ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 28, 2011

It gathered 120 hackers from Finland, Estonia and Latvia under the same roof and challenged them to go from zero to demo in 48 hours. Together with Osma Ahvelampi (CTO, Sulake ) and Teemu Kurppa (co-founder, Jaiku ), I was a mentor to those teams. At the end of the event, we had a demo day where the teams showcased what they built.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

The accelerator, which counts Amazon CTO Werner Vogels among its startup mentors , will be showcasing its first batch of startups (see list below) in Silicon Valley on the 20th of September, followed by a panel discussion about “The Future of the European Startup Community” Sounds riveting!

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

Along with detail orientation I have a strong bias for “doers.&# When I ask for a quick demo and the CEO tells me that he’ll schedule a follow-on meeting with his sales rep because, “I’m not a demo guy. But that’s a digression. Funny side-note: The company was recently nominated for a Crunchie Award.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

During the first day of product pitches and launches at DEMO this week, a panel moderated by Computerworld's executive editor Julia King focused on this very issue. Photo courtesy of the DEMO Conference on Flickr. Here are some tips for enterprise startups looking to snag those big enterprise contracts. Do Your Homework.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. The first attention we started getting was after we launched the company publicly at Demo on September 25th of this year. A number of VC’s stopped by our booth or watched our demo on the DEMO website and we had about 5 proactive inquiries. After Office 2.0

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The Next Web

JANUARY 23, 2014

I would demo beta versions of the app with videos, and people would smile and clap. So, on the next iteration of the product, we added vocal effects that work alongside the reverse karaoke technology to “make bad singers sound good,” and my CTO started demoing the app instead of me, with videos of himself sing badly.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Eran Egozy, Founder and CTO Harmonix. Since the program is powered by TechStars, it’ll follow the standard TechStars timeline finishing up with a demo day at the end of the program. Some of the mentors, in addition to me, include: Jeff Powers, Founder, Occipital, Andrew Tschesnok, Founder, Organic Motion.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. Marc Berte, the CTO, and a masters from MIT, is exceptionally gifted. His math was correct and I can hardly blame him for taking a guess at what uBeam does but every assumption that he used was wildly inaccurate. ” **.

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David Cohen

JANUARY 4, 2012

Powered by TechStars means that the three month program will be fueled by proven mentor-driven methodology and conclude with a demo day in which founders pitch their Kinect application to a room of potential investors. Eran Egozy, Founder and CTO, Harmonix. Some of the mentors include: Myself, Founder/CEO, TechStars.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 13, 2021

For example, if you are the CTO, know that you are responsible for any questions related to the product and infrastructure. Show a live demo. Pitching over Zoom makes it even easier to give product demos. Over are the days where you clunkily need to plug your computer into an HDMI in an old investor office.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 22, 2012

Of course, given the size of this list and having kids, I really can't attend a lot of these. So, if you happen to read this and want to meet me, just reach out directly.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Dharmesh Shah – Co-founder and CTO, HubSpot ( blog , @dharmesh ). The Grand-daddy.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

So without further delay: Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Dharmesh Shah – Co-founder and CTO, HubSpot ( blog , @dharmesh).

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Investors Really Want Evidence of Traction So you built your MVP; you bring it to the investor; you demo it; and I will guarantee they will ask you: "So how many users do you have? You may have to build something out to show it working for someone to evaluate whether it really works better than what else exists.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Half of these startups will demo their talents on Saturday, March 10, and the remaining 25 on Sunday, March 11. Our CTO and Co-founder Majd Chaaya and colleague Hella Bennani are representing us there at the end of January. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 5, 2018 SXSW has announced 50 finalists for the SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product. Yes, customers are you number one goal, but marketing-wise, you need specific, attainable goals, whether it’s leads or more demos or free trials or press hits.

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David Teten

APRIL 17, 2012

The NYC Startup Tour selects promising startups each month and brings developers into their offices for technical presentations and demos and a chance to mingle with the startup teams. Anthony Calenda, CEO of SquareSpace, gave the second-ever private demo of the new 6.0

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It seems the focus on “virtual&# goods has been both the demo of the consumer as well as the fact that by definition virtual goods have almost no marginal costs to the seller so giving a huge slice to the carrier (and Zong) isn’t a problem since actual costs are ~ $0. Investors: Matrix (Dana Stadler, who was the CTO of PayPal).

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2022

” A number of key execs departed including COO, CTO and other s… With the rise of TikTok and BeReal, Facebook is losing its grip in the top 10 social apps Meta r aised the price of its two-year-old Quest 2 by $100 citing rising costs. And that self-selection is okay with me.”

