Dropbox Tracking Doesn’t Exist… But This Will Help!

The rise of cloud storage has made sharing files easier than ever. More and more individuals and businesses are relying on Dropbox or similar services such as Google Drive to get content out to their audience but there is one major problem with sending material out via a Dropbox link. What is it you may say! Well, sending a link out through Dropbox gives you no information about the receiver Read More...

Don’t Throw Your Investors a Curveball

I recently read a piece by Mark Suster, a VC from Upfront Ventures which advised startups to withhold some of their financial information from some investors. Although the piece has some great points, if a startup decides to take this path they are more likely to die of paranoia than anything else. Why Stakeholders Deserve to Receive Updates? It is common knowledge that companies which are publically traded on a Read More...

5 Great Talks to Aid Startups from Echelon Thailand

There was a wealth of experience on show speaking on the main stage at Echelon Thailand. A variety of different subjects were covered from how to build a global startup from SEA to advice on investing and why SEA has so much opportunity and buzz at the moment. We ended up spending a lot of time at Echelon in front of the main stage listening to the talks. Here is Read More...

6 Ways Not to Behave at a Tech Conference

We had some fun last week. Echelon Thailand happened and we were prize providers for the pitching competition. We had got tshirts and business cards printed and were ready to have two days of awesome fun. On the agenda was connecting with fellow startups and learning from the invaluable talks… or so we thought. We quickly discovered that we were unsure of ourselves and somewhat shy and closed when arriving at the event. Read More...

Remote Team Control

Our team was always quite distributed. Advisers in the States, crazy business angels in Scandinavia, developers in Europe and a core team in South East Asia. Across the globe, quite a nightmare timezone wise. So how did we make it work? Push your knowledge to everyone I always found fascinating how you can entrap yourself in information filtering. “Ah, I know about this now, it’s not important to communicate to Read More...

One click approvals from your mobile device!

We focused a lot on making pitchXO easy and simple to use for the customer with the least amount of effort needed to use the core functionality. However we seem to have overlooked the mobile functionality, but we all make oversights right? We now have a new update. Well, we have worked hard to rectify the situation and bring the best experience to mobile as well as desktop. We understand Read More...

What’s that API thing everyone is talking about?

When you think of APIs, you think of programming, code and geeks right? Well, let’s reserve judgement and see what APIs are truly capable of. How does one program or website talk to another program or website, of course through an API. There is no better way to demonstrate how APIs work than to watch this short video. This video is a great explainer for how APIs work. The user, Read More...

Five things to consider for an awesome trial period!

We recently added a 7 day free trial to our product and also simplified the pricing making it even easier to determine what plan is best for you. What’s new? Well we decided to add a free trial for our customers for 7 days, long enough to test out the way the product works and determine whether it is useful for them. We understand that free trials are an important Read More...

A fundraiser with Sir Richard Branson

We are not going to lie and say we had this great vision for pitchXO from the outset. The initial target was startups and raising for investment which turned out to work pretty well. However, as more and more of our network started to hear about what we had created they kept coming up with more and more diverse ways which we could use pitchXO to solve problems in a Read More...

There Is More to Making a Deck Look Great than Design

So imagine this, we are back in early 2013 and pitchXO doesn’t exist (scary thought!). You have a new startup and things are going great! You want to raise a new round of funding and have made the perfect pitch deck. You have spent a few days scraping lists of VC’s and Angel investors who could be interested in your product and you want to send them an email with Read More...