This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 20, 2012

That's all they have--no demo no code--and they get funding. Entrepreneur + Kinda Workable Demo/Alpha + Little to No Data on Traction. Could Jack have raised money on is own without the demo? He built the demo first and if you were interested in mobile payments, he won you over. How's that even possible?

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Altgate

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2016

The second was Techstars Boston Demo Day, showcasing 14 brand new companies. ” The years 1995 through 2005, shown almost entirely in red ink, were “The Part Before That. I was in Boston at the end of May and had three separate experiences in one day. The first was with a company started in 2011 that is now a real business.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

style euphoria that swept the Valley beginning in 2005. I attended the Facebook Fund Demo day about a month ago in Palo Alto and it blew me away the pace of innovation and the focus on monetization that came out of this group. million even before the demo day to help you integrate your social network with dating ambitions.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 12, 2017

What was funny about … Going back, I started my podcast in 2005. So, and I think what happened too, was around 2005, it was kind of the next cool thing after blogging, but then social media came along and kind of tanked it. It’s huge 18 to 34, compared to the other demos.

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www.ashmaurya.com

AUGUST 29, 2012

Robert has been working in software since 2005. If they have a demo or a trial, you should pursue it and see what you think. This is a guest post from Robert Graham – a solo bootstrapper who blogs about the experience. He is a Ph.D. dropout who spent time working for Google. Someday he ‘d like to work for himself.

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Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

In fact, for a good laugh, I just went back and checked our accounting system, and at the end of one quarter in 2005, we were down to $143 cash on the balance sheet. Are DEMO's days numbered? For a while, it seemed like we were constantly walking along the edge of a cliff and had several near death experiences. ► 2010. (7).

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Professor VC

JUNE 6, 2008

Out of the 12,500 founders of these firms, 181 (1.7%) die at some point between starting up the firm and the end of 2005 (Hvide 6). Are DEMO's days numbered? Hvide analyzed 6,800 companies that started between 1996 and 2003 in Norway. This leaves a relatively small sample. How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7).

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Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

A 2005 report by the Government Accountability Office indicates that textbook prices have outpaced inflation by more than 2-1 over the past two decades and account for 26% of tuition and fees at four-year public universities and nearly three-quarters of costs at community colleges. Are DEMO's days numbered? ► 2010. (7).

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

During the years ended March 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006, we achieved positive operating cash flows of $0.3 million for 2005, $3.0 If you read from the S-1 above, most of the sales are generated through the telephone or through web-based demos, all of the traits for a nice frictionless sale and great business model. million, $0.9

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Jason Ball

JULY 16, 2007

The slide to the left is from a Morgan Stanley presentation from 2005. See my previous post on Jajah , and then look at Zimbra’s email client and (if you’re running Safari 3 on Windoze or Mac) have a look at the Leaflets demo page. ”s on the slide: a killer 3G handset and a killer mobile app.

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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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K9 Ventures

JUNE 22, 2011

This is how I remember it: It’s September 2005, and I was sitting in my office at Stanford in Gates 382. ” Ren and I started brainstorming about the potential for commercializing his technology in 2005. That was one of our biggest worries when Ren and I were first discussing different strategies in 2005.

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Altgate

MARCH 17, 2009

Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting NEW Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

In looking back at the old financials, at the end of Q2 2005, our cash balance was a whopping $546. offering to invest $75K if we could find another $250K by September 30, 2005. Are DEMO's days numbered? Before the $52M Series D , the $23M Series C , the $15.5M How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 27, 2008

Over time, understanding your “demo&# will help you write better for them. I did my first post in 2005 and my second post in 2007. You’ll be able to see a lot about your visitors. It will help you find out where your traffic is coming from and where they are going. Use Google Webmaster Tools. Post regularly.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

One Codebase, Endless Possibilities: Real HTML5 Hacking — [link] [link] joemccann Blatant self promotion: If you’re coming to SXSWi I’ll be giving a talk with demos using Phonegap, Titanium and other HTML5 tools to build cross-platform applications from a single codebase. All Rights Reserved. startupcto

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Do the same old rules from 2005 still apply? As a SaaS company, you might rely on your navigation to get visitors to your pricing or demo page, for example. It’s likely one of your most visited pages, acting as a proverbial launch pad. Are people still visiting and using homepages they same way they were a decade ago?

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

Then came the second wave with Skype (2003), Blackberry Messenger (2005), and Google’s first incarnation of its messaging app, Google Talk (2005). Want to schedule demo?” The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo!

