K9 Ventures

JUNE 22, 2011

On March 21st, 2006, the Stanford Computer Science department celebrated its 40th anniversary with an awesome event , with an absolutely stunning line-up of speakers — Professors, Entrepreneurs and Professors-turned-Entrepreneurs. “A Most people who read this blog already know my thoughts on, and my support for the #StartupVisa.).

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 29, 2011

When David Cohen and I first talked about TechStars in 2006, the concept of a “mentor&# was front and center. When I was in Cambridge, England at the end of July for the Springboard Demo Day, Jon Bradford (the Springboard Managing Director) talked elloquently about how mentorship was a key part of the program.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2016

The second was Techstars Boston Demo Day, showcasing 14 brand new companies. We started Techstars in 2006 and ran the first Boston program in 2009. He labeled the company’s breakout year, 2006, as “The Dream.” I was in Boston at the end of May and had three separate experiences in one day.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 2, 2010

I’m on an Acela train between Boston and New York (listening to Boston’s More Than A Feeling – how recursive) on my way to the TechStars Boston 2010 Investor / Demo day. For context, I’ve made over 75 direct angel investments primarily in two time periods – 1994-1996 and 2006-2007. In 2006-2007 I allocated more (and did more).

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2010

If you’re reading this on Monday the 18th, tune in to the live stream of the conference at [link] and watch the demos of the 10 startups that were chosen amongst dozens of applicants. VSP partnered with Live Person and has been operating since 2006 as AEI Technology.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 12, 2017

And we added podcasting to it back in 2006. John Jantsch: I imagine back when you started in 2006, half of the trouble was finding somebody that knew what podcasting was. Tom Webster: Yeah, that’s really about all we could measure at 2006, was have you ever heard of it? John Jantsch: Yeah.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 25, 2016

And it’s probably one of the biggest differences in seed investing when you compare 2006 vs 2016. Namely, seed stage companies clear the market faster, even when they’re very early in their development. . During this time top seed funds would get a chance to see their businesses evolve and build relationships with the team.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Started in 2006 by Uri Levine Ehud Shabtai and Amir Shinar, Waze has about 40 employees and is currently headquartered in Israel. Available on the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Symbian or Windows mobile devices, waze is quickly becoming the app of choice for drivers around the world. million registered users across 100 countries.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

note: there is one rare exception – in 2006 Sevin Rosen declared that Venture Capital was broken and actually returned money to their LPs ! 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.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 13, 2007

Companies need to be prominent on the web (see my previous post on online marketing for more details) 2) Product evaluation and testing: From seminar and demo to free online trial The second element that radically changed in Enterprise software is how people evaluate and test products. for a demo. ► 2006. (7).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

We launched out second company, Koral, at DEMO in 2006. It is the roller coaster that is a start-up and something that people making your Kool Aid on the sidelines will never truly understand. I did get to have a second act. We went through the hype cycle again but this time I was grounded. I had a plan.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

The early-stage vacuum that existed in 2006-2007 that then led to the formation of “Seed” funds, is oddly enough re-emerging as the Micro-VCs who once dominated this space move upstream. Yes, history is repeating itself!).

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Following a multi-million dollar investment in R&D and the successful development of a ready-to-market audience measurement application, TruMedia officially launched in September 2006. TvTak is located in NYC, with an R&D lab in Omer Industrial Park in Israel and local offices in Brazil, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2012

The company released the first demo of these glasses early in 2012, and some project that they will be on the market by the end of the year if product testing goes as planned (though that’s a bit ambitious as the design still has some major issues to work out).

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

I create and host culinary nutrition workshops that allow me to educate clients on the nutritional benefits of the healthy food I am making, while they get to watch me during a live cooking demo and then eat (and drink) the foods that’s being prepared before them. Thanks to Melissa Eboli, ViaMelissa, LLC ! #8

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2011

The company, which was founded in 2006 by four Israelis in Silicon Valley, indexes over 250 million videos from various sites such as YouTube, CNN and Facebook and is used by major websites such as CBS and Warner Brothers. ISRAEL’S EVATURE WINS TRAVEL INNOVATION AWARD .

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

In 2006, Kapor founded Foxmarks, a popular Firefox Firefox add-on later renamed Xmarks Xmarks. Founders can make in-person connections, however, with Qualcomm Ventures at various demo events, conferences and trade shows. A killer demo can tell the story just as well as a perfectly honed PPT.&# “I’m always open.

