drives you and how that can contribute to our community? We’ll start with a chat, phone call, Skype, or trading of smoke signals with someone from our team. It’s a great opportunity to ask questions about the #VegasTech community! Your time is valuable so we don’t want to waste it with more meetings if your company’s focus doesn’t align with our investment goals (it’s not you, it’s us…we’re weird).
Community Evaluation: Our community is built by the people in it. We build community through relationships. We care about your team’s culture and values and the synergies between your team and our community. Want to know how to get funded? Come see Downtown for yourself and meet the people who live, work, and play here. The more people you connect with the more likely you are to get community support. We work from community references. You can choose to do this on your own or reach out to us first. It’s your choice, but there’s no doubt that more things can happen once you’re here and active.
Product/Business Evaluation: This is a chance for our team, partners, friends, and invested companies to learn more about your product and business vision. We all come from a wide range of backgrounds in technology so who you meet with will depend on your startup’s focus. We’ll take a deep dive into your customer, market, business model, and growth strategies.
This is a chance to show that you have the best team to solve the problem.
How we spend our days, is how we spend our lives.The truth is, we want to create each day and fill it with valuable things to build ourselves, each other and those we work with. We’ve crafted core values to help us do this. When they’re implemented, acknowledged and used, they propel us toward a better quality of life. Where passion, purpose and skill collide, happiness resides.
TONY SAID BE DISRUPTIVE-So I thought I would toss the "SECRET WEAPON" upside down and shake it to see what it was holding. You would be SURPRISED maybe NOT so surprised of the fucked up way these people have treated not only me but each other. Leave no wonder as to "WHY" they didn't make it...many didn't even try and "fake it", it being "ROC" RETURN ON COMMUNITY meant that if you got your ass out here, fully participated, treated people equally, marketed your business to your peeps, we would make a ROI a return on INVESTMENT and maybe pay the rent.
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