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. If you have to choose between spending time on the demo or thebusiness plan, spend most on the demo. When they demo it, one of theangels is willing to invest. Want to start a startup? Apply for funding by March 3. Few startups get it quite right. Many are underfunded.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

What was a Series A round in 2005 is now a pre-seed or seed round. It might be a wire-frame, PowerPoint demo or prototype. Step 4: Series B – you raise $10-$50M. Step 5: Series, C, D…. Btw, the definition of each startup financing stage has changed in the last decade. I.e. your product fits the needs of your target customers.).

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Professor VC

MARCH 11, 2013

We used the DEMO conference in 2005 as the launch vehicle for iControl and got me thinking about how the seed funding landscape has changed in the past eight years. In 2005, incubators were thought of as either bubble era disasters or university science projects. 6 minutes on stage were truly a CEO's 15 minutes of fame.

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designshack.co.uk

JUNE 8, 2011

Professional Hosting by (mt) Copyright © Compact Creative Limited 2005-2011 Company No. Muy_Bien says: April 11, 2011 at 3:33 pm The most original login form I’ve seen is from a demo. It is carefully curated and edited by Josh Johnson and David Appleyard. Filed in Inspiration.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Can we put our demo video on the launchrock page? But what you CAN do is put in the notification bar at the top with a link to your demo video. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. startupcto

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Up to 2005 they were the only solution supported by all major browsers at the time. It begs the question, what does layout with CSS offer over tables? Old school. Tables for layout came from the desire to arrange elements on a page with more finesse than left/center/right. Full frameworks. Other frameworks went beyond columns.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 6, 2012

First, let’s understand the landscape (hat tip to Phil Becker for discussing this bit at length with me back in 2005): Imagine the entire range of tech trade shows and conferences on a spectrum. So, the natural question is: which events should you attend and/or sponsor?

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 9, 2012

There were 30 of us the first time I went back in 2005. It's a celebration just as much as it is any kind of demo night. It wasn't always like that, though. The NY Tech Meetup, for example, used to meet in the back conference room of Meetup's NYC offices. You catch up with friends and have something communal to talk about.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

It was early in 2005 and the company was Facebook. And I can show you our working demo of our prototype. Are DEMO's days numbered? The scenes in the NY restaurant, Stanford dorm room, and Facebook office were some of the funniest in the whole movie. Got me thinking back to one of the best start-up pitches I ever saw.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

For those outside of the Bay Area, it may be hard to fathom an environment where the only other people you know working on startups you’ve met online, and are in another country, but that was very much the case for startup founders in many places around the world in 2005, and Sydney was no different. So where are we now?

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) Some angels, especially those with technology backgrounds, may be satisfied with a demo and a verbal description of what you plan to do. Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator. Most startups that fail do it becausethey fail at one of these.

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Spencer Fry

MAY 11, 2011

Since launching in December 2005, we've given away just under 500 of these. For the minority of visitors to your marketing site who want a bit more of a taste, give them two things: (1) a live demo where they can play around with what they're getting and (2) some examples. You don't need to detail every feature.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

This originates from the late internet marketer Corey Rudl (he passed away 2005) who said that he had to connect with a customer at least 7 times via email before they were willing to purchase his online marketing courses. The internet is filled with claims that it takes 7 touchpoints (e.g. emails) before they’re ready to buy.

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

For us, we threw together a fun, one-minute video of us acting out a live version of our product that we tacked on to the beginning of our boring product demo video. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Thus had to spend hard cash building a half way completed demo outsourced to India. the meebo that launched in 2005 was a group effort – the idea primarily came from sandy being a huge IMer and having trouble getting on IM when we were working on earlier ideas in elaine’s apartment! The second one not until 2005.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 12, 2018

John Jantsch: Since 2005. And again I incorporated that into the chat pod I created as a demo for your audience. And I’ll make sure that the chapter I create as a demo here will have that. How long have you been podcasting? Andrew Warner: Wow. So you even beat me to podcasting. I started in 2008. Andrew Warner: Yes.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

First presented at an eMetrics summit in 2005 the 10/90 rule was borne out of my observations of why most companies fail miserably at web analytics. They also have a sweet demo, check it out here: Loop11 Participant Demo. Fourth Bit Of Context. The 10/90 Rule! site and experience optimization with the voc tools outlined above).

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

In early 2005 37signals stated they had 10,000 unique readers, so that works out to maybe 40,000 monthly. Would a demo or a 30 day trial give them enough of a feel for your app to be able to make the purchasing decision? . #42 Ruben on 08.19.10 In any case, I think it’s more useful to cite real numbers. at 12:38 pm Great post.

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