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When I call a non-member who gets charged?
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The Touchring Mobile Iphone App is Now Available!! and invites you to make free calls across the world.
Now with Touchring Mobile, you can call your friends and family from anywhere and at anytime. You can make unlimited free calls over Wifi and 3G to fellow members. Touchring Mobile makes searching for contacts easy, with the smart search function.
Give out your RingMe URL to receive calls and get calls
directly to Touchring Mobile.
Give it a try now!
The Touchring App is available for download at the
Apple Itune’s Store. (The Android App will be available soon.)
(This post is written by Chris Kim, Global Manager at Touchring)
After weeks of preparation, DEMO was over in a blink of an eye. We had no time to relax, because the next two days were scheduled with some interesting meetings. Thursday morning, we headed over to the law offices of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosatiis a premier legal advisor to technology and growth enterprises worldwide, as well as the investment banks and venture capital firms that finance them. They have represented some notable companies such as Apple, Ask Jeeves, and Google in their IPOs. We had the pleasure of meeting and sitting down with Hans Kim and Riya Kuo. They were both very gracious and knowledgeable. They have represented technology and growth companies that are very similar to Touchring in the past, and gave us some great insight.
Grabbing some lunch
After a quick bite, we headed over to the offices of DFJ Athena in Menlo Park. DFJ Athena is a Korea focused venture capital firm. The company’s investments are primarily in leading startups in the global technology sector. With offices in Silicon Valley, USA and Seoul, South Korea, they are particularly focused on opportunities that leverage Korea’s advanced technology infrastructure and on technologies with global relevance. We had a short but very meaningful meeting with the founder of DFJ Athena, Perry Ha. Mr. Ha was has invested in and/or served on the board of Ipivot, Demandtec, Imparto Software, ProfitLogic , and Zantaz. He also led the Technology Management Practice at Gemini Consulting, a global management consultancy.
The following morning we speed over to Storm Ventures in Menlo Park. Storm Ventures focuses on seed and early stage information technology companies which best leverages their operational experience and global network. We sat down with Tim Danford, the Managing Director who has an extensive background in technology. Tim has over 18 years of extensive Internetworking and Telecommunications experience gained while working at Cisco Systems, Synoptics and Ameritech Information Systems. In addition, he has a great deal of knowledge of the VoIP industry. He was involved in developing and building Cisco’s Enterprise VoIP Business Unit. Storm Ventures has successfully invested in companies such as: Com2uS, OSA Technologies, and SandForce to name a few.
In the 'Touchring Mobile'
Our final meeting took us to the offices of Translink Capital in Pala Alto. Translink Capital focuses on investments in early to expansion stage companies in Mobile, Communications, and Digital Media sectors. We sat down with Jay H. Eum, the Co-Founder and Managing Director. Jay led several successful Samsung Ventures’ investments including AnalogTech, Athena Semiconductor, DivX, Intellon, MontaVista, and Pure Digital. In addition, as an investment officer, Jay represented companies that invested in Paypal, Mobile 365, Aicent, and R2 Technology.
All the meetings were very constructive and informative. We got a lot of good feedback and realized that a lot more work needs to be done. Touchring is very appreciative to those we meet with and thank them for their time.
(This post is written by John Kwag, Global Team Lead at Touchring.)
Day 3:
Touchring had launched Touchring Global yesterday: September 14th, 2010. As happy as we were to reach that milestone, we were still working through the night on getting our DEMO stage product demonstration as perfect as it could be. There were alot of moving parts and we were taking a risk by not having our demonstration self-contained. However, Touchring was not about something you could hold or just simply show. It was about Social Voice. It was about real-time voice communication with your social graph. Our social graphs are not confined to a stage in Santa Clara, CA . Our social graphs are scattered far and wide; geographically and online. Our stage demonstration would have to show a service that could cross geographical and digital distances.
The Stage. Springtime. Before the war.
