Tech entrepreneurs often gather once a week in a cozy place to grab some coffee, free Wi-Fi, and chat about what’s new. One thing I have heard repeatedly is it is hard or impossible to pitch investors who barely know me. What are investors looking for in a pitch and how to secure “funding” from an investor that best fits my goal?

The book Applebees America, says that the basis of an effective conversation is to have a thorough understanding of the organization and the communications environment, including the audiences and other players. It is impossible to know whether an investor will be interested in my product. But I need to be fully prepared the key message for every email and presentations. Generally, business owners will open a window of 15 minutes for an initial pitch. Please remember don’t talk about how my product works. Try to tell my investors how I will make money with them if my product is actually working. In the meantime, the messages need to be clear and concise when I start communicating with the potential investor. Take a minute to think what I expect the investor to describe my business concept and progress to a partner in his or her firm.

Which tactics do I need for an initial pitch? Firstly, I will be armed with a comprehensive business plan with a well-defined marketing strategy and fancy tactics. It is a starter to stimulate the appetite of the investor. But in order to nail a deal down, I will use up my enthusiasm and passion to introduce the product. But don’t forget to focus on the Money.

Anticipate questions inventors might ask. How large is your market? Who are your competitors? Why is your product better than what is already in the market? What is your customer acquisition strategy? How much money have you made? Answer these with a cool, calm tongue. It is a platform to test the entrepreneur’s capabilities under high pressure.

A PowerPoint presentation using about 12 slides is standard, particularly with a tech product. Had better to show a demo to investors so they can see how it could actually work. If you can demonstrate your product or hand out product samples that’s a plus. Discuss actual sales or anticipated orders. Also, this is where your research on testing or proving your business concept comes into play, which includes results from surveys, focus groups, and product tests to show any customer insight you have gained.

Last but not the least, the more you pitch, the more you get a sense for what parts of your pitch resonate with investors.  Keep the parts that work and ditch the parts that don’t.  Keep iterating until you nail it.

Hackathons are a long week tech events where IT programmers, Web designers, R&D professionals and business persons collaborate on specific projects. Like D.C.WEEK 2012, it brought together groups of tech’s brightest and most enthusiastic. People who participate in and attend D.C.WEEK are eager to introduce their innovation with passion, and the most importance is they are doing it for free.

So what is the tech start-up’s benefit to launch a Hackathon?  It is essential to establish a relationship between Hackathons and start-up tech companies. Hackathons are a great place to meet fascinating people and make and foster meaningful professional and personal relationships. If tech start-ups want to recruit a professional to develop a new project, Hackathons must be a best way for the companies to seek and achieve the brilliants and maintain those essential connections with other participants for future projects.  Every Hackathon after the first is like going to a reunion with people you actually like. It is said that one should “work hard and play hard.” A hackathon is the only event where you’re doing both at the same time.

Reagan gets a lot of credit from the right for his policy towards the Soviets, but it was Nixon who established meaningful dialogue with the USSR, signed the first meaningful arms reduction treaty, and first laid the groundwork for a peaceful, rather than violent, end to the Cold War.

Domestically, Nixon established the EPA and OSHA, despite criticism from his own party. He aggressively fought to continue the process of desegregation despite concerns that it would cost him much of the South in his re-election. He endorsed the Equal Rights Amendment and promoted something close to universal healthcare, yet many of his contemporaries and the protesters of the time continued to dismiss him as a reactionary.

The coverups that would eventually bring Nixon down were almost mild by today’s political standards. Far from the ruthless and cynical autocrat that he has been painted as, those close to Nixon have described vividly the deep anguish, self-doubt, and intense humility he privately felt all his life.

Indeed, I would take Nixon over any of the so-called “leaders” we have in Washington today, from either party. Nixon was among the greatest presidents in modern history. God bless Richard Nixon.

So this year’s Amazon best gift is

AWS re: Invent Keynotes live Streaming 

Las Vegas, NV|Wednesday, November 28th and Thursday, November 29th

Three Keynotes speakers, Andy Jassy, SVP of Amazon Web Services, Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com and Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon.com will join in the live. Last year, Andy Jassy raised a perspective that AWS would be bigger than the whole Amazon store. This time, he plans to prove it by introducing the AWS‘s latest cloud product, and explaining AWS‘s newest business model. Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon.com will have a fireside chat with Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon.com, and discuss the strategies for start-up companies to get to market more quickly and inexpensively by using AWS’s unmatched infrastructure technology platform.

Sign up and learn more about the future and vision of Amazon, and how YOU will be a part of it.

	Wednesday, November 28 8:30 – 10:00 am PST
	Thursday, November 29 8:30 – 10:00 am PST
	Thursday, November 29 1:30 – 2:30 pm PST

I figured out the problem is those tech organizers don’t have time or platforms to market their events. So the only way to join in these events is through Facebook. Unfortunately, there are hundreds of public events popping up in one second which makes it impossible to find an appropriate one without my friends’ invitations.

Finally, my colleague “General” (She is the Superwoman in my office) recommended ukoot to me. Basically, it explores the tech events all around the U.S.and maps out the top 100 events by location at one time. I can choose my best and mark them as the favorite. I also downloaded the App that enables me to check the events 24/7 and to make sure that I don’t miss any of them. Satisfied!!!

