espite being coastally challenged (currently living in Philadelphia), Josh has been an active entrepreneur and investor in the Internet industry since its commercialization. In 1992, while he was a student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Josh co-founded Infonautics Corporation – an Internet information company. In 1996, Infonautics went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
Demofall
I'm getting ready to head out to DEMOfall next week. I've had a long and wonderful experience with the
DEMO conferences -- having founded or funded over 20 companies that have
launched there. It looks like Chris Shipley has identified a bunch of interesting companies this year as well - including First Round Capital portfolio company, Cuts.com (While the DEMO conference doesn't pre-announce the
Demonstrator companies, the companies are free to announce their selection. So far I've counted over 30 press releases from
launching companies - check them out here).
If you're going to be at DEMOfall, drop me a note!
Josh,
I have a company in the mobile advertising sector that is presenting at DEMO. Given your portfolio, I think this one would interest you a lot.
Larry
Posted by: Laurence Hayward | September 19, 2006 at 06:00 PM
Hey Josh,
I'll be at DemoFall next week with Pluggd (http://www.pluggd.com) We would love to talk to you about some of what we're going to show and what pluggd is. Please drop me a line, would love to meet you in sunny San Diego!
_drew
Posted by: Drew Olanoff | September 19, 2006 at 06:31 PM
Hi Josh,
I've been a big fan of your blog and your no-nonsense approach to business.
I'm not attending DemoFall, but I am based in San Diego and would love to meet you.
My new startup iLetYou (http://www.iletyou.com) is taking Beta invitation requests right now. I've posted a new piece about the state of online (and offline) rental on my blog (http://rodgerv.wordpress.com) that relates to iLetYou and our goal to change the way you rent.
I understand you'll be busy with the conference, but if you'd like to meet up, I'd welcome the chance.
Best,
Rodger
Posted by: Rodger Visitacion | September 20, 2006 at 05:03 PM
Hi Josh,
I'll be at DEMO launching http://www.mypw.com . (That link will be a lot more useful after monday! :))
Would love to get together, daryn_at_mypw_dot_com
Daryn
Posted by: Daryn Nakhuda | September 23, 2006 at 01:01 AM
Hi Josh,
We'll launch our company at DEMO as well. Check out our website - http://www.ucontrol.com for more info.
Hopefully we'll run into each other in San Diego.
Jason
Posted by: Jason Domangue | September 23, 2006 at 02:54 PM
Hi Josh,
We have a software that we think are better than some of the similar products debuted at DemoFall. We just started looking for seed money. I am wondering what's the best way for us to reach you. Thx.
Yadong
Posted by: Yadong Liu | October 06, 2006 at 02:48 AM