The journey of a Bay Area startup: Cloud and You |
Cloud and You was started by three co-founders who have a passion for art. During a business trip to London, they visited several museums and connected through their joy of art. After a few drinks, they felt that one missing piece for artists were collaboration and expert critique. This blog will tell you all the ups-and-downs, the frustration, pitching and funding, and all the hard work into building a company. This is as real as it gets. No frills. |
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Notes Rain, drinks and VC in Vietnam (no pun intended) lolToday we started off with a cup of java from Big E in South San Jose. That gave us a little bit of jolt. We continue to email other professors from universities (Top 50) around the country to tell them about our idea. So far we haven’t gotten a bite yet from them.
We also got in touch with our financial advisor who will be on a conference call at 3pm, on Saturday. Hopefully there are good news. We are hoping for the best to kickstart our business if Asif invests in us.
Another task we did was finding VC to email. We already contacted Andreeson and Horowitz, Accel, Menlo Venture, Redpoint Venture and so on. Haven’t heard back yet, but we have heard back from Vina Capital. They are based out of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Not sure if getting funded by a VC is a good idea (no pun intended for the Viet Cong haha), just kidding. Let’s see how this goes with them. If anything, we will need to travel to Vietnam.
As for the weather, it kind of sucks right now. We are on our desks trying to design and email, but the sound of drops of rain hitting on the ceiling makes us very sleepy and groggy. Besides the weather, we are still strolling along.
Last night we met up with Cassey at the Wine Affaire in San Jose. Had couple of drinks and went home.
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Cloud and You HQ - upgraded desk. No more milk crates lol.
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Notes Advisor on board and a new deskTo update you guys on what we did over the last couple of days. We got an advisor that will help us dramatically and besides being an advisor, he is a very down to earth person. We are currently working hardcore on this project even though the COO is on vacation from his day job. So far today we bought a desk for the HQ and, of course, we did not spend a grip on it. We are boot strapping and any penny saved is fine with us.
We gotten a couple of words from Tuyen that there are VC out there that would like to see more of what we do. This is really good news for us. We appreciate Tuyen for his time and effort to make this happen for us. Also, he provided us with a UI designer who is helping us on our mock page free of charge! YES FREE! That is something that we will never forget.
Executive summary is done and now sending it away. Hope to hear back soon from people. :)
Ciao for now.
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