SF New Tech 2015-12-09
welcome to the last demo night of the year, and thank you for making it awesome
we love our chairs, but we are biologically programmed to move, which is a huge disconnect
We need to do more Non-exercise activity - that is what makes the difference
what happened with smoking was that we made it harder to smoke
what if every chair came with a warning label? what if we banned office chairs?
the more standing that you do the better - even 3 hours a day of sitting can be too much
I'm Naomi of CloudHQ, and I want to show off our gmail sharing product
we have a label sharing tool for gmail between accounts, so you can build workflow using it
we offer the gmail sync for free, but we charge for salesforce and live365 etc sync
Speakeasy was founded because the conference call was a broken dysfunctional business
you will never need a PIN because you all have your own number
you can have a backchannel based on email domain so you can chat without clients seeing you
when you're through with the call, it will hang up and log you into salesforce to tack the call
we're funded by bessemer ventures and salesforce and we're built on Twilio
ingrain.io does product logo embedding in videos that you can change after shooting
in the long run we want to create an ad network for it, now we are doing it as service to video producers
there are 2 parts - processing videos for space, then compositing over it
our phones stopped being phones a while ago, and are now messaging mainly
when you're having a chat back and forth the messages look like bubbles - we can add a meeting suggestion bubble
I can throw in a quick poll in a bubble too and they can choose which coffee shop
I can put 'where are you at?" in a bubble it will show you location and arrival time
you can still work with this without the app, you'll get an SMS with a web link to the bubble
this is a fremium productivity business like dropbox/evernote/slack not an ad business
go to cola.io/sfnewtech to sign up for the beta - promo code sfnewtech
we're the worlds largest social network for cannabis users we have 600,000 users
we got kicked out of the Apple store for being a social cannabis app, so we campaigned against Apple and got back in
we were Parse's guinea pig for scaling -when we crossed 450,000 users it slowed down so we're moving to Amazon instead
we provided weedmojis for people to try and 50,000 downloaded in 24 hours
in 2013 we pitched VCs but they said cannabis was illegal under federal law, so we went public on our own
Out stock ticker is $MSRT and our users have invested in us directly
we collect user data and target ads based on users postings and can advertise dispensaries to them
next year about 25% of voters will have cannabis legalization on the ballot, so we are working on voter registration
If we can help change cannabis laws in various states, that will create great brand loyalty
facebook started with college students and expanded to the mainstream, we started with the potheads and expand to medical
q: do you have to be paid in cash? a number of community banks in colorado are now accepting cannabis accounts
have you been asked for user data by law enforcement?
we have not done that, and we work hard to stop people posting about usage from states where it is illegal
I'm eddie miller, chief strategy officer of greenrush - we are a cannabis delivery platform
we're not the Uber of cannabis, we're more like GrubHub where you can order cannabis from dispensaries
you either upload your medical marijuana card, or wen can get you one online through our doctors
the promo code sfnewtech will get you 25% off your order tonight
there is an entire industry out there that delivers cannabis to patients for credit cards we're prop #215 compliant
our app is not in the app store - apple has not let us in- go to our mobile web interface
if you don't have a credit card, we verify your drivers licence and medical marijuana card with photos
60 second spots time coming up
I'm proud that you got to see the demo of Cola which I cofounded
but I now am founding a digital lifestyle service built on cola
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