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Apply in the sky - impressed that the two women founders bootstrapped, but was hoping one of the founders were a techie, the list of potential partnerships is promising, working demo/app is good, but showed too many features in the pitch, liked the idea that AitS could be transferable to life management like job hunting, my vote went here.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 8, 2019

More Austin Events for the Week of April 8 April 8: Co-Founders Wanted Austin Meet Up April 8: Austin Clojure Meet Up April 8: Austin Virtual League Meet Up April 8: Learn to Code: JavaScript 101 April 8: Top 10 Product Management Mistakes & How to Avoid Them April 9: Austin CTO Summit 2019 April 9: The Future of Finance April 9: Austin Forum: (..)

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Apply in the sky – impressed that the two women founders bootstrapped, but was hoping one of the founders were a techie, the list of potential partnerships is promising, working demo/app is good, but showed too many features in the pitch, liked the idea that AitS could be transferable to life management like job hunting, my vote went here.

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David Teten

APRIL 22, 2013

I met Adam Ghetti , Founder/CTO, at the first Flashpoint Demo Day in New York in early 2012 at Union Square Ventures. Ted Schlein, general partner at KPCB , and Tom Noonan, partner at TechOperators , will join the board of directors. This is the second ff VC company that KPCB has invested in, after Klout.).

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Austin Startup

APRIL 2, 2019

More Austin Events for the Week of April 1 April 1: Texas Defense Innovation Forum April 1: Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace April 2: Capital Factory Accelerator Info Session April 2: Intro to Fundraising in Texas & Ask Me Anything with Jason Seats April 2: Austin Deep Learning Journal Club April 2: Austin iPhone Developers Meet Up April (..)

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 27, 2015

A director shares his latest progress in the the form of storyboards, demo reels, etc. Oren Jacob , Pixar’s ex CTO has been teaching with us at Berkeley and Stanford and has been trying to point out this connection for years!). Innovation Management – Animation and Startups. Artists and Founders. Pixar . Visionary.

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

My rough notes follow: Mike Dubno , CIO, Global Markets and Research Technology & Operations, Bank of America. Previously CTO, Goldman Sachs. Planning demo day July 22, and a Big Data day in the fall. Adrian Kunzle, Head of Firmwide Engineering & Architecture (CTO), JP Morgan Chase. Introductory remarks.

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VC Cafe

MAY 30, 2011

NVIDIA has recently gotten back to the headlines, following a successful demo of the company’s new quad-core Kal-El processor. According to the deal, Rocketip will supply NVIDIA’s engineer access to its test engine over the next three years.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Tech Demo God (usually at a Vendor). It is quite likely that you'll sit in the IT (CTO / CIO) function. For the longest time, for example, I was well compensated for being a Senior Individual Contributor. Roles in this category would include: Sr. Project Manager. Implementation God. Manager or Director (or rarely VP/CIO levels).

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

But they built a very realistic simulation demo. From there, you will also want to enable me and Tony, once we are so convinced, to easily have a conversation with the our CTO or our Chief Financial Officer when there's opportunity to buy new developer software. Do we book demos? It's not your own data.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 29, 2013

I was just down at Demo Day for the USC Incubator. USC’s Marshall School of Business will host the second annual Silicon Beach Awards (SBAs), a $50,000 venture competition focused on innovation in technology & entertainment. They had some pretty high quality companies presenting. I also have a discount code below for the event.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Or riding a crazy party bus and sitting next to Aaron Batalion the co-founder & CTO of Living Social. Office Space. I always love visiting companies because you can tell so much about the character of the company by spending time in their offices. I refuse to go to demo days. Nom nom nom. We’ll see.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

in many cases an example is required - demo, or in my case video guitar lesson along with google ads for quick test data. If you are trying to find a product that sells, than each test would require a different product to be created (or at least a different sales page).in

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. Last night at the NY Tech Meetup, John Britton of our portfolio company Twilio showed how it is done.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 14, 2010

We looked at the technology in everyone’s pocket,&# said Richard Bagdonas the CTO “and realized that we could effectively extend the local POS system.” The company is demoing the system at this year’s SXSWi and will be launching nationwide in April. What does that techno-jargon mean?

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

After a few months, the demo site won a business plan competition. From No To CTO. The pair had never intended to build a lasting company together. The quality of the software didnt matter much because it was for display purposes only. My strategy for getting a website built was to make friends with programmers. Startup Life.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 17, 2023

The Generative AI gaming landscape Nov 2022 ( source ) In my small data sample (of Israeli gaming startups) a lot of startups in the generative AI gaming space are either missing in this map, or are choosing to remain in stealth until they have a solid demo out.

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