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Spencer Fry

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

When I moved to New York and got into the startup scene in 2006, everything was a demo. That's why most investors prefer a working demo to a slide deck. They want to get a complete picture and nothing short of a demo provides this. Talking Builds Up Your Idea in Your Head. They want something they can play around with.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

But people who use gift certificates to fund projects were also found to be more likely to shop at Crate and Barrel for future purchases than a control that didn’t receive certificates (82% versus 76% in a 2006 study). This could also be through product demos, case studies, explainer videos or whitepapers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

Oh, and Demo charges the startups $18,000. Robert Scoble interviewed me in 2006 about my startup, Koral. Robert’s article is worth reading. It got me thinking, which for me is always the sign of a good blog post. I think Robert’s right. Too many startup execs place too much emphasis on the big stage launch.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

From the introduction of our solutions in 2000 through September 30, 2006, our enterprise subscriber base has grown to approximately 1,500 companies who spend from $2,000 to more than $100,000 annually, including companies such as Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Procter & Gamble, Merrill Lynch, UPS and Cisco Systems. million for 2006 and $0.8

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

The SiriusDecisions Demand Waterfall (2006). by downloading guides, using the open parts of our product, requesting a demo). But every diagram is biased towards the creator’s perspective. With so many options, which one should you pick? Here’s the process of elimination I went through. Image source ). A new email is created in HubSpot.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 14, 2005

At the CIO dinner I was at last night (more on that later), I had the opportunity to play with a demo model of the Motorola Q Phone running on a Verizon EVDO network. Trust me-this this device is worth waiting for when it comes out in Q1 2006.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

When we started at Udemy, in Turkey in 2006 and 2007, there was no funding available. The default was spending two years trying to perfect an application and doing a big launch and demo day, or I mean, TechCrunch Disrupt. At this point I think it is so mainstream. So, people default. EB : So, back at the time, it wasn't default.

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Professor VC

JULY 2, 2010

Are DEMO's days numbered? job existed for every $37,702 of venture capital invested from 1970-2008 Lets assume these statistics are true (of course that may be a leap, as my wise father-in-law used to say, "Figures Lie and Liars figure"). How Much Diligence is Due. ▼ 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2).

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 7, 2019

So try a demo and test it out at gusto.com/tape. book, which took me 35 years to be able … I wrote one in 2006 and then rewrote it in ’15 because the world had changed so much, and there’s so much that you have to do, and they said, “Oh yeah, just everything I already knew.” That’s gusto.com/tape.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Thus had to spend hard cash building a half way completed demo outsourced to India. Now, I know that I need to build all the demo of my product A.L.O.N.E. Seth Sternberg, MBA Class of 2006, blogging about how to do a startup, on TechCrunch. Anti Matter Dude you are so on the money. Worst yet wasted 2-3 years in the process.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 9, 2012

It's a celebration just as much as it is any kind of demo night. nextNY was a community I launched in February of 2006--starting with a kickoff event at Antarctica. You catch up with friends and have something communal to talk about.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Here's how that picture might look like (from a post I wrote in July 2006!)… Every awesome large website delivers complex experiences (videos, demos, dynamic slideshows, configurators + + +) via sophisticated technologies (Flash, AJAX, Gadgets + + +). Behavior: Bounce Rate. Checkout Abandonment Rate. Page Depth.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I was at a startup AND I developed an evented I/O server with pluggable protocol handlers AND it was capable of handling the c10k problem AND I did this back in 2006 with C# on.NET 2.0 In March 2009, they launched a Beta version and demoed it at FinovateStartup 2009.” If I were at a startup… no wait.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

My first blog post on the topic of CIA was on 14th Aug 2006! If I can discern intent why do I need demo/psycho data? And I'm totally ignoring that demo/psycho data is deeply inferred and algorithmized. Regular readers of the blog know of my deep love for competitive intelligence analysis. What other websites do they visit?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 22, 2020

Mike Stelzner: We’re talking like 2006-ish, 2007. So try a demo and test it out at gusto.com/tape. John Jantsch: I really… I remember… When would that have been? Mike Stelzner: The paper thing? Man, that’s a long time ago. John Jantsch: I know. It’s loyal, it’s modern. That’s gusto.com/tape.

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