VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2011

billion back in 1999 ; Yahoo has since shutdown Geocities after failing to charge all its users to use the service. Watch a video demo of IM Creator: IM Creator is gaining speed on its Israeli competitor Wix.com to become a leading WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) web design website.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In 1999, about the same time RIM introduced its first interactive pager, another advanced technology company, TiVo , shipped its first product. After a demo, if you knew what a VCR was you knew what a TiVo was. Video Recording. Creating a New Market. TiVo’s product needed very little explanation. You got it.

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Hockey Stick Customer Development Silicon Valley Networking 271

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

million … yes that was seed in 1999!) We launched out second company, Koral, at DEMO in 2006. We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 and were ready to take off the covers and tell the world. I did get to have a second act.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

M y company had raised a seed round of capital in late 1999 even before either of us were full time in the company (ominous side note: on the way to pitch our seed investor, Delta Partners, a man walking right in front of me died of a massive heart attack making me late to the meeting. But my point is that I flipped burgers from day 1.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Third, you need a really great demo. So at Coremetrics, it was imperative to focus on creating an amazing demo. This demo blew people away and it was revolutionary for the industry at that point in time. But at the beginning, it is all about the demo. that we were all in this together and we would win as a team.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Trust doesn’t come from one 45-minute Powerpoint pitch or 30-minute demo. This is a demo + a high-level deck. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. Create scarcity.

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Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 4, 2004

As you know, I have always been interested in this trend since my first post in October 2003 and since I invested in a number of companies in 1998 and 1999 like LivePerson and Expertcity (GoToMyPC) that subscribed to the ASP business model. For the vendor, it makes it: 1.

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

Messenger (1998), and MSN/Windows Live Messenger (1999). Want to schedule demo?” And if someone’s interested, they can enter an email address, look for an open time on one of our rep’s calendars, and book a demo, all inside of the chat window. It’s been around since the mid-1990s.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 15, 2011

In most cases it’s a good idea to direct them to reading more about your service or checking out a demo before asking for a commitment (signup, purchase etc). ” to “Instant demo!” If you ask for the purchase or sign-up too soon, you will lose them. In another test they achieved a 83.4% Speed matters.

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Design SMS Conversion Vertical 121

Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

The University of Texas at Austin’s Longhorn Startup Demo Day AND Texas Venture Labs are underway and given the incredible and increasing impact Texas is having on entrepreneurship and innovation, I thought we should talk about cattle. Imagine that. They can just go back to their investors for more capital. That’s O for oil by the way.

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Texas Startup Silicon Valley Bootstrapping 48

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

It seemed like a message in a bottle opened from a shipwreck in 1999. It’s not about being on stage at a Demo Day or featured in an article in TechCrunch or closing a $20 million round. I just meant that we understand business fundamentals better than our peers.” ” I can’t make this stuff up. I like that.

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