Demo went Well... My Team Rocks

Well it was definitely a stressful week preparing for Demo'06. In the end, it all came together.

Harry and others seemed to like it. See below:

Harry McCracken at PC World
Daniel Terdiman
Alec Saunders
Robert Scoble's Survey..;-)

I must admit I was nervous just before we went on stage. Oliver Muoto from Tagworld was backstage with us (he was presenting just after) and just made us laugh and laugh with his jokes. I really needed that.

Yesterday we were successful because of our team. Everyone contributed through the building of the Beta, but I wanted to highlight a few folks in particular.

• Shel Israel who co-wrote the script with Tara and coached me on almost all aspects of Demo. If you are planning to ever present at Demo - Shel is the best.
• Azhar and Ben - who made the demo work. The demo was the star of the presentation and these guys made it happen. Ben had two dual-core opteron machines with two p4 laptops with two power supplies plugged in to two different powerstrips. Translation: back up to the back up to the back up. Can you tell that Azhar and Ben have done this before?
• Tara Hunt worked with Shel on the script and designed the photos we used for the Demo.
• Nikhil did a lot of optimization work on the recognition system to get it faster. This section of the application was the core of the demo and Nikhil's efforts made it a success.

Here is a photo of the three of us in our Riya executive uniform...;-) taken just after the presentation.

Tara, Ben, and Burak at Josh Kopelman's First Round Capital lunch.

Comments

[Jigar doshi]

Is the video of the demo available on the web?

[Nitin Mekhiya]

I had gone to bed, and woke up again to write this compliment....

Munjal & whole team, u people have been great. Not just that, Riya is extremely cool & inovative thing I have seen on net in recent times. But your whole team & efforts has been a source of inspiration in past few days to aspire for something big. best wishes

[Dan Chiao]

How 'bout that? A photo of Burak where he's not looking straight at the camera ;)