Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? ” As far as “terms” go I’m 100% aligned to have the most vanilla, founder-friendly terms I can. So I stand by my well-read Quora post of why I don’t attend demo days. What stage?

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

With two successful accelerators under our belts, we’ve proven that going back to basics with smaller cohort sizes and zero demo days works. We’ve also proven that giving new, underrepresented, and geographically diverse founders a dedicated, hands-on chance leads to follow-on funding and additional accelerator success across the board.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

User experience research or UX research, shouldn’t be limited to A/B testing programs only. Another classic in the vendors’ demos. As Des Traynor , co-founder of Intercom put it in the Intercom on Jobs-to-be-Done book : Des Traynor: Some products are better defined by the job they do than the customers they serve.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2014

will be presenting 16 new startups at its Demo Day on 21 August at Orpheum Theater. managing director Mara Lewis and founder & CEO Eric Mathews. ” Find out more about Start Co’s Demo Day here. . ” Find out more about Start Co’s Demo Day here. teams were guided by Start Co.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Gavin Braman, Co-Founder @ Drifting Creatives. Just like Peep, other marketers from hypergrown products, such as David Cancel (founder at Drift) argue that product-based differentiation is vanishing. Every failing B2B marketing program is driven by the misalignment of people, process and strategy.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Amsterdam-based startup accelerator Rockstart has announced a new program that aims to support ten teams of founders with 99 mentors for 100 days, followed by an additional three-month summer program and ending with a 25-day road trip to Silicon Valley. You can apply for the program here.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Besides convenience and affordability, online programs often offer courses and instruction that might normally not be open to the general public. Want to learn how to create a demo video in Apple’s Keynote ? Learning online has many benefits for an aspiring entrepreneur or small business owner. ” Udemy. ” Lynda.com.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2019

Dream Tank is a summer program designed for kids and teens who want to launch and implement their ideas to address real-world challenges. It is currently expanding to offer year-round accelerator-for-kids-and-teens programming through summer camps, after-school programs, and a homeschool program for teens.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth. In his course on Growth Mindset (part of CXL’s Growth Marketing Minidegree ), WeTheFuture.org founder John McBride describes three key components of a successful growth marketer: 1.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Steve is the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries. Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. 18:05] How does the Founder Space operate? [20:21] He's the CEO of founders space.

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View from Seed

JUNE 10, 2020

of teams’ online pitch decks and recorded videos, as well as loved the dozens of second-round video conversations which we had with Founders working on quite compelling startups. Many of these Founders we wouldn’t have had an opportunity to connect with if we hadn’t launched this program.

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Austin Startup

MAY 7, 2017

Tuesday, May 9: VentureCrush ATX (FREE) VentureCrush is a series of unique events and networks created by the Tech Group at Lowenstein Sandler to bring together carefully selected groups of tech industry founders and senior executives, along with VC, growth equity, private equity and angel investors. At Galvanize at 6:00 pm.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are, “here’s how smart I am, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells the teams’ stories of a 10-week journey of hard-won learning and discovery. Tom Bedecarré the founder and CEO of AKQA, the leading digital advertising agency. What a year. He runs H4X Labs.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

Now with over 917 interviews of beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.), The founder of this 1964 Silicon Valley startup was Bill Perry. His work at ESL made him one of the 10 founders of National Reconnaissance. In week 8 Pete Newell gave the costs lecture and put it in the context of a DOD program.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Are DEMOs days numbered? Has DEMO lost its luster and relevance in 2010? DEMO has always been one of my favorite tech conferences. You can always check out the current and prior product demos at the DEMO site. It was the 15th anniversary and they made a big deal branding the event as Demo@15. Steve Bennet.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 20, 2013

It’s super exciting to me to do an accelerator program specifically around connected devices with Techstars. If you’re a founder or startup focused on an innovative idea for a product and/or service in the connected devices space, please consider applying. Applications are open today and due October 11th.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Amsterdam-based Rockstart Accelerator , one of the many, many startup accelerators in Europe, is taking the first class of startups who’ve graduated from its six-month program stateside this month.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2017

Every year, thousands of hopeful entrepreneurs around the world pack their bags and head out to participate in an accelerator program. For the most part, most of these programs are similar. Choosing the right program can make or break your startup. Many programs have detailed FAQ sections blogs. The Mentorship Program.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Ask a technical founder about his startup, and he'll proudly describe his stunning software — simple, compelling, useful, fun. Maybe you'll even get a wobbly demo. Four uncomfortable seconds later, a smile breaks across the founder's face. We're going to use an affiliate program so our customers sell it for us.".

