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AlwaysOnThe social media, crowd-funding, and live events platform
powering the global Silicon Valley.
www.aonetwork.com *
“Who you know, what you know and when you know is the currency of the
global Silicon Valley.”
—Mike Moritz CEO, Sequoia Capital
THE PROBLEM Too much information with no analysis—difficult accessing top companies and investors
THE SOLUTIONJoin AlwaysOn to find, filter and access the top companies, investors and partners
AlwaysOnCompanies
Fortune 1000 brands
People
Gov’t agencies
University groups
Investment firms
Trade associations
Incubators and Angels
Service firmsTop industry bloggers
Personalized news
AO original content
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Social analytics
Power rankings
Recommendations
Blog platform
Power clubs
Mail and messaging
Live events
Crowd funding
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Big company executives
Venture capitalists
Corporate investors and partners
Institutional investors
Angel investors and boosters
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GUEST BLOGGERS AlwaysOn’s industry bloggers
Brian Ascher, Partner, Venrock
David Barrett,CEO, Expensify
Rob Bernshteyn, CEO, Coupa
Steve Blank, Famous Blogger
Kelly Brieger, CEO, PARC (Xerox)
Nic Brisbourne, Partner, Forward Investment Partners
Jeff Bussgang, General Partner, Flybridge Capital
Jason Calacanis,Founder, Inside.com
Satjiv Chahill, Marketing Guru
Bruce Cleveland, Partner, InterWest Partners
Dave Cowan, Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners
Mark Cuban, Owner, Dallas Mavericks
Adam, Draper, Boost VC
Brad Feld, Co-Founder, Foundry Group
Bill Gurley, General Partner, Benchmark Capital
Francine Hardaway, Founder, Stealthmode Partners
Richard Harroch, Managing Director, VantagePoint
Ben Horowitz,General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Amish Jani, Managing Director, Firstmark Capital
Jeff Kaplan, Managing Diretor,THINKstrategies
Tom Keeley, President, Compsim
Alan Knitowski, CEO, Phunware
Kittu Kolluri, Partner, NEA
Josh Kopelman, Managing Director, First Round Capital
Keith Krach, CEO, DocuSign
Michael Kwatinetz,General Partner, Azure Capital
Laurie Lamberth, Partner, 151 Advisors
Jeff Lawson, CEO, Twilio
Lars Leckie, Managing Director, Hummer Winblad
Aileen Lee, Founder and Partner, Cowboy Ventures
Barmak Meftah, CEO, Alien Vault
Michael Moe, Founder and CEO, GSV Capital
Greg Ness, Vice President of Marketing, CloudVelocity
Ed Ring, California Public Policy Center
Heidi Roizen,Operating Partner, DFJ
Bjan Sabet, General Partner, Spark Capital
Andrew Salzman, Principal, The Chasm Group
Nadja Schiller, Principal, SearchMetrics
Peter Sonsini, Partner,NEA
Josh Stein, Partner, DFJ
Mark Suster, General Partner, Upfront Ventures
Mitch Thrower, Founder and CEO, BUMP Network
Tony Tjan, CEO and Managing Partner, Cue Ball
Are Traasdahl, CEO, Tapad
Fred Wilson, Co-Founder, Union Square Ventures
THE SOLUTION Smart profiles and blogs: people
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Power connections 45
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GUEST BLOGGERS Optimized for mobile viewers
THE SOLUTION Personalized weekly e-letter
FILTER OUTPUT
AO proprietary big data and social graph engine
Social analytics and recommendations machine
AO original online & event content
Profiles and blogs
Blog activity
Network activity
Personalized and trending news, topics, companies and people
Power rankings
Social data and analytics
Recommendations
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INPUT
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“We have identified a half trillion dollars around the globe in the hands
of hungry corporate partners, governments, and sovereign wealth
funds that would love to invest in Silicon Valley-style companies.
