"I had over 60 meetings in Salt Lake with existing and potential sponsors and they all got more excited with each passing day," he said.
It works with existing meeting tools, including GoToMeeting from LogMeIn, WebEx from Cisco, UberConference and Zoom.
In this meeting of new needs with existing resources, the manifesto of the collaborative consumption movement still resonates.
Other features include integration with Outlook calendars (Hipmunk already integrated with Google), so you can see someone's schedules and remove any flights that conflict with existing meetings.
"We want to make it easier for businesses to use meeting solutions, like Hangouts Meet, without worrying about compatibility with existing equipment".
In meeting after meeting, investors would explain that this "market space" was crowded with existing products, none of them had made very much money, and the problem wasn't a very important one.
"Otherwise, consider hiring a meeting room and dedicate the show to discussions with existing and new partners," she said.
When I ran into Tan in Manila a couple of months ago, he was evasive about Sequoia's activities in Singapore, but was happy to try to set up meetings with their existing portfolio companies in Singapore all Indian-based startups, except for Airbnb and Evernote.
So it may just be that one set of features encouraged staying in touch with existing friends, while the other encouraged meeting new friends.
These results suggest that increasing power system reliability for those with existing electricity access is a key component of meeting sustainable electricity access goals.
