I was reading some updates on Twitter and saw someone had posted a URL that would let me see what projects they'd backed on Kickstarter. The URL they shared was of the form "kickstarter.com/name", which is cool. I want one too. How do I get a custom "vanity" URL for my Kickstarter account?
The Consumer Electronics Show is expensive and for a lot of startups, it's prohibitively expensive, thousands - or tens of thousands - of dollars to be a very small fish in a very big ocean. As a result, there are external activities that are affiliated with CES but aren't actually part of the show floor and major event itself. One of those I attended a few nights ago, Startup Debut. Indeed, many of those companies were using that as their only shot at visibility during the event.
But if you're a startup seeking funding, even that can be prohibitively expensive.
Enter a new event for this year, the Launch.it Pitch Event. Co-sponsored by ShowStoppers (yet another off-show-floor event I'll be attending this evening), the Launch.IT event featured eight companies pitching their company from stage, seeking investment from the venture or angel community.