So fast forward past the nerve wracking hours testing and retesting our equipment, team rehearsals, and multiple wardrobe changes; we’re waiting in the green room with the CEO of LinkedIn, Jeff Weiner. I am not the normal person. I have heroes that range from Wim Wenders to Douglas Engelbart to Reid Hoffman. I love what LinkedIn has done in their focus on being a social network for professionals. This would have been a great chance to just talk or more specifically a chance for me to be a fanboy but I was so focused on the demonstration ahead that I was oblivious. Plus the dark blacked out green room, with the sliver of light ominously beckoning at the far end was not conducive to small talk. Being miked up with the wireless receiver felt like getting ready to go to war.
Matt Marshall, executive producer of DEMO and editor in chief of Venture Beat, starts his intro to Touchring. We creep forward to the edge.
My mind starts to think about personal control of voice. Specifically, I think about not losing control of my voice. But it starts to blend into thoughts of how Touchring is not only about the social integration of voice but about the taking back of control of your voice on the web. Taking back control of how you are called from the numbers that held it hostage so long. Taking back control of what you can do with a webphone by giving it a personal touch.
I philosophize at the worst times.
The stage manager gives us a 3 count and we were out into the blinding lights.
Chris. Hungry. Order Pizza. Nevermind the audience.
If you have seen the video we posted in a prior posting and the photos of the pizza, you’ll know that everything went without a hitch – almost. We went over time. 12 seconds. The BIG red timer in front of the stage unseen by all but the few brave souls who journey across that vast halogen lit desert still haunts my dreams.
What you didn’t see in the video is that Matt Marshall came out later and asked us how we thought it went. My answer is like the one that prompts a person to come up with a great comeback to an insult a week later while they are sitting in traffic.
“I think we did fine,” I squeaked. Laughter. (Confused internal dilemna: Laughing at my understatement or at my overstatement?)
“Did your mother really call?” Matt asks, eyebrow raised.
” Yes, she called from Korea after clicking on the tweet,” I replied after managing to regain some sense of self after briefly having an out-of-body/naked-in-front-of-the-class sensation.
” Well great job, This was Touchring everybody.” Matt closes. Applause. (I kinda wanted to air guitar at this moment but restrained myself)
Mommy!
We would like to applaud my “mother”, Jenny Lee, for helping us out at an inhuman hour from Seoul. We would like to thank Domino’s Pizza of Santa Clara for delivering a sumptious order of Supreme pizzas. We would like to thank everyone at Touchring for developing, designing, supporting such a wonderful and needed service that allows me to be excited about demonstrating it in front of thousands of people. We would like to thank everyone who worked on DEMO for doing such a great job making it easy for the rest of us to look good.
So DEMO wound down. But our trip was not through yet. You’ll get the rest of of our sojourn in the Valley of the Silicon in the next episode.
One final DEMO thing. This is how DEMO alumni unwind:
(This post is written by Chris Kim, Global Manager at Touchring)
Day 1 :
The sweet screens and their human extensions
The first day of DEMO was pretty relaxed. After getting Touchring registered early, we attended a welcome event. It was a brief meeting where the DEMO staff was introduced. In addition, we were told what to expect as well as important details and times. After the meeting we scrambled to setup our pavilion table within the short time we were allotted. We had two computers setup with two 40” monitors. I think hands down we had the sweetest display monitors there.
We had prepared and printed a Company fact sheet, an Executive Summary, and a Business Plan to hand out at DEMO. In retrospect, I feel it was not necessary. I forgot about how environmentally friendly everyone is these days. I think having a few copies of your handouts can be useful, but we definitely went overboard. I got the impression that attendees would be more than happy to get these documents emailed to them, rather than taking a printed copy. And if you want to go all out, a good idea is to have all your documents on an engraved USB Thumb drive. Everyone is more than happy to take one of those. Hopefully they are taking the time to look over the materials.
We also got a chance to do a live run through of our DEMO presentation on stage. The DEMO stage staff was very professional and quick to solve any issues. We tried to take this run through as seriously as possible, and it seemed that anything that could have gone wrong did go wrong. It was a good wake up call for me. After the failed attempt of our practice presentation, we dissected the presentation to make sure that every detail was now working properly. We basically spent the entire night fixing bugs and issues. We even planned ahead in case we faced issues during certain parts of the presentation.
