{"id":43,"date":"2008-09-08T13:07:03","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T18:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2008-09-08T13:53:51","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T18:53:51","slug":"ho-not-to-demo-at-techcrunch50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/08\/ho-not-to-demo-at-techcrunch50\/","title":{"rendered":"How NOT to Demo at TechCrunch50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, if a company is going to demo at TechCrunch50, it&#8217;s probably not the smartest thing in the world to alienate half your potential user base by talking about politics.\u00a0\u00a0 But that&#8217;s exactly what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dotspots.com\/\">DotSpots<\/a> did for the first five minutes of the demo that did during their TechCruch50 demo.   And the company motto?  &#8220;The Wisdom of Crowds&#8221;?   Apparently they haven&#8217;t heard the saying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/homeoffice\/posters\/5cd9\/zoom\/\">&#8220;None of Us Is As Dumb As All of Us&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>edit: Google&#8217;s Marissa Mayer gave DotSpots got high marks for the idea, but wondered about the business model.   <\/p>\n<p>Time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, if a company is going to demo at TechCrunch50, it&#8217;s probably not the smartest thing in the world to alienate half your potential user base by talking about politics.\u00a0\u00a0 But that&#8217;s exactly what DotSpots did for the first five minutes of the demo that did during their TechCruch50 demo. And the company motto? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[35,330,36],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-startup-companies","tag-dotspots","tag-startup-companies","tag-techcrunch50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}