—Aaron Gershenberg Managing Director, Silic0n Valley Bank Capital AlwaysOn’s Venture Summit
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IPO
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Angel ListLinkedIn
VC DataTech/startup
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GigaOm
AlwaysOn expanding world tour
Visibility: profile, blog, comment rank
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Posts/shares per 24 hours 1 2 2 3 3
Connectivity people/companies 125/25 250/50 500/100 Unlimited Unlimited
Profiles per search/search fields 25/1 50/3 100/6 Unlimited Unlimited
Email power 1st degree
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AlwaysOn member benefits plans
Over 50% of subscriptions bought on site, and 50% sold direct to firms
FreeMember
$9/mo Insider
$49/mo BizDev Pro
$99/moStrategy/ Investor
$495/moPrivate
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* The AlwaysOn members who pay $495/mo earn a seat on the Private Company Exchange
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AdobeAccenture
AkamaiArchpoint PartnersAriaAT&T WirelessAudi
BlackberryBridge BankCiscoCitibankCitrix
CooleyDeloitteDraper Fisher JurvetsonFenwick & West LLPGoldman Sachs
GSV CapitalHewlett Packard
IBMInvest Northern IrelandIVPIntel Capital Invest in France Agency
J.P. MorganKorn FerryKPMGLatham & WatkinsLenovo
Manatt PhelpsMarketoMasterCardMedia TempleMicrosoft
Millennium Technology
Morgan StanleyMotorola
Nasdaq OMXNEANokiaNorwest VPNYSE
OnMobile, Ltd.OraclePrice WaterhouseQualcommRackspace
Salesforce.comSamsungSAP SharpSheppard Mullin
Siemer & Associates
Silicon Valley BankSingTel
SmaatoSNR DentonSonySquare 1 BankSugarCRM
SymantecTechnology PartnersTelstraTeslaU.K. Trade
VerizonVisaWells FargoWilson SonsiniWoolworth’s
Yahoo
Contributed $25M in revenue to AlwaysOn events in last 10 years
GUEST BLOGGERS AlwaysOn’s angel investors
Michael Moe, Founder and CEO, GSV Capital
Ken Goldman, CFO, Yahoo
Dan Rosensweig, CEO, Chegg
Norm Fogelsong, General Partner, IVP
Andy Kaplan, President, Sony Entertainment
Bret Wiener, Managing Director, H.I.G. Capital
Carlos Montalvo, Office of the CTO, HP
Curtis Eaves, Stanford Professor
David Goldberg, CEO, Endomol
Don Basile, Founder, Violin Memory
Gary Mandel, President, GMPC, LLC
Jon Staenberg, Hands of God Wines
Hale Boggs, III, Partner, Manatt & Phelps
Mary Curtis, President, Pacifico PR
Monali Jain, TiE, Keiretsu Forum
Neill Miller, Chairman of Companies
Petra Vorsteher, Cofounder, Smaato
Phil Molyneaux, President, Sony USA
Robert Hollander, Managing Director, Amalfi Ventures
Stanley Hollander, angel investor
Steve Blatt, Parter, Tanner, Mainstain, Blatt & Glynn
Tony Surtees, Founder, Zeetings
Digital Garage, Tokyo-based global incubator
Randy Williams, Founder, Keiretsu Forum
Steven Xi, Partner, DFJ Dragon !
Tony Perkins, CEO and editor
Previously founder, CEO and editor of Red Herring, founder and CEO, Upside magazine, founder and Chairman Churchill Club, cofounder of Silicon Valley Bank’s Technology Group.
Ha Pham, Chief Architect
Built three massive-scale web and mobile traffic platforms as Chief Architect at GoingOn, Emotive and SaSme. Ranked #1 out of 200,000 high school students in Viet Nam. REMIT University, MS/MEMS
Lauren Dreier, Chief Creative Officer
Protégé of Roger Black. More then 12 years experience in front-end and user-experience design. Taught architecture and integrated product design at University of Pennsylvania where she received her BA in Architecture
Laurence Bekins, Chief Revenue Officer
Previously sales management at PandoDaily, Dow Jones (Wall Street Journal, VentureSource, AllThings Digital), United Business Medie, Inc magazine. UC San Diego
Roger Black, Design Director
World famous magazine, web and mobile designer: Bloomberg mobile, Sporting News iPad, Scientific American, Red Herring, @Home Network, MSNBC.com New York Times, Esquire, Washington Post, Readers Digest, Rolling Stone
The management team
David Thomson, President & COO
Worked with AO Chief Architect at GoingOn (CFO), Emotive (Director of Finance), Vice President, Investmetn Banking, Merrill Lynch, New York University, BS, Finance and Information Systems and MBA
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What we have achieved with angel round
Completed 1.0 version design of network 9/13
Launched alpha version of network 3/14
Recruited core management team 5/14
Signed up 75 top “guest bloggers”
Signed up 1,500 active top company members
Signed-up 140 top investor members
Successfully launched network sponsor program
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GUEST BLOGGERS AlwaysOn “alpha” early adoptersVENTURE FUNDS
TOP COMPANIES
Accel Partners
ATA Ventures
Azure Capital
Charles River Ventures
DFJ
Emergence Capital Partners
FirstMark Capital
Flybridge Capital
Founder Collective
Gabriel Venture Partners
Garage Technology Ventures
Geocapital Partners
Greycroft Partners
Greylock Partners
Institutional Venture Partners
Intel Capital
Interwest Partners
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Mayfield Fund
New Enterprise Associates
Nokia Growth Partners
Norwest Venture Partners
Polaris Venture Partners
Qualcomm Ventures
RWI Ventures
Sequoia Capital
SingTel Innov8 Ventures
Time Warner Investments
VantagePoint Venture Partners
Venrock Associates
Retailigence
Scribe Software
Searchmetrics
ShopSocially
Sojern
Streetline
Tapad
ThirdLove
Venzo
Wandera
Xactly
Zetta
Acquia
AdColony
ADmantX
Agari
Agendize
AirPatrol Corporation
Altierre
Appnomic Systems
Arena Solutions
Betaworks
BetterCloud
BlogHer
Bloomfire
Caspio
Celtra
CFN Services
ChaCha
Drawbridge
DreamHost
Geometrix Data Systems
HR.com
JiWire
Learnist
Life In Mobile
Marqeta
Mediaocean
Phunware
Piston Cloud Computing
PK4 Media
PlaceIQ
Power Assure
Pozitron
PubMatic
PulsePoint
Radius
Resonate
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Milestones
Complete Beta version of network Q3/14
Complete 2nd round of financing Q3/14
Kick-off paid member program Q3/14
Complete U.S. editorial team Q4/14
Complete V1.0 of network Q1/15
Launch private company exchange Q1/15
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