- Startups - Kristoph Matthews CEO & Founder of Boxbee -TWiST #E351
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Filmed at WeWork in San Francisco @jason talks with the winner of the #LAUNCH2013 Festival @kristophm of @boxbee.
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Kristoph Matthews
http://twitter.com/kristophm
http;//twitter.com/boxbee
Boxbee pitching on stage at Launch 2013!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs1B2sJJWVg
http://boxbee.com
2:25 Hey everybody!
3:15 Summary of the show & how to approach him in public
5:30 Thank you to our partners at ShareFile by Citrix, request, send and receive secure files!
8:45 Background on Boxbee and Founder Kristoph Matthews meeting Jason during launch
9:35 How did you end up applying for LAUNCH?
9:56 Did you meet Angel List founder? Did he feature you?
10:12 What happened after you put up Boxbee on Angel List?
10:55 What is the idea for Boxbee?
11:05 What does the mean? How does it work?
12:11 Who are you competing against?
13:07 What would it cost me to fill a 18''x18'' inch box normally?
13:41 How much for Boxbee?
14:05 How do you make money? Minimum store time?
14:30 How did you decide to do this?
15:58 Tell us about your experience at LAUNCH Festival
16:36 What was the process like?
18:00 Take us through the rehearsals
18:40 What did you learn at the rehearsals?
20:05 What's it like looking out from stage with thousands of people in the crowd waiting to hear what you have to say?
21:10 Do you think the practice and group practice helped?
21:45 What was the feeling like when you got such a tremendous response from the judges?
22:30 Did you know at that point that you had a good chance of winning?
23:08 You had investors come and say what?
23:40 What day did you present?
24:00 Thank you to our partners at Turnstone! Beautiful office furniture!
28:45 How do you leverage the next day and a half until the awards ceremony?
29:45 Talk about the dinners, what were they like?
30:55 How confident were you of winning? Team?
33:45 What was it like the day after the event?
34:50 Is this going to be a massive amount of infrastructure?
35:36 What's the advantage of being lean and agile?
36:25 What were the key learnings?
37:25 How do you put trust into the fabric of the company?
38:15 You joined Angel Pad, how's that been?
39:15 How does the process work day to day with them?
39:40 When are you doing the demo with them?
40:30 How do you maintain composure?
42:15 Why do you think more entrepreneurs don't seek mentorship?
43:22 It has to feel good to actually be doing the initial work?
44:25 What do you think a year from now you're going to be able to say is true if you execute?
45:44 Is there a classic rollout plan in the startup community?
48:25 Any messages for those out there sitting on the bench wondering if they can do it?
54:05 Thank you to our partners!
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