Ukoot: Online navigator and curator that engage technical savvy professionals to focus on improving their relationship by providing fresh tech events and industry contacts. Ukoot also launched a free App for iPhone and Android that allow users to view all the Ukoot events and view the bios of the keynote speakers.

Down4Lunch.com is designed to help people make the most of their lunch-hour by networking rather than eating alone. D4L develops and licenses software-as-a-service applications to companies, associations, professional conferences, and the hospitality industry to fill a market need for improved professional networking.

Foodem.com is an online trading, business intelligence, and process automation solution for the $650 BillionU.S. wholesale foodservice industry.

HuMuch is a global price comparison website, which allows users to find, share & compare prices around the world using crowd sourcing.

TRiM (Total Restaurant Inventory Management) is a secure inventory management platform for medium-sized restaurants and regional chains. Using barcode/RFID tagging and scanning, mobile applications and cloud technologies, TRiM provides a complete solution that is affordable and easy to adopt and use.

Time:

Saturday, November 3, 2012 at 8:00 PM – Sunday, November 4, 2012 at 2:00 AM (EDT)

Location:1301 K Street NW,Washington,DC20005

During Hurricane Sandy, many people keep working remotely by making conference calls. However, getting everyone on the call is a difficult start. Callers often get confused when tailor attendees’ names to their phone numbers. Speek solves the problem by providing a web-based conferencing platform without memorizing a number.

It is super easy to use Speek to set up a conference call. Firstly, go to the Speek website and pick a URL for your call, like http://www.speek.com/uKoot. Then email this link to all the attendees you want to contact with. Once the attendee clicks the link and input his/her phone number, they will immediately join in your call. Meanwhile by cooperating with Dropbox, Speek allows you to send text messages and share files during the call. You can also have a custom dashboard that manages your account and hides your message when someone else wants to start a conference call using your link, and don’t forget the most amazing point: It is free!!!

                                            Speek – Fast and easy conference calls on the go!

The Structure conference is scheduled on June 20-21, 2012 in Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF,San Francisco, CA. Register now!! With 70+ speakers,50+ sponsors and the LaunchPad - an exhibit for innovative products on Cloud.Plan your schedule for the event right away,in here.

Hear it from the expert speakers who develop and run the Cloud business on nuances,applications and the immense growth opportunities of Cloud Computing.

Highlights of Structure 2012

-> Software-Defined Networking

-> The Green Cloud

-> Emerging Chip / Hardware Architectures

-> Programmer Platform Evolution

-> The Cloud On Capitol Hill

-> Data Infrastructure Technologies

The concept of Cloud Computing involves computing and storing data on a platform/software with access to a large community of end-users.Every blue-chip company and entrepreneurial start-up are making the most from the Cloud for diverse services and domain areas such as Facebook,Google,Amazon and many more than can be listed here.

Get to the GIGAOM’s Structure 2012. Learn,create and build – Structure Cloud.Stay connected via ukoot’s facebook , tweet @ukoot and read our blogs for updates on the GIGAOM’s Structure 2012.

O’Reilly’s OSCON is a 5-day convention for open source developers to discuss and innovate concepts and technologies to storm the world.The event is scheduled on  July 16-20, at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon. OSCON 2012 is the hot-spot for the thinkers and the doers to meet and make better technologies. So why wait till the last date? Register by June 7 and win early price.

OSCON 2012 hosts 12+ tracks and 100+ sessions with the right mix of hands-on tutorials, inspirational keynotes, and a asset of information on open source languages, platforms, and development. All the more, it creates constructive  opportunities, organizing networking events and an Expo Hall.Meet about 3000 peers, 15 expert speakers and take with you immense knowledge and ideas. Make your own schedule for Oscon 2012 – Tracks.

A few of the highlights tracks -

• Business
• Cloud
• Community
• Data
• Java and JVM Languages
• Javascript and HTML5
• Mobile
• Open Edu (CFP is open)
• Open Hardware
• Ops
• Perl
• PHP
• Programming
• Python
• Tools and Techniques
• UX

A lot more to look forward,

Oscon’s OpenStack Day is dedicated to the fast-paced Open Source project – OpenStack,with 2500+ individual programmers and 150+ companies contributing worldwide.

For the people in the open source business, Business Leadership Day  helps bootstrap nuances of the field.

In the Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions you can get face-to-face with like-minded developers who share your interest on open source projects and topics.

Be there at O’Reilly’s OSCON 2012 to share,challenge and build open source solutions.Stay connected via ukoot’s facebook , tweet @ukoot and read our blogs for updates on the O’Reilly’s OSCON 2012.

Now that you know how important it is,register for O’Reilly’s Fluent Conference - JavaScript and beyond to be held on May 29-31,2012 in San Francisco,CA.Also,you’ve a choice of packages as to which days you want to attend.The conference program has all the right elements – hands-on workshops,track sessions from the experts and the experienced designed for the technically inclined and the businessmen,as well.Now,get an early bird offer if you make it on or before May 15th.

Discuss, share and learn with the speakers on tracks - Ancillary technologies,JavaScript in the Browser,Gaming,Mobile Platforms,Pure Languages,Node.js and Share Your Stack.What’s more? Here are a list of events scheduled for networking with the participants,speakers and entrepreneurs on a common platform.You’ve every reason to participate in the O’Reilly’s Fluent Conference - gain knowledge, network with people in the industry and much more.

Stay connected via ukoot’s facebook , tweet @ukoot and read our blogs for updates on the O’Reilly’s Fluent Conference.