This past March, I paid my own way to SXSW. Meanwhile, Vidoop picked up travel for Kveton (by now some kind of VP of Open Technologies), Sontag, Matt Selbie (VP of Marketing), and Scott Blomqist (CTO) who all shacked up in some sweet pad somewhere outside downtown Austin.
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I’m writing this post not because I’m bitter — most startups fail and I knew this when I joined the company [...]
Seems more like that your typical consumer security / authentication company is going to fail when it pays for four key employees to go to SXSW, especially when it's in dire financial straits.
Vidoop had been playing for a while in the identity space and was still flirting with it at this time. Part of the entire reason of going to SXSW was to figure out opportunities in that space going forward, or whether or not we should just focus on our security product. (I went there as part of bacn.com but helped out with some Vidoop stuff)
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I’m writing this post not because I’m bitter — most startups fail and I knew this when I joined the company [...]
Seems more like that your typical consumer security / authentication company is going to fail when it pays for four key employees to go to SXSW, especially when it's in dire financial straits.