Last Wednesday, we were invited to be the pre-launch demo at STIRR’s DealHacks in Palo Alto! Previous guest demos include Gigya and Get Satisfication. Our team had a great time previewing our end-to-end video platform to over 100+ entrepreneurs and investors

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After many months of non-stop development, the Involver team was glad to see and hear a lot of positive feedback from the STIRR crowd. We know that the excitement is based in large part on our implementation of a powerful idea — i.e., the ability to create, distribute, and track video campaigns should be open to and easy for ALL.

A special thank you to Sanford Barr for organizing a wonderful event! Sanford and STIRR have a real knack for connecting entrepreneurs and generating lively and meaningful discussion (as opposed to one-way podium talk). Kudos, DealHacks!

Thanks also to Sun Microsystems for sponsoring the event, and to Jeff Clavier, Rob Hayes, and Adeo Ressi for their entertaining and insightful stories about entrepreneurship.

Now that we’ve had this chance to show a sneak peek, it’s time for the real thing. Involver will be launching shortly, so stay tuned!

Check out STIRR’s coverage of their event here and here.

Some photos from the event (from STIRR.net):

We’ve changed our name! RapOuts is now officially Involver.

Why did we do this? Well, we were looking for a new name that effectively captured our company’s mission as well as our core product. And while we are very much a video company, we didn’t want to opt for a name that symbolized or referenced traditional video display. And that’s because, from Day 1, one of our key goals has been to provide something greater — i.e., a robust end-to-end solution for turning video viewers on social networks into real leads, real customers, real supporters.

So, Involver offers involvement-for-conversion: we’ve built an easy-to-use platform that allows any marketer to create, distribute, and track effective video campaigns on various social networks.

We hope you like the new name!