Waiting for the rehearsal...little did we know...the HORROR!
Day 2 :
Day two of DEMO began with product presentations from companies in the Enterprise Technologies and Mobile Technologies categories. In addition, Bill McDermott, Co-CEO of SAP and Jack Dorsey, Co-founder, and Chairman of Twitter, gave their insights of their perspective companies and industries.
Touchring hard at work
It was then time for the DEMO Pavilion. It was initially difficult to grab people because it was lunch time. Trying to figure out whether someone was walking through to get their lunch or walking around to check out the booths was difficult at first. But the majority of those I spoke to were from either Investment firms or large technology companies. I also go to talk to a few of the representatives of the companies that were demonstrating as well. I quickly realized that the people I was pitching to, came from a variety of different backgrounds. I spoke to an engineer who was from the VoIP industry who had very specific technical questions to another individual who was not aware of what VoIP was. Many of those who viewed the demonstration liked the user interface of Touchring. A few who I spoke to actually challenged the product, and it was from these individuals that I got a great deal of constructive criticism and feedback.
Touchring recently launched Touchring Global at the DEMO 2010 Fall conference in Santa Clara, California. What will follow over the next couple posts is an in depth view of what we did, learned, and the people we met. Before we delve into the rabbit hole, it would be a good idea to first understand what DEMO is about and the significance of events like DEMO.
Matt Marshall, DEMO Exec. Producer & EIC of VentureBeat
DEMO is sponsored in large part by IDG Media and editorially produced and supported by VentureBeat. Matt Marshall, editor in chief of VentureBeat, serves as executive producer. Matt Marshall would select the 70 companies that would attend based on both a product application and an interview.
DEMO is a conference which has for 20 years focused on the launching of new products from new ventures and established companies. The list of companies that have launched at DEMO reads like a Who’s Who of the IT and consumer industries: Adobe, Netscape, TiVo, Sun, Palm, Six Apart, Salesforce.com, iRobot, VMWare, E*Trade, and Glam Media.
DEMO Pavilion: Exhbitors get equal chances to shine
Other conferences may boast similar credentials however, DEMO executes on the familiar trade conference format in new ways. They have always put in place restrictions on both booths and stage presentations that keep the focus on the products and services themselves instead of on marketing give-aways, PR events, and corporate presentations. Everyone gets the same size booth with restrictions on signage and equal amount of time on stage. This makes it easier not only for the demonstrators to have an equal chance to impress but also makes it easier for the influential attendees like journalists, corporate buyers, investors, and CIO’s to more accurately evaluate what they see at the show.
The DEMO Social Dashboard
If TechCrunch50 is about discovery then DEMO is about exposure. The entire support infrastructure at DEMO is about maximizing a company’s exposure of a commercially-ready product/service to other businesses, media, and investors. They also added a very cool Social Dashboard complete with twitter feeds, news feeds, blog postings, photos and video which was extremely helpful in getting a real-time pulse of the entire show even if you couldn’t be at every event or at every booth. We would suggest that the Social Dashboard have an even greater part in future DEMO’s because the feedback, added competitive motivation, and overall utility of the service added immeasurably to the proceedings.
A lot of people didn’t quite believe that our call to Domino’s was real. Big thanks to IceCream Man who took this pic and posted it to prove we actually did order pizzas in our presentation. And thanks to those who helped us finish off the pizzas.
Chris Kim, Global Manager, with the infamous pizzas
Touchring has returned from DEMO Fall 2010. If you would like to check out our DEMO presentation, you can watch it below. We got through our fairly technical presentation without any issues. I thank the whole Touchring team for all their
hard work. There were many sleepless nights leading up to DEMO.
DEMO was a great event to be a part of. We got to meet a lot of great people as well. I have to say there were some great start-ups that demonstrated along with us.
