I see you were founded in 2008, and you had some funding in 2013. if you are at a 1M run rate currently, please explain how this will now ramp to your 100M goal, and what is the major difference why you will be able to scale revenue that much, when you have not previously. (no...

Important question so thank you. We’ve achieved our growth previously from word of mouth (i.e. little to no investment in marketing and sales), and spent our time and money building the technology itself, to get it ready not only to scale technically but be accessible to a wide audience. With the new interactive visual interface (i.e. our social webinar) now live, and with video conferencing (our single most requested feature from existing and prospective customers) in private beta, we’re now...

Revenue chart on this page shows that revenues have flattened quite a bit in 2016. Understood that it's for first 8 months but still it seems much lower than previous years. Can you provide some explanation on it?

Hmmm we're definitely on track for higher revenue this year than last (or ever before). When I have a few minutes this week- I'll will look into the chart and details, and see if we can clear up any confusion.

Hi, numerous times you mentioned that you achieved your growth with minimal sales/marketing - looking at your P & L it shows about 24% of total income spend on advertising and marketing, that's significant amount. Where is the disconnect ? When do you anticipate to break e...

Let's focus on the last couple years - before that our platform was purely audio conferencing, and frankly that market is much smaller. Recently, we've maintained the website and pricing, CRM system, staffed for those, and we also tried for about 18 months (and frankly, failed! wrapped up late last year) to sell very high dollar custom event strategy and event design services. We've never allocated significant budget for paid acquisition, nor for the direct outreach methods we've learned via ...

What is your go to market strategy in terms of sales? i.e. are you going to sell direct to end users, through the channel?

We think it's best for a innovative product that allows for new interactions - but thus requires some new behaviors - to have a direct relationship for sales, especially in the early phases of market development so that we can hear customer feedback unfiltered. And, we'd like to find channel partners for lead development. I wonder if you have experience in channel sales? Would happy to hear your thoughts (email me at brian@) if so.

Who are you current investors? Did you receive investment after participating in 500 Startups? If not, what were the reasons investors your pitched gave for not investing?

Investors have primarily been customers and their friends, and our friends and family. This is our first pitch since starting 500 startups so no rejections to share sorry! We were clear we preferred offering this round to our fans via reg cf.

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Paid customers include: President Obama, Hillary Clinton, Airbnb, Uber, Stanford University, the World Bank and others in 23 countries

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Hosted over 15,000 presenters and more than 7 million participants on the platform

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Graduated from San Francisco's most exclusive and well-known technology accelerator, 500 Startups

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Revenues covering 80%+ of expenses for three years running; and just had our best 3 months of revenue ever (Aug 2016/ GAAP)

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$5MM+ total cash revenue generated to date; record revenue growth every year with exception of 2013 when subscription revenue increased by 50% but we lost a top customer once Obama won presidential campaign.

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Over 800 organizations as paying customers

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3 patents fully awarded for our technology

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UPDATE - Having surpassed our goal of $200k, we are closing Dec 29th. Funds are for marketing & sales to increase revenue, and we hope to reopen next year with a proportionately higher valuation.

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