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Recently, Microsoft announced the Microsoft Kinect Accelerator , a program created to incubate startups building the next generation of innovative experiences for the Kinect. The companies will interact with and have access to mentors during the course of the program including Microsoft executives, entrepreneurs, and investors.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 1, 2015

I’m here for the Telluride Venture Accelerator Demo Day. This is their third program and I’m looking forward to the day. Today, I’m doing a fireside chat with Jesse Johnson (TVA co-founder and CEO) to kick things off. Then, after demo day, I’m spending 15 minutes with each company.

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David Cohen

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Today, Nike announced their first Nike+ Accelerator program, powered by TechStars. Ten companies will participate in a three-month, mentorship-driven program. ” Microsoft launched the Seattle-based Microsoft Accelerator in January, and it’s now in the middle of the second program after a very successful first program.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2012

Organized by technology startup accelerator Joyful Frog Digital Incubator – better known locally as JFDI Asia – the recent JFDI-Innov8 Bootcamp saw some 11 local and regional technology startups undergo a tough 100-day program that saw them attempt to turn a prospective idea into a potentially sustainable digital business.

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David Teten

JUNE 3, 2014

For the third year in a row, ff Venture Capital is co-sponsoring the New York Demo Day for Georgia Tech’s Flashpoint Accelerator, along with HBS Alumni Angels of NY. We met Ionic Security, one of our portfolio companies, at their first Demo Day a few years ago. New York Demo Day Details: Wednesday, June 11th 9:00AM -12:00PM.

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David Cohen

AUGUST 29, 2013

I call the MD of the program and the same person who was just praising the attorney calls her a shark and says “how dare she try to charge after offering her services for free”. A month later, we’d seen or heard from the founders of the top-billed startup exactly zero times and there had been exactly zero sessions for learning.

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View from Seed

APRIL 11, 2016

I was like, it’s so hard to consume snaps because you need audio on — but the younger demo always has audio on. In an older demo, to listen, you feel like you have to put on headphones or go to quiet room. ” Email, same thing, you can dictate, and there are already programs that do this. I think that’s a change.

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The three founders (Isaac, Tim, and Jose) were based in the Los Angeles area when they moved the company to Boulder for the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2009. Here’s their demo day pitch. Jim Franklin was a Techstars mentor during that accelerator program, and would later join as CEO. 2: Uber (2009). 3: Twilio (2009).

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Captain Recruiter. Real Advice. No Nonsense.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 23, 2011

On Tuesday, October 18, my colleagues John Frankel, Wei Deng , Raffi Sapire , and I attended Techstars Demo Day, followed by the Bloomberg Empowered Entrepreneur Conference. David Tisch introduced the first startup, announcing that 1200 companies applied to the program, out of which 12 were selected, comprising of 31 entrepreneurs.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 5, 2018

You’ll learn all the nitty-gritty details about how to create a company and meet mentors, investors, co-founders and sponsors ready about able to help you get started. Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer at SXSW , the world’s most unique gathering of creative professionals.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Smart founders use this extra resource to their advantage. Most firms hire associates straight out of MBA programs and usually it is a “2-3 years and out” type of job. Even though my wife thinks my true mental age is still around 13, sadly I am not in this youth demo. Just ask Rob Bailey.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Today, if you’re building an entrepreneurship program, the teaching team most often includes adjuncts with entrepreneurial experience as complements to the tenured faculty, classes are experiential and the community you’re building is a set of additional components that never existed before. .” Can it be self-directed?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Anand Sanwal , co-founder and CEO of CB Insights ; and Chris Shipley , executive producer of MIT’s Solve initiative, joined me in the studio to discuss the day-to-day chaos of building a company. As the executive producer of the DEMO conference from 1996 to 2009, she helped more than 1,500 companies make their market debut.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 2, 2012

Similarly, picking seed investors for your first startup in and around the craziness of an accelerator demo day can be just as scarring over the long term. In fact, you'd probably be better off both deciding on a tat on demo day. I'm saying this because I went to my first YCombinator Demo Day last Tuesday. They need attention.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2012

Following is a guest post from Cyril about the program along with a link to their Demo Day event in San Francisco on June 18th. The HAXLR8R program aims at answering those very practical questions which – for the most part – have been dealt with hundreds of times by previous entrepreneurs, now turned into mentors.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 1, 2020

by Ash Rust , founder and managing partner of Sterling Road. Apply to accelerator programs. Accelerator programs can be great preparation for your pre-seed or seed round. A lot of possible options exist, but look for programs that have histories of success and that actually invest capital (versus just providing advice).

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