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Ask Slashdot: How Do You Sell an Algorithm To Venture Capitalists?
dryriver writes "Dear Slashdotters, We are a two man crew who have spent almost three years developing a video processing algorithm that 'upgrades' the visual quality of digital video footage. We take video footage that is "of average quality" — think an amateur shooting on a cheap digital camcorder or on a smartphone camera — and use various mathematical tricks we have developed to make the footage look better — optically sharper, better lit, more vivid colours, improved contrast, enhanced sense of three-dimensionality and of 'being-there realism.' In about a month, we will be presenting our algorithm to some venture capitalists. We have the obligatory before-and-after video demos prepared for this, of course. But there will also be a short PowerPoint presentation where we explain our tech in some detail. Now here is our main question: What, in your opinion, should we — or indeed should we NOT — put in the PowerPoint presentation to impress a Venture Capitalist? Should we talk about how we developed the algorithm at all — what kind of R&D and testing was involved? Should we try to walk the VCs through how our algorithm works under the hood — simplified a bit for a 'non-engineer' audience of course? Or should we stick to talking about market potential, marketing strategy & money-related stuff only? If you were in our shoes — presenting a digital video-quality improvement technology to professional VCs — what would and would you not put in your PowerPoint? Any advice on this from Slashdotters with some experience would be most welcome!"
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You tried to downmod that to "hide it" troll earlier there, along with 100's of "forums slide" attempts via ac posts (like the 100's you did directed my way but you got caught in posting your registered username to do it instead of by ac submits http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3581857&cid=43276741 ). No hiding it now, is there?
Disprove it Jeremiah Cornelius: Good luck. You can't & you KNOW it (or you would have by now, unfortunately, that is NOT possible with valid technical data).
Since you attempted to "impersonate me" & shit on me in 100's of posts attempting to do that?
Then, You can BANK ON IT I will keep tossing this your way, inviting your dull-witted technically incompetent ass to disprove it. You can't and I know it, you know it, and so will anyone else reading your b.s. posts (especially your +5 rated ones you mod yourself up with using sockpuppets and we all know you do that too). Payback, is a bitch, and especially when it shows just how techincally incompetent you are, troll.
Hairyfeet did the rest on your AC post here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3717059&cid=43631887 and he doesn't even use hosts, and prefers dns. So much for your ac trolling fool. Your problem, idiot? You think people are stupid and don't see thru your crap. Guess again, see Hairyfeet's post above.
Going to downmod this to hide it as usual, or are you going to flood it with anonymous coward replies like the troll you are to forums 'slide' it?
APK
P.S.=> There is NO WAY you worked at Microsoft as you claim, no way, at least not in a true technical capacity since I can clearly easily outsmart & outthink you on "all of your 'objections'" so easily... however, then again? It's why you were terminated at Microsoft. You don't cut it, and it's the why of why you're nothing but a powerpoint pusher nowadays (allegedly)... apk