In my last post I mentioned I’d share insights on our DEMO pitch meeting this week at Kleiner Perkins' office on Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto, Calif. I just got the run-down from ZigMail Co-founders Michael and Richard who called from the car after today's meeting. Richard summarized it by saying, “It is always exciting to be with people who are passionate and excited about...

Read More About 3-2-1 Pitch! (Road to DEMO)

Nate Werlin over at DEMO/IDG just shared some great pics from the nationwide DEMO Innovation tour stop in Silicon Valley back in February. We were invited to hit up this party after our pitch meeting in February for DEMO (#DEMO12), VentureBeat and Kleiner Perkins. DEMO Executive Producer Matt Marshall and colleagues like Neal Silverman (both pictured below) have been traveling around...

Read More About Innovation Tour Pics (Road to DEMO)

One of the great things about having a new product on the market is the valuable feedback that rolls in from users. We're pretty humbled to learn users love ZigMail and see the numbers start climbing and the buzz start buzzing! Having already introduced our alpha and beta versions of ZigMail to the market, we've been working hard to satisfy DEMO’s strict criteria for launching a...

Read More About They like us, they really like us (Road to DEMO)

ZigMail had our first technical review today for DEMO Spring 2012 with Rob Lee from Evergreen Creative. The call was a checkpoint to see how we're doing with the script for our six minute demo on the main stage and answer our questions about staging and production. This guy Rob sure knows his stuff. Not only has he been the Technical Director for years and years of DEMO Conferences...

Read More About The Script (Road to DEMO)