Proudcloud’s pitching CONVOFLOW at the  “Startups Take a Pitch” Competition of the E-services Conference. As required preparation, Plug-and-Play Tech Center and GoNegosyo held a pitch preparation workshop today called the Technopreneur Bootcamp.

Startup teams participate in Technopreneur Bootcamp

24 Tech startup hopefuls were there to listen to the expert advice of Philippine Emerging Startups Open (PESO) President, Dickie Gonzalez, on how to effectively pitch to venture capitalists. Dickie’s preso, combined with his in-depth breakdown of a well structured guide provided by PlugandPlay, truly enlightened the audience about the content of a good VC pitch.

Dickie Gonzalez entertains questions from one of the teams

Each startup team will only be given 4 minutes to pitch on Feb 9, something that Dickie, and Jojo Flores of PlugandPlay, repeatedly emphasized. The startups were therefore advised on how to leave essential information only in light of that small window of time.

The bootcamp was definitely a boon to the nascent philippine startup community and clears up many myths about how to present to VCs, particularly Silicon Valley based ones.

Take away quote from one of the startup teams:

Will there be local VCs on Feb 9? Talking to local VCs is like talking to bankers.

The answer was yes, but the local VCs who would be judging are valley vets savvy enough to know how to really invest in tech startups.

Roofcamp kicks off for 2010 at Mag:Net Bonifacio High Street on Thursday, Feb 11, 2010 from 6:00pm to 9:30pm.

Our speaker will be Michael F. “Smitty” Smith Jr., Director for the YAHOO! Developer Network SEA who will talk on How to Reach the YAHOO! Audience.

The 2nd speaker will be Alan Magtoto, President of Woodpecker Studios who will demo their Live 3D Avatar Technology.

Beer follows afterwards (or before and during if you fancy that).

Come on fellas! Let’s jump start this rocking year! click here for map

Visit the event page on Facebook here or learn more about Roofcamp here.

All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together. Use them in peace. –HAL 9000

It’s been a while since we’ve posted and I know that we should really make it a habit of blogging more often. I guess the end of the year is the perfect time to blog about Proudcloud’s future path going into the 2nd decade of the 21st century.

Convoflow

We’re rolling out some awesome upgrades to CONVOFLOW, our real time social media search tool. Social sharing functions are much better now and we’re continuously tweaking the UX.

What’s really exciting us though is the ability to search through more social networks/sources, and personal bookmarking which should be particularly useful for those using Convoflow for brand and news tracking.

Convoflow has been gaining some pretty good (and diverse) global traction and we’re hoping that these upcoming features would make it the real time search tool of choice for more users.

Rumblefish

We’re in the final development stages of a firmware + cloud service combo that we’re rolling out in January. We’d rather not say what it does just yet but we know that it’s going to rock.

Fundspace

We’ve also been working on a social lending platform that just might go into beta in Q1 of 2010. The platform facilitates peer-to-peer lending within a network in contrast to the aggregate style of lending being done by Prosper, Kiva, and Lending Club.

So that’s our last post for the year. We at Proudcloud are pretty pumped up for 2010 and we are confident that this brave optimism is shared by our clients and partners as well.

So a prosperous new year to all!